When Macs adopted the Intel architecture, things started to improve, and more games have become available but even today, a lot of famous game franchises are still Windows-only.
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In the pre-Intel Mac days, the excuse for the relatively little amount of triple‑A titles for the Mac was that it was hard to port games for the PowerPC platform and that Macs were equipped with lesser, non-upgradable graphics cards than Windows PCs.
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In replying to the question What are my options to make sure I can continue to play my 32-bit Mac apps?, Steam offers three solutions which can be summarised as follows: 1) Don’t upgrade to Catalina 2) Upgrade to Catalina, but also install Mojave on another APFS volume together with Steam, and reboot into Mojave whenever you need to play 32-bit games 3) Use Bootcamp to launch your games in Windows.īeing a Mac gamer has always been problematic. Click here for more information.Ĭlicking on the link directs you to a Steam Support page called Steam and macOS 10.15 Catalina, providing some frequently asked questions on the matter. This product is not compatible with macOS 10.15 Catalina. Since September, I can’t play any of them natively on my Mac.” Yaroslav also points out something I did notice myself, but forgot to mention: there are a lot of Mac games on Steam, even recent releases, with the following warning:
For some reason, the majority of the games that have macOS ports are only in 32 bits.
This is a visual representation of the kind of feedback I received at the time of writing:Īmong the negative email messages, there was one (thanks, Yaroslav!) reminding me of a specific issue regarding the loss of 32-bit apps in Catalina: “Right after I’ve ‘upgraded’ to Catalina in September, I’ve discovered that I am able to play almost none of the countless number of games that I have on my Steam account. Not all of them were negative, thankfully. Since publishing Part 2 of this ‘accidental series’ on Mac OS Catalina, I have received a couple dozen new email messages. Additional feedback and follow-up More complaints, but also more positive feedback
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