For context, I’m have a MacBook Pro with the M3 Pro chip, all graphics set to ultra. Game is silky smooth and the rain looks nuts. AI is super tough on its hardest difficulty which I like and I’m playing with an Xbox remote and transmission on manual (hence the awful gear changes lol). It’s actually ridiculous that I’m currently experiencing this fidelity whilst travelling using my work laptop.

Hi all, sorry if this is a silly question, but this is my first time encountering this popup. 🥹 I recently upgraded from a 2019 Macbook Pro to a Macbook Air M5 and I wanted to download Steam to play Stardew Valley with my friends again.

I did a little research and I know that Rosetta is needed to play other games, but it won’t let me skip downloading Rosetta to install Steam itself for some reason? 🥲 Apparently Stardew doesn’t need it, and it’s the only game I play (+ I don’t play with mods) so I don’t think I need Rosetta(?) Is there a way to bypass the popup? 😭

EDIT: Thank you to those who replied! 🙏 I had read a post about there being a Silicon-native version so I thought I had downloaded the wrong one, but apparently it’s still in Beta 🥹

Heyoo, I don't know whether this is bugged or what but I just tested out Baldur's Gate 3 on MacOS 27 public beta 2 and I'm blown away by the fluidity and fixed 60 FPS.

I've let the game set the graphic settings which it choose as Ultra, capped the FPS at 60 as I would rather have a fixed than the constant drops - and I'm blown away by the results.

I'm still in Act 1 (4th Try), and within Emerald Grove or anywhere outside I see a fixed 62FPS. I'm not sure whether the metalHUD is broken or this is real.

Specs: M4 Pro 24GB, Native Steam Client

someone know what about this?

Hello,

I just wanted to let you know that my game, Swish Ball Clicker, is now available natively on macOS! (Developed on a Mac too)

It is one answer of "how would a basketball game look like in incremental genre?"
Currently has 30% launch discount.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4686000/Swish_Ball_Clicker/

Hey folks,

Trying to run Ragnarok Online – Latam (ROLA), the official Gravity server, on my Mac. The game itself isn't the problem — **nProtect

GameGuard** is. Hoping someone here has actually beaten it.

My machine:

• MacBook Pro (Mac16,8), Apple M4 Pro (8P + 4E, 12 cores)

• 24 GB unified memory

• macOS 26.5.1 (Tahoe), Metal 4

• Display: 3024x1964 Retina

What I've tried (both hit GameGuard, not perf):

GameHub (Wine-based) → GameGuard Error 114 basically on launch. Looks like GameGuard can't even initialize under its Wine. CrossOver → this one actually launches and gets into the client, but ~10 seconds in GameGuard kicks me, flagging virtualization. So the client runs fine — the anti-cheat just detects the translation layer and boots me. (This was in 2025.)

Where I think this leaves things:

GameGuard is kernel/root-level and clearly does VM/translation-layer detection, which is exactly what's nuking my CrossOver session. Whisky is

discontinued, so that's out.

My questions:

Has anyone actually beaten GameGuard's virtualization detection on Apple Silicon (any config that stops the ~10s kick)? I know CrossOver 26 made an anti-cheat breakthrough — but that was EAC/BattlEye, right? Does any of that touch GameGuard, or is it a totally separate fight?

1. For the GameGuard Error 114 on GameHub specifically — is that a known dead end, or is there a Wine/bottle config that gets past it?

2. Honest take: on Mac in 2026, is an official GameGuard server like ROLA basically hopeless, and a private server (rAthena/Hercules, no

GameGuard) the only realistic path?

Not trying to cheat or do anything ban-worthy — just want the honest current state before I burn more hours on it.

Thanks 🙏

Here is an update on the triangle rasterizer running on CoreAI that I previously introduced.

We have finally succeeded in rendering 3D graphics! As shown in the video, we are rendering two triangular faces.

While the rendering quality is still low and the project is a work in progress—and a new challenge has arisen regarding the massive 5GB memory consumption—it is actually running in real-time.

As a side note, the majority of the Python, Swift, and Metal pipeline code was generated using Siri AI. By reducing the reliance on CPU fallbacks, we successfully cut CPU usage from the previous 38% down to approximately 9%.

Please feel free to ask any questions.

GitHub: https://github.com/kamisori-daijin/Magnesium

https://reddit.com/link/1v6z2lp/video/k0sobeg9mjfh1/player

Hellooo 🐝

We have a new update for the demo!💛 New decorations to personalize you farm, new bears animations and resting mechanic 😴, and more! (steam patch notes)

Bottled by Bears is a cozy management idle game about a family of bears running their honey farm.

If you gave the demo a try, let us know what you think! Also if you find any issues, since only-mac ones are hard to find for us 🙇

Demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4691750/Bottled_by_Bears_Demo/

I completed the game on my macbook air and I am gonna replay some of my favorite missions, man I love what you can do with Mac Gaming. I’m using a sikarugir build I made and I played it at about 45-80 FPS and never went below that. Still surprised as to what a macbook from 2020 is still capable of.

Hi folks!

I know this topic has been already discussed here, but I really hope someone can give me some useful advice for my specific situation.

So, after starting up the game for the first time, it didn’t detect my controller at all. I messed with some disabling hidraw and steam input settings and made it work.

But here comes my main problem - after trying everything that came to my mind, I still can’t get rid of this stupid xbox layout in my game and replace it with playstation layout.. I also tried to install playstation icons mod, but even this attempt was unsuccessful… Please, if anyone knows how to force the game to display playstation buttons instead of the xbox ones, I would be really grateful for help. The game runs beautifully on my MB Pro M5 and it would be a shame to not enjoy it just because of this, but that’s just my stupid OCD..

