[2022] Surviving Mars - Clear/Reflective ground. texture problem

Is this on an Intel Mac, or an M1 one?  

Then I'm afraid this is a reported problem, that has not yet been fixed:

Surviving Mars - invisible ground in some areas, MacOS Big Sur, M1 Mac Mini

Description invisible ground in some areas, MacOS Big Sur, M1 Mac Mini Mac Steam What is your game version? latest steam version Do you have Space Race installed? Yes Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible... forum.paradoxplaza.com

Surviving Mars - Missing Textures - Mac Mini M1 - OS 11.4

Description Missing Textures - Mac Mini M1 - OS 11.4 Mac Steam What is your game version? 1001586 Do you have Space Race installed? No Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible. Many textures are missing and... forum.paradoxplaza.com

Surviving Mars - M1 / ARM Texture Bug

Description M1 / ARM Texture Bug Mac Steam What is your game version? 1009413 What DLC do you have installed? Space Race, Stellaris Dome Set, Marsvision Song Contest, Colony Design Set, In-Dome Buildings Pack Please explain... forum.paradoxplaza.com
As the M1 is strictly speaking unsupported hardware for the game, it is possible it will never be fixed, I'm sorry to say!  

just_some_regular_guy said: Well "strictly speaking" there is nowhere an information that this game only runs on intel chips,... I understand "minimum requirement" and "recommended requirement" not as an exclusion for everything else.

The actual intent is that anything not covered by them is unsupported. Otherwise how would we document supported vs unsupported hardware in the form Steam give us to do so?

The bottom line is none of our games have been ported to native M1 code so we are dependent on Apple's Rosetta Intel emulation. It may be that newer versions of that in later MacOS version will help these issues, but it cannot be guaranteed.

Sorry about that!  

SkyHype. said: I also have this problem but do not use a Mac PC does that make a difference?

Yes, it does. Please make a new thread with full system details and problem history, thanks.