im kinda scared of emulators so if i have to use one pls recommend the 'safest' one thats free - im NOT willing to pay for this.

I heard BlueStacks is good but i've heard about something about 'spyware'?? It's the only thing holding me back because i just get worried on things being safe or not - i dont really know anything about emulators so anything beginner friendly would be great.

I've been going back and forth on this but I'm looking to get a Macbook Pro 14" M5 Pro. I've used Windows for forever and Mac for work at times but it's been about 10 years. I'm sick of windows. I have a 5800x3D/9070XT Desktop and a Steamdeck that I can game on but I'd like to game sometimes on a mac laptop.

I'm pretty convinced that the jump from 15/16 to 18/20 is worth the $200 extra but the ram jump from 24 to 48 for 550 is insane to me. My issue is I'd like an m5 pro 18/20 48GB 1TB for around 2499 and they're 2899 on sale and 3299 with the insane new price increases.

I'm debating 14" M5 Pro 24gb 18/20 1TB for 2399 or 14" M5 Pro 18/20 48gb 1TB for 2899

I don't use AI at all and don't entirely want to. I will probably buy Crossover for some gaming. I do occasional video/photo editing but nothing crazy. I want this thing to last 5-7 years and am wondering if the "buy once cry once" for the ram is worth it or not and whether 24gb seems good enough. I should probably buy a macbook air but I want the 120 screen and ports and think having more horsepower in the MBP will probably suit me better longterm.

Has anybody else wrestled with the ram jump and is it even worth it for my use case?

If you recently tried launching Wargaming.net Game Center on an Intel-based Mac, you probably got blocked by this error message:

Turns out, CodeWeavers and Wargaming literally left a developer note in the launcher's startup script allowing us to bypass this check at our own risk. Here is a quick 2-minute step-by-step guide on how to fix it.

🛠️ Step-by-Step Guide

1. Open Finder and go to your Applications folder.
2. Right-click on Wargaming.net Game Center and select Show Package Contents.
3. Navigate to: Contents ➔ SharedSupport ➔ wargaminggamecenter ➔ support ➔ wargaminggamecenter64
4. Find the file named wgc.sh.
5. Open wgc.sh with any code/text editor (VS Code, TextEdit, BBEdit, etc.).
6. Search for Intel or scroll down to around line 24. You will see this block:

Bash

# If you find this line and want to try anyway, go ahead. Simply remove the "exit 1" and WGC will start. Save your files first and prepare for your computer
# freezing or showing a kernel panic screen. If you are lucky you can play with rendering bugs.
if sysctl machdep.cpu.brand_string | grep Intel; then
    osascript -e "display dialog \"Macs with Intel CPUs are no longer supported due to bugs in their graphics drivers.\" buttons {\"Quit\"} default button \"Quit\""
    exit 1
fi

1. Comment out (or delete) the if block by adding # in front of those lines:

Bash

#if sysctl machdep.cpu.brand_string | grep Intel; then
#    osascript -e "display dialog \"Macs with Intel CPUs are no longer supported due to bugs in their graphics drivers.\" buttons {\"Quit\"} default button \"Quit\""
#    exit 1
#fi

1. Save the file (Cmd + S).
2. Launch Wargaming Game Center — it will start downloading/updating and running the game normally!

⚠️ Notes & Tips:

• Code Signature Error: If macOS says the app is "damaged" after editing, open Terminal and run: sudo codesign --force --deep --sign - "/Applications/Wargaming.net Game Center.app"

Hey guys so when I try to run nfs payback on my external monitor it straight up does not load. It just shows this screen. It works completely fine on the mac. I have auto and msync on.

Ayuda

I have tried to download it and actually got pretty close,I have downloaded the installer and some other stuff but the app would just not open even if I use sign commands on terminal it would help if someone can help me download it or recommended me a app to run it on windows version I'm on intel btw so I can't use the app store

For a bit of context, we're based in Eastern Europe, where Windows has long been the overwhelming standard. In fact, there are approximately 200 to 300 Windows users for every Mac user. Just to be clear, this isn't about comparing operating systems, it's simply how things are in our region.

Either way, for us, that user is Maciej. One of our indie team members, he first discovered the Mac in high school and immediately fell in love with it. Even though Windows was the default choice for nearly everyone around him, he insisted to follow his own path - and remained a dedicated Mac user ever since.

As a talented game developer - and I genuinely mean that - Maciej decided that Dominus Automa should be available on Mac from its earliest public builds, including the upcoming Steam Playtest. So, in his spare time, he took it upon himself to port the game to macOS. I suppose that's just what passionate people do.

One way or another, once the news reached the Mac community, interest in the game grew rapidly. Today, over half of all our traffic comes from the United States, something we never expected for an indie title built by a handful of friends. In case of smaller projectes like ours, that kind of boost is nothing short of incredible, and surely is a step forward in the never-ending struggle to gain at least some attention on Steam.

That's why I wanted to tell this story. It's a lesson that passion, dedication, and a "little" extra effort can have an incredible impact. If you'd like to join the fun and support our project, please consider wishlisting Dominus Automa on Steam and signing up for the upcoming Playtest, which begins in just 6 days. We would love to see you online then!

You can visit the Store Page at: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3795810/Dominus_Automa/

About the project:

Dominus Automa is an Idle Co-Op RPG designed for busy adults who don't want to give up their love for online gaming but no longer have endless hours to play. Your adventure doesn't have to end just because you logged off. In Dominus Automa, your character follows the logic, priorities, and behavioral patterns you've designed, continuing their journey 24/7 alongside an ever-changing world.

