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Do you think we will be able to install Win10 at some point? (a la Bootcamp, mainly to play some Steam games). Did Apple comment on this?
by NaN1352 5y ago
Do you think we will be able to install Win10 at some point? (a la Bootcamp, mainly to play some Steam games). Did Apple comment on this?
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoThey did state that Bootcamp won't be coming to the ARM Macs when the switch away from Intel was announced last year. You might see something via virtualisation or emulation but my guess is it won't be official. If Microsoft do anything my money would be on some kind of app with Windows running in the cloud.
- aseipp 5y agoProbably not. Windows-on-Bootcamp used drivers written by Apple for their peripherals, but with M1 devices they aren't writing or offering Windows drivers anymore. So Microsoft or someone would have to write them, which seems unlikely. You can run ARM64 Windows 10 in Parallels on M1 Macs though, and that does have DirectX 11 support and x86_64 translation, but it's still pretty slow I think. Honestly, if you want to play some Steam games on ARM macOS (and to be clear, I think PC gaming on a mac will always be rough), your best bet is to fork over some cash and buy CrossOver for Mac. CrossOver combined with Rosetta 2 can run x86 Windows binaries on an M1 ARM Mac, and Rosetta 2 is really impressive and well tuned.
- NaN1352 5y agoThanks. I didn’t think this through. Indeed all binaries not just Windows but also games running in Windows simply are not compiled to execute on this new chip. It’s not just drivers then afaik? It’s the entire win10, not to mention all third party drivers i guess like Razer and whatnot.
- neurostimulant 5y agoThey did say it's up to Microsoft: https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-apple-exec-native-windows-10-on-m1-macs-is-a-choice-microsoft-needs-to-make/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-apple-exec-native-windows-...