I've had a similar problem - a new install of Endless Legend crashing on startup on macOS sierra. I couldn't find a Unity directory under ~/Library/Logs

It turns out that ~/Library/Logs is owned by root, rather than the user. You can't write to it by default. I fixed it by going to the terminal and running

sudo chown $USER ~/Library/Logs

and putting in my password when prompted (you will need admin rights)

this changes the ownership of the directory to the logged in user.

This fixed several other Unity games for me. I think Unity should return a more obvious error message if it can't write to logs at startup.

puccet wrote:

Hi all

I've exactly the same problem but only when an external monitor is attached, if a disconnect the external monitor the game start.

My system is:

Macbook air mid 2013

MacOs Sierra

The game was working in the external monitor before the update to Sierra.

Any idea ?

Ha! It was the external monitor after all that. Unplugging worked for me as well. 

Maybe this will help someone else.

I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) running MacOS Sierra 10.12.1, which I connect to an external monitor (ViewSonic 23-inch LED 1080p/Full HD) via thunderbolt-to-vga adaptor.

I have had the same issue as other posters on this thread. I had been playing EL just fine with no issues until recently. My issue started when I pre-purchased the Tempest DLC on a Steam sale the day before it officially launched. On purchase of Tempest, Steam downloaded new files. After the download finished, I attempted to run EL but after the "use steam overlay?" popups, the game hung and I got the endless spinning rainbow wheel. I finally did a force quit on EL and attempted to run it again. That is when I got the "Endless Legend quit unexpectedly" message with a popup asking me to Reopen Window. I clicked Reopen Window, and the "- Running" marker showed up next to EL in the steam client, but the game never launched its window and about 2 seconds later, the "- Running" marker was removed next to EL.

I tried everything listed to fix the issue:

- Installed mono framework (that is part of the EL package on steam)

- Tried various launch options in the steam client (-useembedded, -useshellexecute, etc.)

- Uninstalled and re-installed via steam client

- Renamed steamapps folder and fresh installed

- Removed the registry.xml file

- Edited ~/Library/Preferences/unity.AMPLITUDE Studios.Endless Legend.plist

Nothing worked. After reading through this thread, it struck me that I had not tried something basic: disconnect my external monitor.  Which I just tried, and viola! EL launches and runs just fine on the laptop WITH THE EXTERNAL MONITOR DISCONNECTED. To verify I reconnect the monitor, and EL went back to the broken behavior (crash at launch). Then I disconnected the monitor again, and EL goes back to launching and running just fine.

I'm not sure what the root issue is, but according to some logs I looked through, it appears that my issue has to do with a SIGBART error from the Unity engine. I have no idea what that really means, but rudimentary google searches seem to indicate that it indicates an error in the unity code somewhere, but it must have something to do with use of the external monitor (probably related to resolution or rendering display).

Hope the solution for you may be as simple as it was for me by disconnecting the external monitor. Now FINALLY on to playing EL with Tempest.

Hi all

I've exactly the same problem but only when an external monitor is attached, if a disconnect the external monitor the game start.

My system is:

Macbook air mid 2013

MacOs Sierra

The game was working in the external monitor before the update to Sierra.

Any idea ?

hey y'all-- 

I'm experiencing all the same symptoms (2015 Macbook Pro, OSX 10.11.5) and have tried the various solutions proposed above to no avail -- it seems like I might have an incomplete unity.AMPLITUDE Studios.Endless Legend.plist file ... all I see are 5 lines of code, see image below. Really not sure what to do at this point, and am confused about the Registry.xml substitutions /re:most recent post/potential solution proposed by croald.

Anyone got any new ideas? croald, could you possibly elaborate on the Registry stuff. Are there any devs out there? pretty please I bought your game and want to like it

LortGob wrote:
Thanks for the explanation gecko67, finally something less cryptic than a oneliner!



I now have been able to locate the Registry.xml, buried in the ~/Library/Application Support/EndlessLegend/Users/142496309/ directory. Sadly, nothing has changed. I've tried replacing the Registry.xml by the one provided by Lt_Miles, deleting the old one, and deleting the directory all together, but I still get the same error. :(

gecko67 wrote:


LortGob, the screenshot you supplied in post #15 showed /Library, not ~/Library. When doing all the steps, are you always doing from ~/Library? (/Users//Library). If you press the Apple-key, then click in the menu bar, it will show you the path for the directory you are looking in.

Lt_Miles wrote:
Sorry, I was unclear: could you create the directory and copy on your computer the registry.xml file I have provided in my previous post?

Lt_Miles wrote:
Please could you extract and copy the following registry.xml file:Registry.zip in ~/Library/Application Support/Endless Legend/ ?

Lt_Miles wrote:
You can edit the registry.xml file of your profile, available here:

~/Library/Application Support/Endless Legend/Users/[Id]/Registry.xml



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LortGob wrote:
Is there any way to switch to windowed mode on OSX without launching the game?