Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Fixed: Game won't launch on MacOS

I ran into a problem where the EA game wouldn't launch via Steam on my iMac despite there being plenty of resources. It would just "bounce" in the doc and never start.

The fix, for me, was to manually allow the application to have Full Disk Access in the System Preferences:

System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy tab > Full Disk Access (on the left menu) > click the + and add the "Baldur's Gate 3.app" (located in ~/<user>/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Baldur's Gate 3 folder)

(You can also drag the Baldur's Gate 3.app file into the Full Disk Access window)

I am aware that when you first install the game, it prompts you to allow disk access. I installed the game twice during my troubleshooting and I clicked "Allow" both times.

@Larian: I suggest popping some sort of on-screen error if the app doesn't have the file access it needs?

Hope this is useful to other people.

So I did this, and enabled the accessibility under the Privacy Tab too, but it still didn't work. What I found was if you downloaded the game on Steam you have to go into steam and enable the Beta updates.

right-click on Baldur's Gate 3 > Properties > Betas > under "Select the beta you would like to opt into:" select EA Patch 2 and hotfix.

I closed Steam and launched with the icon I pinned to my dock (a shortcut might work too). It works!