CS2 Not Compatible with MacOS

[Avocado]

So I noticed there's a lot of posts and questions regarding CS2 on Mac devices, so I'm going to answer all the questions I've come across.

Valve has stopped supporting MacOS in CS2 and has so far made no comment on it. No one knows if they are working on releasing it on Mac or have just dropped it completely.

Nothing you try will allow you to run CS2 OFFICIALLY on a Mac device. I have tried verifying files, uninstalling and reinstalling, relaunching steam, and all the other usual methods, none of these work.

The only way to play CS2 on a Mac is to use an application or tool such as Apple Bootcamp or Parallel that allows you to launch Windows or Linux on your Mac.

Previously CS:GO displayed the little Apple logo that meant that Apple devices were compatible to play CS:GO, CS2 does not have this, and there is no MacOS section under supported devices.

All the Mac users (such as myself) who played CS:GO will either have to give up the game, find an alternative way to play it, or purchase a new device.

What Valve has done is stupid and lazy and they have just lost a large portion of the CS player base.

Valve should work on making CS2 available for MacOS, make a way to switch back CS:GO, as it is not only Mac users who are disappointed with CS2, or provide a refund to all those who now have skins that they can't play with.

Currently I'm installing Parallel to play CS2 so we'll see how that goes.

[John Wilkes Booth]

In my opinion, just do it man

[WarDuck]

Publicado originalmente por Te3-BloodyIron:

Oh the poetic justice. Cs2 native on Linux day 1, but not macOS. I mean, a lot more work has gone into improving gaming on Linux than Apple has ever done, so not actually surprising.

But all that said, don't fret. There's a macOS beta version for cs2 listed on steamdb, so maybe they still need to iron something out before they bring it to macOS.

Maybe next time pick an actual gaming OS, like Linux ;)

How ist that Poetic Justice? Apple has improved their computers a lot, for instance their new line of chips can hold up with an RTX 3080 which is a performance no other chip can reach, and they have created lots of Software to help developers create games for their platform. One of which is the new Framework Metal 3 that with help of MetalFX Upscaling renders many Graphics cards useless, as well as the new Game Porting Toolkit, which allows developers to literally port their games to Mac with only one click. Sure it still needs to be optimized but it already provides a version of the game that runs decently. When I ported CS2 to MacOS using the GPTK, the game ran with 120FPS on pretty good settings, all whilst being written in a completely different Architecture. In the end if you like Windows, ok no problem with that but don't just make assumptions about Mac being bad.

[BLK_kex]

Macbook pro m2pro via Parallels is unplayable 18-23 fps. In cs go native version i had like 140 fps

[The Jeankes]

I am one of the poor sods who actually bought CS:GO before it went free-to-play. It used to run great on macOS with an AMD GPU.
+1 for a native macOS port.

[Avocado]

Publicado originalmente por BLK_kex:

Macbook pro m2pro via Parallels is unplayable 18-23 fps. In cs go native version i had like 140 fps

Native for me used to be so smooth, I can't even kill easy bots with parallel

[Killerbert]

Just found out that is doesn't work on my PC.
Crazy that they just remove CS:GO and replace it with CS2 without support for macOS.

[Innocent Flower]

I just bought M1 mac mini and was excited to play CSGO via Rosetta 2 but it got broke in 2 wks. My life is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ comedy from far sighted now.

[Renos]

Publicado originalmente por Innocent Flower:

I just bought M1 mac mini and was excited to play CSGO via Rosetta 2 but it got broke in 2 wks. My life is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ comedy from far sighted now.

your first mistake was trying to game on a m1 mac mini at all.

[DarkeN]

Publicado originalmente por Renos:

Publicado originalmente por Innocent Flower:

I just bought M1 mac mini and was excited to play CSGO via Rosetta 2 but it got broke in 2 wks. My life is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ comedy from far sighted now.

your first mistake was trying to game on a m1 mac mini at all.

I do play on a m1 mac mini with 140fps at medium settings, i dont know whats the mistake there.

[Renos]

Publicado originalmente por DarkeN:

Publicado originalmente por Renos:

your first mistake was trying to game on a m1 mac mini at all.

I do play on a m1 mac mini with 140fps at medium settings, i dont know whats the mistake there.

you dropped $1300 to get 140fps at medium settings
you can build a pc for $600-1000 and get above 600fps at max settings
and also have the benefit of playing other games that are not CS

[Homy]

Publicado originalmente por ♿HesMad--->:

Publicado originalmente por Homy:

"Dude", you cared enough to come to a Mac thread and post about Mac. Otherwise you wouldn't be here. No one forces you either to hang around Mac threads or are you so bored with your PC and 1 million games that you have to waste your time on threads that nobody cares about?

Actually I don't even play CS but at least I don't go around and post randomly generated antique comments.

*tastes fresh tears*
Honestly so good man I enjoy it when you cry.
CS feeling maaaad fresh right now you want to Q with me?!?! ooooh thats right you can't XD...

Yeah its funny seeing Mac nerds buying bad hardware and complaining about it not working. It's like a guy buying a bicycle and crying that it doesnt go 100mph on a freeway.

It's unfortunate you can't comment anymore but Steam moderators have to do their job because this is not a comedy club.

[Homy]

Publicado originalmente por Renos:

Publicado originalmente por DarkeN:

I do play on a m1 mac mini with 140fps at medium settings, i dont know whats the mistake there.

you dropped $1300 to get 140fps at medium settings
you can build a pc for $600-1000 and get above 600fps at max settings
and also have the benefit of playing other games that are not CS

You can but not everybody wants to buy a PC. Is that really so hard to understand? You don't "drop" $1300 on a Mac just to play games. It's the other way around. You buy a Mac for many other reasons and play games when you can. Btw who does even need 600 fps? Just because you can get that doesn't mean you need it.

[Renos]

Publicado originalmente por Homy:

Publicado originalmente por Renos:

you dropped $1300 to get 140fps at medium settings
you can build a pc for $600-1000 and get above 600fps at max settings
and also have the benefit of playing other games that are not CS

You can but not everybody wants to buy a PC. Is that really so hard to understand? You don't "drop" $1300 on a Mac just to play games. It's the other way around. You buy a Mac for many other reasons and play games when you can. Btw who does even need 600 fps? Just because you can get that doesn't mean you need it.

600fps is the sweet spot between input latency visuals and the game not breaking.
and I'm pretty sure at how expensive modern Macs are you can build a pc that runs circles around it in performance for cheaper.
while also not having the typical apple nonsense of making devices borderline impossible to repair and upgrade.

[cdtj]

guys who enjoy playing csgo on osx, what configs do u have?

I'm on mbp16 2019 (i7 9850H+RX5300M+16 RAM) native csgo had heavy input lag and fps drops to 60 in battles on ultra-low settings with shadows turned on,
also, I have mini m1 8/256, it runs more stable than mbp16 and doesn't have any input lag, so even on 80fps it can be played somehow.

dualboot to win using bootcamp on my mbp16 was the only way I was able to play somehow comfortable

[76561199220966645]

Here is the solution to run CSGO on Mac :

https://steamcommunity.com/app/730/discussions/0/3881596897258134490/