I am running the Steam version of Spiral Knights with Mac OSX 10.9.2. When I try to start the game, it opens the standard patching screen, downloads and applies the latest patch, then immediately flickers and shuts down. Every time I try to validate the game files through Steam, it tells me "9 files fails to validate and will be reacquired." Then, when I restart the game, it downloads and installs the same patch again, and dies in exactly the same way.
This has led me to believe that there is a problem with the current patch. Either that, or something very odd on my end. I have downloaded the standalone client, and it starts up perfectly fine – but, of course, I cannot log into the standalone client with my Steam account. If it is not possible to fix the problems with Steam, I would settle for the ability to use Steam accounts on the downloadable client, but I suppose that is a topic for another thread.
My point is, I can no longer play the game on Steam, and every fix I have tried to implement has failed. Is there any way you can help?
EDIT: In case it can help, I am copying my projectx.log file here.
2014/05/20 16:23:17:715 INFO J$a.b: Logging to '/Users/embegnaud/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Spiral Knights/./projectx.log'.
2014/05/20 16:23:21:154 INFO r.a: Updating Getdown with /Users/embegnaud/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Spiral Knights/./code/getdown-pro-new.jar...
2014/05/20 16:23:22:286 INFO J$a.b: Steam initialized.
2014/05/20 16:23:24:020 INFO J$a.b: Couldn't create display; switching fullscreen mode. [fullscreen=false]
2014/05/20 16:23:24:474 WARNING J$a.b: Couldn't find valid pixel format.
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.RuntimeException: Controllers has not been created.
at com.threerings.opengl.gui.e.f.isValid(SourceFile:628)
at com.threerings.projectx.client.ProjectXPrefs.c(SourceFile:886)
at com.threerings.projectx.client.ProjectXPrefs.b(SourceFile:839)
at com.threerings.projectx.client.ProjectXPrefs.xF(SourceFile:1597)
at com.threerings.projectx.client.ProjectXPrefs.k(SourceFile:295)
at com.threerings.projectx.client.ProjectXApp.init(SourceFile:1273)
at com.threerings.opengl.o.run(SourceFile:172)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:251)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:733)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$200(EventQueue.java:103)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:694)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:692)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:703)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:150)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:146)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:138)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:91)
Minor updates between major releases will result in Steam's version frequently being a few versions behind the actual game version when running Steam's Validate option. The result is that Steam can reverse the effect of game patches, only to have the game replace them again the next time it starts up.
Could you please try uninstalling Spiral Knights from Steam by suing the "Delete Local Content" option? You will not lose any in-game progress by doing this. Before installing aging please verify that
/Users/embegnaud/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Spiral Knights/is empty. If it isn't please delete any remaining files.If the game still isn't working after that please also post your launcher.log along with a new version of your projectx.log.