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The home for gaming on Mac machines! Here you will find resources, information, and a great community of gamers.

The home for gaming on Mac machines! Here you will find resources, information, and a great community of gamers. Please make use of the search and read the FAQ before asking questions, many have been answered already and it will save you time!


Can my Mac run it? The MacGameStore App, or Mac Gamer HQ's extensive list of performance results and benchmarks are good ways to check if your Mac will run a certain game.


Can macOS Catalina run it? Games that are 32-bit only will no longer run on macOS Catalina. Before asking for help, or installing a game, please visit r/macgaming/wiki/catalina, and check both the compatibility test chart provided by our community and the list of unsupported 32-bit Mac games by Mac Gamer HQ.


Scheduled Discussions

Sunday: What Cha Playing?


Standard Rules

  1. If you are asking for advice on games or your system, post the specs of your Mac such as model name, CPU, and GPU. Your Mac provides several tools to help you identify it. The simplest is About This Mac, available by choosing About This Mac from the Apple menu in the upper-left corner of your screen.

  2. Read the FAQ, and refer users to it if applicable.

  3. No enabling or linking to piracy.

  4. Self-promotion is limited to once-daily. When self-promoting content, please provide as much meaningful information as possible, such as a detailed description, trailers, or screenshots. It is also required to properly format posts. Approved posters can arrange for more daily posts by contacting the moderators.


FAQ

/r/macgaming Discord Server

/r/macgaming Mumble Server

/r/macgaming Steam Group


Wiki Pages

What does the update to macOS Catalina mean for games?

A short selection of great, free-to-play games that are available on Mac

Applications, tools, and utilities

Additional resources: News, stores and platforms, deals, related subreddits, forums

Everything you need to know about Apple Arcade


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Star Wars: The Old Republic - Now Officially on Mac! (Open Beta) (Apple silicon only)

SWTOR Is officially on Mac now! It's in open beta! It only supports Apple silicon M series chips and is obviously still a little buggy - but this has been a wish of mine for a long time now!

Kudos to the devs over at Broadsword for seemingly truly caring about this game and doing good by it ever since being handed the reigns from BioWare.

Download from the main downloads page and/or from the Mac Open Beta forums page linked here!

Downloads Page

Open Beta Forums Page

5 Comments
2024/12/20
22:10 UTC

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Inspiration Time! What Environments Should We Build Next in Blocktopia? Comment your thoughts and wishlist us to help us grow!

2 Comments
2024/12/20
21:20 UTC

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Red Dead Redemption 2 DXVK Launch Gameplay Test | macOS M3 Max Crossover...

8 Comments
2024/12/20
19:27 UTC

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Anyone with an 8bitdo Ultimate 2.4g able to get the wireless dongle working?

I just got the controller and while it works fine wired, I wanted to use it with the 2.4ghz dongle mainly, but it doesn't seem to work.

There is no mention of how to do this in the manual for Apple devices so I can only presume it only works for bluetooth and wired connections.

Thanks for any information.

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2024/12/20
19:16 UTC

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Epic games - Assassins Creed Mirage

Hi all,

There is an app MYSTIC to run epic games and play. I just want to know that from epic games will I be able to play AC Mirage on my MacBook Air M1?

Please help!

0 Comments
2024/12/20
19:01 UTC

1

Steam web helper not responding error (Crossover)

Every time I open steam on crossover it gives me a "steamwebhelper, a critical steam component, is not responding" error.

Currently running M1 2020 macbook air, 8G ram. Most recent version of Crossover (22.1.1). I've tried other solutions posted on this sub from earlier this year but nothing seems to be working. Any help/ would be appreciated. Are other people still experiencing this?

0 Comments
2024/12/20
18:29 UTC

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MacBook Air M3 runs really hot on StarCraft 2

I can play many games wow and League of Legends included with warmth but no heat.

StarCraft 2 on medium no shadows runs really hot despite its advanced age that should make it very much playable

9 Comments
2024/12/20
17:39 UTC

65

CrossOver Preview 20241220 is out

If you own a CrossOver license, you can get it now from the preview center.

I don’t know what’s new in this build, but it’s been two months since the last one, so I bet there have been many changes under the hood.

69 Comments
2024/12/20
17:01 UTC

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Game stopped booting

Hello all, I have started playing No Man’s Sky on my MBP M3Max 48GB. It ran flawlessly on ultra graphics settings for a couple weeks but for some reason now I get the spinning pinwheel of death and the game automatically quits as soon as I try to boot it… I have uninstalled the game and steam multiple times and restarted multiple times. I also ran “first-aid” ( I think thats right) and nothing will get the game to boot to the main menu. I have also tried clearing the game cache in steam. I’d love to keep playing as I have a few more weeks off of school so if anyone has any suggestions I’d be very grateful. Thanks in advance!

