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Mac OS Catalina 10.15 is going to be the first Mac OS to only support 64-bit. Steam is not going to work for Mac OS 10.15 because the client cannot benefit itself to 32-bit and it has not been optimised to 64-bit, now you have been warned that whenever you have updated the Mac OS to 10.15 Steam will cease to work and then all the Mac users will be extremely upset so please stop the updates after you get to Mojave.
What about this?
Honestly, you do my copy steam_osx over the top of an older version trick, and it works just fine.
I will be very surprised indeed if this isn’t sorted by default for everyone before Catalina comes out. The bigger issue is the number of games that don’t have 64-bit binaries.
Also it seems like there’s a bug which makes game launches not work right. This is why you don’t run beta OSes, kids.
Here is a video of me launching a game on Steam on macOS 10.15 Catalina. I cut the video just after loading the overlay because I didn’t want to show my online friends in the video.
It is very, very far from irretrievably broken. And running a developer-only beta of a new OS always leads to stuff being broken. Backblaze pops up an error message every once in a while because of changes Catalina makes to filesystem layout. DaisyDisk is pretty broken. I’m only running Catalina because I am myself a developer. Normal people really should just wait until it properly comes out later this year, and if Steam is still a little broken when Catalina is actually properly released, then there’ll be cause for concern.
Here is a video of me launching a game on Steam on macOS 10.15 Catalina. I cut the video just after loading the overlay because I didn’t want to show my online friends in the video.
It is very, very far from irretrievably broken. And running a developer-only beta of a new OS always leads to stuff being broken. Backblaze pops up an error message every once in a while because of changes Catalina makes to filesystem layout. DaisyDisk is pretty broken. I’m only running Catalina because I am myself a developer. Normal people really should just wait until it properly comes out later this year, and if Steam is still a little broken when Catalina is actually properly released, then there’ll be cause for concern.
Steam works for Catalina already. When you upgrade to Catalina, your currently installed Steam version will not work. Delete it and re-download the app from Steam. It downloads a working version then.
However, many games (including 64-bit ones) seem not to work yet. Of course, as others have mentioned, do not use betas as your primary operating system.
Mac OS Catalina 10.15 is going to be the first Mac OS to only support 64-bit. Steam is not going to work for Mac OS 10.15 because the client cannot benefit itself to 32-bit and it has not been optimised to 64-bit, now you have been warned that whenever you have updated the Mac OS to 10.15 Steam will cease to work and then all the Mac users will be extremely upset so please stop the updates after you get to Mojave.
I just installed Catalina and could not open my previously installed Steam. However, I downloaded the latest version and installed it and it opened up without a problem. I agree with other posters and say wait for the final release to condemn Steam to Mac death. The running application does show the «can’t run this app» icon, but it is running. (Wierd.)
Huh — I just tried to launch a game (Cities: Skylines) and it says app running but the window never opened. Give Valve some time to iron out the issues with the new OS and I’m sure things will work out. Or, there will be lots of people calling 800-MYAPPLE and complaining, I’d imagine.
Nevermind — the game did finally open. It just took a REALLY long time to do so.
EDIT: Steam updated itself and when it relaunched, the Dock icon refreshed itself and the «can not run app» icon went away.
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The problem is if you are like me who has bought games from Steam over a decade ago, most of those game publishers/developers have no plans or capability to upgrade their games from 32-bit to 64 bit. They will simply cease to work even with a Steam 64-bit client. Steam should have made a migration tool so that after a clean install one could have all the games identified as 64 bit migrated over to the new Steam 64-bit launcher.
Game developers like Standing Stones Games (the developers of Dungeons and Dragons Online) have gone down the path of using a Wine Client (Windows Emulator) client but the pre-loader of Wine is still only 32-bit (and no date is given for when the 64 bit version will be ready). So expect most games, especially older ones not to work any more. 🙁
The problem is if you are like me who has bought games from Steam over a decade ago, most of those game publishers/developers have no plans or capability to upgrade their games from 32-bit to 64 bit. They will simply cease to work even with a Steam 64-bit client. Steam should have made a migration tool so that after a clean install one could have all the games identified as 64 bit migrated over to the new Steam 64-bit launcher.
Valve can’t touch other game devs/pubs products.
Steam should have made a migration tool so that after a clean install one could have all the games identified as 64 bit migrated over to the new Steam 64-bit launcher.
This has nothing to do with Steam 64-bit launcher. Apple dropped 32-bit support on the operating system.
Games can’t be just converted on the fly to 64-bit. So no sort of mitigation tool is possible.
Game developers like Standing Stones Games (the developers of Dungeons and Dragons Online) have gone down the path of using a Wine Client (Windows Emulator) client but the pre-loader of Wine is still only 32-bit (and no date is given for when the 64 bit version will be ready). So expect most games, especially older ones not to work any more. 🙁
64-bit WINE can not run 32-bit programs. Only 32-bit WINE can. 32-bit WINE requires 32-bit support. Apple has dropped support for 32-bit. So WINE is not an option.
