Ventura 13.3 Update broke Homecoming Launcher

[burgundyblue]

Been troubleshooting this for a few days, uninstalling Wine, the launcher, etc. Has anyone else updated to 13.3 and have the game just up and break? When I open CoH Launcher, it stays on the dock for a bit and then disappears. However, there will be 5 or 6 wine64 items in Activity Monitor that are just sitting there, taking up processing.

 

Any ideas?

[uninventive]

Looks like a Wine issue with MacOS Ventura.  https://www.reddit.com/r/wine_gaming/comments/1261ic4/problem_with_running_wine64_at_macos_after/

Wine-Devel has a fix, prob. not useful to say "hold off on that update, folks", but that.  Wine-Dev branch has the fix if you want to try to fix it on your own.

[Ago]

Can confirm this issue on my system.  Exactly as described in OP, wine64-preloader stalls and "Launch CoH" exits without the client loading.  Successive runs just opens another copy of wine64-preloader.

My Mac isn't the primary driver I use to game on, thankfully.

[GM Manga]

Re-download the Mac Installer:

 

https://islandrum.powermad.net/mac-installer.zip

 

It has a fix for that.

[Ago]

Works perfectly!

[Justadcomics]

Tried the downloader - not working for me. 😞 Closest I get is a title bar from Wine saying "Program Error."

[Justadcomics]

5 minutes ago, Justadcomics said:

Tried the downloader - not working for me. 😞 Closest I get is a title bar from Wine saying "Program Error."

Spoke to soon - operator error on my part. I wasn't trying to run the launcher.exe with Wine. My bad! Thank you for the download link, https://forums.homecomingservers.com/profile/166658-gm-manga/

[burgundyblue]

8 hours ago, Justadcomics said:

Spoke to soon - operator error on my part. I wasn't trying to run the launcher.exe with Wine. My bad! Thank you for the download link, https://forums.homecomingservers.com/profile/166658-gm-manga/

It's downloading now! Thanks for the assist, everyone!

[GM Impervium]

@Justadcomics, if you want to tag someone on the forums, just put a @ before their name (but with no space) 😃

[SuperheroRobot]

I'm on a M1 running Mac OS 13.3.1. I downloaded and installed the new Mac installer but that did not fix my issue. When I open Launch CoH it seems to open for a few seconds then quits. Any tips?

[SuperheroRobot]

I tried this in the terminal

$wine64 /Applications/Launch\ CoH.app

and got 

 

zsh: permission denied: /Applications/Launch CoH.app

In Privacy & Security  Launch CoH has permission to use Desktop Folder. But that's the only permission I can find...

[Ago]

In Privacy and Security, did you give Launch CoH permission to open files and folders? 

 

Full disk access should not need to be enabled.  I have it off on my Mac, and it runs fine without it.  I think the most critical permission is Network Volumes, since Wine reaches the COH folder in Applications as a Z: drive (I could be wrong.)

Edited April 15, 2023 by Tock

[SuperheroRobot]

Thank you but unfortunately I only have the Desktop Folder option...

[SuperheroRobot]

I uninstalled "Launch CoH" app and "coh" folder. Then downloaded from here today (when I posted this): https://islandrum.powermad.net/mac-installer.zip

 

and installed... and now the game loads up just fine! I had uninstalled and downloaded 4 days ago, but it didn't work that time...

thanks!

[GM Manga]

On 4/16/2023 at 5:50 PM, SuperheroRobot said:

I uninstalled "Launch CoH" app and "coh" folder. Then downloaded from here today (when I posted this): https://islandrum.powermad.net/mac-installer.zip

 

and installed... and now the game loads up just fine! I had uninstalled and downloaded 4 days ago, but it didn't work that time...

thanks!

 

Little known fact about that installer, it does try to repair permissions to the best of its ability.  So sometimes a reinstall helps.

[WanderingAries]

On 5/5/2023 at 3:30 PM, GM Manga said:

 

Little known fact about that installer, it does try to repair permissions to the best of its ability.  So sometimes a reinstall helps.

 

Did you change your host? I thought you used something else before? Not that it Matters, but curious.

[GM Manga]

On 5/7/2023 at 3:19 PM, WanderingAries said:

 

Did you change your host? I thought you used something else before? Not that it Matters, but curious.

 

I'm migrating away from eekstudio.com because unfortunately someone else has that name copyrighted.

[WanderingAries]

7 minutes ago, GM Manga said:

 

I'm migrating away from eekstudio.com because unfortunately someone else has that name copyrighted.

 

Well that's rude of them 😛