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Sorry for the long delay in a reply. In the end I didn't take it to the Apple store because I found the PC version worked fine with Windows 7 through Boot Camp (previously I had been using Windows 7 exclusively through Fusion, which isn't the most ideal setting for running a game unless you have more than a dual-core processor). Seeing as I now have other games which I use via Boot Camp anyway, I decided it wasn't really worth the train ride just to try and fix this issue.

OK, I'll make an appointment at the store in Shibuya this week and see if they can't figure it out. I'll let you know the results here too. Thanks for taking the time to help!

Well, I made sure I have the US version as you suggested, then tried swapping the languages and formats. Still no luck. What makes it even more frustrating is that it worked a second time on the laptop without my doing any of that, yet afterwards wouldn't work. I don't understand what could be preventing it from working most of the time yet on rare occasions allowing it to work.

Well, I tried running it on one of the macbooks, and it actually worked... once. Since then I haven't been able to get it to run again. Oddly enough it also worked on the Mac Mini at one point yesterday, around the 10th or 15th attempt, but also hasn't worked since then.

Now when I restart the mini and clear the cache via the terminal, it goes to the updater and license agreement, but when I agree it once again bounces in the dock and eventually stops without opening. If I try again without restarting, it just bounces and stops with no updater or agreement. It seems totally random to my untrained eye.

I'm running this from Japan (though my settings are English, and I changed the mini's language setting and location to the US so it wouldn't screw up CoH) and the Time Capsule's location is noted as Japan, so I wonder if that's messing things up?

In any case, it looks like I'm resigned to run CoH through fusion until I hear back from NCsoft's support. Thanks for the assist, CuppaManga, and get better soon!

Hi CuppaManga, first of all thanks for the quick reply.

I tend to use Firefox rather than Safari for navigating, though I have no idea whether that would make a difference or not. That said, I emptied the cache in Safari, which didn't change anything. After that, I checked the activity monitor and observed that wineserver was on as long as CoH was on, but as soon as I force quit from CoH it turns off (or at least disappears from the activity monitor).

According to system preferences, the firewall is currently off and allowing all incoming connections. I did set up McAfee on Windows in the Fusion virtual machine, so I don't know if that would affect Snow Leopard (Connection-wise, the PC client had no problems starting and connecting with CoH in Fusion). If it makes a difference, the network includes two macbooks, and I've allowed file sharing with one of the macbooks.

Hello everyone,

I've just recently picked up the Mac client, ran it and the updater seemed to work fine. However, immediately after going through the agreement phase, the City of Heroes icon would bounce around in the dock for a bit before staying there, doing nothing, and forcing me to click "force quit". Since then, when I try to start up City of Heroes I get the bouncing and then nothing, not even the updater screen.

By the way, I'm using a Mac Mini, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB ram, again with Snow Leopard 10.6.1 and the video card's an Nvidia 9400. I'm also running it wireless through a 2 TB Time Capsule network.

I'm utterly computer illiterate so I had absolutely no idea what to do until I came here and did a search. I've used Console, clearing the display right before I start up CoH, and this is the only line I get after clicking City of Heroes in the apps folder:


11/1/09 9:42:42 AM [0x0-0x2f02f].com.transgaming.cityofheroes[432] Could not stat /Applications/City of Heroes.app/Contents/Resources/transgaming/f_drive (No such file or directory), ignoring drive F:


Unlike other posts I've seen here that have a line similar to that, nothing else concerning City of Heroes pops up before or after it in the console. If it makes any difference, I also had it installed previously on my Mac via Windows 7 and Fusion 3.0, but once I discovered there was a Mac native client I uninstalled the PC client and opted to try the native one instead.

If anyone has any ideas, I'd greatly appreciate any advice you could give me. Thanks ahead of time!