Apple Game Porting Toolkit emulates Windows games on Mac, including Cyberpunk 2077, Diablo IV and Hogwarts Legacy

Apple has already announced macOS 14 Sonoma with new gaming features including Game Mode as part of WWDC 2023, and confirmed that Death Stranding Director's Cut will be released on macOS later this year, as will Cyberpunk adventure Stray, while No Man's Sky was released for macOS just days ago. The most significant announcement for gaming enthusiasts with Macs, however, is the new Game Porting Toolkit.

This allows Windows games to be emulated on macOS. As CodeWeavers claims, Apple uses the source code of CrossOver. The goal of the Game Porting Toolkit is to massively reduce the development effort, allowing native macOS versions of games to be brought to market faster and more cost-efficiently, as developers can test how well a game runs on Mac hardware and what problems are to be expected before starting port development.

Optimisations for Apple's Metal 3 graphics API and support for MetalFX upscaling allow native versions to achieve significantly higher frame rates. The Game Porting Toolkit is not officially intended for consumers to play Windows games on their Mac. However, this does not mean that this is not possible, because as the tweets and Reddit entries embedded below show, some users have already managed to play modern games such as Cyberpunk 2077, Diablo IV and Hogwarts Legacy on a Mac, sometimes with relatively good performance.

Quote: "What used to take months can now be done in days."

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I'm curious to see how this will change the situation in the future! ;)

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Okay, but Nippon when.

When the cherry blossoms bloom in Nippon. :flowerpuzzleface:

I'm going to post this every time they release a post without fail. I will not play it until the faction is released. I won't buy their dlc until it is released. It is a literal gold mine sitting in front of them. They have one job. I will not stop. Join me and free Nippon!

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Put walls back into minor settlements so I can tolerate your vanilla pls. It was the janky maps and new systems that were the problem, not walls.

no ♥♥♥♥ off, Every settlement being a siege fight is daunting. Keep your terrible ideas to yourself

The only terrible and daunting idea was to remove walls, you already had plenty of field battles before it happened, its such a exaggeration, but now you have overwhelmingly noncontinuous field battles, and even the settlement battles without walls, guessing you don't like those ones as well

Why don't you fix this game so it doesn't crash constantly? Better yet just give me my money back. 6 months later and you still haven't fixed the problems at launch.

News like this makes me wish that we had laugh reactions on steam

can you fix the problem, of Nakai the Wanderors dissability of rekruitting kroxiogres?

When are you going to Update to Intel players? I so hate it, im not going to play anymore cuz it is always crashing i Hate it sooo damn much!!!! i was going to win a beautiful game and it just close... and it is always doing that i just hate it.... fuc1"·$ u !

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No russian language support? goodbye.....))

thats a feature not a bug

mod it

remove denuvo your games still getting stolen its not stopping anything and its effecting paying customers like usual.

I know it doesn't seem to be the case currently but anybody know if there's any future roadmapped plans for the ability for windows and Mac gamers to play together?

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I know it doesn't seem to be the case currently but anybody know if there's any future roadmapped plans for the ability for windows and Mac gamers to play together?

No indication of that ever being done.

Can finally play while traveling.

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Considering this is not specifically catered to me... Then as a steam commenter I am obligated to hate it, right?

Nah, not going to do that. Nice for those with macs. May your updates be faster in the future.

if you want something to complain about on mac and linux version:
the modloader is still a lot less intuitive in Feral's launcher
It would be very nice to have an easy way to set a frame cap of 40 for people on 120hz displays since a stable 60 isnt achievable for me on mac mini m2 without dropping settings in ways that make the game unenjoyable to look at
MetalFX upscaling looks fantastic in RE8 and having it as an option in addition to amd's FidelityFX Super Resolution 1 might make this game look and run better for some players

other than that, the mac and linux versions are quite cozy. I enjoy the novelty of playing tww3 using ~1/6th of the electricity my windows pc uses.
geforce now is still the better way to play this game I think