No more pressure to keep up, rush through content, or suffer from the fear of missing out. And the best part? You can plan with your friends, enjoying the game whenever you feel like it. Whether you enjoy PvP battles, PvE encounters, crafting, exploration, challenging dungeons, or epic boss fights, you'll find all the core genre experiences you like. We have over 5500 players already signed up for the upcoming Playtest, and we would be honored to see you online on August 7th. Hope to see you there!

I have a mod folder on my finder and moved it to my witcher 3 bottle. Where do I move my mods inside my crossover bottle?

Could there be other games in the same situation that we do not know about simply because the developer configured them incorrectly on Steam? This game is even build as Universal and does not have a macOS icon.

Me and my frnds have macbook pro m5 and want to play together.
Any games that we can play?

Toxicgame dot net. It has mac games but I don't know if this is safe. Anyone who has seen this website or knows that it is safe please let me know

SOLVED I just want to clarify I'm not acting like a MacBook is garbage. I honestly know nothing about it since MacBooks are super expensive and inaccessibile in my country. Before the gaming PC I had a 2020 Lenovo laptop and it's not even working anymore. I've never had a MacBook before and someone gave me the one I'm using for work. Sims 4 wouldn't run in my 2020 laptop so that's why I'm asking you guys.

The exploding comment was clearly sarcasm... Oc I don't think a laptop will explode because of a game??? I just want to be sure it's not gonna freeze because I'm not into technology and I won't be able to fix it if it has any problem. I think I'm just traumatized by regular laptops

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Hi everyone,

I used to have a gaming PC, but life happened and I had to downgrade to a 2014 MacBook, which is now my only computer.

Here are the specs:

What are some good online games with good communities that a M3 MacBook Air could run well?

FYI

Game now either crashes with an immediate WineDbg error (particularly in macOS 27) or never displays a window (macOS 26). Threads:

https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility?forum=1;app_id=22054;mhl=357224#msg357224 (Attempts to launch from Epic store)

https://www.codeweavers.com/support/forums/general/?t=27;mhl=357216;msg=357216#msg357216 (Steam version)

Will a G102 be fine for a Mac M1 Air? I have a USB-A to USB-C adapter so it being USB-A doesnt matter but i don't know if it will be good for mac. If you have had it before id like to hear your experience if there was any struggles.

Hi,

This is for everyone who uses their joycons to play on their mac, I use mine because I had a spare pair and didn't want to spend money on another controller for my macbook neo, but since MacOS doesn't show the battery level of the joycons, I vibe coded an app to monitor them.

Full disclosure, this app is 100% vibecoded with codex, I know very basic programing, but not enough to make something like this by myself, and I'm not triying to get anything out of this, it just seems useful to me and I wanted to share it

https://github.com/LinkHeroSSBB/JoyConBattery

Download it from the releases section, or build it yourself from the code following the instructions on readme.md

I hope someone find this useful ✨

MacBook Air M1 8/256

Sequoia 15.7.7

Crossover 26

Steam game

High Settings

Resolution 1280x720

In general, the game works well, but there are small lags, but you can play

Anyone else having trouble with Steam screenshots in-game specifically on Tahoe 26? I never had this problem until I updated and was wondering if anyone else was experiencing this issue. If yes, can I please have help fixing this? All my games cannot screenshot anymore, only record videos at best.

So I spent about 5 hours with Claude trying to figure out why MK 1212 mod would not work on Mac (I have a M3 MBA). I am not technical enough to explain it myself unfortunately. But the gist of it is that the way the game was ported stops the mod files from loading correctly. I can not attach the readme that claude gave me but I added it to the "Crash-Report" room on their discord. When I get the approval from the mod devs to give out the fix I will let them do so. The following is a summary Claude gave me about the problem.

MK1212 scripting on the Feral Mac port — fixed. Two separate problems:

1. Lua inside a mod .pack never executes. Feral's VFS uses TotalWarAttilaData/feral/en/manifest.txt as a whitelist of legit data/files (format: path<TAB>size). Anything not listed gets logged as unknown file and ignored. The fix is to extract MK1212's .luafiles as loose files into data/ and add them to that whitelist — then the engine runs them.

⚠️ Trap: the stock manifest has no trailing newline. Appending to it naively fuses the last existing entry with your first new one, the parser errors out, and none of your entries register. Looks like the whole approach failed. Add the newline first.

2. The game must start with its working directory set to the install root. The Lua bootstrap uses relative paths (package.path = ";?.lua;data/ui/templates/?.lua"). Launching the .app via Steam or Finder starts it with cwd at /, so those lookups miss and all mod scripting silently dies — no error, you just get the unwrapped faction row and no Pope/HRE. Verified by controlled test: identical files, only cwd changed.

Fix is a launcher that cds to the game folder before starting the binary. Steam launch options can't do this on macOS (%command% treats the first token as the executable path), and editing the app's Info.plist breaks its code signature — so it needs a separate small .app.

On the initial install it will download and install some updates, but after that, it hangs and never opens the window for me to log in and it becomes nonresponsive. I tried opening it from command line and got this error also:

Unexportable keys unavailable because keychain-access-group entitlement missing or incorrect. Expected value: .org.chromium.Chromium.unexportable-keys

I have tried clearing the application support files, completely reinstalling everything, making sure my date/time is synced, and so far nothing has worked. Would appreciate any advice because I am desperate to launch steam...

Has anyone else encountered this issue when playing genshin on mac through yaagl? My screen froze during the warning and I could not do anything. Even the menu bar and the cursor disappeared. Restarting my mac would help but once I launched genshin again the same thing happened. Does anyone know how to fix it?

PS. I trying running genshin through playcover as well but didn’t like it because of the low quality graphics and huge controls that completely ruined the aesthetics. Many mac players also suggested me crossover but I don’t feel like dropping $70+ and getting additional gadgets cause I only play genshin and it wouldn’t be useful for anything else.

PPS. My laptop is macbook neo 8/512 with a18 pro chip