It depends on the game and on the computer.
Best bet is to install the free trial of Crossover and give your games a try.
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It depends on the game and on the computer.
Best bet is to install the free trial of Crossover and give your games a try.
The games I own are pretty old and my iMac is an M4. I'll give it a shot, thanks for the tip!
I'll be able to look at my entirely unplayable Steam library of games that I bought when they were ported to Mac, then Apple dropped support for every single one a few years later...
Yes.
These sorts of "updates" are not good for anything or anybody.
I personally can't stand the trend of continually dropping older software support.
It doesn't help new content, and certainly doesn't help if you like and own older content.
The only result is "stuff you used to own, play and enjoy is now gone".
I've used crossover in the past with good results. This is also helpful:
CrossOver Runs Thousands of Windows Programs. Does it Run Yours?
We’re constantly testing and rating CrossOver’s compatibility with Windows software. From business and office to education and reference software, CrossOver runs thousands of Windows programs on Mac and Linux.
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All MacOS 32 bit games are very old
.Best of luck and let everyone know if it works out for you.
Apple: “we’re serious about Mac gaming. Seriously!”
If you check Steam’s hardware survey, Apple continues to plummet and is lower than Linux. It’s very frustrating to have to emulate the windows versions and we also have the possibility of even that not working in the near future.
If you check Steam’s hardware survey, Apple continues to plummet and is lower than Linux. It’s very frustrating to have to emulate the windows versions and we also have the possibility of even that not working in the near future.
The companies who did make a Mac Port will probably resent how Apple likely made their version non functional when they dropped support for 32-but. Isn’t Rosetta 2 getting dropped soon? Rendering even more Mac games incompatible
I thought they said at WWDC that they would continue Rosetta II for some applications like games. I assume since Codeweavers partners with Apple on their development, that CrossOver would be one of those applications that keep getting support.Moved to codeweavers crossover for a larger playable library as a temporary stopgap until Apple removes Rosetta ii
Then we’re out-of-luck.
You can’t rely on Steam’s hardware survey, because its fails to capture the relevant data or just straight up comes back with an error, when running Steam through CrossOver (the place where anyone serious about gaming is, if they are on a Mac). Parallels is also a popular option, and I am not sure but I think it reports as a Windows systems on Steam surveys. While its hard to get a good number on what percentage of people using Steam on a Mac are using CrossOver or Parallels (or Whisky or one of the other handful of options), Steam gamers tend to be the more dedicated type of gamer (as opposed to casual gamers who mostly rely on the App Store), so the number could be anywhere as high as 60% or more of Steam gamers on a Mac. I would at least say to expect double the number of real world users compared to what the survey shows. I highly doubt with the incredible increase of Mac sales since M1 and more AAA games now being made for Mac than ever before, and now even low end Macs having iGPUs good enough to play games, that Mac users on Steam have decreased. Even being heavily conservative you would have to calculate at least a small uptick in users.
Apple is so bad and focusless at gaming that even if they bought Steam and hired Gabe as Head of Gaming the whole thing would founder in less than a year.
Running games with CO or Parallels is NOT the same as running on MacOS - so the stats are absolutely correct and show how tiny the percentage of native Mac gaming is.
Bought Portal and Portal 2 ages ago, super fun games. Haven't been able to play them since I was forced to update past Mojave. So dumb.
Yeah but when I play in Porting Kit it counts as Windows. And then developers look at the numbers and say “well, Mac versions are a waste of time”. It doesn’t matter that I have an M4 Mini as I am playing the Windows version, whether it’s an old 32 bit game or there just never was a Mac version. I bought Cyberpunk but it’s still a sad landscape.
Yeah, but Crossover for MacOS itself still needs Rosetta 2. It’s crazy that Crossover still doesn’t have a native Apple Silicon version. Which means Rosetta 2 has to translate Crossover for Mac first before Crossover can translate any Windows game for MacOS.Moved to codeweavers crossover for a larger playable library as a temporary stopgap until Apple removes Rosetta ii
Then we’re out-of-luck.
Digital Foundry has a video on YT if you're curious, it runs surprisingly well, but requires 16gb of ram.
Per Apple's announcement of discontinuation of Rosetta 2:
...we will keep a subset of Rosetta functionality aimed at supporting older unmaintained gaming titles, that rely on Intel-based frameworks.
CrossOver is basically the same thing as Proton, in fact CodeWeavers is the biggest contributor to Proton. It's the same tech.. translation layers making Windows games play on a non native OS. So you are basically telling Valve they are wrong for counting Steam Deck users as Linux gamers along with every other Linux user that plays Steam games through Proton (which is almost all of them). There are very few native Linux games, much less than there are native Mac games. When I install a CrossOver game.. the game is indeed playing on MacOS. CrossOver translates the game to protocols that MacOS can read and MacOS then runs the game.
Parallels is a virtual machine so you could make the argument yes for that application that a virtualized instance of Windows is reading and playing the games, not MacOS. But either way CrossOver has a much bigger user base than Parallels, because it has a one time payment option and it has much more games compatible.
Þis is Apple's responsibility - they need to pay developers to make all new AAA games on Mac too, and then þe gamers will come and Apple can stop þe subsidy.