New Satisfactory Mac gamer - SMM cannot find install location
Hi, I purchased Satisfactory in the recent Steam sale and have really enjoyed the game so far. However, now I would like to use some mods so I installed SMM but it cannot find my Steam install location.
I have a fairly unique installation on my MacBook Pro (M4 Max). Satisfactory runs great using Steam Windows installed on Wine along with several other Steam Windows games. I used a great resource to get Steam Windows installed and installing any Steam Windows games is now just a matter of doing a regular game installation on Steam.
I am using the Mac version of SMM as I could not get Steam to run SMM Windows (as an external app). SMM Windows probably could run but will need some extra Wine parameters that is beyond my knowledge. r2modman runs fine though so I used those wine parameters with SMM (I found those on the Whisky forum) but it still did not run.
Is there a way to manually set the SMM install location? I have attached my SMM debug info.
Also as an aside I could not get your alternate Satisfactory mod tool ficsit-cli to run at all on Apple silicon. I tried the Windows ARM version (as a Steam external app) and the Mac version (standalone) and neither worked. I'll keep trying to see if I can get ficsit-cli working in the meantime.
Many thanks for any help! Nick
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