/r/macgaming

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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


Related Subreddits

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1

Poppy Playtime Chapter 4

Can someone help me play this game? I keep getting a pop up about AMD graphics driver, I press no, it starts but keeps crashing at a certain part. Plz help

1 Comment
2025/02/01
05:13 UTC

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Question

Yo, so i wanted to know if eafc 25 is runnable on mac? i have a 16gb m3 mac and was wondering if it was even runnable before i actually buy the game. any help?

0 Comments
2025/02/01
03:11 UTC

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F1 24 on Mac through Whisky

F1 24 is 85% off on steam and I'm thinking about buying it but I’m not sure that it will run on Whisky? I have a Macbook pro M3 with 18GB of RAM? I would appreciate any help!

1 Comment
2025/02/01
03:09 UTC

1

Can Sims 2 Legacy work on Mac Crossover?

0 Comments
2025/02/01
03:04 UTC

0

Does a macs performance get worse over time?

I got my mac (macbook air M2 Chip) about 2 years ago. Back than I was getting very high fps in minecraft but now it is so much lower to the point i cannot play on unlimited anymore. While recording my game gets all choppy and it is very annoying. I am just wondering if it could be something i did, or if this is just the average life of a macbook.

7 Comments
2025/02/01
02:14 UTC

7

A new enemy design for our game!

1 Comment
2025/02/01
02:08 UTC

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I Was Able to Run Bannerlord on Crossover, But...

Running Bannerlord through the Steam "Play" button has always yielded nothing for me for the past year. This time I tried "browse local files", go to "bin", and then "Win64 Shipping", and double click on "Bannerlord.exe".
The game started and everything went smoothly. The main menu looked good, no graphical artifact. Character creation was also great. But whenever the game goes to loading past that, I got this error message.

I was running the game through DXVK. D3DMetal does not even allow the game to load at all. Anyone knows any solution?

https://preview.redd.it/qswwldikpfge1.png?width=1142&format=png&auto=webp&s=e62062a2cbbe92c65c70694b20f891b758567fcf

0 Comments
2025/02/01
01:59 UTC

0

EDF 5 via Whisky - health bar and ammo gauge don't work as expected

I have Earth Defense Force 5 running via Whisky and for the most part it is working great in a bottle with default configuration. The only thing I see not working correctly is the fact that my health bar shows full even as I lose health, and the ammo/power gauge also does not accurately display the current ammo. Has anyone run into this sort of issue before and know a configuration I can try applying? I believe the game runs a custom engine but the loading screen advertises they use Criware and Havok middlewares.

The attached image demonstrates the issues, the Armor bar shows full even though it's at 116/232, and the ammo bar is flashing red even though my weapon isn't overcharged

https://preview.redd.it/a6ilhpp3ifge1.jpg?width=2322&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddb4fcfd66f692cd722ad8caa5f353eb7f073c2c

0 Comments
2025/02/01
01:20 UTC

14

Alan Wake Remastered on Mac (M4) (CrossOver 25)

2 Comments
2025/02/01
00:35 UTC

4

Life is Strange: Double Exposure on Mac (M4/M3 Max) (CrossOver 25)

0 Comments
2025/02/01
00:32 UTC

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MacBook Pro: Can I play Elden ring online via steam?

Seems like it’s available on the steam store but before I buy it and encourage my girlfriend to as well, was wondering if it’s functional? MacBook Pro - 16 GB memory - i5 processor

0 Comments
2025/02/01
00:06 UTC

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How do I find and upload a video recorded on OBS to Youtube?

I'm trying to stream Roblox Team Fortress 2, normal TF2 doesn't work on my computer cause mac issue, and I tried recording with Quickplay, but it didn't save as a file and there was no way to turn it into a file, so I couldn't upload it, and it was silent. I then spent another hour trying to record on OBS, but now I can't find the file anywhere and I have no idea what to do
Any advice would be greatly appreciated

1 Comment
2025/01/31
23:42 UTC

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Where should I ask about optimising my external display for mac games?

I have a 14" M1 Macbook Pro and an M28U external monitor, games look great on the macbook but it struggles when I try to run them on the external. Resolution is similar. I'm connecting with a displayPort cable.

Suggestions for things to try much appreciated.

1 Comment
2025/01/31
23:34 UTC

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Stuck at Game linked to another account

I have 2 ubisoft accounts with multiple games, I logged into one from steam installed under crossover and it stuck at Game linked to another account.

How to logout and login to second account?

(Normally opening ubisoft connect does not work on wine)

0 Comments
2025/01/31
23:08 UTC

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New to mac gaming, just need to know information and where to find it.

Got the new mac mini m4 pro 24 gb ram. what can i except in terms of performance, what can i even run? what software should i use for emulation both parallels and bootcamp look a bit shite are there alternatives? Are there content creators who focus on mac gaming who i should just watch?

Thank you for your time.

12 Comments
2025/01/31
22:42 UTC

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Marvel Rivals not downloading with Whisky

I'm trying to download it and it's just stuck at 2%. tried uninstalling, removing from profile, deleting steam off whisky, nothing has worked. pls help i want to play rivals before season 1 ends

stuck like this for like an hour now

1 Comment
2025/01/31
22:28 UTC

1

Quinfall crossover

Has anyone tried running quinfall on a crossover?

7 Comments
2025/01/31
22:23 UTC

0

macos cheat app

Anyone have the skills to make a cheat app similar to what PS4/PS5 has with GoldHen or an App to modify game saves with cheats? I'd be willing to throw a $200 into a pot for the dev?

2 Comments
2025/01/31
20:21 UTC

0

Epic games launcher

I wanted to play the new Poppy Playtime and I see it's on the epic games launcher. Will it play on my Apple M4 pro?

