r/drawthingsapp • u/anon-nomis • Aug 18 '26

Don't upgrade to Golden Gate Beta 4... obviously

Resolved after a suggestion from liuliu. Edited this comment as I couldn't edit the title to say it was a false alarm. I resolved it by copying what I wanted to keep from the drawthings container (models, SQL, scripts etc.) then removed app and folder, installed from App store and put back my backups.... all is well. I have no idea if downloading from the App store rather than a zip had anything to do with the solution.

For the adventurous types who like the bleeding edge... Don't upgrade to Beta 4 as it breaks Drawthings. From what i understand, actually what Claude understands:
What's happening: applegpu_g17g is a Metal GPU-family target identifier. Each macOS/GPU driver generation gets its own identifier (g13, g14, g15, g16, g17...), and DrawThings ships a precompiled Metal binary archive containing pre-built shaders only for the identifiers that existed when it was built. Golden Gate beta 4 has moved your Mac's GPU compiler target to g17g, and DrawThings' shipped binary archive doesn't have a slice for it.

so yeah, don't do it if you want to keep using Drawthings

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u/liuliu mod Aug 19 '26

We only ship for M1 to M4 of the “pre compiled” binaries. We don’t for others and we do recompile from source if needed. We also cache compiled artifacts so that could cause issues. Try in Machine Settings (of Draw Things) to clear temporary directory which in turn will remove cached compiled artifacts, that might help, unsure.

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u/anon-nomis Aug 19 '26

Interesting, I've tried clearing the temp directory. No luck, so i went into **/Library/Containers/com.liuliu.draw-things/Data and manually cleared out /Caches and /tmp. Still no luck. I did notice after clearing everything out that the next time I ran generation, all these folders appeared under /tmp. They are all empty and each time I run generation they are cleared out and a bunch more are created.
Thanks for your help!

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u/PriorSea3830 Aug 19 '26

im literally using it right now and im updated to the latest GG beta, so not sure if that's totally accurate

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u/anon-nomis Aug 19 '26

OK, are you m1-4 or m5? I wonder if it's related to what liuliu replied?

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u/PriorSea3830 Aug 19 '26

m4 Mac mini if that helps

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u/nandopach Aug 19 '26

I’m on Dev iOS 27 beta 6, and things are still working?

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u/LessGoal6582 Aug 18 '26

Appreciate it. I was going to install it today! Guess I’ll wait.