OS 10.15 Catalina

[rayfeb09]

I can't get an answer from anyone, I have a Mac that I play on and there are few sales going on and with the new release this week by Apple I not sure if it will even play. Total War Medieval 2 has been updated to 64 bits per the publisher release notes posted. But Total War Napoleon came out after but I can find if it has been updated to 64 bits to work on the new OS of Mac. Same with Total War Shotgun 2 and Rome 2, I was wanting to add them while the sale is going, and I want to play on my Mac. Does anyone knows how this works with steam selling Mac games and 64bit most soon with Apple?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Until the devs release 64-bit versions, you can't do anything with them.

And this... https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/2/1629663905423420092/

[rayfeb09]

I was told by the coders that they will be upgrading Napoloen and Shogun 2 to 64 bit to run on the Apple new OS, if anyone wanted to know.

[james]

The problem is if you are like me who has bought games from Steam over a decade ago, most of those game publishers/developers have no plans or capability to upgrade their games from 32-bit to 64 bit. They will simply cease to work even with a Steam 64-bit client. Steam should have made a migration tool so that after a clean install one could have all the games identified as 64 bit migrated over to the new Steam 64-bit launcher.

Game developers like Standing Stones Games (the developers of Dungeons and Dragons Online) have gone down the path of using a Wine Client (Windows Emulator) client but the pre-loader of Wine is still only 32-bit (and no date is given for when the 64 bit version will be ready). So expect most games, especially older ones not to work any more. :-(

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by james:

The problem is if you are like me who has bought games from Steam over a decade ago, most of those game publishers/developers have no plans or capability to upgrade their games from 32-bit to 64 bit. They will simply cease to work even with a Steam 64-bit client. Steam should have made a migration tool so that after a clean install one could have all the games identified as 64 bit migrated over to the new Steam 64-bit launcher.

Valve can't touch other game devs/pubs products.

[rayfeb09]

the two games that I was asking about the developer said they will be releasing upgrades to 64-bits shortly

[Eric.B]

Originally posted by james:

Steam should have made a migration tool so that after a clean install one could have all the games identified as 64 bit migrated over to the new Steam 64-bit launcher.

This has nothing to do with Steam 64-bit launcher. Apple dropped 32-bit support on the operating system.

Games can't be just converted on the fly to 64-bit. So no sort of mitigation tool is possible.

Game developers like Standing Stones Games (the developers of Dungeons and Dragons Online) have gone down the path of using a Wine Client (Windows Emulator) client but the pre-loader of Wine is still only 32-bit (and no date is given for when the 64 bit version will be ready). So expect most games, especially older ones not to work any more. :-(

64-bit WINE can not run 32-bit programs. Only 32-bit WINE can. 32-bit WINE requires 32-bit support. Apple has dropped support for 32-bit. So WINE is not an option.

You have four choices:
-Use a virtual machine running Windows or Linux. This is significantly slower and may not work with all games.
-Use bootcamp to install Windows
-Install Linux on your machine and actually enjoy controlling your own machine.
-Suck it up and lose the majority of your library, so Apple can save a few dollars in support costs. You bought into a walled garden ecosystem. You live with a walled garden ecosystem.


Your beef is with Apple, not developers or Steam. Also as Metal rolls out in a few versions, most of your games will no longer work as well.

[cmmdertav]

The MacOS x64-bit version steam links to is not functioning on my Mac running catalina. Opens and crashes instantly with no error message. When I dug into the .exe it said "bad CPU type in executable". Any ideas?

[Tjbucky]

Does anyone know if Steam will list which games are compatible with Mac OS Catalina? I would like to stay with them but after 13 years I may have to finally drop Steam.
I upgraded to Catalina and lost 90% of my Steam MAC games library because they are not compatible with 64Bit. I'm going to have to break down and purchase windows for a BootCamp partition to get it to work again.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Just use an unlicensed version...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO

[Tjbucky]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Just use an unlicensed version...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO

:qr:

Thanks too late, just purchase an OEM version. Still a pain though to use Bootcamp just to play Steam Games, life of a Mac owner I guess.