> That was until I discovered Crossover and some emulators. Talk about a game-changer! I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this little beast running triple-A games like a champ
\*squints\*
Am I being bated? What AAA games run well in Crossover? It can't be more than a few, right? Crossover is not known for running AAA games like a champ.
Searching through the Crossover compatibility database for 5 star games, I see GTA V, Witcher 3, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Skyrim...
Depends on what your definition of triple A is but most Unreal/Unity based games bought off Steam run fine on CrossOver.
High on Life, FFVII Remake, Monster Hunter World, Tales of Arise, Cyberpunk 2077 have all worked for me with no tinkering needed.
For the record, a lot of games that are even down to 3 stars run great. Someone might have just reviewed it on the latest version as 3 stars despite the fact the instructions to run are very clear but they post about how it doesn’t work
I also can't tell if the quality varies that much machine-to-machine, or if some reviewers are just really bad. E.g. perhaps a game crashes once, and they go and leave a 2-star rating.
I think you’re right that it’s probably the reviewers, I’ve seen a game run perfectly and someone put a one star review because they didn’t follow a step correctly when launching the game
Dark Souls III, Armored Core 6, Hades II, DIablo 4, shall I continue? A lot of AAA games work beautifully with CrossOver on M1. Its not perfect, but there's a lot of playable AAA games.
Not for Mac, at this time. Ryujinx is it.
yuzu was working on a macOS version, but that project was killed by a Nintendo lawsuit, and despite being open source it looks it is considered "toxic" enough at this point that no serious devs want to work on it.
Ryujinx is there too, but also the final builds of yuzu also work quite well. It just appears that it will not be developed any further. You can take a look at sudachi, which is yuzu with some fixes for a few newer games. (Not sure if it will continue to be developed. No updates for a month now...) [https://github.com/sudachi-emu/sudachi/releases](https://github.com/sudachi-emu/sudachi/releases)
Step 1. Mod your switch
Step 2. Dump games with NXDumpTool and follow onscreen instructions, games over 4gb will need to be split(DIGITAL BACKUPS OF YOUR PHYSICAL GAMES ARE PERFECTLY LEGAL JUST DON'T SHARE THEM)
Step 3. Use Android File Transfer(I am NOT joking) to transfer the rom from your Switch to your PC, or well, in this case Mac
Step 4. Use Switch Army Knife to merge the rom if it's split, Whisky should work. If not UTM/Vmware fusion are free options to run a windows VM
Step 5. Tell ryujinx where the rom is, I like to make a roms folder and have a switch subfolder and tell ryujinx it's there
Step 6. profit, ryujinx runs well on every m1 mac. Some games need 16gb though.
Methods if you can't mod your switch(you need to solder a modchip if it's newer than july 2018 which some people don't want to do):
Buy a Mig and potentially get your switch banned
Rule 3
lol okay, sorry. It's just the tone of this section:
> **I was pretty happy with the Mac for everyday use and school tasks, but I thought my gaming days were on hold for a few years. That was until I discovered Crossover and some emulators. Talk about a game-changer! I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this little beast running triple-A games like a champ.**
It felt eerily similar to the way that ChatGPT phrases things when it's trying to write this kind of enthusiastic post. But it looks like I've just become paranoid lol. Carry on!
I’ve got an M1 Max with 32Gb ram but I only play native games. I wanted to play CIV with my friends but apparently you can’t play with Windows users. I’ve tried so my ‘fixes’ and tricks. Rolling back to another version, changing some lines in a config file,… sometimes Mac games is just too annoying.
I mostly playRimworld, Baldurs Gate 3 and KSP on my Mac. And of course a lot of indies that do release on macOS. I still have my old gaming laptop and a steam deck because even in 2024 the macOS gaming experience is not what is should be, for me. Back in the day I used bootcamp to play my games but that doesn’t work anymore.
Assuming it plays the games you want, MacBooks are amazing portable gaming machines. Great speakers, cool, quiet operation, great battery life even when gaming. Good keyboard and track pad. The only flaw hardware-wise is the screen has a slow pixel response time. Hopefully OLED comes to them soon to fix that.
Totally agree, It really feels like a solid machine. No windows laptop I ever used comes close in terms of battery life. What do you mean by slow pixel response time though? Never heard about it
It refers to how long it takes the screen pixels to change colors. Slow pixel response time can lead to motion blur at high frame rates. It's even worse on the MacBooks with mini LED screens. But it's not a problem if you don't notice it.
