PC Found workaround for constant crashes on Mac

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I've been trying to post this for days, but either the forums or steam was borked and I couldn't link my account till today.

Mac users on Mojave can play A17 without crashing if they simply launch 7d2d from Finder (7DaysToDie.app) instead of using steam or the launcher.

You can find 7DaysToDie.app by right clicking in steam and selecting "properties" then "local files" and finally "browse local files". Alternatively, you can find it under ~/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/comon/7 Days To Die.

The crash is happening because there is a bug in the logging system causing an uncaught exception when the logfile tries to roll over. This avoids this by not passing the logfile parameter to 7d2d. This will presumably have the side-effect of disabling logging.

FWIW I don't think this issue is directly related to code TFP wrote. Judging by the fact it is C++ code I'd say either Unity builtin code or some 3rd party logging plugin they use.

Enjoy and Merry Christmas!

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Well done!!!

This is going to help a lot of people.

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I have a solution too... if you were on windows you'd not be having these problems. Mac's are like AMD/ATI videocards, they can work, but they always have issues.

 
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I have a solution too... if you were on windows you'd not be having these problems. Mac's are like AMD/ATI videocards, they can work, but they always have issues.
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Too bad that solution wont fix any of the other bugs :smile:

Everybody knows Windows is the place for gaming. I'm sure this is nobodies first time being informed about that. What you may not know is that an uncaught exception will cause a crash no matter what platform your code runs on :rolleyes:

Just trying to spread Christmas cheer to the Mac users out there, As you know they well need it when it comes to gaming!

 
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one of our party members plays on a mac. he played for a few hours with no crash after this "fix".

this should be stickied for mac users.

 
I've been trying to post this for days, but either the forums or steam was borked and I couldn't link my account till today.
Mac users on Mojave can play A17 without crashing if they simply launch 7d2d from Finder (7DaysToDie.app) instead of using steam or the launcher.

You can find 7DaysToDie.app by right clicking in steam and selecting "properties" then "local files" and finally "browse local files". Alternatively, you can find it under ~/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/comon/7 Days To Die.

The crash is happening because there is a bug in the logging system causing an uncaught exception when the logfile tries to roll over. This avoids this by not passing the logfile parameter to 7d2d. This will presumably have the side-effect of disabling logging.

FWIW I don't think this issue is directly related to code TFP wrote. Judging by the fact it is C++ code I'd say either Unity builtin code or some 3rd party logging plugin they use.

Enjoy and Merry Christmas!

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Hmmm wrong general discussion. Sorry about that. Flagging a moderator to move.
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Works for me :) thanks

 
I'm not using a Mac, but mad credits to you for isolating this issue to the logging code. This probably enables TFP to also fix it quite fast :D

 
I'm not using a Mac, but mad credits to you for isolating this issue to the logging code. This probably enables TFP to also fix it quite fast :D
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I actually doubt the bug is in TFP code; they tend to favor C#, not C++. I also doubt the hand rolled their own logging code :)

Hopefully a minor Unity update or 3rd party library update.

 
It’s sandboxing on the Mac. Good find.

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Unlike windows Mac doesn’t willynilly allow ♥♥♥♥ to do things without user permissions. I’m happy the crashes were proactive actions on apples part. Steam needs to fix this dumbass ♥♥♥♥.

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Mac is second citizenship for steam. I guess we should be happy they support Mac at all..

 
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