[Ubisoft_Account]Rocksmith 2014 remastered doesn't run on MAC Os High Sierra | Forums

[zaworro]

Hi. Same here, another disappointed user. My workaround is to use an external mouse... But still - cannot use the keyboard to navigate.

[Rogue_Clakker]

I submitted a ticket via Ubisoft support after experiencing a failure to load Rocksmith beyond the "enter" screen. My problems only seemed to show up after installing High Sierra. The response I got from Ubisoft was that Ubisoft is not supporting Rocksmith, and that I might try installing a Virtual Box and running either 10.7 or 10.8, although I might not be able to run either of those iterations of OS X since my machine shipped with Mavericks.

I recognize that the Mac market might not be lucrative enough to justify supporting the platform, but I've really enjoyed played Rocksmith and have spent a good bit of money on DLC, so I'm hoping Ubisoft addresses this issue.

[W3RNSTROM]

Thank you, so much!

This fix immediately rectified the issue.

Jam on fellow smithees!!!

[sjhiker]

I've contacted UBI support multiple times and their canned response has been (since October), "We're aware of the issue."

I honestly don't think they'll ever fix it.

[xcusdawg]

Setting Rocksmith into windowed mode got my keyboard controls back in MacOS High Sierra.

To do it:

1. Launch Rocksmith
2. Wait for Rocksmith to show the prompt "[Enter] Begin"
3. Use your mouse or trackpad to click on the [Enter] button on the screen.
4. Use your mouse or trackpad to select a profile.
5. Use your mouse or trackpad to click the [Space] Tools button in the bottom right corner of the screen
6. Use your mouse or trackpad to click on Options in the tools menu
7. Use your mouse or trackpad to click on Visual Settings in the options menu
8. Use your mouse or trackpad to click on Windowed mode in the visual settings menu
9. Use your mouse or trackpad to select Windowed Mode instead of Exclusive full screen in this menu.
10. Use your mouse or trackpad to click on [Exc] Back in the bottom right corner of the screen
11. Confirm that the screen says Current Setting: Windowed under Windowed Mode in the Visual Settings Menu
12. Confirm that you can now use the keyboard controls of the game once again.
13. You may click on the green button at the top of the window to make the window fullscreen if you like. In which case you can use command-tab, or swipe up with four fingers in order to get back to your main desktop.
14. Go back to playing the game like you used to, With Keyboard controls!

Thanks @mapsonburt

This did not work for me. any other suggestions?

[MOROZILnic_rock]

So I figured out one more source of keyboard/mouse bugs: Karabiner Elements.
Karabiner Elements is a tool to mess around with keyboard and it causes Rocksmith to not register keypresses and mouse clicks. (Something with virtual devices, IDK)

If you stop Karabiner Elements before Rocksmith launches and start just after - both applications work flawlessly.

I wrote a bit of a fix: https://pastebin.com/4j7JZSpT

CAUTION: there is a bunch of administrator-level actions there, if you do not know bash and do not trust random scripts on the internet (as you should!), it's better to manually disable Karabiner Elements before launching Rocksmith.

You need to download it and run in terminal, it spits out some instructions above "*****", do them. After it you can launch Rocksmith via this script, or if you want fancy logo -- ask steam to create shortcut on desktop and replace run.sh inside that shortcut with this script.

[magiCAD]

So I figured out one more source of keyboard/mouse bugs: Karabiner Elements.
Karabiner Elements is a tool to mess around with keyboard and it causes Rocksmith to not register keypresses and mouse clicks. (Something with virtual devices, IDK) ...

YES! This was the key to all of my frustrations. I'm not sure why I'm just seeing this now, but damn you Karabiner Elements!

Confirming I can now:

- Search via the "Search a Song" feature
- Use the mouse to do mousy things

Thanks a bunch for solving this.

P.S. Someone submitted an issue in GitHub (https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements/issues/673), but it became stale and closed out. Not sure if there will ever be a proper fix.

[UbiMorning]

Thank you for sharing magiCAD!