Mac crash on start, after reinstall.

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Hi, I bought GSB for my second steam account yesterday, and was playing with tons of mods installed, until it started getting errors. So I reinstalled, deleted everything from the steam directory folder for GSB. However, upon trying to start the game, I received a kernel error. I reinstalled again, same problem. Several reinstalls and restarts later, I have no idea what to do. Can anyone offer some advice?

here is the first 50 lines of the error code:
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x00000000bf7fffbc

VM Regions Near 0xbf7fffbc:
Stack 00000000b029d000-00000000b031e000 [ 516K] rw-/rwx SM=COW
–> Stack 00000000bc000000-00000000bf800000 [ 56.0M] —/rwx SM=NUL
Stack 00000000bf800000-00000000c0000000 [ 8192K] rw-/rwx SM=COW

Thread 0 Crashed:: MainThrd Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x0001eabb Mac_fopen(char const*, char const*) + 11
1 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x00357236 IniLoader::LoadSection(char*, char*) + 86
2 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002dd8d0 SIM_Options::Load() + 176
3 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002de4b8 SIM_Options::GetGVAR(std::string) + 56
4 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002df3a7 SIM_Options::EnsureDefault(char*, float) + 103
5 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002dda13 SIM_Options::Load() + 499
6 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002de4b8 SIM_Options::GetGVAR(std::string) + 56
7 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002df3a7 SIM_Options::EnsureDefault(char*, float) + 103
8 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002dda13 SIM_Options::Load() + 499
9 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002de4b8 SIM_Options::GetGVAR(std::string) + 56
10 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002df3a7 SIM_Options::EnsureDefault(char*, float) + 103
11 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002dda13 SIM_Options::Load() + 499
12 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002de4b8 SIM_Options::GetGVAR(std::string) + 56
13 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002df3a7 SIM_Options::EnsureDefault(char*, float) + 103
14 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002dda13 SIM_Options::Load() + 499
15 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002de4b8 SIM_Options::GetGVAR(std::string) + 56
16 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002df3a7 SIM_Options::EnsureDefault(char*, float) + 103
17 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002dda13 SIM_Options::Load() + 499
18 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002de4b8 SIM_Options::GetGVAR(std::string) + 56
19 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002df3a7 SIM_Options::EnsureDefault(char*, float) + 103
20 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002dda13 SIM_Options::Load() + 499
21 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002de4b8 SIM_Options::GetGVAR(std::string) + 56
22 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002df3a7 SIM_Options::EnsureDefault(char*, float) + 103
23 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002dda13 SIM_Options::Load() + 499
24 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002de4b8 SIM_Options::GetGVAR(std::string) + 56
25 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002df3a7 SIM_Options::EnsureDefault(char*, float) + 103
26 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002dda13 SIM_Options::Load() + 499
27 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002de4b8 SIM_Options::GetGVAR(std::string) + 56
28 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002df3a7 SIM_Options::EnsureDefault(char*, float) + 103
29 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002dda13 SIM_Options::Load() + 499
30 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002de4b8 SIM_Options::GetGVAR(std::string) + 56
31 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002df3a7 SIM_Options::EnsureDefault(char*, float) + 103
32 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002dda13 SIM_Options::Load() + 499
33 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002de4b8 SIM_Options::GetGVAR(std::string) + 56
34 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002df3a7 SIM_Options::EnsureDefault(char*, float) + 103
35 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002dda13 SIM_Options::Load() + 499
36 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002de4b8 SIM_Options::GetGVAR(std::string) + 56
37 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002df3a7 SIM_Options::EnsureDefault(char*, float) + 103
38 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002dda13 SIM_Options::Load() + 499
39 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002de4b8 SIM_Options::GetGVAR(std::string) + 56
40 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002df3a7 SIM_Options::EnsureDefault(char*, float) + 103
41 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002dda13 SIM_Options::Load() + 499
42 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002de4b8 SIM_Options::GetGVAR(std::string) + 56
43 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002df3a7 SIM_Options::EnsureDefault(char*, float) + 103
44 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002dda13 SIM_Options::Load() + 499
45 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002de4b8 SIM_Options::GetGVAR(std::string) + 56
46 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002df3a7 SIM_Options::EnsureDefault(char*, float) + 103
47 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002dda13 SIM_Options::Load() + 499
48 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002de4b8 SIM_Options::GetGVAR(std::string) + 56
49 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002df3a7 SIM_Options::EnsureDefault(char*, float) + 103
50 com.redmarble.Gratuitous-Space-Battles 0x002dda13 SIM_Options::Load() + 499

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Bump.
I hope someone can help me with this, I can’t play the game and its so much fun!

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for various reasons I avoid steam, so I am not an expert at resolving issues when it comes to games running off steam.
(and I also have not used a mac so I am not familiar with the port from Red Marble Games)

So for what its worth, here are my suggestions:

  1. There are a few other debug files along with the one you posted. Do they say anything about missing module or ship ? If that is the case then one of the ships you built using modded content is still hanging around and causing an error. Reason why I ask is that sometimes the error messages are misleading

  2. as much as I do not like steam, it has a nice feature of revalidating a game. Have you tried that ?

If neither of these 2 suggestions help could you please step us through the error.

For example:

  • Start GSB
  • Error message on screen which reads “all your bases are belong to us”
  • Game Crash with Kernel error
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ok redacting all of this because I had just asked if you were using windows, sorry I don’t do macs I can’t help

what i can suggest is to get in touch with red marble games, as they produced the mac port of the game

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Alright
So I click ‘Play’ on Steam, and it launches the game. I get the main menu screen, without the buttons, then BAM, it crashes immediately.
uh-oh.
Now when i try to start the game it simply says ‘completing installation’ in a steam window and is frozen.
GAHHHH.
I better just contact Red Marble, this is driving me crazy.

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Send your email to:

support +at+ redmarblegames +dot+ com [size=75](remove the + signs and spaces)[/size]

They can sometimes be quite slow in replying, so make sure to follow-up with them.
They are the ONLY official entity who can help you with problems in the Mac OS X port of GSB1.