Blizzard Error - Crash on Launch

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How to use Starcraft 2 on Mac M1/Big Sur with Apple Silicon

Hi, just wanted to share something I found when trying to play on SC2 on my new Mac mini M1. I could not use it because it crashed when starting the game with an error related to the initialization of the graphic card. I finally found an easy fix. I simply went to ~/Library/Application Support/Blizzard/StarCraft II open the Variables.txt file and change “OpenGL3” to “Metal” at the line GraphicsApi= My problem was likely due to the fact that I updated from a pre-Metal iMac to a brand new…

Using Metal instead of OpenGL