By far the best way to launch Flame on a Mac is to launch it from a Terminal. This is worth the 5 minutes it takes to set up. I promise. Follow that procedure here…
If you haven’t had a chance too yet, then here’s the procedure. If you are on a Mac and Flame crashes and when you go to relaunch Flame it doesn’t launch, just has a bouncing dock icon, or nothing happens at all when you click on the Flame icon whether it be in Applications or in the Dock, do this.
Step 1
Open a Terminal and type in:
ps -ef | grep flame
You should get a result that looks like the below. If you don’t, skip Step 2 and follow the instructions for If you don’t see any Flame PIDs.. Find the second number from the left on the line that has:
opt/Autodesk/flame_2021.1/bin/flame.app/Contents/MacOS/flame
You are looking for the number in the pink circle. That’s the process id or PID you need.
Step 2
Then, type in a Terminal…
sudo kill -9 <flame_pid>
That should kill Flame.
If you don’t see any Flame PIDs
Type in a Terminal…
sudo killall launchservicesd
sudo killall Dock