Can't even start a new game on OS X

[thelee]

Click new game, select difficulty, start up music plays and "Obsidian Entertainment Presents" shows up, I click to skip the rest,  fade to black.

 

 

...and never fades in from black. Beachball appears, and I force close PoE. I am a sad panda

 

No saved game to provide. 

 

Am not sure how to get at output_log (no instructions provided in stickied post for OS X).

 

System info:

 

Model Name: MacBook Pro

  Model Identifier: MacBookPro12,1

  Processor Name: Intel Core i5

  Processor Speed: 2.9 GHz

  Number of Processors: 1

  Total Number of Cores: 2

  L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

  L3 Cache: 3 MB

 

  Memory: 8 GB

Edited January 2, 2018 by thelee

[danieltkessler]

I had this same issue. I was able to move past the spinning beach ball of doom by going into Options from the main menu BEFORE opening a new game, lowering frame rates and graphics, and making it so that the game didn't automatically record and send info to the developers. I wish I could have kept this, since it is helpful for the devs, but I couldn't seem to find a way around it. 

[thelee]

I had this same issue. I was able to move past the spinning beach ball of doom by going into Options from the main menu BEFORE opening a new game, lowering frame rates and graphics, and making it so that the game didn't automatically record and send info to the developers. I wish I could have kept this, since it is helpful for the devs, but I couldn't seem to find a way around it. 

 

Unfortunately, I tried this, and I still am unable to progres beyond the black screen beachball of death. The forum sticky lists a KI of some machines crashing on black screen on new game, but correcting on second attempt, but this is definitely not true for me. Essentially this beta just doesn't work on my OS X machine.