Constant Crashes

I hadn't played Civ for awhile... but with the new release coming out, I wanted to fire it up again. I am on an iMac with 16 GB ram and i7 with Radeon R9 4 gb ram... I am running a Beta of Mojave...

When I play, I get to the game screen and then my whole computer will just shut down. I don't get a crash... the whole system just goes black and is completely unresponsive. It is scary because I think that my computer is completely just burned out. Like something is fried.

I checked my system log, and there are all kinds of fun messages...

Code:

Dec  8 19:47:06 Jeffs-Retina-2 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit
Dec  8 19:47:29 Jeffs-Retina-2 GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent[954]: 2018-12-08 19:47:29.980 GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent[954/0x108be75c0] [lvl=2] -[KSAgentApp(PrivateMethods) setUpLoggerOutputForVerboseMode:] Agent default/global settings: <KSAgentSettings:0x7ff4b0507420 bundleID=com.google.Keystone.Agent lastCheck=2018-12-08 16:47:06 +0000 lastServerCheck=2018-12-08 16:47:04 +0000 lastCheckStart=2018-12-08 16:46:59 +0000 checkInterval=18000.000000 uiDisplayInterval=604800.000000 sleepInterval=1800.000000 jitterInterval=900 maxRunInterval=0.000000 isConsoleUser=1 ticketStorePath=/Users/Jeff/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/TicketStore/Keystone.ticketstore runMode=3 daemonUpdateEngineBrokerServiceName=com.google.Keystone.Daemon.UpdateEngine daemonAdministrationServiceName=com.google.Keystone.Daemon.Administration alwaysPromptForUpdates=0 lastUIDisplayed=(null) alwaysShowStatusItem=0 updateCheckTag=(null) printResults=NO userInitiated=NO>
Dec  8 19:52:28 Jeffs-Retina-2 LCore[542]: Reachability Flag Status: -- ------- networkStatusForFlags
Dec  8 19:52:32 --- last message repeated 5 times ---
Dec  8 19:52:32 Jeffs-Retina-2 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.airport.wps): Service only ran for 3 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 7 seconds.
Dec  8 19:52:39 Jeffs-Retina-2 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.airport.wps): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Dec  8 19:53:19 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec  8 19:55:38 Jeffs-Retina-2 syslogd[62]: ASL Sender Statistics
Dec  8 20:10:02 Jeffs-Retina-2 syslogd[62]: ASL Sender Statistics
Dec  8 20:22:03 Jeffs-Retina-2 syslogd[62]: ASL Sender Statistics
Dec  8 20:23:18 Jeffs-Retina-2 SystemUIServer[437]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Dec  8 20:23:21 Jeffs-Retina-2 SystemUIServer[437]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: Setting timer interval to 0 requests a 1ns timer, did you mean FOREVER (a one-shot timer)?; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Dec  8 20:23:22 Jeffs-Retina-2 LCore[542]: Reachability Flag Status: -R ------- networkStatusForFlags
Dec  8 20:23:24 --- last message repeated 5 times ---
Dec  8 20:23:24 Jeffs-Retina-2 LCore[542]: Reachability Flag Status: -- ------- networkStatusForFlags
Dec  8 20:23:29 --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Dec  8 20:23:29 Jeffs-Retina-2 LCore[542]: Reachability Flag Status: -R ------- networkStatusForFlags
Dec  8 20:23:30 --- last message repeated 5 times ---
Dec  8 20:23:30 Jeffs-Retina-2 AppBundleExe[984]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Dec  8 20:23:32 Jeffs-Retina-2 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit
Dec  8 20:23:35 Jeffs-Retina-2 Civ6_Exe[984]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Dec  8 20:23:35 Jeffs-Retina-2 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit
Dec  8 20:23:36 Jeffs-Retina-2 com.apple.WebKit.WebContent[988]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Dec  8 20:23:37 Jeffs-Retina-2 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.WebKit.Networking.A59F3151-DACB-4F57-BC84-E41B4CBD74D5[981]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1
Dec  8 20:24:05 Jeffs-Retina-2 SiriNCService[630]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Dec  8 20:24:06 Jeffs-Retina-2 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.valvesoftware.steamclean): Service only ran for 36 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 24 seconds.
Dec  8 20:25:45 Jeffs-Retina-2 AppBundleExe[1025]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Dec  8 20:25:46 Jeffs-Retina-2 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit
Dec  8 20:25:50 Jeffs-Retina-2 Civ6_Exe[1025]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Dec  8 20:25:50 Jeffs-Retina-2 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit
Dec  8 20:32:41 Jeffs-Retina-2 syslogd[62]: ASL Sender Statistics
Dec  8 20:35:31 Jeffs-Retina-2 diagnosticd[1034]: Posting empty stream filter
Dec  8 20:35:31 Jeffs-Retina-2 diagnosticd[1034]: allowing spindump (556) access to stream due to admin status
Dec  8 20:35:31 Jeffs-Retina-2 diagnosticd[1034]: Posting stream filter: "{
        category =     {
            "performance_instrumentation" = 34359738376;
        };
    }"
Dec  8 20:35:31 Jeffs-Retina-2 diagnosticd[1034]: no EOS device present
Dec  8 20:35:31 Jeffs-Retina-2 diagnosticd[1034]: System mode client started - spindump (556) - mode: 0x8, filter: "{
        category = "{(\n    \"performance_instrumentation\"\n)}";
    }"
Dec  8 20:35:31 Jeffs-Retina-2 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.user.501): Service "com.apple.xpc.launchd.unmanaged.loginwindow.115" tried to register for endpoint "com.apple.tsm.uiserver" already registered by owner: com.apple.SystemUIServer.agent

It is weird because I don't remember exactly what time I played, but I just left it off until this morning. So I don't know if it crashed twice... at 19:47 and then again at 20:35... but probably.

After a restart with no other applications running, I played and it worked okay. Then, with a browser open in the background, it crashed.

I then tried it with lower settings... lower resolution... shutting all the extras off... which shouldn't be necessary with my system... and it started, and I played a few turns, but then it crashed again.

I searched online... I see other people get crashes, but the black screen of death seems to be my problem. I wonder if something is wrong with my video card?

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

Any thought to installing Mojave instead of the beta? It was just updated to 10.14.2.

 

I have the latest beta. I just seems to be a memory bug. Last night... I tried three times, and it crashed and crashed. 4th time after an update and restart it played fine for a couple hours. Just sucks.

 

I have evidence that it is likely something to do with my video card. I opened up a gigapixel image, and I got the same crash as I was zooming in and out of the image. Something that really shouldn't be a problem for my system makes it crash.

 

Have you considered not running the beta Mojave system when you want to do something enjoyable that takes more than a few minutes ?
If not, why not take it up with Apple that you can't beta test Mojave and play Civ 6.