Hi,

I purchased this game today and I really want to play it.
Trying to run it on High Sierra;Hero Edition.

I have two issues:
-After I installed POE, The main menu is what is shown in the photo. I have missing text in every part of the menu.
-I now cannot get it to install after I have uninstalled it. It hangs up and says installation failure.

What can I do to make certain I successfully uninstalled it and how can I get the GUI to function correctly???


This is what I did:
I restarted my computer.
I redownloaded the game package(in the event it got corrupted somehow).
I searched online for a solution. The only answers I saw were steam related and many people encountered this error when this game first came out all the way back from 2015.

I honestly do not know what to do. I purchased it today so it should have the latest version, correct?

I sincerely hope someone or a group of you folks could help me out.

I had the same problem but managed to solve it. You need to go to game directory (/Applications/Pillars of Eternity.app/Contents/) and then link data with Data folder - command: 'ln -s Data data'
Hope this helps you!

Thank you for replying. I did get it working with the help of a friend.

However, I wouldn't have understood what you are referring to as you did not clarify that one folder is upper case "Data" and the other is lower case"data" and they have to point back to one another. I am not familiar with using the terminal or what a s link is.

Shame on the Game developers for not spending 2-5 minutes on updating and fixing their MAC version.

We should not have to do this in order to get the game to work properly.

Over the holiday, one of my friends looked over the answers other people made in the Steam forums. We finally figured out it's not working due to MAC OS having a case sensitive file system.

So here are detailed instructions for solving it!

Pillars of Eternity on Mac:

The reason for the Missing GUI error is that Mac OS uses a case sensitive filesystem and Pillars of Eternity didn’t take this into account.

Here is how to fix this:

1. Open finder and right click on Pillars of Eternity and click show package contents. Open the contents folder.

2. Create a new folder here called “data” making sure to keep it lowercase. - Now you should have two folders called “Data” and “data”

3. Copy the contents of “Data” into “data” so that they are duplicates of each other. As in the following example:


4. Now open up a terminal and $ sudo su so you can be root

5. Next cd to the directory with this command:
# cd /Applications/Pillars\ of\ Eternity.app/Contents/

6. Now you need to create two symlinks so they go both directions with the following commands:
# ln –s Data/ data/
# ln –s data/ Data/

7. Now open up your game and your issue should be resolved.