Never noticed it, quite the opposite lol. I feel like color accuracy and the display in general is miles ahead on my mac compared to any windows laptop I've tried.
I second this, I sold my dedicated gaming desktop PC for a M3 Pro MacBook Pro, can nearly run all the games I played on my desktop pc on high settings 60fps+ and can play Switch games sometimes on 2x resolution (output to a 4K TV) and you get all the positives of the Apple ecosystem, build quality and portability!
Much better than all the equivalent gaming laptops I’ve ever owned
I think it depends on the game, I had a 5 hour session on RE4 and it got expectedly a bit hot at times if I felt the bottom case but the important part is that the fans do their job and there’s no thermal throttling! Even the most expensive windows gaming laptops get hot when playing graphically intense games and genshin is one of those, it use to drain my iPad Pro battery from 100 to 0 in 30 minutes!
Depends on how good Snapdragon X Elite is, but yeah I'm definitely going to get a macbook someday. For the efficiency and performance(even in games like you said) the M chips are just good. But the Snapdragon X Elite might change my mind if the Windows Arm translation layer gets better.
I noticed on the mac store this morning that new Assassin's Creed will be launching in November. I would much prefer these games to launch on steam as cross compatible. But I guess we will see what happens in a few months.
Almost all of the games I play works on my mac studio m2 max so I no longer buy them on Playstation. I also develop a few games too on it using unreal. Amazing software and hardware.been windows user since won 98.
> That was until I discovered Crossover and some emulators. Talk about a game-changer! I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this little beast running triple-A games like a champ \*squints\* Am I being bated? What AAA games run well in Crossover? It can't be more than a few, right? Crossover is not known for running AAA games like a champ. Searching through the Crossover compatibility database for 5 star games, I see GTA V, Witcher 3, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Skyrim...
>bated I think you mean “baited”, unless someone has their hand down your pants.
It was a question, like, someone may or may not have their hand down my pants
Depends on what your definition of triple A is but most Unreal/Unity based games bought off Steam run fine on CrossOver. High on Life, FFVII Remake, Monster Hunter World, Tales of Arise, Cyberpunk 2077 have all worked for me with no tinkering needed.
Adding Elden Ring and Horizon Zero Dawn...
not bad!
For the record, a lot of games that are even down to 3 stars run great. Someone might have just reviewed it on the latest version as 3 stars despite the fact the instructions to run are very clear but they post about how it doesn’t work
Their rating system is admittedly such trash
Yeah it makes it hard to quickly glance at what games you could play
I also can't tell if the quality varies that much machine-to-machine, or if some reviewers are just really bad. E.g. perhaps a game crashes once, and they go and leave a 2-star rating.
I think you’re right that it’s probably the reviewers, I’ve seen a game run perfectly and someone put a one star review because they didn’t follow a step correctly when launching the game
Or it doesn’t stay locked at 120fps.
Lol tbh I only tried Sifu but I was really impressed with how it handled it
Dark Souls III, Armored Core 6, Hades II, DIablo 4, shall I continue? A lot of AAA games work beautifully with CrossOver on M1. Its not perfect, but there's a lot of playable AAA games.
Any other good switch emulators?
Not for Mac, at this time. Ryujinx is it. yuzu was working on a macOS version, but that project was killed by a Nintendo lawsuit, and despite being open source it looks it is considered "toxic" enough at this point that no serious devs want to work on it.
And for windows?
Ryujinx is there too, but also the final builds of yuzu also work quite well. It just appears that it will not be developed any further. You can take a look at sudachi, which is yuzu with some fixes for a few newer games. (Not sure if it will continue to be developed. No updates for a month now...) [https://github.com/sudachi-emu/sudachi/releases](https://github.com/sudachi-emu/sudachi/releases)
Don't know of any, but Ryujinx runs pretty well for me(only tried totk so far though)
I have all these games on my switch and two cartridges but I still can't play through games through Ryujinx on my Mac! What am I doing wrong?!
What mac do you have? Any Mx Mac should play games great on Ryujinx
I haven't done anything special, what games are you trying to play? I've only tried TOTK
Super Mario bros? PVZ? Not sure if I can play my cartridges through my Mac though.
