Hi I am having a similar issue as the other mac users (I am using macbook pro M2) but i dont think it has been resolved? I have the app in my applications file, and I ran the command line. I also installed rosetta, but now when I try to open the app, nothing happens (whereas before doing the first steps i mentioned, it would say that it was damaged).
Is there something else I am missing? Do you need me to send you anything to help troublehsoot? Thanks again!
I'm unsure if they have been solved or not since most people don't reply. If you haven't tried restarting, I would say do that now to make sure there isn't anything running in the background. Most people get the "app is damaged" error when they try to run it directly out of the dmg file. It sounds like you are doing everything correctly though since the steps are
1) Drag app to Applications folder
2) Run Fix-Quaratine.command
3) Run UWUVCI-V3 out of Applications folder.
It would help if I could get a log file, but I don't know where one would get stored, and I've tested this on a Mac as early as 2011 to an M2 and ran into no issues. I can see that most people on Mac aren't running into issues, so I'm wondering what makes the few of you that have posted here different. I know one person had an issue and it's because they had Android Studio installed which was somehow messing with what they had. But like I said, it's really hard for me to understand what the issue you could be having is.
Hey thanks for getting back to me!
I used chatgpt to see where I can get something like a log file or crash report, and it told me to go to utilities > console and look for something like wine. Below is the crash report (in a separate reply) but this is what chatgpt called out; perhaps it is because I am using OS 26.2 and this does not support it?
Let me know if this helps!
This is the key line:
Termination Reason: Namespace DYLD missing LC_LOAD_DYLIB (must link with at least libSystem.dylib)
That means:
macOS’s loader (dyld) refuses to start Wine
The Wine binary inside UWUVCI is too old / incorrectly linked
Newer macOS versions no longer allow this binary to launch at all
This is a hard stop at launch, not a Java issue, not permissions, not quarantine.
Important clues from the log:
macOS 26.2
Apple Silicon (Translated: true, Rosetta)
Wine 9.0 (Kegworks wrapper)
What changed:
New macOS versions tightened Mach-O validation
Wine binaries that don’t explicitly link libSystem.dylib are now rejected
Kegworks/CrossOver Wine used by UWUVCI v3 has not been updated
So macOS kills it before UWUVCI even starts. That’s why:
App icon bounces (or doesn’t)
No UWUVCI logs appear
Only Wine crashes
Just so you don’t go in circles:
❌ Reinstalling Java
❌ Removing quarantine
❌ Re-downloading UWUVCI
❌ Running in Rosetta manually
❌ Disabling SIP (also not recommended)
This is a binary incompatibility, not configuration.
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Translated Report (Full Report Below)
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Process: wine [1922]
Path: /private/var/folders/*/wine
Identifier: wine
Version: 9.0 (9.0)
Code Type: X86-64 (Translated)
Role: Unspecified
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Coalition: com.kegworks.UWUVCIV3964334181 [1508]
Responsible Process: Kegworks [1868]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2026-02-02 22:25:58.0169 -0500
Launch Time: 2026-02-02 22:25:57.9910 -0500
Hardware Model: Mac14,9
OS Version: macOS 26.2 (25C56)
Release Type: User
Crash Reporter Key: 02B38AD1-1AFE-36F2-6A7E-62BA0CA7426B
Incident Identifier: EB656F1C-0BA0-4846-8251-3DC718BCDC79
Time Awake Since Boot: 200 seconds
System Integrity Protection: enabled
Triggered by Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Termination Reason: Namespace DYLD, Code 0,
missing LC_LOAD_DYLIB (must link with at least libSystem.dylib)
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ??? 0x30020fb80 ???
1 ??? 0x3001d1464 ???
2 dyld 0x300093037 abort_with_payload_wrapper_internal + 82
3 dyld 0x300093069 abort_with_payload + 9
4 dyld 0x300017247 dyld4::halt(char const*, dyld4::StructuredError const*) + 343
5 dyld 0x300013b63 dyld4::prepare(dyld4::APIs&, mach_o::Header const*) + 4525
6 dyld 0x30001272d start + 3373
Thread 1:: com.apple.rosetta.exceptionserver
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x0000000000000006 rbx: 0x0000000000000014 rcx: 0x0000000000000000 rdx: 0x0000000404128d50
rdi: 0x0000002004128930 rsi: 0x88867da98c9b00bb rbp: 0x0000000000000000 rsp: 0x0000000404128950
r8: 0x0000000404128950 r9: 0x0000000000000000 r10: 0x0000000000000014 r11: 0x0000000404128950
r12: 0x0000000000000000 r13: 0x0000000404128d50 r14: 0x0000000000000006 r15: 0x0000000000000014
rip: <unavailable> rfl: 0x0000000000000283
tmp0: 0xffffffffffffffff tmp1: 0x000000030020fb54 tmp2: 0x0000000300093037
Binary Images:
0x30000c000 - 0x3000a9fff dyld (*) <759d71bc-86dc-3d9c-a062-86fc312218ea> /usr/lib/dyld
0x200000000 - 0x200002fff wine (*) <10bcd3a2-e1d0-3b3f-9f44-ba733823f8f8> /var/folders/*/wine
0x0 - 0xffffffffffffffff ??? (*) <00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000> ???
