Can I play Half Life 2 on my M1 MacBook with Big Sur?

[ozziegn]

I was able to install the Steam client on my M1 MacBook Air with Big Sur. I paid for and downloaded Half Life 2 which installed on my SSD drive just fine. But I try to play the game and it tells me it isn't compatible with my OS. Can anyone tell me if I just wasted $20 for nothing?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Use Rosetta.

The game is 32-bit and can't be played natively.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

M1 chip is ARM processor, not a x86 processor. It features Rosetta 2 dynamic binary translation that allows it to run x86 software, but that seems pretty iffy as IDK what to tell you exactly not sure if all apps are supported, or not that were made using x86 instructions.

Now IDK if half life 2 got recompile for 64bit OS, if not then that be a problem as Apple drops the whole 32bit support so any app that were complie to work for 32bit will not work on Apple OS that 64bit as they drop 32bit support within the OS past 2 years I believe. But I believe Rosetta suppose to be the replacement support, but again IDK exactly if it will fix your problem, or not.

You can try asking for help here.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/220/discussions/

And here.
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/2/

[ozziegn]

^ Ok. So should I just ask for a refund and call it a day?

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

ozziegn の投稿を引用：

^ Ok. So should I just ask for a refund and call it a day?

Well if you can't get it to work with Rosetta, then yes request a refund, or can use Nvidia cloud gaming service which stream the game to you.

But like said not much else to tell you beyond this.

[Homy]

Only if you install Parallels and Windows ARM: https://youtu.be/DCwIN4Zqduc?t=325

[yezsef]

I am running the 64 bit version of half life 2 in with wine it's very slow. Counter Strike source kinda works but it's a bit buggy.
I really wish Valve would update all of the 32 bit titles and perhaps optimise a wine binary or something that would be great

[levi LEG-SS.RU]

+ help

[尺ey]

thx u <3

[in4moonlight]

we can only hope, maybe one day this will be possible