I know the native mac port runs excellently, however for very specific reasons (without getting too much into it, i'm a game developer and im doing tests on an experience i intend to release) i need to run roblox on windows 11 using parallels 27. I'm on a m1 pro and ive allocated 4 cores and 8gb ram for parallels (that's the most it would let me allocate). Everything is super choppy when i join my game, even when the graphics and set all the way down. I've tested joining other low graphically intense games and i've been having the same issue. Has anyone found a way to run it smoothly? Do i need a custom client to do so?

I am currently a 27M

And grew up a young kid who gamed on an iPod as apposed to psp and all that jazz, I grew up with friends with Xbox and ps etc and I envied them a lot thinking one day apple will soon stand on business and bring full fledged gaming to their ecosystem but tbh I think personally we have never truly suffer when it came to gaming, real racing, need for speed, the only dummies game that truly game out was Fifa idk what happened after 2015 but we had work around, right now my honest take is

Gaming is in our hands we have had crossover, emulators, steam apple gaming and apple store games now are we missing out yes I can't play Apex Legends, gta online but I did own two xboxs and gaming windows computers but truth is I felt like I compromised when I did that two years ago I made a decision, let me get a mac mini and just game there and if some of my games gain the ability to come to it then happy days.

Personally its up to us a community with the us of ai ports etc to show the true limitations of apple gaming now, what I mean is hey look this past month we have seen gta v on mobile, someone ran forza horizon 6🤦🏽 what really like this was a dream ladies and gentle men just a year ago.

So let's keep on as a community finding apples limitations and personally I think in 5-10 years we will be here but now with a different set of limitations we have come along way from what I daydreamed about at 8years old and that's the truth will we ever exactly like pc or console gaming I don't think so but my god have we come along way and I am happy to have made the bet I did a year ago. I remember trying to play gta v on MacBook when it was intel based macs i think 2 frames per second… so I think well done to the various communities tbh we have made it in comparison to 10 years ago but we can show apple and devs how hungry we are and then we will win no one thought the community would scale things in their unique ways but we found a way.

Heads-up: there's AI in here. If that makes you see red, keep scrolling. 🤔

I wanted ReShade for my retro games on the Mac, without burning weekends on it. So Claude did most of the testing and the routine grind. The idea and direction were mine.

Result: MacShade, an open-source, free, take-it, makesomething better with it, Mac app for using shaders in games. It's not a rebuild, it's the real ReShade 6.8 (crosire / Patrick Mours) with a thin macOS layer and a launcher on top. The original does the heavy lifting and gets the credit.

• Presets per game, with the active filters explained
• Vulkan, OpenGL and Metal
• Your original game stays untouched

The catch: I own few games. Tested are vkQuake, UZDoom, UT2004, UT99 and Quetoo, everything else is a guess.

Feedback, bug reports and forks are very welcome. If someone thinks to improve something (or has made it better): please let me know!

https://github.com/klotzbrocken/MacShade

I used to use OpenEmu on my old MacBook way back in the day. I remember hearing then that it's not supported anymore or something. Is that still the case? Is there a different go to for GBA games (as well as DS) for Macs now?

I’ve been going down a rabbit hole lately with some of the community projects bringing older console games to modern hardware, and I’m genuinely impressed by what’s possible on Apple Silicon.

Sonic Unleashed has been the biggest surprise for me. Seeing it running NATIVELY at 4K/60 FPS on my M1 Max MacBook Pro is something I definitely wouldn’t have expected a few years ago.
But it’s not just Sonic. There are also projects involving Halo: Combat Evolved, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, and even Spider-Man: Edge of Time.
What’s particularly interesting is the work being done around static recompilation and how these community-driven projects are opening up new possibilities for Mac gaming.

I ended up making a short video exploring some of these games, the technology behind them, and my experience running them on my Mac:

https://youtu.be/mpvEOyshK4E

Huge credit to the developers behind these projects. It’s pretty incredible seeing these games get a second life.

Anyone else experimenting with these recompilation projects? What other console classics would you love to see running natively on macOS?

I saw alot of information about different work around but I don’t wanna get viruses on my mac

Im playing W3 remastered through crossover on my M5 pro. Whenever I load after dying, the load bar gets close to then end but never finishes. Quitting to the main menu doesn't work either, game just hangs on the load screen. Anyone else having this issue or know how to fix it?

While I don’t think it’s a true decomp, replaying twilight princess with dusk light on my mac was an amazing experience!
Does anyone know if there’s anything similar for other Nintendo games? Any Zelda game, but also any N64 or retro decomps?? TIA!

I think I’ve found a potential workaround for the FPS drops that many people in the community have been experiencing in Helldivers 2 following several updates, which is using FEX instead of Rosetta.
Download the ARM version of CrossOver Preview. Create a new ARM bottle and select DXMT. Add -dx11 to Helldivers 2’s launch options in Steam and then launch the game. After doing this, my FPS returned to roughly the same level as when D3DMetal was working properly.
Of course, running the game this way means losing access to several DX12 features, such as DLSS, FSR, and HDR. But at least the game is playable again.
Since the CodeWeavers team is still investigating what’s causing the performance issues, this could serve as a temporary workaround until a proper fix is available.

