Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems How to switch from Vulkan to DirectX11 on a mac?

Hello people of Faerun ---

I am having difficulty playing on my Mac.

Whenever I try to load a save file on my macbook pro, the game instantly crashes. When I am on my PC, I have switched from Vulkan to DirectX11 (as suggested by Larian to avoid crashing at this stage), but I cannot find this option on my mac. Any advice?

Thank you in advance.

- Puck

Do you get a Larian launcher that pops up when you initialize the game?
There's a gear next to the Play button on the launcher. Click that and you'll have the option of switching between Vulkan and DX11.

The gear is there in the launcher on my PC, but not on my Mac. Have you seen it there on a mac?

Here is what I see:

[img]https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.ne...dac8fe8c3a8b443f0863cfeb&oe=5FA5AD0A[/img]

Hi KidAtlas,

Direct X 11 will not be available on Mac, it's part of the windows operating system and won't be available on Mac.

That explains it. Thank you!

Now, I just have to figure out why the game is crashing on my mac anytime I try to load a saved game.

Anyone else experiencing this?

I can't even get it to play on my Mac. I keep hearing I need to wait for the hotfix, but my versions don't update on Steam.

Yea Mac doesn't use DX11 or Vulkan, it uses Metal. My game crashes on Low settings whenever I activate the console on the helm. I get a loading screen, then you hear the music for the next scene, then my screen goes black, my computer screams for 2 seconds, and then I get an error from my mac saying it had to restart.

I am also unable to get the game started on Mac. Steam appears to recording some amount of time as it says I've played 27 minutes, but I've never been able to get farther than the icon bouncing.

I am having the exact same expereince. I can complete the tutorial level, but after activating the console on the helm, not only does the entire game crash --- my whole computer shuts down. And when I try to load any save game file (from my PC and opeining on my mac) the game crashes.

Sounds like no one has found any fix or workaround for this?

Actually, I just tried lowering the graphical setting to "low" and now it seems to be working on my Mac. I guess (despite autodetect saying otherwise), medium level grahpics are too much for my new MacBook Pro to take.