somnolentsurfer

Ah, sorry, yes. I posted that in a few places, and I must have forgotten to update here when I got it working. The solution was to press cmd+f to switch to windowed mode and change the resolution. It's not perfect though - for some reason the Mac version of the game will only support up to half of native resolution, and set at the 1080p resolution that should fit exactly below the notch the black screen issue returns. Setting the resolution to 1728x1117 does work, but it has to be scaled down by the OS to fit under the notch, so you get narrow black bars down each side. With that combined with the capes bug, that doesn't look like it was ever fixed, I decided it was better to play in Parallels and have perfect full native 2160p. I'll get to Deadfire once I'm through Pillars 1!

Do I take it this never got fixed? I've come across this thread while looking for a solution to problems getting Pillars 1 running on M1 Mac, but if there are other problems with the Mac version anyway, maybe I should just bite the bullet and use Parallels to play the Windows version.

I've been trying to run Pillars 1 on my new M1 MacBook Pro. Has anyone had any luck with that? The Apple Gaming Wiki site says Pillars of Eternity has been tested and runs perfectly, but whenever I try I just get a black screen with the game's mouse pointer and the title screen music playing in the background. I can load the Steam overlay, which looks like it's running in the correct resolution, but otherwise all I can do is cmd-Q to quit. I've tried disabling the Steam overlay and verifying the game cache, and I've experimented with finding the actual game file and turning on or off the 'Scale to fit below built-in camera' option. None have made a difference

So, I guess this never got fixed?