[Fix] r2modman crashes on start when using Whisky
Hi guys, as you probably know, r2modman is a fairly popular mod manager for Risk of Rain 2, Lethal Company and other games. It's used to easily install, uninstall, and manage mods for these games. But it doesn't work on Mac, specifically through Whisky. But I found a way to fix it!
Problem
- When you try to use r2modman with Whisky on a Mac, it crashes and gives you this error: "
The program r2modman.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
Solution
- Install the latest version of r2modman using Whisky
- Navigate to the configuration settings in Whisky of the newly installed r2modman
- Find the Arguments row and type in
--in-process-gpu.
After this, r2modman should start up just fine. I've tried it with several games (like Risk of Rain 2 and Lethal Company) and the mods loaded without any problems, just like they do on a regular Windows or Linux computer.
Explanation
Probably r2modman crashes because the Chromium browser (which it uses because it's built on Electron) tries to start a separate GPU process. This messes something up in Wine. When you add --in-process-gpu to the r2modman launcher, it makes sure that no extra processes need to run, so everything works like it should.
