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.

[Spider]

I have a solution to this issue. Stop trying to game on a Mac. If you can afford a Mac, you can easily build a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ PC. A ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Apple laptop costs twice as much as a mid-tier gaming PC. Stop being ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid and buy a PC. Or educate yourself and BUILD one.

[DarkeN]

Publicado originalmente por Spider:

I have a solution to this issue. Stop trying to game on a Mac. If you can afford a Mac, you can easily build a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ PC. A ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Apple laptop costs twice as much as a mid-tier gaming PC. Stop being ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid and buy a PC. Or educate yourself and BUILD one.

“”Said the smart man who comes to a forum that has no relationship with him just to insult.🤓

[CoNfUsIoN]

Too all people saying that MAC users simply have to buy a PC computer, it is true that most games and gaming industry is mainly on PC and that pourcentage of people playing CSGO/CS2 on Mac is lower but this is beside the point. Altought MAC user are in minority (remind yourself how this applies to other things right..) the company sold in-game payable items such as crates, skins and others. They did not warn Mac users that the version of CS2 was not compatible thus making it false representation, lack of transparency and programmed obsolescence. This is a matter of law, not your personnal preference for MAC or PC. Instead of being totals ♥♥♥♥♥ about it, remind yourself how this happened to you in other circumstances. If you live in North America, chances are it will be easy to find something.

[76561199197804643]

Mac owner here: Massively annoyed by the dropping of support for MacOS in CS2. It's just crap all round from Steam: They make you download a 26GB update, just so the launcher will tell you it can't find the .exe file... What a massive waste of time! Why can't the updater work out what system I'm running this on? Worst case scenario could be that it kills the game without wasting my time first.

Loads of haters on here saying that you shouldn't game on a Mac. That's fine to say, but I bought this Mac because I wanted / needed a Mac for other things. Having it run CS:GO was just a massive bonus. At work I manage hundreds of Windows devices: I don't want to use them in my spare time, and I'm not going to start managing them at home as well. I want to use a Mac in my personal life, and that included some gaming until last week.

Really poor rollout and communications from Steam.

[Louffe]

Publicado originalmente por Spider:

I have a solution to this issue. Stop trying to game on a Mac. If you can afford a Mac, you can easily build a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ PC. A ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Apple laptop costs twice as much as a mid-tier gaming PC. Stop being ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid and buy a PC. Or educate yourself and BUILD one.

I guess won't make a difference to answer or not to people still thinking that way but whatever. I remember when I really got interested by Mac's, was around 2010. At that time, to get something matching the quality (screen, finish, design, sound, portability) of a Macbook unibody, you had to purchase a 2000€ Sony Vaio VPC-Z 11. Sony Vaio's were the Mac's of Windows, basically (and I got one).

Still today, if you look for a Windows apple matching the Apple... apple, then you have to look to the Zenbook range, a.e. Then we still speak about a price range between 1500 and 2500€. An Alienware cost the same but it's a "transportable" PC, not a portable one. A Razer Rolls Royce like the Blade 14 costs 3000€.

So those guys trying to convince themselves after all these years that a basic Dell at 600-700€ makes the trick, well they fool only themselves. A Dell is only good to feed your bin (yet I can experience that with my current professional PC).

Plus, some features on Mac's are still top of the class, such as the trackpad, the soundcard (for a 1kg portable PC). So, even tough I play a lot and I barely use it for "bourgeois bohême" activities like sound creation or photographs, I purchased once again a Mac. Cause of built quality at a right price for that quality (considering the market). My Macbook Pro from 2011 lasted 8 years and was still working. My Retina (the last Intel) has 3 years and works perfectly.

Oh and my old Sony Vaio (not even a Z series) from 2006 still runs...

So Valve, may I ask you politely and gently to release a MacOS version of CS2 (and L4D2 in 64bits by the way) for well made, well finished and not that outrageously expensive computers ?

That's all I have to say about that... and thank you.

[ikir]

Disappointing. Other than Parallels you can use CrossOver 23.5 with GPTK

[Artos]

Publicado originalmente por Louffe:

Publicado originalmente por Spider:

I have a solution to this issue. Stop trying to game on a Mac. If you can afford a Mac, you can easily build a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ PC. A ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Apple laptop costs twice as much as a mid-tier gaming PC. Stop being ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid and buy a PC. Or educate yourself and BUILD one.

I guess won't make a difference to answer or not to people still thinking that way but whatever. I remember when I really got interested by Mac's, was around 2010. At that time, to get something matching the quality (screen, finish, design, sound, portability) of a Macbook unibody, you had to purchase a 2000€ Sony Vaio VPC-Z 11. Sony Vaio's were the Mac's of Windows, basically (and I got one).

Still today, if you look for a Windows apple matching the Apple... apple, then you have to look to the Zenbook range, a.e. Then we still speak about a price range between 1500 and 2500€. An Alienware cost the same but it's a "transportable" PC, not a portable one. A Razer Rolls Royce like the Blade 14 costs 3000€.

