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Are you looking for Crossover? It's a bit annoying to not run Steam natively (no cmd+H to hide, etc) but it's got a lot of support. Performance is decent on my
by jamie_ca 10mo ago
Are you looking for Crossover? It's a bit annoying to not run Steam natively (no cmd+H to hide, etc) but it's got a lot of support. Performance is decent on my M2 mini, and even cross-platform stuff like Baldurs Gate 3 is comparable performance to native.
Especially anything that Mac Steam natively calls out lack of 32bit support has good support.
- danaris 10mo agoSadly, that's not true—for instance, I was trying to run the Shadowrun Returns series the other day, and while it launches, it will hang indefinitely when you try to actually start a game. (M4 Max) I previously played through Returns, Dragonfall, and part of Hong Kong on Mac before the 32bit-apocalypse.
- hamdingers 10mo agoCodeWeavers, the developers of Crossover, also do most of the development on proton under contract for Valve. This is speculation but I suspect there's something in that contract that prevents Valve from competing with Crossover on MacOS.
- coldpie 10mo agoNah, nothing like that. We explored shipping Proton for macOS early on, but decided it wasn't where we wanted to spend our time, so we removed it[1] to focus on Linux. There's only so many hours in the day, and supporting two platforms is a lot more work than one. [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/commit/a84120449d8177fa40f3de729e55d238d3c24877#diff-b335630551682c19a781afebcf4d07bf978fb1f8ac04c6bf87428ed5106870f5 https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/commit/a84120449d817...
- N_Lens 10mo agoSome crossover games perform better than the native ports. I play Path of Exile on Mac using the Windows client with a translation layer, and it plays better than the native release.