


To clear up misconceptions – the hardware powering Mac computers has always been beefy enough to handle most video games. Several hobbyists have already been tinkering with the Game Porting Toolkit, with promising results – on Apple’s latest M2 processor, people were able to get even a graphically intensive game like Cyberpunk 2077 running at 4K resolution and a respectable 30 frames per second. In the vast majority of cases, the game will run well enough, but need additional optimization. The tool allows developers and hobbyists alike to instantly launch an unmodified version of a Windows game on a Mac. Amid all the new game announcements at Summer Game Fest and the Xbox Games Showcase, it might have been easy to miss the announcements Apple made June 5-9 at its Worldwide Developers Conference about gaming on macOS.Īpple has created its own “Game Porting Toolkit” powered by source code from CrossOver, a Wine-based application that’s long been used to run – or attempt to run – Windows games on macOS.
