Apple and Valve are racing in the same direction: bring PC gaming to other platforms. It's featured prominently as part of the Steam Deck and its Arch Linux-based operating system. Everybody who wants to play PC games on a platform other than Windows are no doubt familiar with Valve's efforts drive gaming on Linux, the recently-updated Proton (which, incidentally, Codeweavers says it also had a hand in). This might sound familiar to HotHardware readers, though.

Valve has already trod this path Apple follows with SteamOS and the Steam Deck

Codeweavers announced at WWDC that Crossover will get DirectX 12 this year, but it already supports a pretty wide array of DirectX, OpenGL, and Vulkan titles on both x86 and Arm64 Macs. It's built on Wine, an open-source compatibility layer that can run Windows applications on a whole host of systems including Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS. Crossover is a commercial application with open-source underpinnings, and it's been available almost since the start of Apple's transition from PowerPC chips to Intel CPUs way back in 2006. What Is Apple's Game Porting Toolkit And How Useful Is It?Īs it turns out, Apple has partnered with Codeweavers to help make gaming on the Mac happen. The GPTK's installation archive includes a pretty thorough readme file, which we'll use to get up and running. Note that you do need to have a developer account with Apple to get any of this software right now, but this fall Sonoma will release to the public and these tools should be available to all. An add-on for the command line includes the Game Porting Toolkit. Part of the macOS 14 Sonoma developer beta includes new versions of all of Apple's development tools, including its Xcode integrated development environment and its command-line tools. All of the right pieces are falling into place, and one real test of this platform is a brand-new game. Running DirectX 12 games on Apple Silicon Macs had been a pipe dream since release, but its time might soon be upon us. It wasn't until the developer sessions on using the kit and bringing games to the macOS platform that it really became apparent what Apple was doing. Somehow the news of Apple's Game Porting Toolkit flew under this author's radar when macOS Sonoma was announced at WWDC earlier this month.

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