so it is time to change to discord now? hide

Any news about fixing the the steam client for the current OS X version? Is it planed to get the mac version fixed?

Is it windows only? I get a steam error when I try to start it on my mac.

@shibdib I like slack for chat, but one major drawback is that there is no history .. obviously in this forum there is not to much traffic but there are many topics that have very valuable content which would be lost if it would have been just discussed in slack.

There is even more going on in the screeps steam forum .)

I tried the steam client again and despite the topic saying "m1 macs" the client still crashes / does not work on ALL macs with the latest operating system big sur that came out last november.

I think that‘s fine .. btw do you have a rough eta for the alpha?

Hmm.. I thought you would be able to do non-rating games against opponents you choose .. for example by challenging people directly?

Ok .. I played a bit and noticed that gswitch makes no difference. First I started the screeps client and watched a room for about 10 minutes.. everything looked fine with webgl working.

then suddenly the page reloaded and only the roomvisuals stayed visible:

then the client crashed.

after that I restarted the client and it said webgl is no longer available:

however I started the renderer demo side by side and it looked fine:

Ok .. I tried to make a screen capture of the client to show the problem and it did not show the problems I saw without recording the screen so I thought about what might be different.

I now think the problem on big sur with the screeps client is the automatic switch between the integrated intel grapic and the discrete amd radeon gpu. Maybe there is an issue with the older nwjs when the graphic card switches, since there is no problem in chrome or edge at all.

I downloaded https://github.com/CodySchrank/gSwitch to force the mac into using the internal graphic or amd gpu before starting screeps and did not see any problems, but I could only test for a few minutes before I had to go to work.

Sorry... this thread got a bit confusing ... the steam client does not run well on all macs with the big sur update that came out last november.

On arm macs it usually crashes right after launch.

On all other macs the client starts usually crashes after a few minutes. It starts with reloading the content usually after a few seconds .. after that webgl is no longer available and all textures and stuff are missing... then it continues to run and but crashes a bit later.