#Overwatch for mac os x install#

Given that linux users have been running it with a very good experience for some time now. I tried to run it both on an Intel Mac and an M1 Max Mac, and the results are the same. One first issue that I encountered, is that the client does not open. Overwatch assigns players into two teams of six, with each player selecting from a roster of over 20 characters, known in-game as heroes, each with a unique style of play, whose roles are divided into four general categories: Offense, Defense.

#Overwatch for mac os x install#

I was able to install it and to log in (although log in was a bit trickier because there were some white rectangles in the UI), but after installing the main UI does not show up. Description: Overwatch is a team-based multiplayer first-person shooter video game. The icon appears on the menu bar and you can right click it to reveal the list of games and open the config (that does work). Installing and then Overwatch through it is not an option because of the main UI version. Overwatch is installed successfully, but when opening it, an error showing 'Game Initialization Failed: I' pops up: The Overwatch bottle has a broken link, while the correct link is: The other approach is using the standalone Overwatch installer (that also installs but kicks off the download/installation process of Overwatch). I tried with both the latest stable build and a recent nightly (2120211030) and the result is the same. I found some docs about these dependencies on the lutris repo: I found some linux users having these issues years ago, they solved them by installing some dependencies. Overwatch is supposed to leave some logs in the Documents folder but I can't find anything there (I even tried removing the Desktop integration features on the Wine Configuration so that 'My Documents' is not linked to the Documents folder in my Mac). I wonder if I should open up a support ticket or if this is the right place for discussion. On line 244198 you can see the game initialization error message box being populated:Ġ0b8:Call user32.MessageBoxW(00000000,0021fd50 L'Game Initialization Failed: I',0021fd40 L'ERROR',00000010) ret=1400b7171 I executed Overwatch with the verbose logs to see if there are more clues there about what could be wrong. Three lines before that one, there's a TLS (thread local storage) callback exception.