Mac Client - PoE Repeat Crashing - Macbook Pro M4 Max

Well , the patch notes were lying about fixing crashes on macOS .

I'm now able to run the game on my mac natively.

I combined a few of the other Mac threads that all seem to be related to the same issue.

These are the steps I have taken and it seems to have gotten things to work. You are going to have to be comfortable with a bit of the command line to make it work.

in ~/Library/Application Support/Path of Exile

> cp update.dat update.zip
> unzip update.zip
> cp -R Path Of Exile.app "/Users/<USERNAME>/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Path of Exile"
> sudo xattr -cr "/Users/<USERNAME>/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Path of Exile/PathOfExileClient.app"
> sudo codesign --force --deep --sign - "/Users/<USERNAME>/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Path of Exile/PathOfExileClient.app"

Now run the "/Users/<USERNAME>/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Path of Exile/Path of Exile.app/Contents/MacOS/Path\ of\ Exile" executable.

Updating of the game should start to happen..

Once it is complete, you should be able to launch the game by pressing Launch.



I can't seem to launch it from Steam, but it does work from the command line.

It looks like the update installer that comes out to check versions, etc has some sort of bad metadata that is preventing Mac to run it successfully. That's why we had to change the guardian bit and resign the package. Once that was done, the update process and game seems to run as it should.

After patch 16.06.2025 cant login into the game
Mac M1 pro

Login Error
There has been a patch that you need to update to. Please resrt Path of Exile

But How it can work if we open a game via client launcher? We CANT skip update check or open the game WITHOUT update!

New patch = new problems

I'm having the same issue as above with the latest 16.06.25 patch.
Mac M2 Pro

"Login Error
There has been a patch that you need to update to. Please restart Path of Exile."

I've tried redownloading the game data, but that did not help. Game worked fine yesterday.

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Game worked fine yesterday.

It worked fine even today in the morning...

After release new patch - login was crash

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I've tried redownloading the game data, but that did not help.

Tried the same - now working.
Tried to delete all foulders inside ~Library/Application Support/ Path of Exile - now working
Tried to delete and replace them back - now working

Currently Im trying to download from the Steam, maybe there are fixed, idk

Every new patch - new errors and unexpected behaviour

Hi all, got to fix the issue on my M4 Pro MacBook yesterday, no crashing or other issues since so I'll just post my fix here maybe it helps others:

(CrossOver - SteamClient)
- Install the game through the CrossOver Steam client
- Go to the game in Steam and go "Browse Local Files"
- From the Explorer go to Documents -> My Games -> Path of Exile
- Edit the production_Config.ini (just double click in the Explorer) -> search for "device_type" and "rendered_type" and make sure both of them are set to "DirectX12" (device_type is obsolete but just to make sure)
- Launch the game through the Steam client after saving the .ini file

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rucar_12#4354 wrote:

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Game worked fine yesterday.

It worked fine even today in the morning...

After release new patch - login was crash

"

I've tried redownloading the game data, but that did not help.

Tried the same - now working.
Tried to delete all foulders inside ~Library/Application Support/ Path of Exile - now working
Tried to delete and replace them back - now working

Currently Im trying to download from the Steam, maybe there are fixed, idk

Every new patch - new errors and unexpected behaviour

I noticed a change in the Path of Exile.app
There is a folder inside of it, "MacOS", that used to contain a unix executable file "Path of Exile" and a PathOfExileClient.app. Now there is only the unix executable file, but its much larger in size. Looking at my backup, it used to be about 5 MB, now its 80 MB. The PathOfExileClient.app that is now gone was 90 MB.

Works by installing via portingkit (PK)

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Guide:Path_of_Exile_on_Mac_using_Windows_Client#Kegworks_(KWS)_Setup

Hope they will fix all the errors soon...

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rucar_12#4354 wrote:

Works by installing via portingkit (PK)

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Guide:Path_of_Exile_on_Mac_using_Windows_Client#Kegworks_(KWS)_Setup

Hope they will fix all the errors soon...

I had to do something similar, in my case, using crossover, it is working fine. A pain that GGG cannot fix the native app.

Yesterday i could play standalone mac native, i could trick around all the problems, allow in system security and throw to trash several times and... got it to work, but today after the patch i cannot.

The update.bin in pathofexile folder seem to be locked somehow i cannot move or throw or rename it.

pathway ... user/username/library/application support/path of exile