Downloading and playing steam games on Mac

[scottcunni]

Sorry if this is a duplicate question but I just bought a new Mac Book Pro 16 and have installed windows on a partition using boot camp and built it with about 90 gig and left about 900 gig on the mac side. My question is this, if i purchase steam games on the Mac side, download it to this partition can i then switch over to the windows side and be able to find and play the game ? Or will i have to delete this partition and start new with a larger disk space and purchase steam games from the windows side. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

[Potassium Ion]

Your steam games have to be downloaded in the windows partition for it to work. If you have enough space, it is fine to have games download both on macOS and windows, but that requires two copies of the game. You can use an external drive, but the windows version and Mac version won’t be compatible so you’ll have to download two copies even then, but an external drive would solve the space constraint. I ended up downloading my Mac games on my Mac partition, and I have an external drive for my windows games.

[Cathulhu]

No need to rebuy them. But yes, you need to download and play them on the Windows end of your Macbook.

[Kapo]

What I learn and what I try at
BootCamp or
partition drive or
external drive . For install game at window,
Just waste my time .
But I use those skill for backup other data.
Not game.

When I come back BootCamp.

Sometime , I need to upgrade stream.

Sometime , partition window can’t get in OS.
I can’t find reason ,
and I totally reinstall window and game.
After several time.
i am not set bootcamp in my mac regularly.

i play a game call RPGMMV.
that game, Not mush info in Mac part.
Solve that problem by Myself.(loop for try!)
After several time again, I am give up that game.
My job isn’t game player,
I don’t want using my time for solve that problem.

But,After that ,
I still choose Mac OS not windows ,
Because MacBook So so much powerful.
I give up some game only for Window,
Finally, I Just play iPhone game and Emulator at Mac.

[scottcunni]

yea figured it out by just trying to purchase a game on the MAC side and steam told me i couldnt.

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