Gaming on Mac, can you really play Windows only games smoothly?
By EpicDrift889 · REVIEW · 4/5 stars · About MacBook Pro M4
I’ve been a Mac user for a while but I’ve always had a PC for gaming. Now I’m trying to do it all on Mac and realized some of my favorite games are Windows only. I’m not looking for perfect graphics or crazy settings, just something that actually works consistently.
What do you guys use to make this happen? I need something that won’t make me rage quit after 10 minutes.
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BlazePhoenix541: [Crossover](https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover) has the best gaming support & is the most common program for making this happen. You can search their database for game compatibility. Would recommend joining this community.
Update: don't listen to people saying you can't. There has been a hug
ThunderPulse5561: With [Crossover](https://www.codeweavers.com/) yes, you can.
Of course performance depends on the game and on how good your Mac is.
Be advised, not ALL games are playable, but a lot are.
You can check if the game you want to play is compatible [here](https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility).
FrostNinja842: Minecraft. It’s the only game I play and I only have Macs. On an M2 Mac mini, at normal settings it runs 120 FPS pretty consistently.
FrostNinja842: Absolutely. And often at full settings.
ZenMaker756: My son uses Crossover for so he could play Black Myth Wukong, since he didn’t trust they’d do the Xbox version decent. He’s using an M4 Max MBP. I don’t know what he gets for response, but neither has he mentioned problems to me about it.
NeonVibe275: Sometimes you can through crossover and parallels. It depends on the translation layer support and how powerful your Mac is (because you will be losing some performance doing this). Sometimes you can't because the support isn't there or because of anti cheat. You can't do it reliably, so don't go in
JordanReed: Crossover 26 allowed for Helldivers 2 and Crimson Desert to Mac but you'll want at least an M2 or M3 chip to run a non-frustrating 1080p level game.
Unfortunately the big competitive online multiplayer FPS just don’t work on Mac due to the anti-cheating software. (Ie Call of Duty, Countersrike and
ZenPanda516: You can, just don't buy a Mac for that as a primary goal because it won't be an upgrade in anything other than efficiency. It's like Linux gaming in its earlier years really. Not as straightforward as Windows and some titles have bugs, but almost anything (as long as no kernel-level anticheat is inv
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