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2024/12/20
16:51 UTC

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Marvel vs Capcom infinite, anybody gotten it working?

I saw the infinite & beyond mod was coming out for this game soon for this game and it looks like an incredible effort by the players.

Has anyone gotten the core game to work over whisky? Just wanted to see before I bought the base game on Steam.

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2024/12/20
16:17 UTC

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Which Mac fits my gaming needs?

The only games I play are WoW and Civ @ 4k. Should I be looking more at the base m2 max mac studio or m4 pro 20core mac mini. My other use case is iOS development but that can be done on anything.

Thanks

16 Comments
2024/12/20
14:57 UTC

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Looking for a capture card to record PS5 gameplay using 2020 MacBook Air M1

Hello everyone, I’m looking into finding the right capture card to record PS5 gameplay. Not looking to stream anything just simply record game play with the best quality possible with my current MacBook. I did purchase an Elgato HD60 X that’s coming in the mail, but I’m hearing that it doesn’t work that well with Mac (I can return this product).

Hoping someone can point me in the right direction!

5 Comments
2024/12/20
14:23 UTC

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Trying to run Hollywood Mogul 3 through Whisky, getting a “Runtime Error 481” message

I have Hollywood Mogul 3 running, I can browse the main menus and everything. When I click start game though it loads through and then hits me with a “Runtime Error 481 - Invalid Picture” message.

I thought this might just need Visual C++ so I winetricked the 2008 version but still no luck.

Anyone know what I might be missing? This must be fixable, every menu is usable until I start a new save.

0 Comments
2024/12/20
14:22 UTC

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Baulder's Gate 3 on M1 MacBook Pro

My MacBook Pro (M1 with 8 GB of memory) meets the minimum requirements to run BG3, but Steam recommends 16 GB of memory. Would my laptop be able to run the game, especially the cities and late game content, smoothly or would the 8 GB of memory make the experience choppy and frustrating. Anyone try playing BG3 with the same MacBook and what was your experience like?

2 Comments
2024/12/20
14:11 UTC

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Warhammer 40K Space Marine GOG

I own the game on Steam, but it doesn’t work with Crossover or Whisky, so since the game was in sale ($6) on GOG I bought it again and tried it.

To my surprise the GOG version of the game does run using Crossover, but it’s far from playable. It stutters badly the moment there are more than two enemies on screen.

Anyone knows of a solution?

I’m using a M3 Max with 64GB of unified memory so the hardware is not the problem. I’ve heard that DX9 games don’t run well on Crossover but I don’t know if that’s the case here.

0 Comments
2024/12/20
13:24 UTC

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8BitDo Lite 2 Mac OS issue

Hi! I've got my Lite 2 to play on my Ipad and mac out of home. On Ipad it works grate, I remapped a-b and x-y buttons and I can play on my xbox remotely and on xbox cloud. But I have issue with Mac OS:

- remapping doesn't work

I use this tester https://hardwaretester.com/gamepad website (works fine on Ipad)

- a works as B1(correctly I guess)

- b - B0(correctly I guess)

- x - B3(should be B2?)

- y - B5 (should as B3?)

- left knob works correctly

- right knob works as axis 2 and axis 5(should be axis 2 and 3)

- arrow buttons works as axis 9 with different force(I guess it should be 4 different Bx).

Do you have any idea how can I do it works correctly? I set it in mode "D", in "S" mode mac can see this pad but any game(and test website) doesn't detect pad. Same problem on Bluetooth and wire.

Ps. I've updated pad.

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2024/12/20
12:59 UTC

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Assetto Corsa on Silicon Mac M1 using CrossOver 24

Haya Boyos!

I can confirm that Assetto Corsa, with the newest Content Manager, CSP and Pure, works like a charm on an Apple Silicon Mac using CrossOver 24.

I am getting 100 fps down to 50 with traffic and heavy rain on 4K maximum settings.

The primary objective was to introduce rainy traffic on the Shutoko map! Unfortunately, no force feedback is available for the Logitech g920 due to the absence of Mac drivers; however, that is not a significant issue.

For proper racing, I am driving Richard Burns Rally through Parrarels.