I've been working on a game called War of the Worlds Trilogy, and there is a Mac version. It still not completely polished by the game is 100% there, now its time for feedback.

Before I release the full demo on Steam, I wanted to get some early feedback from people. So here are 20 Steam Keys for the demo. If you take a key, please leave it in the comments to which key you took and have fun. If really want to play the demo early and didn't get a key, just message me.

There are ways to play the game that tell the story from different perspectives:

• Story Mode: First person survival game where you play as the narrator trying to survive the 21 days.
• Martian Vanguard: Play the Martians in a military mech game that come to "conquer" earth. My person favorite because of the story depth.
• City Builder: Run a city, build it up for 31 days and then try to survive 21 days of onslaught.

Steam keys for the demo below:

RKA4T-3RKRJ-EPAC7

DI9YD-IW3WZ-606JT

BDPQF-LKX86-35Q0L

ERK6J-T2B82-4R2GP

0G5EQ-Q0TK7-VANBM

MGVDP-XVDBX-EQXG4

N8RJM-54X0K-8X8NR

RZMMV-K69GL-49G85

8YHGH-LJ4Z2-BDYJB

L6DNN-DWDWQ-TI26V

M54TB-IDPNK-3TETQ

ED9VB-NMLT7-AIPKX

AEW5F-VH8EQ-K30JP

AXTH7-WQDC2-0Y832

97W5L-WGHDC-BMBD7

TID53-WKAIB-MM0TL

KKCFI-4FD0T-AP362

IFYPF-V8FYQ-THQAY

JACV6-QJ3L3-H7L66

PKKY7-99B0R-8MVRKLinks about the game:

• Steam Link
• Pre-Order Link

Pre-orders get their own NPCs named after them/their likeness/few lines in the game as a collectible.

Feedback is much appreciated.

People aren't realizing that Microsoft is spending more into investing the ARM version of Windows and allowing gaming x86 games with their translation layer.

Apple doesn't block installs on its M chips. Only thing lacking is proper drivers.

We may eventually see a Bootcamp kind of scenario again for the Windows ARM version which will allow us to play games naively in Windows.

However the possibility of this is lower now because Apple has been investing in its gaming translation layers for a while now, but we shall see. The new CEO is a hardware guy so things may change.

Im playing risk of rain 2 for the first time with friends and the item textures, names, and descriptions are all mixed up. When I pick up an item, my game tells me a completely different item than what I actually get and use in-game. I suspect my textures in my files are scrambled but I’m not sure how to fix it without manually changing them (which I can’t do on my Mac anyways). Any ideas?

vibe coded of course. Astra managed to get it to 60fps(not perfect, has drops with rain) and native screen resolution. Stoked to see it working, but mainly excited to use the DLC cars I never got!

trying to launch deadlock and the game works fine but it forces the launch into my mac display and not my external monitor, my external monitor is my primary display on setting aswell. Is there a fix for this?

Can check it out here till its merged into the official repo!
https://github.com/DarthMDev/ssrecomp/tree/macos-port

I hate Mac games soo much so I’m making one I like

I recently got my first laptop in 5 years, a Macbook. There are a few games I really want to play but can't due to them only being on windows. I was going to get whisky but I heard it doesn't work. Does anyone have anything I could use to play these games, I can't use crossover or other paid ones due to my budget.

M2 8GB RAM

The good news is that you can bypass the Microsoft Visual C++ error by simply launching the game from the .exe in Abiotic Factor/binaries/Win64 folder.

The bad news is that you can't play multiplayer since this launches the game through offline mode.

I also had to lower some graphic settings to stop the stuttering which seemed to help!

I have a new Mac Studio and I am looking for an Xbox style controller; what would you guys recommend?

Hey! I was hoping to play ready or not with my best friend however she only has a MacBook whilst I’m on PS5… is there anything we can do 👀

Cheers

Build by day. Survive by night. Each day, use a limited number of actions to expand your city, manage resources, reinforce defenses, and prepare for what’s coming. Each night, your towers unleash their power against ever-growing zombie hordes.

Key Features:

🛠 Turn-Based City-Building – Make the most of each action in a limited timeframe.
🏰 Defensive Strategy – No army, just walls, turrets, traps, and smart planning.
🌓 Day/Night Cycle – Plan your expansion during the day, defend at night.

Hello, I'm the dev! 👋

I ported DreadHaven: The Last Colony just in time for the Steam Next Fest!

The game is available in 7 languages with real localization (just in time for the next fest too haha).

The demo has been out for a month now and has been updated multiple times, so it's way cleaner than the first version!

I'm not a Mac user, but I specifically have a Mac to test the game with the build myself (and that it works on Steam and doesn't generate the 0-octet build).

The game/the save/the cloud save should work without any problem!

If you have any problems or questions, I'll be around!

I just updated Schedule 1 to v0.4.7 with special customers and the game will not load. The initial loading screen freezes with Initializing... in the bottom right. Can someone help figure this out?

On an M1 Max Macbook, game ran perfectly before this update.