pacificoast
SMSatisfactory Modding
•Created by pacificoast on 4/2/2025 in #help-using-mods
New Satisfactory Mac gamer - SMM cannot find install location
I have managed to install the mod I wanted to use manually (Pak Utility Mod) and using the SML but when I quit Satisfactory after gaming with the mods installed and then run up another session, the game won't load and I get to stare at the spinning circle for a long time. After a lot of experimenting I have found that after running the mods successfully, before playing another game, I have to quit steam, delete the mods from the Mods folder, run up Steam and Satisfactory with no mods, quit steam, put the SML and Pak Utility mods back into the folder, run up Steam and the game and then finally works. I've no idea why this is necessary and it's painstakely annoying but at least it works!
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SMSatisfactory Modding
•Created by pacificoast on 4/2/2025 in #help-using-mods
New Satisfactory Mac gamer - SMM cannot find install location
We're still talking cross purposes 😄 Only the ficsit app runs in terminal and gets killed by it. SMM runs (not in terminal) but SMM cannot find the Steam/Wine/GPTK virtual c: drive where Satisfactory is installed. No bottles involved but I get what you were saying!
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SMSatisfactory Modding
•Created by pacificoast on 4/2/2025 in #help-using-mods
New Satisfactory Mac gamer - SMM cannot find install location
Sorry @RateLimited I was getting mixed up between Mac SMM and Mac version of ficsit (ficsit_darwin_all). SMM Mac runs fine but cannot find my Steam (Windows) Satisfactory Installation that I have running using GPTK and there's no option to manually set it. The Mac version of Ficsit (ficsit_darwin_all) is the one that opens terminal but then kills the app. As ficsit is a CLI app, terminal is where it would run. I think there is some code in SMM to find the Whisky bottle location but I guess there is no code that looks to where Steam installs it via the GPTK/Wine virtual c: drive).
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SMSatisfactory Modding
•Created by pacificoast on 4/2/2025 in #help-using-mods
New Satisfactory Mac gamer - SMM cannot find install location
Hi @RateLimited thanks for your note. I am using GPTK but not Whisky as it didn't seem necessary as my Windows Steam and all games I use run just fine. I used the same SMM download you mention but it does not run, it just gets killed in a Terminal session. Are you using an Apple Silicon Mac? If so which model and which chip?
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SMSatisfactory Modding
•Created by pacificoast on 4/2/2025 in #help-using-mods
New Satisfactory Mac gamer - SMM cannot find install location
I run SMM through Steam as an external app which is launching Wine to run it. It just runs for a few seconds and then stops. I looked through some of the Steam error logs but couldn't see anything that jumped out. Is there a specific Steam log file I should look in? As an aside when I tried getting the Mac version of ficsit_darwin_all to run, it just launches Terminal and gets killed. I tried both bash and zsh shells and both act the same, i.e. getting killed. I followed the tips in this earlier thread to chmod then signing the ficsit_darwin_all app, however, it does the same thing as reported in that thread: https://discord.com/channels/555424930502541343/1324152028670332989/1328444564457132092
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