Login error

There has been a patch that you need to update. Well i whatever i do it doesnt update on steam, FIX YOUR GAME GGG

Same, playing on mac.

Same here. Steam on Mac.

On restart, Steam just validates all files for 3 minutes and then it's the same issue. Maybe something happened with one of the hotfixes on Steam. It worked before.

I also have this issue

MacOS 15.6

What I did:

- Installed via "Download Now" from the main website using my email address account (not steam) (today - 11/03/2026)
- Launcher installed ~30GB
- Loads game on splash page with login form
- Selected London (EU) gateway and entered account credentials
- Hit "Log In": "There has been a patch that you need to update to. Please restart Path of Exile."
- Restarting via app icon on MacOS ribbon - launcher loads and goes straight into the game
- Same issue on "Log In"

Have tried restarting, rebooting, switching gateways.

Not sure how to access debug logs or game version information on Mac. The space in the bottom right of the screen just says "PoE1"


Edit:

Found a console loader in the game files which outputs this on load:

Last login: Wed Mar 11 14:17:51 on console
/Applications/Path\ of\ Exile.app/Contents/MacOS/Path\ of\ Exile ; exit;
me@Mac-mini ~ % /Applications/Path\ of\ Exile.app/Contents/MacOS/Path\ of\ Exile ; exit;
2026-03-11 14:44:57.317 Path of Exile[1582:36852] Path of Exile root: /Users/ian/Library/Application Support/Path of Exile/
2026-03-11 14:44:57.318 Path of Exile[1582:36852] Path of Exile cache: /Users/ian/Library/Caches/com.GGG.PathOfExile/
2026-03-11 14:44:57.318 Path of Exile[1582:36852] Path of Exile preferences: /Users/ian/Library/Application Support/Path of Exile/Preferences/
2026-03-11 14:44:57.318 Path of Exile[1582:36852] Path of Exile folder set to /Users/ian/Library/Application Support/Path of Exile
2026-03-11 14:44:57.399 Path of Exile[1582:36852] Starting the client - release
2026-03-11 14:44:57.617 Path of Exile[1582:36882] Patching from patch2.pathofexile.com:12995...
2026/03/11 14:44:57 3713771728 [I Path of Exile 1582] Send patching protocol version 7
2026/03/11 14:44:57 3713771790 [I Path of Exile 1582] Web root: https://patch.poecdn.com/3.28.0.3.2/
2026/03/11 14:44:57 3713771790 [I Path of Exile 1582] Backup Web root: https://patch.poecdn.com/3.28.0.3.2/
2026/03/11 14:44:57 3713771791 [I Path of Exile 1582] Requesting root contents 1
2026/03/11 14:44:57 3713771834 [I Path of Exile 1582] Got file list for "" 0
2026/03/11 14:44:57 3713771846 [I Path of Exile 1582] Queue file to download: update.dat~301495
2026/03/11 14:44:57 3713771847 [I Path of Exile 1582] Requesting folder D3D12 1
2026/03/11 14:44:57 3713771847 [I Path of Exile 1582] Requesting folder Redist 2
2026/03/11 14:44:57 3713771847 [I Path of Exile 1582] Requesting folder Streamline 3
2026/03/11 14:44:57 3713771886 [I Path of Exile 1582] Got file list for "D3D12" 2
2026/03/11 14:44:57 3713771942 [I Path of Exile 1582] Got file list for "Redist" 1
2026/03/11 14:44:57 3713771942 [I Path of Exile 1582] Got file list for "Streamline" 0
2026/03/11 14:44:57 3713771946 [I Path of Exile 1582] Finished checking files
2026-03-11 14:45:48.648 Path of Exile[1582:36852] applicationWillTerminate

Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.
Deleting expired sessions... 4 completed.


Also found this in the Info.plist:

```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>BuildMachineOSBuild</key>
<string>24F74</string>
<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
<string>English</string>
<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
<string>Path of Exile</string>
<key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
<string>AppIcon</string>
<key>CFBundleIconName</key>
<string>AppIcon</string>
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>com.GGG.PathOfExile</string>
<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
<string>6.0</string>
<key>CFBundleName</key>
<string>Path of Exile</string>
<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
<string>APPL</string>
<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
<string>1.0</string>
<key>CFBundleSupportedPlatforms</key>
<array>
<string>MacOSX</string>
</array>
<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
<string>301438</string>
<key>DTCompiler</key>
<string>com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0</string>
<key>DTPlatformBuild</key>
<string>24C94</string>
<key>DTPlatformName</key>
<string>macosx</string>
<key>DTPlatformVersion</key>
<string>15.2</string>
<key>DTSDKBuild</key>
<string>24C94</string>
<key>DTSDKName</key>
<string>macosx15.2</string>
<key>DTXcode</key>
<string>1620</string>
<key>DTXcodeBuild</key>
<string>16C5032a</string>
<key>GPUEjectPolicy</key>
<string>wait</string>
<key>LSApplicationCategoryType</key>
<string>public.app-category.games</string>
<key>LSMinimumSystemVersion</key>
<string>10.15</string>
<key>NSPrincipalClass</key>
<string>NSApplication</string>
</dict>
</plist>
```



Edit 2:

Curious - I was poking around in ~Library/Application\ Support/ to try find the log file it was writing to (and check if bytes were being written to Content.ggpk (63,827,347,614 bytes (63.82 GB on disk))

And it started working on its own. Content.ggpk had not updated since 14:10 (before I did any debugging) so not sure what happened here and I'll leave it at that.

Edit 3:

It worked for a bit and I played it, saw a really weird visual bug (a standing torch blinded half my screen with pure white) so I quit and reloaded - to the same "There has been a patch" error on log in.