External Modification Summary:
Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
task_for_pid: 0
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by this process:
task_for_pid: 0
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by all processes on this machine:
task_for_pid: 0
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
VM Region Summary:
ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=992K resident=0K(0%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=992K(100%)
Writable regions: Total=8.2G written=320K(0%) resident=320K(0%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=8.2G(100%)
VIRTUAL REGION
REGION TYPE SIZE COUNT (non-coalesced)
=========== ======= =======
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Rosetta Thread Context 20K 2
Stack 8176K 1
Stack Guard 56.0M 1
VM_ALLOCATE 48K 1
VM_ALLOCATE (reserved) 24K 3 reserved VM address space (unallocated)
WINE_RESERVE 8.0G 1
__DATA 140K 3
__DATA_CONST 28K 1
__DATA_DIRTY 16K 2
__LINKEDIT 368K 4
__TEXT 644K 2
dyld private memory 4K 1
mapped file 2012K 10
page table in kernel 320K 1
=========== ======= =======
TOTAL 8.2G 293
TOTAL, minus reserved VM space 8.2G 293
Error Formulating Crash Report:
RIP register does not match crashing frame (0x0 vs 0x30020FB80)
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Full Report
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Okay, so I checked the files in the dmg and I'm not able to replicate the error you're having. On your machine, can you open up a terminal, run these three commands, and tell me the output for "file wine" and "otool -L wine"
cd /Applications/UWUVCI-V3.app/Contents/SharedSupport/wine/bin
file wine
otool -L wine
What's expected are these two outputs
wine: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
wine: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1351.0.0)
If you are not getting that, can you verify exactly how you installed the dmg file?
These are the exact steps that should have happened between downloading and running the program, please let me know if you had any differences
Hey, I ran those commands in Terminal and got the exact outputs. Confirming I also followed the same steps you outlined; I downloaded the dmg file after paying the $2.99 and it took me to a link where I downloaded
UWUVCI-V3.200.6-Mac
I used chatgpt to also help troubleshoot, and it suggested this. Let me know if this helps.
The Wine binary itself looks correct (file and otool -L match expected output).
However, the crash report shows macOS is executing Wine from /private/var/folders/.../wine, not directly from the app bundle.
On macOS 26.2 (Apple Silicon, Rosetta), dyld aborts with missing LC_LOAD_DYLIB even though libSystem.B.dylib is present when inspected in-place.
This looks like a translocation / runtime copy issue with Kegworks on newer macOS rather than a malformed binary.
This is a macOS 26 dyld regression / enforcement change:
otool confirms the binary does link libSystem
dyld is still rejecting it at runtime
This happens before Wine even executes
In other words:
The binary passes static inspection
but fails runtime validation on your macOS version
That’s why the dev can’t reproduce it.
This line:
Process: wine Path: /private/var/folders/*/wine
That means:
macOS is not launching the Wine binary in the app bundle
It’s launching a temporary extracted copy
That temp copy loses Mach-O metadata when dyld revalidates it
This is a Kegworks / app translocation issue on newer macOS.
macOS 26 added stricter checks when:
Executables are launched from translocated paths
Or copied into temp folders at runtime
Especially under Rosetta
So:
wine in the app bundle = valid
wine copied to /private/var/folders/... = rejected
Older macOS doesn’t care. New macOS does.
Also I gave this a try again (deleted app and redid it) and after clicking on the app, a pop up window quickly showed up saying it was verifying it if its safe to open but immediately closes in half a second. Then nothing happens and I get the same crash report (I also ran the commands you mentioned and still have the same outputs)
Okay, I figured out the problem, and it kind of sucks, macOS 26 is the issue. I built the mac version on a custom "Kegworks" wrapper/app with custom code. The problem is that because of how macOS 26 changed their pipeline making it so I need to abandon the "Kegworks" version of this program and have to start over. What also sucks is that the changes I need to do make it so it will only be backwards compatible up until macOS Catalina, whereas the old one was able to go back to at least High Sierra (I didn't find one older then that). What this means is I'll end up dropping support for about 10 years of Macs. I'll most likely keep updating the Kegworks one since it's already done to keep support for older macs, and build a new thing for the newer macs. I started investigating how to make a new one, but I don't have a timeline for when I'll get this completed, probably some time this month. Thanks for working with me on this. I only just upgraded my mac mini to Tahoe, so that's why I didn't catch this earlier since the testing for this original version was completed back in August of 2025.
