WT freezing and crashing on a Mac? Read this (only a workaround)

[sgthuckleberry 7]

As many of you will know, WT on Mac can have freeze and crash issues, for me it started not long ago, a workaround I have is play WT on W10 on Parallels (v15 as I have a licence for it, v17 is meant to be 30% faster on gfx).

 

1. Install Parallels with W10

2. Put WT there and enjoy. I play on medium/low and getting decent ~30FPS.

 

I'm on a maxed out mid-2015 MBP.

[sgthuckleberry 7]

OK not even 2 weeks later the issue seems to have moved onto Parallels, it'll freeze up the whole VM and hog down the whole system. Out of workarounds for now. Awaiting the ultimate fix (impatiently) @Pony51 ;-)

[sgthuckleberry 7]

Turned off "Full Client" - seems to be OK now, WTH is goin' onnnnnn

[Gletschrprise 0]

The solution above (turning off Full Client) doesn't help. Game is still keep crashing. In 100% of cases it happens if I being killed while using airline or when I am killing an airplane while using anti-aircraft.
I have MacOS 11.2 (Big Sur), MacBook Pro 2019 

[sgthuckleberry 7]

14 hours ago, Gletschrprise said:

The solution above (turning off Full Client) doesn't help. Game is still keep crashing. In 100% of cases it happens if I being killed while using airline or when I am killing an airplane while using anti-aircraft.
I have MacOS 11.2 (Big Sur), MacBook Pro 2019 

Are you on Parallels too? As in the first post in this thread.

[inktomi 833]

Pretty sure that DirectX is doing something that can't be properly mapped over to Metal or OpenGL. I'm not sure why Parallels would have worked before but not now (unless you were somehow avoiding the exact things that cause the bug), but I'm pretty certain there was a change to the graphics engine so that it's now doing things in a way that can't currently match to a Mac API.

[Housemouse2 6]

WT it is a joke, every time the inkompetent team of Gaijin makes a upgrade al mac crash and then it take them month to fix it, why does Gaijin eaven bother having this game on Mac, it is a insult to mac users, I use many games and programs originated from PC to Mac, ONLY WT make MAC crash! shame on you Gaijin!

[_HighFrameRate_ 14]

2 weeks later and no better. I can't play a whole round without a freeze and restart. Forget jumping into a aircraft - it's a freeze guarantee. Even tank battles lock up. I've reduced almost everything graphically with no success. I don't see any updates from the technical team. Man, I love the game and hoping it is resolved soon!

[Gletschrprise 0]

@sgthuckleberry Hi, Parallels is not a solution. This is just a workaround which is not suitable for everybody.

[sgthuckleberry 7]

On 25/09/2021 at 19:16, Gletschrprise said:

@sgthuckleberry Hi, Parallels is not a solution. This is just a workaround which is not suitable for everybody.

I agree, it may not be suitable for everyone - but works for me so far so just wanted to share this in case anyone finds it helpful :-)

[sgthuckleberry 7]

An update:

 

Playing in the Windowed mode and on low graphics quality seems to have gotten rid of the freezes and crash.

 

Not ideal playing on low graphics but better this than rebooting the Mac

 

HTH.

[T_Eicke 0]

My solution has been to delete the entire content of the Cache file and then leave it in "read only"
Now the game is stable, without bugs and I can play without problems.
At last !!!!!!!!

[collartino 0]

On 15/10/2022 at 02:49, T_Eicke said:

My solution has been to delete the entire content of the Cache file and then leave it in "read only"
Now the game is stable, without bugs and I can play without problems.
At last !!!!!!!!

Thanks so much for this!! it worked for me too. I was about to uninstall the game out of frustration. I am on a MacBook Pro 16" M1 Pro running Monterey 12.6.

Edited October 17, 2022 by collartino

[Irritant001 0]

Hi, pleople

Ive seen your solution but do you guy's play through Steam? I don't. Did find a few people said how to with Steam but can't implement without. If any of you could give me an idea it would be awesome!