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[Jesb]

I recently bought a Mac mini m4 and was looking forward to trying this. I thought that this was supposed to be good? I started the free trial and so far the games I've tried don't work. Dead Space remake doesn't launch, Witcher 3 crashes at the beginning intro. I was considering getting this to buy and play Silent Hill 2 along with some of Sony's games but it doesn't look like it's that great. Am I missing something?

 

[The_Mike]

We are in 2025 and people still think they can play proper games on mac

 

[Drew1440]

It can be hit or miss depending on what API's the game uses. Anything that tries to make use of things like PhysX will run into issues. You might be better off running a Windows VM like Parallels or VMWare Fusion.
This list might help, but often they are outdated.

 

[kur07]

I tried it on my M4 Mac for XCom 2, but it ran like shit.

 

[mitch1971]

I recently played warframe on it and it ran absolutely fine.

 

[Ashamam]

recently bought a Mac mini m4 and was looking forward to trying this. I thought that this was supposed to be good? I started the free trial and so far the games I've tried don't work. Dead Space remake doesn't launch, Witcher 3 crashes at the beginning intro. I was considering getting this to buy and play Silent Hill 2 along with some of Sony's games but it doesn't look like it's that great. Am I missing something?

A little maybe.

Firstly if you have the base M4 you are going to run into issues getting decent framerates. You really need a Pro at minimum, Max preferably for gaming through Crossover. Depends on the game of course but if its relatively intensive I doubt you'll get good results.

Then there are some significant improvements about to land with Tahoe in the next couple of weeks, not least of which is the mapping of DLSS direct to MetalFX upscaling. You'll also see improvements related to Metal support for new M4 features. Crossover will release (already has in preview) a new version with full support. This has also allowed some games that previously didn't to run now. YMMV.

Another factor is your systems memory, as its unified and shared to both graphics and CPU. You would want 32GB for game translation to not run into problems as a general rule. Again game dependant.

Crossover is decent and a shitload better than what PC users think, but its not native and at best you are talking something like a 4060 laptop (M4 Max). But it doesn't map directly because Apple Silicon is really good in the CPU but until the M4 pretty deficient DirectX wise on the GPU. Tahoe and M4 brings most of the features at least to parity so they map better. On a cost basis you would be crazy to go with a Mac for gaming, but if you already have one then Crossover can be a decent way to unlock gaming.

Hope that helps, also /r/macgaming is decent place for info, or the macgaming discord.

 

[AnOldBrownie_67]

Here are videos I've created with my base M4 Macbook Pro. What's your question? I wouldn't have an M4 if I couldn't play certain games on it.

Obviously I also own a gaming PC that I built with a 4070 gpu. Madden, Shadow of War, Star Citizen and modded Skyrim are all I need it for.

I pay $10 a month to play ARC Raiders currently.

Anything with low level anti cheat isn't going to run through Crossover. I play FIFA 2020 with no problem. FIFA 2023 has to be played on my desktop.

 

[Dacvak]

I didn't even know about Crossover. I've got an M2 Max. I wonder how well it can handle games

A friend of mine recently showed me how he plays his Switch 2 through his MBP, which looked absolutely gorgeous in HDR on their newest screen. His capture card adds about 40ms of latency, though, which is a bit too much for me.

 

[AnOldBrownie_67]

I didn't even know about Crossover. I've got an M2 Max. I wonder how well it can handle games

A friend of mine recently showed me how he plays his Switch 2 through his MBP, which looked absolutely gorgeous in HDR on their newest screen. His capture card adds about 40ms of latency, though, which is a bit too much for me.

Macgaming DB has large list of games that can run on the Mac (one way or another). Other than the native stuff...I'd say most of what they post runs ok to good through Crossover.