Does steam on Mac run window games?

[76561198921133387]

can someone help me and show me If they can run window games

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Bootcamp or Wine.

[Smurph]

Steam is a magic system that makes it possible to run the same game on Mac and Windows (and Linux) -- as long as * it is a Steam game and * the small additional work has been done to make it work on the particular platform (i.e. Mac, in this case) -- which will be noted in the game's Store Page. (This is immediately independent of whether Steam itself is running on a PC or a Mac (or Linux).)

Outside of Steam, as "cSg|mc-Hotsauce" says, you have to use * an emulator, or * BootCamp (which just does the extra under-the-hood work to make it *possible* to dual-boot Windows on a Mac), or * WINE (which is, not a full PC emulator, but a software layer). Only WINE does not require/enable a copy of Windows to run on the computer.

[Cathulhu]

Steam for Mac does not run Windows games. You'd need to Windows client running through Bootcamp or Wine.

[Janichsan]

Smurph eredeti hozzászólása:

… the small additional work has been done to make it work on the particular platform (i.e. Mac, in this case)

"Small additional work".

Understatement of the century.

[Smurph]

@ Cathulhu: Steam for Windows does not run Windows games either; it runs Steam games - particularly ones that have been ported to Steam/Windows (as opposed to, for instance, Steam/Mac) (I believe).

[Cathulhu]

You are wrong. Steam does not run games. Steam launches and manages games. Windows and Mac OS X run games, just like any other program.