feat(macos): Apple Silicon patcher with macOS platform WAD protection#242
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Skin mods designed for Windows were having their chunk hashes cross-matched into Bootstrap.macos.wad.client and ShaderCache.metal.wad.client via the overlay builder's cross-WAD distribution. This corrupted macOS-specific assets (Metal shaders, platform config) and crashed the game at loading screen. Automatically block these platform WADs from overlay patching on macOS. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
cslol-tools (commit 23f230858). Runs as an elevated helper process
communicating over a Unix socket with token-based authentication.
signature validation, and session cleanup on all exit paths.
bootstrap.macos.wad.clientandshadercache.metal.wad.clientfrom overlay patching on macOS. Cross-WAD hash matching was distributing
Windows skin mod chunks into these platform-specific WADs, corrupting
Metal shaders and macOS bootstrap assets — crashing the game at load.
Known limitations
in the macOS game WADs. The overlay builder treats these as new entries
and injects them into the patched WAD, which can crash the macOS client
at loading screen. This has been observed intermittently — the same mod
sometimes loads successfully, suggesting a potential race condition or
load-order dependency. Investigating a fix, likely an
ltk_overlayoption to skip new WAD entries on macOS. For now, users will need to
disable the affected skin mod if it causes crashes.