It runs many Windows applications on your Mac, and does not require that the Windows OS be installed.īefore continuing, determine which version of the Mac OS you are running (use the Apple menu in the upper left-hand corner of the screen). After 14 days, a license must be obtained from Codeweavers to continue using Crossover. Case It runs via Crossover on Macs almost as fast as it does on Windows, and it is very fast and easy to set up. Are you noticing a trend here? Everything you linked got fixed quickly, since the means to fix it was very easy that it required little to no input from the developer.Ģ020 again! Bro you are really grasping at straws trying to paint compatibility layers as unreliable that you're trying to pull SOLVED PROBLEMS from 2020 to try to prove your point.The advantage of using Crossover to run Case It is speed and ease of use. I'd like to remind you they've broken their own DRM multiple times and had to rely on cracked copies of their games to fix that issue.Īlso this is from February and last I checked that also got fixed since Ubisoft's games are mostly listed as Gold in ProtonDB. They break literally everything PC related. This was in June and got fixed, and was not a problem with Proton but with Mesa, which is a Graphics library for APIs like Vulkan. This is from March and got fixed, and was a problem exclusive to Manjaro. Also again, you can just roll back updates if it doesn't work. Plus Proton lets you use any version, not necessarily the newest version, so if a Proton update breaks compatibility, guess what, you can just roll it back with a push of a button.Īlso from 2020. This is from 2020 and got marked as solved lmao. Without native ports we would only have a half-baked solution.ġ000 Borked and Bronze games out of over 10,000 on Steam that are Gold or Platinum, and most of the games that don't work use an anticheat that block running the game on any non-Windows OS. We can buy a native game or use Crossover/AGPTK. At least as it is today we have both options. Some like me are happy with fewer native games and some want more games even if they have worse performance and more bugs through a compatibility layer. I guess it all comes down to how much you game. So getting two native games that works great is always more appealing than one native for PC with bugs and worse performance on Mac through a compatibility layer, if it would work at all. Buying games on Steam also gives you both Mac and PC versions so with one purchase you get two games, like Lies of P, NMS, Snowrunner, Stray and more. Such people wouldn’t buy the games anyway. If people hardly buy Mac games it’s not because of the native ports. We have seen several examples of developers who don’t think it’s a nightmare and have worked with Apple to bring their games to Mac. Many games on have ”Kaputt” or ”Bronze” status.ĭon’t really understand your point about Mac ports ”hardly anyone is gonna buy that is a nightmare to make”. There are several examples of Proton updates that have broken working games and many games still don’t work or have bad performance. OpenGL games like Wolfenstein games don’t work at all because Crossover only supports up to OpenGL 2.1. Many games with anti-cheat still are not supported in Crossover. There are many games like Shadow of Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Deus Ex MKD, Bioshock Remastered 1-2, XCOM 2, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien Isolation, Mad Max and Metro Exodus that don’t work in Crossover but run perfectly as native ports. Not to mention the performance penalty that comes with compatibility layers in many cases.Īt the same time we have many old Mac ports which still work fine in Rosetta. So the gamers always lack peace of mind not knowing if the next update will make or break things. New updates fix broken games but at the same time broke other games, both in Crossover and Proton. As a BetterTester for Crossover I know it’s a cat-and-mouse game. To imply that everything simply works and the experience will be even greater than native ports is simply not true. The proof is Proton and Crossover themselves. To think it will be that easy to play games on Mac with a compatibility layer is just a dream.
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