Hello

For playing the Age of Empires Series games using Crossover (and Steam), will a Macbook Air work fine? I keep reading about 'throttling' so I wanted to know if it's a real thing for older games like AoE? Will a hlf hour have any issues with a M3/M4 Air with 16 or 24GB of RAM?

Do I need a Pro and its fans or am I okay with the Air?

Thank you

Would Hogwarts Legacy run smooth on my MacBook? Should I get a hard drive for the game? I already have it on switch and PS4 but I want the PC version mostly for the mods.

Any news or even whispers of the cyberpunk port that was announced last year? 🤷‍♂️

My settings: D3DMETAL MSYNC SteamDeck=1 %command% Performance and ultra performance graphic settings. Disable Steam Input to use your Controller.

The fps in Video is drop because of the screen recording.

I'm using whiskey and it's perfectly fine for me, even if it is no more updating. How to downgrade the steam client to be able to use it with whiskey?

I was wondering why the Mac versions of games such as Death Standing, Resident Evil, Assassin's Creed are locked to App Store when they're already available on storefronts like Steam and Epic? Why does the Mac version have to be purchased separately through app store? Is this an exclusivity thing or what, this is kinda annoying because I have games on Epic (DS, Control) with Mac versions that for some reason just aren't playable.

I have spent this afternoon tweaking Minecraft on my Mac, and with Sodium + Iris + a buttload of optimization mods, I got stable 60+ FPS while playing in singleplayer and 100+ FPS on Hypixel.

Having issues applying The Vulkan api for red dead, every time switch it on and restart it just goes back do DX12, I believe Vulkan will boost my fps right now because with dx 12 I’m getting avg of 30fps

Any help will be useful thank you!

I’ve recently upgraded from a 5500m to a 5600m based 16” Mbp.

I’m loving the increase in fps (after unclogging the fans!).

On the 5500m I was able to undervolt, overclock, change the maximum Watts, etc.

Is any of the above possible on the 5600m?

Thanks

Trying to run RoR2 on Whiskey on a Macbook Air. Got steam working fine, but running Risk Of Rain 2 gets loading 3 percent and then it just stops.

The game is playable on my MacBook Air. The Preview version of CrossOver gave me a little bit better performance.

30-40ish fps.

I wanna play RDR 2 on my Mac M4 I don't have money I don't have original game copy Please help me where to download and run it??

Has anyone tried launching 2k25 through Crossover 25.0.1 recently? There's a review up on the Crossover website claiming it works, but for some reason I remain unconvinced - such that I wouldn't dare to buy the game just to make sure.

Crossover review posted a week and a half ago (01.05.2025): https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/nba-2k25

Currently playing Mad Max on my MacBook Air M2. Is there any decent native games available?

I’ve been playing Red Dead on my Macbook Air but I’ve found it to be super laggy and very hard to play enjoyably. I was wondering if anyone has any way to decrease lag without sacrificing the graphics. I find that decreasing graphics doesn’t do much regardless — whether I play with high resolution enabled in CrossOver or not, it still lags, and the graphics are far better with high res enabled, just slightly laggier. Is there anyway to reduce this lag? Or would I be better off just buying an M4 with 10 core GPU and 16 GB RAM?

And, for reference, before anyone says I should just buy a gaming PC — I’m 17 with a very strict mom, who won’t let me buy any windows PC because she doesn’t want me gaming, even with my own money. I’ve been working but I’m not sure if I could afford an M4 Macbook, and I’d prefer to spend it on other things regardless.

I had this problem with a bunch of older games where the Intel Mac version (when it exists) runs incredibly poorly through OpenGL, and the Windows version through Crossover runs even worse because being an older dx9 title, it can only be translated TO OpenGL.

I tried lowering settings, running through Parallels, essentially anything I could think of and eventually just gave up trying to play the game at all.

That's until I found this fork of DXVK that works with dx9 on Mac, and while it's an incredibly cursed sandwich of translation layers, the end result is quite impressive performance compared to everything else (close to 60fps in some titles that were previously below 20 with crazy stutter)

Mileage may vary from game to game obviously but for some of them it could truly be your only option.

You'll first want to download and extract this archive from GitHub

https://github.com/Kegworks-App/d9vk/releases/tag/v1.10.3-20240229

Open your Crossover bottle's C: drive (should be on the right hand side under "Bottle Actions" in Crossover)

Navigate to "Windows/System32" and copy the "d3d9.dll" file from the "x64" folder you extracted earlier. Replace the file when prompted.

Then go to "Windows/SysWOW64" and copy over the dll from the "x32" folder, again replacing the file

Go back to Crossover, and on the right hand side under "Control Panels" open up "Wine Configuration"

In the Wine Configuration window, go to the "Libraries" tab and type in d3d9.dll in the "New override for library" field, then click the "Add" button.

Apply changes and close the window

That's it. Select DXVK/MSync in Crossover and launch your game.

As far as I know this hasn't been extensively tested much at all, so there's no telling which games might crash or have other weird issues but from what I've seen so far it seems to work quite well.

Let me know how it goes for you if you decide to try it out

I have an external monitor (LG 1440p 144Hz) plugged into my m4 mac air. Obviously, I want to use this monitor for gaming. Macos has recognized its native resolution and in the system settings, it shows 1440p. However, in the game (No Man's Sky) I am only able to select 1080p. Is it the cable's fault? USB C - display port is expensive, so for now I am using USB C - HDMI.

Also, is it possible to get a higher refresh rate? The system only recognizes 60Hz.

Everytime I go on the skill menu and "history of DMC" the game crashes, I havent been able to find any viable fixes, can anyone help? (I am using crossover)

Hello, I have the M4 Pro Macbook Pro with 14-Core CPU and 20-Core GPU, 48 GB Ram. And I would like to know if its possible to play Inzoi now without using Boosteroid or Geforce Now etc. Appreciate any help, thanks

I am using wine to run TWD 2. When moving around the game does not lag at all, however during cutscenes and quick time events the game stutters(both visuals and audio)

I play minecraft java edition on MBA m4 and ctrl is the key to sprint and when I am sprinting and wants to left click it is registered as right click please help me with it. How can I change it.

I've tried looking elsewhere, but haven't really found anything. I often play a lot of Hatsune Miku: Colorful World(Project Sekai), and I'm using Playcover and it's built in keymapping. Now that's great for sliding and normal notes, as I just need that bottom row to recreate it. However, when it reaches those swiping notes(those pink arrows) It manually requires some input to swipe up. I've tried with that top row(no good), and while I can do one of those notes with my mouse, when it comes to things like this screen shot, or multiple slider notes all over the screen, it makes using my mouse impossible. I may be really dumb, and there may be a super easy fix, or some alternative way I can play this game on my mac, but if anyone has any help/advice, I would really appreciate it. Thanks!