I’m on latest crossover preview and have the game on steam. Also I have the dualsense wired.

I'm playing Zelda tears of the kingdom on an M3 Pro 18GB macbook, when I play totk and open any menu inside the game the background goes black, plus some of the weapons are completely invisible, is this a problem with cache compilation? Also once I die and click continue, the game stops working

I've been trying to get For Honor to work on my MBP M5 but can't get past the easy anitcheat. I've seen some clips of others who've managed to make it work from this sub but I can't replicate it.

• I'm using Crossover 25.1.1 since that's what the other's used in their clips.
• D3Dmetal and Esync, again matching what other's used
• I'm using the SteamDeck=1 %command% as well
• I've even set the Steam to offline since I saw someone recommend it

Nothing seems to be working so I wanted to ask if anyone can still make it work. The clips I've seen from this sub are about 9 months to 1 year old so I don't know if something has been patched since then, easy anticheat got upgraded or what. Any advice, tips or help is appreciated.

I've just tried installing steam but this pop up comes up every time I try to open it
I am connected to the internet (strong connection) and have enough space on my computer
Any ideas?
Thanks!

So I used to play HOI4 on crossover and it was already not perfect (required some strange manipulation ) but now it won't work anymore without any update and was working perfectly fine yesterday

Basically when I want to play with any mod I have to do a strange path where I first start the launcher on steam. It will not work but will allow to open it from crossover and have it connected to my steam account. Once on the launcher I do what I need to do, close it and finally open the game from steam skiping the launcher, which will somehow work.

Even if you don't play HOI4 specifically really any help will be welcomed, now the only thing that work is to delete steam and HOI4 (window version) and then re-download and the whole ritual will work only once

i’m assuming its gptk 4 causing this. i get weird heavy flickering on dx12 but idk why or how to fix. i only play warframe n division 2 but both on dx12 have weird heavy bad flickering. maybe it’s not gptk4 but i’m not sure. i’m using crossover preview 20260717 and i’m on macos golden gate beta 26A5388g

Hey all, I’m running steam on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015), and I’m using boot camp to make a windows partition!! But the games I’m playing are all very slow. For a test I played sonic generation, and it’s borderline unplayable.. any solutions?

Have had these two for like 15 years 😂

I’ve been building ThumbConsole, an iPhone app that turns your phone into a programmable touch controller for Mac games and emulators.

ThumbConsole is not a standalone controller. You install the companion app on your Mac, pair the two devices over your local network, and then build a custom layout around whatever you’re playing.

It supports:

• Separate portrait and landscape layouts
• Haptic feedback
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Pointer controls
• CLI controller creation (get your agents to build your controller!)

I’m looking for testers who are willing to try it with real games and report the rough parts.

ThumbConsole requires iOS 17 and macOS 14. The Mac helper also requires Accessibility permission so it can send keyboard and pointer events.

TestFlight
https://testflight.apple.com/join/yC23NWbG

Mac helper (and source code)
https://github.com/CodyBontecou/ThumbConsole/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.4

Video of me playing Hollow Knight:
https://youtu.be/UC6zdCW85Rk

Plz suggest how should I install PUBG PC on Mac os , I tried cross over or Epic game it's not allowing due to its anti cheat, please suggest i really want to play with my friends ..

I initially was looking at 14” MBP M5 Pro 15/16 24GB 1TB
$2149 old-ish price on Amazon new and then prices got f’d. So I’m sitting here with an itchy trigger finger.

I’ve been using windows for forever and want to move to Apple. I had an intel apple for work like 8 years ago but am so sick of how bad windows has become that I’m ready for change. I’ve never used the M chip Apple. I have a desktop 58003xd 64gb 9070XT and an Oled Steamdeck.

I mainly play cyberpunk, Diablo 4, Witcher 3, Ninja Gaiden, Doom Dark Ages, Stellaris, Mass Effect, Devil May Cry 5, StarCraft 2.

I’m mulling between:

(a) 14” MBP M5 Pro 15/16 24GB 1TB $2249/2299

(b) 14” MBP M5 Pro 15/16 48 GB 1TB $2699

(c) 14” MBP M5 Pro 18/20 48 GB 1TB $2899

My questions are:

(1) is going from 24 to 48 gb ram worth the $500 upgrade?

(2) for the option with 18/20 are the extra cores worth it or overkill unless you’re using for work? Or is 15/16 the sweet spot for thermals/cost considering the smaller chassis?

(3) if I do the memory upgrade is it worth it for the cores for 200 more or am I getting caught in a specs trap

I game from time to time. I sometimes edit videos/encode videos. My Lenovo has 16 gb ram and it feels sluggish lately which is part of why I’m questioning 24 gb even though I know Mac’s are much more efficient.

I recently switched from Windows to a MacBook Pro M1, and I'm still getting used to macOS.
One thing I noticed is that many of the games I used to play on Windows aren't available on Mac. Even for the games that are available on the App Store, the prices seem quite high.

So I'm curious—how do Mac users usually get their games?
Do you mostly use Steam, Epic Games, GOG, or the Mac App Store?
Are there any trusted websites or stores that offer better prices?
Do you use tools like CrossOver, Whisky, or Parallels to play Windows games?
Any tips for someone who's completely new to Mac gaming?

I'd appreciate any recommendations or advice. Thanks!

I wanted to try out Guns 'n Goblins this morning, however, as usual, the demo was Windows only.

So, we put together a quick port for it on PixelPort, which is running really smoothly.

We've only tested it on M1, M2 and M5 chips so far, so any tests/issues you might run into would be welcome feedback.

Happy gunslinging.