8 Comments
2025/01/31
18:26 UTC

2

Help with DS emulator

This might seem slightly lazy but I’ve been struggling to get DeSmuME to run on my MacBook Air. I downloaded ‘DeSmuME v0.9.13 macOS’ but everytime I try to run it I get a pop up saying it “can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software” I’m stumped and not sure what to do I even tried older versions of the emulator but it says the same thing. Any help would be greatly appreciated I just wanna play Pokemon platinum. It’s running Sonoma 14.7 and has an intel core processor if that helps

6 Comments
2025/01/31
17:27 UTC

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The Sims 25 Anniversary Collection. Whisky error at launch.

Hi there! Just bought the sims 2 25 anniversary collection on steam to test out if a M1 macbook could run them, turns out when you install them through steam running on whisky they can't launch and an error is prompted.

Here's the error: https://imgur.com/a/xxNuKQG

23 Comments
2025/01/31
16:49 UTC

7

Glyphica : Typing Suvival Update 3 brings stats and leaderboards!

2 Comments
2025/01/31
16:46 UTC

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possible best No Man's Sky video settings

Hello people, I took the liberty of trying various configurations, and I was able to establish something semi-stable; Today there was a brief update of the game and the graphics, especially the MetalFX, are still broken; However, it managed to achieve somewhat poor stability and visual quality.

I leave you a comparison Temporal MetalFX vs Spatial MetalFX

Temporal MetalFX:
https://imgur.com/a/Co8yAes

Spatial MetalFX:
https://imgur.com/a/QKleHX7

I think they totally broke MetalFX since if you change it to spatial, it looks detailed but with sharp and ugly edges, and if you use temporal and lower it from quality to balanced or performance; this will look very blurry

I have a 4K monitor, so I use 4K resolution; The following settings were the ones that best suited my resolution, visually it looks good and it doesn't drop as many FPS (However, in congested areas it does drop too much since the MetalFX is broken)

Windows Mode: Borderless
Resolution: 3840 x 2160 (4K)
V-Sync: off
Max FPS: 144 (My monitor is 144 HZ, so if you have a recent MBP, I think it reaches 120 HZ, you should set 120)

Graphical Quality
Preset: Enhanced
Everything must go in Enhanced

Anisotropic Filtering: 1
GTAO: High (here you can play on enhanced or high)
Anti Aliasing: MetalFX Temporal
MetalFX Quality: Quality (you can play between Balanced or quality)
DRS: 1.00
DRS Aggressiveness: Moderate

I leave you two shots with my settings
(GTAO: High, MetalFX Quality: Quality)

Screenshot taken from Samsung 4K

Screenshot taken from the MBP screen

Do you have any better settings than these for high resolutions?
Thanks...

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Update:
We can use MetalFX Temporal in balanced mode and not affect the quality as much by changing two settings.

Anisotropic Filtering: 16 (try between 4 and 16)
MetalFX Quality: Balanced

By having the anisotropic filter high, we can lower the quality of the MetalFX a little, obtaining a little more performance and with the naked eye no blurring is noticeable;

I leave two screenshots of both comparisons

Anisotropic 16 - GTAO Hight - MetalFX Temporal Quality

Anisotropic 16 - GTAO Hight - MetalFX Temporal Balanced

7 Comments
2025/01/31
16:02 UTC

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Is this sort of best we can get on pcsx2 m series?

3 Comments
2025/01/31
14:31 UTC

2

Best way to play Diablo 2 Resurrected?

Hello! Can you please give me advice - which best way to play D2 Resurrected on M4?

Il cant use crossover, so, maybe have another options? thanks!

4 Comments
2025/01/31
13:06 UTC

2

Another crabs treasure mac 💻

0 Comments
2025/01/31
12:41 UTC

1

Macbook pro for gaming

Hi! I currently have a macbook air that i bought mainly for school and had for 3-4 years now. It’s pretty old and the external fans really annoy me so i was looking into newer macbooks to see which i would like but i was wondering if macbook pros are okay for gaming? I only play pretty chill games (Sims, A little to the left, stardew valley etc) and my current MacBooks air used to be able to handle it for a little bit then would heat up and the fan would start being superrr noisy. Which macbooks should i look into ? Is it worth it to buy a pro or should i stick to airs but a newer one with internal fans ?

2 Comments
2025/01/31
12:20 UTC

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I'm trying to play Minecraft, and I can't sprint and jump

hi, so when I'm trying to play Minecraft, I can't jump and run at the same time as ctrl seems to disable my space bar when holding it. Do you have any ideas on how to fix it?

5 Comments
2025/01/31
12:20 UTC

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I’m getting an Mac air M2 for school, and I want 2 know if I can side gaming every so often?

26 Comments
2025/01/31
12:14 UTC

3

Satisfactory on MacBook Pro M2, finally!

I have been without Satisfactory since I bought my MacBook Pro M2 over a year ago. Satisfactory was the only thing I missed about the switch. I just found the tutorial and link to Whisky, which allows you to create a "bottle" to install Windows Steam on at least my MacBook Pro M2. No dealing with the Apple Developer Store, no need to download GPTK, or fiddle with configuration files! During the Whisky install, it installs all dependencies.

While it doesn't allow me to start a new game, all of my old games were there via Steam Cloud Save. I chose an early version of one of my saves, and it was JUST like starting over anyway. The performance (even cranked up) is very smooth!

This probably works with many other Windows Only Steam games, but I didn't really even bother, as Satisfactory is THE GAME!

Thank you for listening.

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I am testing other games from my list to see if they work.

  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition (Working)
  • Elden Ring (Not working, Anti-Cheat Code not loading)
  • Fallout 4 (Working)
  • Hogwarts Legacy (Working)
2 Comments
2025/01/31
12:12 UTC

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