[2023] Black screen but hearable sound in main menu after launch

Commander_A said: I'm attempting to get a full refund as this isn't mentioned in their store page's minimum requirements to run the game.

• MINIMUM:
  • OS: Mojave (MAC OS X 10.14)
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-7820HQ
  • Memory: 12 GB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD® Radeon™ PRO 560 (4 GB)

As Intel video is not mentioned it is, and always was, unsupported for the MacOS version of the game, regardless of the renderer in use. It's a sheer matter of luck that it ever worked in fact!  

Jhofstetter said: I do have a Mac with an Intel processor, even with an i7 core just as mentioned in the game requirements. So the problem would be that my graphics are also Intel?

That is exactly the issue, I'm afraid!

As mentioned above, support for openGL was removed in recent patches for this game and Vic3, which means they will no longer run on that unsupported hardware.

All you can do is revert to the previous 1.10.2 version in the Steam betas tab, or play on some other machine that meets the hardware specs. Also, if you have Apple Bootcamp installed it will probably work there.  

Jhofstetter said: I do still wonder though if there was a warning for these Mac players that I've missed

Deprecation of OpenGL Support for MacOS and Linux

Hello everyone! We're announcing today that with the release of Wards & Wardens, Crusader Kings III will no longer support the OpenGL renderer on MacOS and Linux as we shift our focus towards better support for the Vulkan rendering API. OpenGL... forum.paradoxplaza.com

Jhofstetter said: By the way, I assume newer beta versions will be available over time on steam? At the moment the latest I can play on is 1.9.2

1.10.2 is definitely there. Steam put them in alpha order, not numerical order.  

Dardlem said: Tried running it on MacBook Pro 13' 2019 (i5, Intel Iris Plus 655)

Using Bootcamp, are you saying? So under Windows? Because the Intel® HD Graphics 630 is supported there, and your Intel Iris Plus 655 ought to be better than that.  

Did you want to pursue that issue, or are you okay with GFN?


IF you do: Right click on ck3.exe , properties, compatibility. Tick "disable fullScreen optimisations" untick every other box in that dialog, Apply and exit.
Then in the launcher Game Settings menu, select fullScreen display mode, Vsync off, cap refresh rate at 60.


If those don't help:
DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here.

Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log , exceptions.log