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fantasmamore
January 27th, 2021, 13:12
Hello all,
THE PROBLEM
Every time I try to launch FG Classic through Steam on my mac I see the icon on the doc but no window opens and after a few seconds even the icon disappears - it doesn't even give me a warning. There is no way to run the program.
WHEN IT HAPPENED
It was perfectly working. At some time I uninstalled FG and a few months after that I installed it again. It never run.
WHAT I DID TO SOLVE IT
I tried uninstalling FG and then installing again.
I uninstalled / installed again the entire Steam.
I manually deleted a small file that remained in /Users/*me*/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common between installations.
I verified the integrity of the files. Steam gave me a warning that 3 files were wrong and asked to install them again - which I did. It downloaded 27 kbs. When I check the integrity of my files at that point, everything looks good. I run FG again, it never opens, integrity of my files is damaged again.

Do you have any idea of what could be wrong?
Is there any way to totally/completely/perfectly delete everything FG-related from my mac and then install again clean?
Thank you all!

P.S. My iMac is a late-2009 model, running High-Sierra, this is not a problem of 32bit apps etc.

Zacchaeus
January 27th, 2021, 16:33
I don't know enough about macs really to advise but have you tried downloading and installing from the Website rather than through Steam? I do know that FG Classic doesn't run natively on a mac so you do need Wine or some other emulator in order to run it. Also just make sure that you are trying to install Classic and not Unity.

fantasmamore
January 27th, 2021, 18:42
[...] have you tried downloading and installing from the Website rather than through Steam?

I will probably try that, but I want to find a solution with my steam client if I can... Thank you for your help!

Zacchaeus
January 27th, 2021, 20:59
You can always activate it in Steam at a later time.