Answered you already here: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/discussions/forum/2/3771238415394713190/?ctp=26#c524225618711263723

Have you bought a new Apple Silicon Mac or an old Intel Mac? If you own a few games and they have Mac ports yes. If you own many games the chances of finding a Mac port is smaller. Not even Proton/Linux can run all Windows games so there will always be some games that don’t run. I add a list of some solutions.

1. Boot Camp for Intel Macs let’s you install and run Windows natively. It’s free but you may need a Windows 11 license. Windows 10 is free though to download though.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102622
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO

2. Virtual Machines like Parallels and VMware Fusion Pro emulate Windows on Mac. Parallels has free trial, one-time purchase and yearly subscription. It doesn’t support DX12 though. VMware Fusion is free but it doesn’t support DX12 either.

3. Compatibility layers/apps like Game Porting Toolkit, Crossover, Wine, Whisky, Kegworks, Porting Kit and PlayOnMac translate Windows API calls to macOS API calls with better performance. The best solution here is Crossover made by Codeweavers which is also the team behind Proton. Crossover has free trial, one-time purchase and yearly subscription. There are discount codes you can use or you can get huge discount on Black Friday or Cyber Monday for example. Crossover combines Apple’s GPTK and Wine for better compatibility. It supports DX12, D3DMetal, DXMT, DXVK and WineD3D.

Game Porting Toolkit is free but harder to setup. Whisky was a free application for easier setup of GPTK and Wine like Crossover but isn’t maintained anymore. It’s still usable though. People now use Kegworks which is free but requires more effort to set up. Porting Kit uses Wine with pre-configured wrappers to install Windows games on Mac. You install Porting Kit, find your game on their website and install the wrapper. It’s like Cross-ties in Crossover. PlayOnMac works in a similar way but people say it uses older Wine versions and has less compatibility.

4. Launchers like Heroic and Mythic are free and can import and install Windows games using GPTK and Wine. Mythic can connect to Epic and uses GPTK. Heroic is more advanced. It can download and use GPTK, Wine and older Crossover Wine versions. It can connect to Epic, GOG, Amazon Prime and now Steam.

5. Mac Source Ports is a site dedicated to old Mac games. It offers ports of the game engines made from the free source codes. If you own the game files you can get a universal binary for Apple Silicon and 64-bit Intel Macs.

6. Finally you can always use services like Geforce Now to stream/play Windows games on Mac.

Some useful compatibility databases are

https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility
https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/Home
https://macgamingdb.app/
https://doesitarm.com/

whats a windows license and is it free or paid also what does bootcamp do????

Originally posted by ♱GФ!ΣR♱:

whats a windows license and is it free or paid also what does bootcamp do????

Boot Camp is Apple's tool for installing Windows on Macs with Intel CPU. You can read more here https://support.apple.com/en-us/102622.

A Windows license is a license for installing and running Microsoft Windows. For Windows 11 you need to buy a license but Windows 10 is free to download.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO

Originally posted by Homy:

Answered you already here: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/discussions/forum/2/3771238415394713190/?ctp=26#c524225618711263723

3. Compatibility layers/apps like Game Porting Toolkit, Crossover, Wine, Whisky, Kegworks, Porting Kit and PlayOnMac translate Windows API calls to macOS API calls with better performance.

btw kegworks is now called sikarugir !! also wanted to ask if you'd know anything about the issue of games started through sikarugir only being available to play offline/steam not connecting to the internet?

Sorry, I can't help you, I only use Crossover.

Originally posted by jazzinbean:

Originally posted by Homy:

Answered you already here: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/discussions/forum/2/3771238415394713190/?ctp=26#c524225618711263723

3. Compatibility layers/apps like Game Porting Toolkit, Crossover, Wine, Whisky, Kegworks, Porting Kit and PlayOnMac translate Windows API calls to macOS API calls with better performance.

btw kegworks is now called sikarugir !! also wanted to ask if you'd know anything about the issue of games started through sikarugir only being available to play offline/steam not connecting to the internet?