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Discussion in 'Starbound Support' started by PurpleSquirel43, Dec 6, 2013.

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  1. PurpleSquirel43

    PurpleSquirel43 Pangalactic Porcupine

    Hey, I'm a Mac user and I'm unable to even start the game. Anybody else having this problem, and/or any fix to it?
     
  2. swiftlovebird

    swiftlovebird Pangalactic Porcupine

    Hey Purple.
    What type of error message is it giving you (if any)?
     
  3. PurpleSquirel43

    PurpleSquirel43 Pangalactic Porcupine

    It's not giving me anything, it just refuses to start up. If I click play on steam, the penguin logo appears in my dock but then almost immediately disappears.
     
  4. swiftlovebird

    swiftlovebird Pangalactic Porcupine

    Can you try running your starbound.app from it's program file located in your steamapps folder, rather than using steam as the bootstrap?
     
  5. PurpleSquirel43

    PurpleSquirel43 Pangalactic Porcupine

    Nothing. Same as before.
     
  6. salathar92

    salathar92 Seal Broken

    Same here! :( and i read 2 or 3 post saying same
     
  7. swiftlovebird

    swiftlovebird Pangalactic Porcupine

    Let's make sure Starbound has everything it needs to run correctly:
    1. Open Steam and find Starbound in your game library
    2. Right click and choose Properties
    3. See where it says Enable Steam Community In-Game? Go ahead and uncheck that
    4. Then click the Local Files tab
    5. Click Veryify Integrity of Game Cache... and let this run
    6. Once this is complete you can close the Properties window
    7. Fire up Starbound and let's see what type of error message we get, if any
     
  8. salathar92

    salathar92 Seal Broken

    i do that 3 or 4 times, no message.

    i see penguin 2 o 3 seconds and dissapear.

    (im spanish, sorry for my english)
     
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  9. salathar92

    salathar92 Seal Broken

    and i need to say, today i play starbound all day, and no problems, but now dont start (again srry for my english xD)
     
  10. Parvidd

    Parvidd Space Hobo

    if you are using osx mountain lion or lower there is no 10.8.0 update which you need to run starbound
     
  11. CKaleb

    CKaleb Space Hobo

    Welp, same problem here on OSX Mavericks, it did worked earlier tho, now when I try to open the game (from Steam, from its folder) the penguin logo shows up on dock, then almost inmediately dissapears.
     
  12. _deadpixel

    _deadpixel Space Spelunker

    Also having this issue. Bummer!
     
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