I tried Windows gaming on a Mac
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I tried Windows gaming on a Mac
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#2Through CrossOver I haven't been able to run Space Engineers (playably), Forever Skies, TerraTech Worlds, or even Plants vs Zombies (playably). It's certainly impressive but it's not by any means perfect.
They don't even support excluding the notch from fullscreen apps yet, so if you run a game in fullscreen or fullscreen borderless, the screen notch can obscure UI elements (as it does for me in Volcanoids - the timer until the volcano erupts is just a bit important, given that it dictates the entire gameplay loop).
However, I have been able to run R.E.P.O., Trailmakers, BeamNG.drive, and Cosmoteer, so it's not like nothing at all works, it's just hit or miss.
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#3> 95% of the Wine code base we develop for CrossOver gets released back
into the Wine project for the open source community
nice
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#4tl;dr: you can run windows games with crossover, requires extra manual configuration to make performance better, has input lag and you can get 1080p at medium.
None of that sounds amazing. If you want to play these games without a windows machine, a steam deck seems a much better option.
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#5Realistically it's way easier to just build a mini PC or get a $600 gaming laptop if you want to play games and also use MacOS. This is good for tinkering but at the end of the day you want to have a good experience... rather than endless debugging, input lag, frame drops, and tearing.
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#6I recently finished the latest iteration of a gaming PC and haven’t even bothered installing windows on it. Not Mac but it seems that Linux gaming is also basically Windows gaming at this point. It could probably play games on Ultra vs High if I used Windows but ads in the menu bar is a bridge too far for me.
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#7with good latency, services like airgpu and Nvidia GeForce NOW makes it trivial to game even on the iphone nowadays
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#8Realistically it's way easier to just build a mini PC or get a $600 gaming laptop if you want to play games and also use MacOS. This is good for tinkering but at the end of the day you want to have a good experience... rather than endless debugging, input lag, frame drops, and tearing.
Ironically, CrossOver itself is $500
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#10I recently finished the latest iteration of a gaming PC and haven’t even bothered installing windows on it. Not Mac but it seems that Linux gaming is also basically Windows gaming at this point. It could probably play games on Ultra vs High if I used Windows but ads in the menu bar is a bridge too far for me.
Linux gaming is actually significantly better than Mac gaming at the moment, in large part due to Valve. The GPU support is way better / faster and there’s less emulation overhead involved.