Windows Gaming on macOS Guide

windows-gaming-on-macos-guide.md

Windows Gaming on macOS Guide

Steps

1. Install GPTK

brew install --cask --no-quarantine gcenx/wine/game-porting-toolkit

2. Initialize wine prefix (default: ~/.wine, can be set by WINEPREFIX env)

wine64 winecfg

3. Install Steam

• Download Steam from https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/client/installer/SteamSetup.exe

• # Install Steam
  wine64 ~/Downloads/SteamSetup.exe
  # Fix steam crashing
  wine64 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe" -forcesteamupdate -forcepackagedownload -overridepackageurl http://web.archive.org/web/20250306194830if_/media.steampowered.com/client -exitsteam
  # Always launch steam with these args
  WINEMSYNC=1 wine64 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe" -noverifyfiles -nobootstrapupdate -skipinitialbootstrap -norepairfiles -overridepackageurl

Add DXVK (Optional)

• Download from https://github.com/Gcenx/DXVK-macOS

• WINEPREFIX=~/.wine
  cp x64/*.dll $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/system32
  cp x32/*.dll $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/syswow64
  

• Set WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dxgi,d3d9,d3d10core,d3d11=n,b" when you want to use DXVK

Useful Env

• Enable Msync: WINEMSYNC=1
• Enable DXVK: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dxgi,d3d9,d3d10core,d3d11=n,b"
• Enable AVX: ROSETTA_ADVERTISE_AVX=1
• Replace DLSS with MetalFX: D3DM_ENABLE_METALFX=1

Extra Info

• Shader cache dir: $(getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR)/d3dm