Hey folks. Hoping you can help me out here.
A few weeks ago Steam started crashing to the "Quit Unexpectedly" screen on my MacBook, unable to even launch the browser. I removed it, cleared out the remaining files, reinstalled it, no dice. So I went to try it on the iMac, same deal, same crash. Then I booted into the High Sierra partition I keep on the iMac and it DID launch, once. Then it updated itself, and is now crashing in the same manner both my Catalina installs are.
I then burnt the MacBook's install to the ground and started fresh. Didn't restore from a backup. Just connected my iCloud and spent most of the day downloading and installing apps and setting up my workspace on here again. This was a fresh Catalina install using dosdude's patcher. And every app is working on the MacBook, including a few that somehow didn't before, like FB Messenger. But Steam is still crashing without making it to the launcher.
I'm kinda at a loss. When Steam WAS working on the High Sierra install on the iMac, I could access and play lots of my low-spec games no problem, but after updating, it's bricked, just like the Catalina installs are. Hoping y'all could point me in the right direction troubleshooting wise here. It seems like Steam may have pulled some kind of necessary support for these older Macs and is now just refusing to run? Neither of these machines support Metal, thought maybe that could be it. They're also running patched versions of macOS, so I figure okay, maybe something just isn't working anymore with the patcher. Which would hold water, except that the High Sierra install, which I did with a fresh installer from Apple, no patches, in early 2021, no longer works either.
Any help is massively appreciated. I've screen capped the error for you, and have the full text available as a copy/paste if you need it. Thanks everyone.
A few weeks ago Steam started crashing to the "Quit Unexpectedly" screen on my MacBook, unable to even launch the browser. I removed it, cleared out the remaining files, reinstalled it, no dice. So I went to try it on the iMac, same deal, same crash. Then I booted into the High Sierra partition I keep on the iMac and it DID launch, once. Then it updated itself, and is now crashing in the same manner both my Catalina installs are.
I then burnt the MacBook's install to the ground and started fresh. Didn't restore from a backup. Just connected my iCloud and spent most of the day downloading and installing apps and setting up my workspace on here again. This was a fresh Catalina install using dosdude's patcher. And every app is working on the MacBook, including a few that somehow didn't before, like FB Messenger. But Steam is still crashing without making it to the launcher.
I'm kinda at a loss. When Steam WAS working on the High Sierra install on the iMac, I could access and play lots of my low-spec games no problem, but after updating, it's bricked, just like the Catalina installs are. Hoping y'all could point me in the right direction troubleshooting wise here. It seems like Steam may have pulled some kind of necessary support for these older Macs and is now just refusing to run? Neither of these machines support Metal, thought maybe that could be it. They're also running patched versions of macOS, so I figure okay, maybe something just isn't working anymore with the patcher. Which would hold water, except that the High Sierra install, which I did with a fresh installer from Apple, no patches, in early 2021, no longer works either.
Any help is massively appreciated. I've screen capped the error for you, and have the full text available as a copy/paste if you need it. Thanks everyone.
