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Bruss_K Apr 15, 2020 @ 3:17pm

WINE on macOS "Catalina"

Can somebody help me or give me a complete guide for installing steam on macOS Catalina by using Wine?

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Dr.Shadowds 🐉 Apr 15, 2020 @ 3:24pm

.... You don't need Wine to install Steam, you have a 64bit Mac version of Steam on Mac, just download the client from the main site.
https://store.steampowered.com/about/

Last edited by Dr.Shadowds 🐉; Apr 15, 2020 @ 3:28pm

Bruss_K Apr 15, 2020 @ 4:43pm

The main thing is that i want to play Windows-only games on mac, without using bootcamp or a virtual machine. For that i saw that you can download the Windows version of steam, run it on mac, allowing you to play windows-only games, and all of this by Wine. But seems that it doesn't work anymore... (Video:

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Last edited by Bruss_K; Apr 15, 2020 @ 4:43pm

Satoru Apr 15, 2020 @ 4:49pm

You can't run Wine on MacOS. MacOS doesn't let you compile anything natively. MacOS has an ancient terrible version of OpenGL. MacOS is also removing OpenGL entirely probably within 1-2 years. Meaning all your native Mac games will stop working soon

Apple hates you. Apple hates devs. Apple hates games.

Last edited by Satoru; Apr 15, 2020 @ 4:50pm