Mac Gaming May Be About to Explode with CrossOver’s Wine – Diablo IV, Cyberpunk 2077 and More Already Work
At WWDC 23, the Mac gaming announcements were far from the star of the show, although Apple did announce Death Stranding: Director's Cut and the Game Porting Toolkit.
The latter was presented as a way for game developers to very quickly evaluate what it would take to port their PC games to MacOS. However, its DirectX12 emulation capabilities are so good that several users are already running cutting-edge PC games like Diablo IV and Cyberpunk 2077.
You can check out some brief videos below. The Game Porting Toolkit's emulation is so great because Apple picked the source code of CrossOver's Wine, as revealed on the CodeWeavers blog by CrossOver Product Manager Meredith Johnson. CrossOver didn't work with Apple on the tool, but they are nonetheless elated that Apple saw the potential of Wine and are eager to explore the Game Porting Toolkit with game developers.
Diablo IV on M2 Max using macOS Sonoma and game porting toolkit by u/just_reload_it in macgaming
Apple's new game porting toolkit is fantastic. Here's Cyperbunk 2077 running at Ultra on an M1 MacBook Pro 16 GB! pic.twitter.com/hylzMU6U46
— Isaac (@isaacmarovitz) June 6, 2023
Other supported games include Hogwarts Legacy, Marvel's Spider-Man, Elden Ring, and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Definitive Edition, just to name a few.
Hogwarts Legacy on M2 Max by u/just_reload_it in macgaming
AppleGamingWiki Discord Users Posting their DX12 Testes - Credit djinn - Spiderman M2 Max ~30FPS - by u/BlendlogicTECH in macgaming
Boss music intensifies by u/No_Confidence_9137 in macgaming
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - The Definitive Edition (DX12) running through the Game Porting Toolkit on my 14" MBP by u/sweetcoincidence in macgaming
Needless to say, it is a big day for Mac gaming
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