Windows Gaming On Mac: Game Porting Toolkit Tested! Cyberpunk, Hogwarts, Dead Space + More!
Windows Gaming On Mac: Game Porting Toolkit Tested! Cyberpunk, Hogwarts, Dead Space + More!
Gaming on a Mac might be a reality in the next major update as they've added a "Game Porting Toolkit" that's very similar to Linux's Proton. It allows you to play Windows games on MacOS, with... Pretty good results, actually!
Seems like Mac is getting very serious about taking market share from Windows.
that’s very similar to Linux’s Proton.
It is Proton, just with an extra Metal translation layer on top
7Is it? I thought it was a Wine fork, not necessarily proton
4It's using Proton tech like DXVK. Proton is itself a fork of Wine anyways.
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I’ve been a Apple MBP owner since 2008 and a Mac user as far back as I can remember. The argument that macs can’t game always ticked me off because if you had any of the pro models (e.g. a dedicated gpu), from a hardware perspective this demonstrably wasn’t true. Install boot camp and a copy of windows and games ran without barrier. It’s just that most developers didn’t produce games to run natively on Mac so therefore gamers didn’t buy macs. Ergo “can’t”game on a Mac.
5Hm. Installing a separate OS is not exactly painless, is it? I mean, I did the same, but just because you could use a pogo stick to get from a to b doesn’t make it a proper form of transportation.
And the whole Apple silicone story makes this point moot anyway. I am very happy that the toolkit exists. Hopefully we see a healthy and easier to use open source tool chain soon (think Lutris like tools) and more native ports down the line.
5It wasn’t painless but I didn’t find it too taxing either. Apple made the partioning process fairly straight forward and ever gave us the appropriate drivers to ge two does up and running. The most annoying part was waiting for windows to install the latest service pack.
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Glad that Mac can game now.
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