Thrive 0.6.4 is not currently yet available for mac. The reason is that I did not have enough time before the release. Mac support for the latest Thrive release will return in the pretty near future (but maybe not this year yet). The reason why I decided to release without mac is that it is not a fully supported platform for us currently. You can check this thread for when we would make mac a first class platform for Thrive: Demand for official Mac (OSX) support - Meta - Thrive Development Forum
Just making this post to make sure anyone about to report this problem for mac would see this first.
The launcher may also crash when trying to process the version information with a platform missing for Mac.
ah, apple. there’s a lot of fixed crashes on windows and linux that aren’t fixed there, so while you will still need to explain the events leading up to the crash, i wouldn’t be surprised if it’s already fixed on windows.
Devblog #42 implies that 0.6.7 is already out, and June 22’s progress update outright states it. However, my Thrive launcher’s latest version is 0.6.3. (I am on Mac.) I am confuzzle. How do I get new version? Is it another OS issue?
I moved these posts to the thread about the latest game versions not being available on mac yet. You can read the start of this thread to find out why.
Edit: I’ll bump this to say that 0.7.0 is also not available for mac as this situation is still ongoing.
Deathwake
(i nuked zenzone and will never let him forget it)
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I don’t actually own a mac but i’m curious, if you install the linux version in like Asahi would that work? Also do we have a windows for arm build?
Thrive works on desktop Linux as long as graphics drivers are up to scratch on that system.
There’s no ARM for Windows build as no one should be trying to game on such a thing. If Godot Engine adds support for that we may do it as well, but it’s going to be pretty bothersome as there needs to be a ton of changes done to add a windows version variant for ARM and update the Thrive launcher etc. to detect ARM and load it correctly.
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Deathwake
(i nuked zenzone and will never let him forget it)
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You should see what snapdragon’s marketing team independent youtubers with “exclusive access” have been trying to convince us of. Sometimes I wish Microsoft were better at getting stuff done in an apple-like fashion.
I would expect that you’d be able to play more games if you installed Linux on the new Windows ARM devices, because even on Windows it seems they have like only 50% compatibility. Whereas on Linux with Proton basically all games that don’t have kernel level malware anticheats are playable (though I’m not sure ho good Box86 / Box64 is now).
Should i get a virtual machine on my mac that runs linux just to play 0.7.0 in a state where it isn’t super laggy?
Deathwake
(i nuked zenzone and will never let him forget it)
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Virtual machines are in and of themself laggy, but honestly that could work if you mac is much faster than your old laptop
Box86 and box64 seem pretty good but don’t have nearly the compatibility something like wine or proton has yet. I’d love to try it out but my only arm devices with linux are a pi 3 which is total underkill, might give it a shot someday though. You can apparently play doom (2016) very stability if you have a good gpu, which is nice. I’d love a decent arm pc but snapdragon laptops seem like a scam (and I meant pc, macbooks are worse) and if im paying $1000+ (which I don’t exactly have lying around) I have so many other options for cool things to do with that money I stop wanting some laptop when my current one still works, I don’t game on it, but it compiles whatever I throw at it and runs thrive (in linux).
at least if i need to do something else with linux i already have a VM set up