SETUP:

  • Mac Studio: M1 Max (15.2 macOS Sequoia)
  • CrossOver: 24.0 (24.0.0.37007)
  • CSP: (lights-patch-v0.2.5-preview1-full)
  • Pure: 2.37 Highres
  • Shutoko: 0.9.3

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE:

  • Install Assetto Corsa bottle,
  • Install Steam (do not install the game yet),
  • When done, in CrossOver, go to the "Wine Configuration\Libraries tab". In "New override for library", type "dwrite" then click the "Add" button (make sure it's Native then Builtin),
  • Add "segoeui.ttf" to "C:\Windows\Fonts" (fonts: search for ac-fonts.zip)
  • Install Assetto Corsa - no need to run it,
  • Install CM and CSP (install fonts, info inside the zip: search for ac-fonts.zip)
  • Install Pure and set Pure LCS as weather style in the WEATHER FX section. Switch automatic headlights in WEATHER FX. Please keep in mind there is a new "Pure PP" app to adjust brightness, etc. as it loads quite dark,
  • Install Shutoko and see the links below on how to set up traffic,
  • Follow the download section for details on every part

TROUBLESHOOTING:

  • World textures are not loading correctly, or the screen loads completely black:
    • For Pure Gamma: [Motion blur to Off]
    • For Pure LCS: [Motion blur to Off] and [Settings -> Custom Shader -> WEATHER FX -> check "Replace YEBIS with lightweight alternative"]
  • Strange problems are nearly always resolved by properly restarting the software and the computer,
  • Or by resetting CSP: rename or delete the "extension" folder in "C:\users\crossover\Documents\Assetto Corsa\cfg\". Restart CM. It will create a new "extension" folder. You can restore it later. Select Pure as weather style again in CSP "WEATHER FX" settings.
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2024/12/20
12:47 UTC

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problem with a game - thief

Hi, I have a problem with the game "thief" on Steam. I installed it and at the first start it worked but... from the second one it crashes without even opening, what can I do?

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2024/12/20
12:44 UTC

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In CrossOver can I somehow set it so that all my F keys act as normal F keys (no fn press required)

I'm playing a game that makes heavy use of the F keys and having to fn+FX key is really tedious. Is there a way I can make the row of F keys work as normal F keys while I'm playing this game?

4 Comments
2024/12/20
11:43 UTC

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Help Gameloop on Mac iOS

Can anybody point me in the right direction on how to download windows on a Mac iOS so I can download game loop to Boot Camp or some type of other software. Never done this before and online so much steps I’m getting confused.

0 Comments
2024/12/20
10:47 UTC

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Update on Bloodborne on mac?

Has anybody been able to run bloodborne on mac, and if so can you give a detailed guide on how to do it.

10 Comments
2024/12/20
10:18 UTC

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Pharaoh: A New Era running well on macOS + CrossOver Preview!

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2024/12/20
10:16 UTC

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"Abnormal activity detected on your device's operating environment, please restart your machine"

So I use Yaagl to run genshin, It worked fine till yesterday but now it's showing me this error. If anyone have any ideas to deal with it please do share.

6 Comments
2024/12/20
09:56 UTC

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Porting Kit Application startup time

Hi all, I am using Porting Kit on my M1 Pro and playing games work fine. Just one thing bothers me a lot: the Porting Kit Application itself takes ages to start. Is this normal? It takes minutes to load the UI...

1 Comment
2024/12/20
09:06 UTC

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Elex 2

In the option display, metal fx is always off. I changed off to performance, but a few after there is off always. My computer is MacBook Pro 2019 also metal 3, what can I do this problem? Could you understand me easily this stuff?

0 Comments
2024/12/20
07:37 UTC

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Ghostwire: Tokyo - Spiders Thread, M4 Max 32C, Crossover 23.7.1, CXPatcher

4 Comments
2024/12/20
07:27 UTC

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Any really laid-back, chill, and relaxing games that aren't too expensive?

Honestly I just need a game that I can play while turning my brain off, so not even games like Stardew Valley cuz it stresses me out. I have a Macbook Air M2.

Also a + would be it being nature-based but not really something I care about that much.

oh and mby something more endless-ish or doesn't have a definite end. i love story games ofc but i want sumn that can last!

78 Comments
2024/12/20
06:24 UTC

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Just Purchased BO6 on Steam, but can't install it...

I just noticed that I only see the Windows logo next to the game...

I planned on linking my Steam account to Geforce.

(I already paid for the game and Geforce).

Any suggestions as to how I should proceed?

7 Comments
2024/12/20
06:15 UTC

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