I have played before, on my work machine, which was also a Mac. Got laid off and had to return that computer, obviously. Have new work machine. It's the exact same as the old one! Installed the Uber Launcher and I log in fine, but when I hit either the play or verify button, it never seems to actually download anything. It says it has downloaded some amount of bytes that keeps increasing, but the number of packages downloaded stays at zero. I even left it running overnight with all the power saver stuff turned off.
Ah, good spot. I do have "semantic endpoint protection" on this machine, that the old one did not have. I'll fiddle around with that and try again. Thanks!
Try disabling first to see if that is the issue. If it works then add an exception to exclude http/https scanning. https://wiki.palobby.com/wiki/Windows_Incompatible_Software#Antivirus_and_Firewall_Software
I disabled symantec this way - https://gist.github.com/steve-jansen/61a189b6ab961a517f68 - but verify doesn't seem to do the job, and play does not actually start the game.
Can you try starting the launcher from the command line? It should tell you what it's doing and hopefully show errors. To do so, open the Terminal app, and type: Code: cd /Applications/UberLauncher.app/Contents/MacOS ./launcher
Hmm, it seems to be trying to download stuff and I don't see any (consequential) errors. Can you try deleting the directory "~/Library/Application Support/Uber Entertainment/Planetary Annihilation/data/streams/_cache"? The "~" stands for your home directory by the way.
By the way, you may also want to try the alternative launcher. It uses the same mechanism as the UberLauncher, but doesn't use intermediate files. Also it may give you helpful errors where the UberLauncher doesn't seem to. https://github.com/DeathByDenim/PAAlternativeLauncher/releases
Deleting the cache didn't seem to make a difference. I'll try the alternative launcher. Didn't know about that one! Thanks. If it puts things in the same place and doesn't use concept of bundles, then I assume it would be downloading the following file. However it hasn't grown past 599K. How do I know this thing is working? ~/Library/Application Support/Uber Entertainment/Planetary Annihilation/data/streams/stable ⎈ ls -lh total 1200 -rw-r--r-- 1 beefzilla 1258410764 599K Dec 22 20:06 PA_OSX_99377.gz
The default path for the alternative launcher is "/Applications/Planetary Annihilation/stable", I think... It should show you the path it's installing PA to in the text field just below the text about what's new in the update. Also, it should keep a log in "$TMPDIR/PAAlternativeLauncher.log". The best way to see that log is to open the Terminal, and type Code: cat $TMPDIR/PAAlternativeLauncher.log I'm not sure what that PA_OSX_99377.gz file is supposed to be...
It appears to have worked! I'll have to test the game out properly, but so far so good. Muchos graçias!
