Game doesn't start; goes black after 1.0.5 update

[mikemariano]

Pillars of Eternity updated to 1.0.5.  After the update, pressing Play in Steam shows a black screen and cursor and nothing else—the Obsidian logo does not appear.  The game does not respond to keyboard or trackpad input and I must Command-Alt-Escape to end the program.

 

Deleting Local Content, reinstalling, and verifying the game's integrity did not help.

 

Attached are my specifications:

 

OS X 10.10.3 (14D136)

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013)

2.6 GHz Intel Core i5

16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Intel Iris 1536 MB

 

I am not permitted to upload my Unity Player.log, but the XML error below is what repeats throughout the log.  Is this TempSaveData connected to a saved game?  I never got this error before 1.0.5 and didn't have any saved game problems before then.

 

Thank you!

 

TextXML Parse Failed. Attempting binary... File: /var/folders/cx/nzl72km15_1g2rwggp6ss3v00000gn/T/unity.Obsidian Entertainment.Pillars of Eternity/TempSaveData Reason: Polenter.Serialization.Core.DeserializingException: An error occured during the deserialization. Details are in the inner exception. ---> System.Xml.XmlException: invalid data.
  at System.Xml.XmlStreamReader.Read (System.Char[] dest_buffer, Int32 index, Int32 count) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.ReadTextReader (Int32 remained) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.PeekChar () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.ReadContent () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.Read () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Mono.Xml.XmlFilterReader.Read () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Polenter.Serialization.Advanced.DefaultXmlReader.ReadElement () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Polenter.Serialization.Advanced.XmlPropertyDeserializer.Deserialize () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Polenter.Serialization.SharpSerializer.Deserialize (System.IO.Stream stream) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at Polenter.Serialization.SharpSerializer.Deserialize (System.IO.Stream stream) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at (wrapper synchronized) Polenter.Serialization.SharpSerializer:Deserialize (System.IO.Stream)
  at Polenter.Serialization.SharpSerializer.Deserialize (System.String filename) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at (wrapper synchronized) Polenter.Serialization.SharpSerializer:Deserialize (string)
  at SaveGameInfo.Load (System.String filePath, SizeStyle saveGameInfoStyle) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
 
(Filename: /Applications/buildAgent/work/d63dfc6385190b60/artifacts/MacStandalonePlayerGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 49)

[mikemariano]

I tried deleting my last save file.  After starting Steam it immediately re-downloaded the Steam Cloud Save copy of that file.  Pillars of Eternity then started up normally and I was able to start from my latest save.

 

So this now works—I'm not sure if that will be helpful to anyone else!