Christina WarrenApple added #DX12 support to macOS and Apple Silicon via its Game Porting Toolkit. It’s basically a 20k patch to Wine that will make it easy to play AAA Windows games on macOS without using a VM. https://github.com/apple/homebrew-apple
This video goes into more details if you don’t want to read the insane patch file augmented on top of the homebrew formula. https://youtu.be/g3n62FOX1Go
Apple hid something AMAZING for Mac gaming at WWDC
Ade Thompson@film_girl If the aim of the toolkit is to bring more native games to Mac then it won’t see the light of day to the general public as a way to run Windows games as is which is a shame.
@apt they have to. It’s based on GPL code, they can’t hide the code. They have to make it public. I bet you could run this now against a bunch of AAA games on Steam and get them running on Apple Silicon with no problem.
@film_girl Doesn’t feel very ‘Apple’ but good news, cue a third party dev to make something of this in the coming weeks. *cough* @stroughtonsmith *cough*
@apt @stroughtonsmith oh, launchers will exist very soon for sure. Probably some that even feel very Apple. This is essentially Proton for Mac. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software) and I expect to see similar frontends the same way Steam Deck has multiple frontends beyond just the Steam interface.
benwu@film_girl this is exactly what I've been hoping for since I learned how the steam deck worked.
Antwan van Houdt@benwu @film_girl used to run Half Life 2 like this back when I was little with only an iMac family computer. Wineskin was also great!