macOS 15.4.1 breaks Steam

[Arcadi4]

Description

I know this project is now inactive, and I apologize for bothering. However, I think this might be worth reporting.

The known stable version of steam (http://web.archive.org/web/20250306194830if_/media.steampowered.com/client) seems to be broken under macOS 15.4.1. Note that the wine-preloader threads just stuck after starting, there are no error pop-ups from Steam. This is very likely an OS(or wine compatibility) issue:

• It occurred exactly after an OS update.
• I've tried several other versions of Steam.

Steps to reproduce

• Run Whisky on macOS 15.4.1
• Install and run steam
• After a few minutes, all wine-preloader threads will be dead

Expected behaviour

Steam runs normally.

Logs

Whisky Version: 2.3.5
Date: 2025-04-25T16:08:21Z
macOS Version: 15.4.1

Bottle Name: Steam
Bottle URL: /Volumes/WD Elements/Whisky/3A5EE97C-4A4F-48C2-A3C7-A7A26B54E4BC

WhiskyWine Version: 2.5.0
Windows Version: win11
Enhanced Sync: msync

Metal HUD: false
Metal Trace: false

Arguments: start /unix /Volumes/WD Elements/Whisky/3A5EE97C-4A4F-48C2-A3C7-A7A26B54E4BC/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steam.exe -noverifyfiles -nobootstrapupdate -skipinitialbootstrap -norepairfiles -overridepackageurl

Environment:
{
    "D3DM_SUPPORT_DXR" = 1;
    "DXVK_ASYNC" = 1;
    "GST_DEBUG" = 1;
    WINEDEBUG = "fixme-all";
    WINEESYNC = 1;
    WINEMSYNC = 1;
    WINEPREFIX = "/Volumes/WD Elements/Whisky/3A5EE97C-4A4F-48C2-A3C7-A7A26B54E4BC";
}

msync: bootstrapped mach port on wine-182d0-msync.
msync: up and running.
wine: could not open working directory L"C:\\windows\\system32\\", starting in the Windows directory.
002c:err:wineboot:main Cannot set the dir to L"C:\\windows" (2)
wine: could not open working directory L"C:\\windows\\system32\\", starting in the Windows directory.
002c:err:shell:SHGetFolderPathAndSubDirW Failed to create directory L"C:\\users\\crossover\\AppData\\Roaming".
002c:err:shell:SHGetFolderPathAndSubDirW Failed to create directory L"C:\\users\\crossover".
002c:err:shell:SHGetFolderPathAndSubDirW Failed to create directory L"C:\\users\\crossover\\AppData\\Local".
wine: could not load kernel32.dll, status c0000135

What version of Whisky are you using?

2.3.2

What version of macOS are you using?

Sonoma (macOS 14)

Issue Language

• Yes my issue is written in English

[steinathan]

check the comment here, it works for me

https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/1gl55mn/comment/lvt4hu2/

[Arcadi4]

check the comment here, it works for me

https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/1gl55mn/comment/lvt4hu2/

Thank you for replying. This is what I have already done. Are you also on macOS 15.4.1? I highly suspect this is caused by the OS update.

[steinathan]

Yes I’m on 15.4.1