Now PlayOnMac should boot Wine and use it to create a new virtual drive for you to install games and applications onto. Name your drive something appropriate and click Next one more time. Select your preferred version of Wine, then hit Next again. Click Next in the PlayOnMac Wizard and then select 64 bits windows installation before clicking Next again. On the main PlayOnMac window, select configure, then click New on the bottom right of your screen. Instead, we can take a few extra steps to make 64-bit games work correctly. While there is a built-in way of installing Steam, by default it'll be installed onto a 32-bit drive and you won't be able to run a lot of games. One of the biggest things you'll need to do if you want a proper gaming experience on your Mac is to install Steam. If you're using a Mac that was made before 2012, you'll need to install version 5.0 of Wine in both x86 and amd64, as newer versions require Metal support that your hardware won't have. You'll need to do this for both x86 and amd64 versions of Wine to be safe. Select the latest non-RC and non-staging version of Wine, and click the right-facing arrow to install that version. There are a few different things we need to do now to install Windows games on macOS.įirst, click Tools > Manage Wine Versions, and wait a moment for the version list to load. Once that's done, boot the program, and it should present you with a new PlayOnMac window.
dmg file, then copying the PlayOnMac application to your applications folder. With the installer downloaded, it's simply a case of mounting the.
This will present you with your version number and name. If you're not sure which version of macOS you're running, click the Apple logo in the top left of your screen and then select About This Mac. If you're running 10.14 or earlier, you'll need PlayOnMac 4.3.3, anything newer requires version 4.4.3. Go to the PlayOnMac download page and download the application for your version of macOS. Now we need to download and install PlayOnMac itself.