So those guys trying to convince themselves after all these years that a basic Dell at 600-700€ makes the trick, well they fool only themselves. A Dell is only good to feed your bin (yet I can experience that with my current professional PC).

Plus, some features on Mac's are still top of the class, such as the trackpad, the soundcard (for a 1kg portable PC). So, even tough I play a lot and I barely use it for "bourgeois bohême" activities like sound creation or photographs, I purchased once again a Mac. Cause of built quality at a right price for that quality (considering the market). My Macbook Pro from 2011 lasted 8 years and was still working. My Retina (the last Intel) has 3 years and works perfectly.

Oh and my old Sony Vaio (not even a Z series) from 2006 still runs...

So Valve, may I ask you politely and gently to release a MacOS version of CS2 (and L4D2 in 64bits by the way) for well made, well finished and not that outrageously expensive computers ?

That's all I have to say about that... and thank you.

Yeah, but there is 1 issue with macs that other brands don't have... It runs on MacOs, which is really disliked by game developers. Its like porting a game for consoles for minority. Which really doesn't benefit them at all. As many of you said, you bought Mac for other features and games working on it is a bonus. Well that bonus just went away for who knows how long, months ?, year?, maybe years.

Another issue with mac and actually mac users is that they look for issues outside of Apple, why don't you go harass them to create Windows compability mode ? or some other ♥♥♥♥ like that, that way games don't need to be ported for you.

Its not the first and not the last game not supporting macs. You should have known that when you got mac.

[Louffe]

Publicado originalmente por Artos:

Publicado originalmente por Louffe:

I guess won't make a difference to answer or not to people still thinking that way but whatever. I remember when I really got interested by Mac's, was around 2010. At that time, to get something matching the quality (screen, finish, design, sound, portability) of a Macbook unibody, you had to purchase a 2000€ Sony Vaio VPC-Z 11. Sony Vaio's were the Mac's of Windows, basically (and I got one).

Still today, if you look for a Windows apple matching the Apple... apple, then you have to look to the Zenbook range, a.e. Then we still speak about a price range between 1500 and 2500€. An Alienware cost the same but it's a "transportable" PC, not a portable one. A Razer Rolls Royce like the Blade 14 costs 3000€.

So those guys trying to convince themselves after all these years that a basic Dell at 600-700€ makes the trick, well they fool only themselves. A Dell is only good to feed your bin (yet I can experience that with my current professional PC).

Plus, some features on Mac's are still top of the class, such as the trackpad, the soundcard (for a 1kg portable PC). So, even tough I play a lot and I barely use it for "bourgeois bohême" activities like sound creation or photographs, I purchased once again a Mac. Cause of built quality at a right price for that quality (considering the market). My Macbook Pro from 2011 lasted 8 years and was still working. My Retina (the last Intel) has 3 years and works perfectly.

Oh and my old Sony Vaio (not even a Z series) from 2006 still runs...

So Valve, may I ask you politely and gently to release a MacOS version of CS2 (and L4D2 in 64bits by the way) for well made, well finished and not that outrageously expensive computers ?

That's all I have to say about that... and thank you.

Yeah, but there is 1 issue with macs that other brands don't have... It runs on MacOs, which is really disliked by game developers. Its like porting a game for consoles for minority. Which really doesn't benefit them at all. As many of you said, you bought Mac for other features and games working on it is a bonus. Well that bonus just went away for who knows how long, months ?, year?, maybe years.

Another issue with mac and actually mac users is that they look for issues outside of Apple, why don't you go harass them to create Windows compability mode ? or some other ♥♥♥♥ like that, that way games don't need to be ported for you.

Its not the first and not the last game not supporting macs. You should have known that when you got mac.

To answer to your last point, in 2020, I knew I would be able to run 64bits Valve games + Feral games + many independent or small studios/editors. And this was perfectly fine, I made my choice knowing that. Between 2020 and 2023, nothing changed so I can expect the same, I guess, right ?

Well, unlike some Mac users, I do not blame Valve or others developers for things they did not cause or ask for.

And I blame Apple for the wrong things they made, especially Catalina. Catalina has been the major hit from Apple on Mac gaming, which still has an impact today. We lost the nice and well made add-on for 360 controller (the kernel change killed the developer for good). We lost 32bits games, including many from Valve. Plus, this has been considered as a backstab by some (and I quite agree with that).

But once you put this aside and you accept that 32bits / gamepad games are the past cause of Cupidirno, then other moves such as this one with CS2 aren't that tolerable and cannot be excused in such a simple easy way.

I mentioned L4D2 64bits. If never happen, shame on Apple, even though Mark of The Ninja, VVVVV and other very popular and well made games have been upgraded by their developers (or developer, thinking about Terry Cavanagh and VVVVV). So even that may let us think Valve could be "more challenged" than that on old 32bits games.

