Good day to all of you!

I have been playing Kings Bounty: The Legend on my Window XP machine for a while now and just recently saw that it was available at Good Old Games for the Mac. The game specifications indicate that it can be played using OS X 10.6.8 or newer so I did not give it another thought and purchased and installed the game. Unfortunately I cannot figure out how to get the game to run on my OS X 10.9 Mavericks system. When I try to launch the game the icon bounces in the dock for a while and then disappears.

The dialogue comes up for "Problem Report for King's Bounty - The Legend" asking if I want to Reopen the game or not. Looking at the crash details I see the information below (see end of post).

Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this crash? Has anyone managed to get the game to function using Mac OS X 10.9?

Thanks in advance for any and all assistance that you can provide.

Shadallark

--- snippet from the crash details ----
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x000000000000001c

VM Regions Near 0x1c:
--> __PAGEZERO 0000000000000000-0000000000001000 [ 4K] ---/--- SM=NUL /Applications/King's Bounty - The Legend.app/Contents/MacOS/King' s Bounty - The Legend
__TEXT 0000000000001000-0000000000015000 [ 80K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/King's Bounty - The Legend.app/Contents/MacOS/King' s Bounty - The Legend

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 com.1C-SoftClub.ServLib 0x0352a752 servlib::block_par_c::par_get(wchar_t const*, int, int) const + 18
1 com.1C-SoftClub.game 0x02c35bc6 UI_Game_c::cache_config() + 358
2 com.1C-SoftClub.game 0x02c54664 UI_Game_c::Initialize(char const*) + 324
3 com.1C-SoftClub.game 0x02a581c5 ModuleCore_c::Initialize() + 325
4 com.1C-SoftClub.Engine 0x0024fbe7 Module_c::InitializeAllModules() + 129
5 com.1C-SoftClub.game 0x02a2dd1d AppStartup(char const*) + 4749
6 com.1C-SoftClub.AppWin 0x0303f90e WinMain(void*, void*, char*, int) + 990
7 com.1C-SoftClub.King--s-Bounty---The-Legend 0x00005df8 InterOpManager::Launch() + 56
8 com.apple.Foundation 0x982e8680 -[NSObject(NSThreadPerformAdditions) performSelector:onThread:withObject:waitUntilDone:modes:] + 878
9 com.apple.Foundation 0x982e8225 -[NSObject(NSThreadPerformAdditions) performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject:waitUntilDone:] + 159
10 com.1C-SoftClub.King--s-Bounty---The-Legend 0x00005a98 -[Scene init] + 200
11 com.1C-SoftClub.King--s-Bounty---The-Legend 0x00002b79 -[Controller awakeFromNib] + 233
12 libobjc.A.dylib 0x98c02262 -[NSObject performSelector:] + 62
13 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x966e3014 -[NSSet makeObjectsPerformSelector:] + 228
14 com.apple.AppKit 0x94232012 -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:topLevelObjects:] + 1182
15 com.apple.AppKit 0x94225b75 loadNib + 369
16 com.apple.AppKit 0x94224fa1 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:withZone:ownerBundle:] + 320
17 com.apple.AppKit 0x944ced2e +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibFile:externalNameTable:withZone:] + 154
18 com.apple.AppKit 0x94224c1f +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:] + 709
19 com.apple.AppKit 0x9421ff69 NSApplicationMain + 510
20 com.1C-SoftClub.King--s-Bounty---The-Legend 0x000027ff main + 191
21 com.1C-SoftClub.King--s-Bounty---The-Legend 0x00002735 start + 53

Take a look at this thread and, particularly, at this post.

Thanks dr.schliemann;

Unfortunately editting the resolution in the game.ini file on my Mac is not enough to cause the game to open. I tried setting it to my current resolution (1280 x 800), I tried setting it to 1024 x 768, and I tried telling it to open in Windowed mode. None of those changes fixed the issue I am running into.

Thank you for the references, I will see if there are any other solutions posted over at that sight.

Shadallark

P.S. For Mac users wondering where the game.ini file is stored I found it by
* right clicking (Ctrl+Clicking) on the "King's Bounty - The Legend" game icon;
* then choosing Show Package Contents;
* in the finder window that came up I expanded Contents;
* Then I expanded Resources;
* The game.ini file was in that folder.

I am sorry I can't help you further because I don't own a Mac myself.