Hey guys! First of all, thanks for the great game.
After the launch of the full version for MacOS I have been experiencing a lot of freezing screens.
Initially I thought that it has something to do with my update to MacOS Sonoma but, after a lot of installs, uninstalls, and tests, I finally discovered what was going on.
Some issues I noticed:- Game stuck in 33% loading when starting
- After a very long time, the main screen is shown. When clicking on the screen, before the menu is shown, the game freezes and stay stopped for another long time until the menu is shown
- In the game, when opening the "Save" or "Load" games options, the game freezes for another long time
That was driving me crazy, so I have tried to uninstall and reinstall sometimes, but without any success. I noticed that when deleting the game directories (from Larian and Steam), the issues stopped (at least until the next time).
So, I noticed that this was happening because the "Larian Studios" directory (located in
/Users/<my username>/Documents/Larian Studios
) was being synchronized by iCloud and deleted from my local computer!
My fix:- Move the "Larian Studios" directory to your home dir (/Users/<my username>)
- In terminal create a symlink to it using the following command:
ln -sf /Users/<my username>/Larian\ Studios /Users/<my username>/Documents/Larian\ Studios
It's done! Now the iCloud can try to sync the symlink, but not it's content!
This is just a workaround, but the best option for us would be having an option to change that default local Larian directory.
I hope this message can help others!
Rafael
