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All,

I'm on Mac OSX 10.9.4 and up until the most recent patch I was able to play the game normally. I had no performance or connectivity issues other than the odd bug here and there on these forums which reloading the saved game seemed to fix as far as multiplayer went.

However, now I can't connect to a multiplayer game (Game hangs at "Connecting" and then the Apple spinning colorwheel appears until I force-quit) nor can I create a new single player game (game hangs after selecting "single player" as the new game type.

I'd very much like to resume playing this game in multiplayer as a co-op campaign but cannot do so at this time. I'd heard about some workaround involving loading a saved single player game, but alas, as I've only played multiplayer (friend hosting) I cannot test out that workaround.

Any chance I'm not alone in this and that a fix is possible?

v/r

-Nixx

You clearly have Steam issues (yup - Steam application). Close Steam. Logoff from it, reboot. Login. Try again.

If problems persist contact platon.fomichev@larian.com. I will request sampler output from you right away. In order to do so launch Activity Application - click on Divinity Original Sin (which when in Spinning wheel should be marked as red) and press 'Sample' button. Wait and save sampler output.

If you're a developer you will see who's to blame right away.

Given that we haven't touched multiplayer Mac at all in this version I am very positive it's Steam.

Keep me posted

Thanks very much for the reply. I went ahead and flushed all of the local game content and re-downloaded it from Steam. I wanted to avoid the download but based on your advice I went for it.

It now appears to work just fine! I can create a new game and also connect to a multiplayer game without incident.

And thanks for the tip on how to sample system/application activity during force quit. Interesting feature!

Love the game -- look forward to what you have in store next!

-Nixx