Gaming on macOS has taken a massive leap over the last few years with the introduction of Apple Silicon, a continued tremendous effort by CodeWeavers and other Wine contributors to rid us of Windows, but also Apple themselves with the introduction of D3DMetal and other tools to assist game developers to port their games.
While we patiently wait for translation layers to get better, game developers to finally realize that the Mac is a viable platform and game utopia to arrive, we need to concede that it can still be increasingly tricky to get a game to run.
That said, some games should run fine, but do not for arbitrary reasons:
Ultimately, the hope is for this repository to be completely empty, but here we are 😊
[!NOTE]
If a game requires heavy changes to internals such as D3DMetal, MoltenVK or Wine itself, it is out-of-scope for this repository. The same goes for usage of virtualization software such as Parallels or VMware Fusion.
| Game | Why? | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Jusant | Incompatible DX12 feature detection | |
| Xbox Live + game authentication issues | Easy Anti-Cheat prevents game from running | |
| macOS OpenGL incompatibility | Fixed in CrossOver 24.0.1 |
Reverse engineering / (dis)assembly:
Source code:
libcef, bane of our existence)Obfuscated game binaries:
WineDbg, gdb and lldb to dump memory (example to follow at a later date)