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Whisky – Play Games on macOS with Game Porting Toolkit

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It looks very interesting, but i currently not have macOS Sonoma :/ But i give it a try if macOS Sonoma is out of beta. Yesterday i tried to install Steam with wine-staging, but failed...so maybe i have more luck with Whisky.

Only a few more days and Sonoma will be pushed to everyone

Trust me, Game Porting Toolkit is worth it. 180 FPS in BeamNG.drive (for example):

* Attempt 1, right after WWDC keynote: https://www.reddit.com/r/BeamNG/comments/143if32/it_works_be...

* Attempt 2, right after the release candidate was published: https://www.reddit.com/r/BeamNG/comments/16iioxj/back_at_it_...

>Trust me, Game Porting Toolkit is worth it. That has to be proven.FPS ist not all. E.g.: 3 out of four games did not run (Bully, Fez, The Quarry) while Quake 2 (yay to the 20year celebration update) ran like hell.

I like this but I worry if it will kill the golden goose (being the Game Porting Toolkit in this case.)

Fortunately homebrew is probably not mainstream enough to catch on widely.

I'd like to see Game Porting Toolkit (GPT? haha) go mainstream with end-user support, but of course Apple (very reasonably) wants to promote and incentivize native optimization.

"Whisky is built on top of CrossOver 22.1.1, and Apple's own Game Porting Toolkit."

System Requirements

    CPU: Apple Silicon (M1/M2 and its variants)
    OS: macOS Sonoma 14.0 or later

Whisky is on homebrew brew install --cask whisky.

Does it need Crossover?

No. You can even just install Whisky, this will tell you upon start it will not work unless running Sonoma. After updating to Sonoma whisky starts and checks for Rosetta and GPTK. For me GPTK was then pulled and you can then create a bottle. I added a Steam bottle, got the SteamSetup.exe and installed Steam. x

Cool, thanks for the info.

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