My point was and is still that communication was poor, they released a beta, even for Linux players. Nevertheless, can be patient, can wait few weeks, knowing they may need some time for a Mac version. I am just fed up with guys stating that well made computers, whatever the brand, are overpriced (but surprisingly, their focus is on Mac's, not Razer, Alienware, Asus Zenbooks, a.e.). Same about those saying we can't play on another OS than Windows. I have a list of games (still 2 digits despite the 64bits limitation) I can play on MacOS. Hopefully, devs do not think the same way than some in the chats.

Last thing about this % we see on many topics, the famous less than 4% for Linux/MacOS.
Using a Pareto logic, I bet 80% of those running on Mac/Linux actually were playing CS:GO, actively or once a month. On the other hand, most probably less than 20% of the Windows users were running CS:GO more than once a year. So stating that we speak about 96% of Steam users against the 4% minority, well... the truth is maybe closer to 19% against 3%. Just to bring some perspective. But I am sure Valve has the stats.

[Avocado]

Publicado originalmente por ikir:

Disappointing. Other than Parallels you can use CrossOver 23.5 with GPTK

I tried this I didnt launch

[Avocado]

Publicado originalmente por Artos:

Publicado originalmente por Louffe:

I guess won't make a difference to answer or not to people still thinking that way but whatever. I remember when I really got interested by Mac's, was around 2010. At that time, to get something matching the quality (screen, finish, design, sound, portability) of a Macbook unibody, you had to purchase a 2000€ Sony Vaio VPC-Z 11. Sony Vaio's were the Mac's of Windows, basically (and I got one).

Still today, if you look for a Windows apple matching the Apple... apple, then you have to look to the Zenbook range, a.e. Then we still speak about a price range between 1500 and 2500€. An Alienware cost the same but it's a "transportable" PC, not a portable one. A Razer Rolls Royce like the Blade 14 costs 3000€.

So those guys trying to convince themselves after all these years that a basic Dell at 600-700€ makes the trick, well they fool only themselves. A Dell is only good to feed your bin (yet I can experience that with my current professional PC).

Plus, some features on Mac's are still top of the class, such as the trackpad, the soundcard (for a 1kg portable PC). So, even tough I play a lot and I barely use it for "bourgeois bohême" activities like sound creation or photographs, I purchased once again a Mac. Cause of built quality at a right price for that quality (considering the market). My Macbook Pro from 2011 lasted 8 years and was still working. My Retina (the last Intel) has 3 years and works perfectly.

Oh and my old Sony Vaio (not even a Z series) from 2006 still runs...

So Valve, may I ask you politely and gently to release a MacOS version of CS2 (and L4D2 in 64bits by the way) for well made, well finished and not that outrageously expensive computers ?

That's all I have to say about that... and thank you.

Yeah, but there is 1 issue with macs that other brands don't have... It runs on MacOs, which is really disliked by game developers. Its like porting a game for consoles for minority. Which really doesn't benefit them at all. As many of you said, you bought Mac for other features and games working on it is a bonus. Well that bonus just went away for who knows how long, months ?, year?, maybe years.

Another issue with mac and actually mac users is that they look for issues outside of Apple, why don't you go harass them to create Windows compability mode ? or some other ♥♥♥♥ like that, that way games don't need to be ported for you.

Its not the first and not the last game not supporting macs. You should have known that when you got mac.

but valve should have at least given a warning to Mac users instead of suddenly dropping it

[Artos]

Publicado originalmente por Avocado:

Publicado originalmente por Artos:

Yeah, but there is 1 issue with macs that other brands don't have... It runs on MacOs, which is really disliked by game developers. Its like porting a game for consoles for minority. Which really doesn't benefit them at all. As many of you said, you bought Mac for other features and games working on it is a bonus. Well that bonus just went away for who knows how long, months ?, year?, maybe years.

Another issue with mac and actually mac users is that they look for issues outside of Apple, why don't you go harass them to create Windows compability mode ? or some other ♥♥♥♥ like that, that way games don't need to be ported for you.

Its not the first and not the last game not supporting macs. You should have known that when you got mac.

but valve should have at least given a warning to Mac users instead of suddenly dropping it

trust me. You are not the only one hurt. PC players despite being able to play. Got scammed too. Amazing game got deleted and we got hot garbage full of bugs. Really nothing worth playing

[007 MMR]

Valve sucks

[Artos]

just so my words are not empty. Watch this short video and decide for yourself if your desperate attempt to play CS2 bug offensive is worth playing :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et81luuV2Ns&ab_channel=SuperstituM

[Kill-Antifa]

spend more than 150$ on ingame skins and cant play know what a scamm

[76561199197804643]

I've still got the game installed on my Mac, hoping that it'll do an update one day and start to work. The way Steam handles this is a joke though: I've got 1.8GB to download, for a game that won't run on my system. Steam doesn't check if I can run it or not, just lets me download GBs of stuff that won't do anything except display an error about a missing .exe

Would love to have the job of whoever approved this, it can't be too hard.