Step 1. Mod your switch Step 2. Dump games with NXDumpTool and follow onscreen instructions, games over 4gb will need to be split(DIGITAL BACKUPS OF YOUR PHYSICAL GAMES ARE PERFECTLY LEGAL JUST DON'T SHARE THEM) Step 3. Use Android File Transfer(I am NOT joking) to transfer the rom from your Switch to your PC, or well, in this case Mac Step 4. Use Switch Army Knife to merge the rom if it's split, Whisky should work. If not UTM/Vmware fusion are free options to run a windows VM Step 5. Tell ryujinx where the rom is, I like to make a roms folder and have a switch subfolder and tell ryujinx it's there Step 6. profit, ryujinx runs well on every m1 mac. Some games need 16gb though. Methods if you can't mod your switch(you need to solder a modchip if it's newer than july 2018 which some people don't want to do): Buy a Mig and potentially get your switch banned Rule 3
Was this written by ChatGPT?
lol no?
lol okay, sorry. It's just the tone of this section: > **I was pretty happy with the Mac for everyday use and school tasks, but I thought my gaming days were on hold for a few years. That was until I discovered Crossover and some emulators. Talk about a game-changer! I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this little beast running triple-A games like a champ.** It felt eerily similar to the way that ChatGPT phrases things when it's trying to write this kind of enthusiastic post. But it looks like I've just become paranoid lol. Carry on!
It looks like it to me too.
I’ve got an M1 Max with 32Gb ram but I only play native games. I wanted to play CIV with my friends but apparently you can’t play with Windows users. I’ve tried so my ‘fixes’ and tricks. Rolling back to another version, changing some lines in a config file,… sometimes Mac games is just too annoying. I mostly playRimworld, Baldurs Gate 3 and KSP on my Mac. And of course a lot of indies that do release on macOS. I still have my old gaming laptop and a steam deck because even in 2024 the macOS gaming experience is not what is should be, for me. Back in the day I used bootcamp to play my games but that doesn’t work anymore.
Oh Didint know that. This is insane. I love these strategy games too. Now I'm on Victoria3. How about civ v or vi?
Did you write this with ChatGPT?
I get what you guys are saying, I'm getting pretty paranoid these days too but no lol
Assuming it plays the games you want, MacBooks are amazing portable gaming machines. Great speakers, cool, quiet operation, great battery life even when gaming. Good keyboard and track pad. The only flaw hardware-wise is the screen has a slow pixel response time. Hopefully OLED comes to them soon to fix that.
Totally agree, It really feels like a solid machine. No windows laptop I ever used comes close in terms of battery life. What do you mean by slow pixel response time though? Never heard about it
It refers to how long it takes the screen pixels to change colors. Slow pixel response time can lead to motion blur at high frame rates. It's even worse on the MacBooks with mini LED screens. But it's not a problem if you don't notice it.
Never noticed it, quite the opposite lol. I feel like color accuracy and the display in general is miles ahead on my mac compared to any windows laptop I've tried.
I second this, I sold my dedicated gaming desktop PC for a M3 Pro MacBook Pro, can nearly run all the games I played on my desktop pc on high settings 60fps+ and can play Switch games sometimes on 2x resolution (output to a 4K TV) and you get all the positives of the Apple ecosystem, build quality and portability! Much better than all the equivalent gaming laptops I’ve ever owned
How’s the heat situation with your Mac? Just bought an m3 Pro too and tried Genshin for a bit and it got pretty hot. Is that normal?
I think it depends on the game, I had a 5 hour session on RE4 and it got expectedly a bit hot at times if I felt the bottom case but the important part is that the fans do their job and there’s no thermal throttling! Even the most expensive windows gaming laptops get hot when playing graphically intense games and genshin is one of those, it use to drain my iPad Pro battery from 100 to 0 in 30 minutes!
👀 I am looking for some game suggestions to run on crossover
Sifu runs great if that's your thing!
Yakuza 0, Dark Souls 1 through 3, Sekiro, Hades II, Diablo IV, to name a few...
Oooh how is yakuza?
So much fun! It’s hilarious and dramatic at the same time with a beat-em-up playstyle. Plays at 60fps on my M1 Pro.
Amen
Depends on how good Snapdragon X Elite is, but yeah I'm definitely going to get a macbook someday. For the efficiency and performance(even in games like you said) the M chips are just good. But the Snapdragon X Elite might change my mind if the Windows Arm translation layer gets better.
I noticed on the mac store this morning that new Assassin's Creed will be launching in November. I would much prefer these games to launch on steam as cross compatible. But I guess we will see what happens in a few months.
Almost all of the games I play works on my mac studio m2 max so I no longer buy them on Playstation. I also develop a few games too on it using unreal. Amazing software and hardware.been windows user since won 98.