Does remote play together with not on mac games works for user with mac ?

[Herozion]

title, can i play a video game that's not on mac with my gf if she has a mac and remote play together

thanks!

[ReBoot]

Remote play together streams input & video. As such, the host needs to run the game, not everyone involved.

[Herozion]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Remote play together streams input & video. As such, the host needs to run the game, not everyone involved.

so someone on mac can run a steam game which is not available to buy on mac ?

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Herozion:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Remote play together streams input & video. As such, the host needs to run the game, not everyone involved.

so someone on mac can run a steam game which is not available to buy on mac ?

No, that's not how it works. Someone on a Wintel can run a Windows game and invite a Mac user to play the game with them via Remote Play Together.

[Hanomaly]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by Herozion:

so someone on mac can run a steam game which is not available to buy on mac ?

No, that's not how it works. Someone on a Wintel can run a Windows game and invite a Mac user to play the game with them via Remote Play Together.

Window's Host plays a Window's Only game. Window's user who owns the Window's game wants to allow a MAC friend to access the game through "Remote Play Together", can we do it?

Because.. to me it sounds like you say "No", but then go on to explain that "Yes" it will work - so really you should be saying "Yes" to that question and not No??

Because it sounds like you're saying only the host needs to have the appropriate operating system???? Which is what the OP asked.. i thought?

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Hanomaly:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

No, that's not how it works. Someone on a Wintel can run a Windows game and invite a Mac user to play the game with them via Remote Play Together.

Window's Host plays a Window's Only game. Window's user who owns the Window's game wants to allow a MAC friend to access the game through "Remote Play Together", can we do it?

Because.. to me it sounds like you say "No", but then go on to explain that "Yes" it will work - so really you should be saying "Yes" to that question and not No??

Because it sounds like you're saying only the host needs to have the appropriate operating system???? Which is what the OP asked.. i thought?

If you want oversimplified answers, details become important. I said a game can be stramed just fine, then OP asked whether someone on a Mac can RUN a game. Which is a related concept, but not the same.

If you want oversimplified answers, you have to be very precise with what you're asking for.

So:
Running? No!
Streaming: Yes!

In the long term, mentally storing oversimplified answers tends to take more brain space, than understanding the concepts involved, I might add. It's generally less stuff to be memorized and/oder understood; instead, it's a lot of applying concepts to situations; it's like building stuff (answers) out of lego bricks (complete answers). Ok, that's just me venting about simple answers.

By the way, someone with a Mac can actually run a Windows-only game. Proton works splendidly, although I'm not sure it's available for MacOS. But you can still use CrossOver, it's paid, but so are games and you get a professionally maintained compatibility library out of the box. Then, of course, you can run OG Wine but that tends to require manual effort (I know I'm the kind of guy to pay for convenience). Then there's PlayOnMac which is basically the same concept as CrossOver except free. Then there's Apple's own BootCamp which would be my #1 preference (bought a Win10 license legally for 20€).

.. unless it's one of dem new M1 PCs. Then, things get complicated. AFAIK Parallels jumped ship on that topic, but someone on the Steam forum installed the Windows-on-ARM-preview and Microsoft's own x86-emulator (read: legacy-software-emulator) works fine according to The Internet™.

So if you're not specifically into streaming but generally into bringing that game to MacOS via whatever means, you may want to check out other options as well.

[floppa]

Bro really wanted to look cool and show off how much he knows about computers. it's very clear what they're asking, but you're being dense on purpose because you want to look smart. sorry for commenting on a two year old post I was looking for an answer and didn't find one here.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by floppa:

Bro really wanted to look cool and show off how much he knows about computers. it's very clear what they're asking, but you're being dense on purpose because you want to look smart. sorry for commenting on a two year old post I was looking for an answer and didn't find one here.

All signs point to the answer being yes...

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0689-74B8-92AC-10F2

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/3032537193879549686

[Steven]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.