You have four choices:
-Use a virtual machine running Windows or Linux. This is significantly slower and may not work with all games.
-Use bootcamp to install Windows
-Install Linux on your machine and actually enjoy controlling your own machine.
-Suck it up and lose the majority of your library, so Apple can save a few dollars in support costs. You bought into a walled garden ecosystem. You live with a walled garden ecosystem.
Your beef is with Apple, not developers or Steam. Also as Metal rolls out in a few versions, most of your games will no longer work as well.
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I’ve been away for a while. I recently got Steam working on my new iMacPro. While looking around in the store too buy a new game, I saw that of the list of available games for Mac was further shortened due to compatibility with MacOS Catalina.
Further, I wasn’t able to find a search option to weed out the incompatible games making it pretty hard to shop.
Has there been any discussion surrounding this? Does the community at large know what if anything is being done to correct the issue?
yea. i fixed it. I think it was a ‘the game’ issue. I emailed the programers who made the game since apparently steam cant do anything about viridi.
also i dont have a linux and windows hates me so i dont have that either.
The same thing happens every time that Apple updates its OS. The OS on iPhones, iOS 13.1 had an issue where you could not use your keyboard at all. When iOS 4 came out, it crashed people’s phoens a lot. When MOuntian LIon came out, I remember having huge issues with running Microsoft programs (This was also the time Microsoft switched to subscription services) and I made the permanent switch to Pages and Numbers because of that.
With Catalina, the issues have been really big, most notable, getting rid of iPhoto and iTunes. I’ve been remoting into my mom’s computer to convert her millions of photos to jpegs and moving them onto an external drive so when Apple inevitable changes their photo browser file formats again, I won’t have to ******************** deal with it. (PS, mom if you’re reading this, you should consider not taking photos of every little thing you see. You don’t need that picture of that big mosquito bite you got eight years ago so I’m deleting it).
Issues include problems with running non Apple programs like Adobe Creative Cloud, some Microsoft Office products, hardware issues with mouse and keyboard conenctivity, and even instances of freezing up during install of the new OS. I am SOOOO sorry you already have Catalina, because every IT person worth their salt would tell you to wait six months for the bug patches before installing. And you can’t go back because Apple has made that IMPOSSIBLE.
Now to the real issue at hand, Catalina does NOT support 32-bit programs, of which a lot of games are made. Excel is 32-bit out of the box (You can upgrade to 64 bit though) and works great on the newest Windows 10 update, but then again, Windows has a ton of faults (in the eyes of a Mac user). Steam isn’t as good as Origin at letting players know if any games in their library aren’t compatible with new OS’s so users had no warning. A lot of games that were earlier in franchises were 32-bit and those versions will never be made into a 64-bit version. I’m willing to bet that only the most current number in a franchise will be updated for Catalina’s 64-bit requirements, but that might take a few months. I don’t believe Apple gave app developers enough time to get with the program when they decided on ending 32-bit support with the new OS. Also with the coronavirus going on, expect slower results, even if people are working from home.
Suggestion:
So now you know the entire backstory (imagine irritable grumbles here) here is my suggestion: When searching for games, see if you can narrow by tag, 64-bit. I haven’t tried that myself, but it should yield you some results if Steam isa competent game launcher. which I don’t think it is. Otherwise, when browsing for games, I’d reccommend searching for games made within the last year as the new industry standard has been 64-bit and if you want to broaden that search, you can go back 3-4 years for large game developing companies because they have more than likely updated their most recent games to 64-bit.
Hope this helps, and again, so sorry you’re stuck with Catalina, pre-bug fixes.
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Same issue, but I haven’t uninstalled Steam yet, I just get the line through circle and a message that says contact Steam.
Edit, I followed the appleinsider route and it worked
https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/09/03/how-to-update-your-steam-install-to-64-bit-before-macos-catalina — just be careful what you delete. You may find all your games require installing again.
Same issue, but I haven’t uninstalled Steam yet, I just get the line through circle and a message that says contact Steam.
Edit, I followed the appleinsider route and it worked
https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/09/03/how-to-update-your-steam-install-to-64-bit-before-macos-catalina — just be careful what you delete. You may find all your games require installing again.
Thank You. That link really helped me and my steam is functioning again.
2012 macbook pro. I’ve deleted and redownloaded the steam client about 5 times now and every time it downloads fine. I installed it unto my applications and when I right click it to start, it pops the icon on the bottom of my screen bounces like it wants to open then doesn’t. No message appears saying it can’t open. I’ve tried double clicking to open but it also bounces then doesn’t open. I have no error message so I don’t know whats wrong and this is the first time my laptop as down this. I’ve noticed that in my finder it says «date modified — Sept 6 2019.» don’t know if my steam is just out of date or if catalina ruined steam.
Thanks man, its literally the same for me. hope this fix works
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