Since Apple’s introduction of the M-series chips, I’ve been keeping an eye on whether it was possible to use these powerful processors for gaming. And thanks to the release of Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit (GPTK, and not to be confused with ChatGPT) in 2023, it was possible to play Windows games on a Mac via an translation layer.
To be clear, GPTK is meant for developers to work on porting their games over to run on Mac computers, but if you’re okay to do some legwork, it’s workable with plenty of tutorials out there. It basically creates a Windows emulation, and then translates DirectX 12 to work on Apple’s Metal graphics API.
If you don’t want to mess with the toolkit though, the easiest free way is to use Whisky, an app that tries to do most of the work for you, but there may be s…
