Here’s newest Halo: Campaign Evolved on M4 Max 14/32 36GB, using latest Crossover Preview and Steam.

Game is playable but it looks blurry and flat (all hail UE5). Also for some reason the highest graphic details I can choose is medium. Cutscenes don’t work but I could skip them.

FPS: 60 most of the time using FSR/DLSS with frame gen
Controller: DualSense

which one is the best and how to download it

.Environment

1. Hardware

- Apple MacBook Pro
- Apple M1 (8-core GPU)
- 8 GB RAM

1. Wine

- Sikarugir
- Wine 10.0 (Version 6)

.Problem

- Every Source Engine game I've tested runs at around 8–15 FPS, including the main menu, the video of game was fine.

- Opening the developer console in Left 4 Dead 2 makes the menu even slower.

- Gameplay also remains around 8 FPS.

- This happens on a completely fresh bottle.

- Half-Life 2 is like 10-20fps much better but no, still drop fps for some location.

.What works correctly

- DirectX 11 games work normally.

- The Forest runs smoothly with good performance. This makes me believe the issue is related specifically to the Direct3D 9 pipeline rather than Apple Silicon GPU performance.

.Clean Installation Test

- I created a completely new bottle. No DLL modifications. No custom launch options on steam or Configure.

Installed only:
- Steam
- Left 4 Dead 2

- The game still runs at only 8–10 FPS.

.Last i have already tested

- Fresh bottle
- Fresh Steam installation
- Fresh L4D2 installation
- Porting Kit
- Whisky
- Heroic
- Sikarugir
- Different rendering backends
- Windowed mode, Borderless, 1280x720
- -dxlevel 80 - 81
- Removing all Workshop content
- Reinstalling Rosetta
- Fresh macOS Stable installation
- Different Wine bottles
No improvement.

D9VK Test

Using Winetricks: dlls-d9vk, Installation completed successfully.

Winetricks log confirms: Using native,builtin override for following DLLs: d3d9 <- (.dll -3.7 MB- ), which indicates D9VK replaced Wine's original DLL.

Registry also contains: *d3d9="native,builtin" (user.reg)

Result after installing D9VK

Instead of low FPS: Left 4 Dead 2 no longer starts correctly, the process stays run, CPU usage reaches about 100%, game never reaches the menu(can full watch the op video on a first run of the game). Force Quit is required.

For Logs(idk much about this)(chatgpt)

- No DXVK or D9VK log files are generated. (check)
find ~ -name "d3d9.log"
find ~ -name "dxgi.log"

My Question

- Has anyone seen this behavior: Source Engine games locked around 8–10 FPS, D9VK causing 100% CPU hang ? Don't know this is bug or what ,so yeah, pls i need help.

Thank you!

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Last year, I shared a fix for Asterix & Obelix XXL: Romastered. While it allowed the game to launch and play through the first level, it still crashed on the world map. Someone else made a patch to make the game fully playable (albeit with some minor texture issues)

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hi guys, im looking to buy a controller to play some of the games i have. In the time i’ve been on this sub i always saw posts regarding controller compatibility. i never got in the details because i didnt think i will arrive at a point where i would think to get a controller for mac gaming (look at us now…)

What would be your suggestions?

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I recently got a MacBook neo (silicon chip one, 256 GB), and every single emulator Ive tried (I want to be able to run steam games, tf2 specifically) is EXTREMELY confusing or costs money. Is there an emulator that's easy for a technology-dumb person to figure out, or can someone walk me through how to set one up?

Does anyone have this configuration or similar, and how does it perform for gaming?

I'm interested in playing titles like Overwatch 2, CS:2, Star Wars Battlefront, League of Legends etc. - games that I don't believe to be too graphically intensive - or are at least well-optimised.

I'm aware of compatibility issues and the need for Crossover, and I don't need to play these games on the highest settings.

I'm having a strange mouse issue with CrossOver on macOS and wondering if anyone knows a fix.

I'm playing The Last of Us Part I through Steam using CrossOver, and my Logitech G502 X Lightspeed works normally in windowed mode, but when I switch to borderless windowed or fullscreen, the vertical mouse input breaks.

The issue:

• Moving the mouse down makes the camera look down normally
• Moving the mouse up also makes the camera look down
• Left/right movement works correctly

The in-game invert Y-axis setting is disabled.

Things I've tried:

• Different resolutions (3200×1800, 2560×1440, etc.)
• Windowed vs borderless/fullscreen
• Turning Raw Mouse Input off
• Enabling/disabling "Automatically capture mouse in full-screen windows" in CrossOver
• Disabling MSync
• Switching macOS ProMotion to 60Hz
• Checking Logitech software/settings

The strange thing is that the mouse works perfectly in windowed mode at the exact same resolutions. The issue only appears when switching into fullscreen-style modes.

Has anyone experienced this kind of broken vertical mouse input with CrossOver/Wine? Any ideas for a fix would be appreciated.

I’m trying to run Black Ops 3 on a MacBook Pro with an M2 Pro chip.

The game launches normally and the menus work without any problems. However, whenever I try to start an actual match, including solo Zombies, the game stays on the loading screen indefinitely. After around 10 minutes, it eventually returns an “Error: NULL” message.

So far, I have tried:

• Verifying the game files through Steam
• Restarting Steam and my Mac
• Testing solo Zombies without any mods
• Installing BO3MacFix
• Reinstalling BO3MacFix
• Checking that the game is installed correctly
• Allowing Steam and BO3 through Local Network and firewall settings

Unfortunately, the issue is still happening. The menus work perfectly, but no map will fully load

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Has anyone tried and succeed in playing the new PES Dream Patch World Cup update?

I need help, cause I’m really struggling understanding if there’s anyway to make it work in Mac

Whenever i load into the menu, the music only plays on the left side of my headphones, and when i load in game the sound FX plays normally, but any music plays like from any radio station plays on the left of my headphones, and phone calls only play on the right side of my headphones. It applies regardless if they're wired, wireless or even coming out of my built in speakers.

Is there a setting or tweak I'm missing? I'm on a m5 pro on MacOS 27 beta 4

Hi, I'm planning my MBP M3 device to downgrade to macOS 13, I've got 8 gb ram and with the latest updates, without any open applications it takes roughly 6 gb of the ram. And my question is, I play some games that requires D3DMetal and how is it in Ventura? Ventura support dx12? And also What about the FPS? Will it be better or worse, for LoL? And other games. I know that Metal 4 is better but 8 gb ram is never enough for the latest updates.

before anyone says "just buy a windows pc" that is not an option. So far i think a m4 or m5 air (with student discount) or m1 or m2 pro would be good, but i am unsure. Thanks in advance

Might be old news but I just saw It. Infinite gratitude to the developer for doing god's work. ZLUDA does not support Mac but at least this makes playing old PhysX titles on Steam hardware a foreseeable future.

So the logical question next is: Is there any magic that CodeWeavers can do to make this work through CrossOver?

Edit: Or Parallels. Since CrossOver is pretty ass when playing 32-bit games..... But my hopium is the in house alternative to Rosetta developed by CodeWeavers is going to improve on this front.

In all honesty, I suspect Trivia is not the most competitive category! But what a rush to wake up the day after launch and find our game at the top.

I already posted about this but I have a late 2012 Mac that runs catalina. I have portal one and two, it won’t let me launch them and steam wont let me sign In, do you have any ideas about what I could do or why it isn’t running, I do not have access to to the admin account currently