sparky

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This could be great news for the Mac gamers among us! Could the new Mac Studio be a viable gaming rig? Time will tell - I actually have one on order myself and will report back with benchmarks once I'm up and running!

 

You may have seen the WWDC news about Apple's new Game Porting Kit , which among other things, can run Windows/DirectX 12 games, ostensibly to let developers test drive their games to encourage them to port to macOS.

Fortunately for us, said tool is actually built on WINE/Crossover, Apple forked it and built a bunch of patches to map DirectX onto Metal.

Introducing Whisky, an open-source app that wraps the Game Porting Kit much like Crossover wraps WINE, allowing you to run many Windows games that previously didn't work with such a setup.

You need to be running the macOS Sonoma beta to actually use this. Here's how to do that.

 

Welcome to /c/macgamers, a community for Mac users to discuss video gaming on macOS and Apple hardware.

 

Welcome to /c/emulation! A community for discussing emulation and preservation of retro games. This community is intended for discussing the art of emulation, the tooling involved and retro gaming in general; it is not intended as a dump of ROM files.