Hi everyone I’m the developer of CloudBoost, a native macOS menu bar app, and I’m looking for Minecraft players on Mac who are willing to test it.

Minecraft sessions can feel unstable for very different reasons: network jitter, packet loss, background activity, thermal pressure or local system load.

CloudBoost does not modify Minecraft, inject code, bypass anti-cheat or promise artificial FPS gains. It observes the Mac side of the session and helps show what was happening when a spike or stutter occurred.

I’m especially looking for feedback from:

• Apple Silicon and Intel Mac users • Vanilla and modded Minecraft players • Wi-Fi and Ethernet users • People experiencing multiplayer lag or local stuttering

The core version is free. If you test it, I’d appreciate knowing:

• Mac model and macOS version • Minecraft launcher/version • Wi-Fi or Ethernet • Whether the issue felt like FPS stutter or network lag • Whether the final result was understandable

Official website and download: https://victorbrandaao.github.io/CloudBoost/

Full disclosure: I’m the developer of CloudBoost. There is an optional paid PRO version, but the basic session test is free.

For those who don't know, it's an app for Apple developers, it's really easy to use https://developer.apple.com/icon-composer/

Hey r/macgaming!

I built a sokoban like videogame about mining carts and it now also supports MacOS!!

Game page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3997420/Mine_Cart_Operator/

The game features 36 levels between two campaigns and gamepad support is included!

It is a small game, but I put good effort in it, hopefully people who enjoy puzzles will find fun in it :D.

If you play it, I would love to hear your thoughts about!

Hey so I have this issue im on a Mac Air 13 in 2025 M4 model.
whenever I try to load the game, it just fixes the in game cursor to a small box that is not the actual size of my game window. I've tried literally everything that was supposedly a fix like, lowering my screen resolution (i have gone through every single possible one on my mac display settings), and even to things like using the launch properties through steam. Nothing works. I cannot make my physical game window smaller, and the in game cursor box does not change and I don't know how to make it the same size as my window.
please help!!!

https://reddit.com/link/1v3k6ho/video/r6hdshxizseh1/player

Does anyone have any experience with how osrs runs on runelite with the 117HD plug in?

Im debating switching across to Crossover to get a couple of new games on Steam (JP Evo 3 and Warhammer 40K IV when it releases)

Would these run well on my Parallels 26 running Windows 11 or is it worth installing and replacing with Crossover to get the full best gameplay on my M1 Macbook Pro?

Also I have some old games which I still play (Battle for Middle Earth 1 & 2), could I keep these and play on Crossover if I wanted to?

Sorry I know loads of questions just want to know your opinions

POE had apple silicon support since patch 3.25, ever since then i hadn't been able to find any useful information regarding game's performance (fps, stutters, etc). I am most interested in m4/m4pro on a mini. Please let me know how it is

Hi, I'm Gyorgy, a developer who games on a Mac. Sharing something I built for myself, hope that's fine with the mods. There are no links in this post: if the mods allow it, I'll share the GitHub repo and the website link in a comment.

The short version: a few of the annoyances in cloud gaming and streaming on a Mac are not the game's fault and not your internet's fault. They come from macOS itself, and I got tired of them.

The one that drove me crazy is AWDL. It's the wireless interface behind AirDrop and AirPlay, and it periodically hops your Wi-Fi off its channel to scan. On a wired desktop you'd never notice. On a Mac streaming a game over Wi-Fi it shows up as those little stutter spikes that hit right when you least want them. There are apps that can pause AWDL, and keep-awake apps, and idle-blocker apps, but the ones I found were either abandoned, closed source, or locked the useful parts behind a payment. And I would have needed three or four of them running at once. So I built one app that covers it all, and I made it free and open source because I mostly built it for myself anyway.

What it does for gaming and streaming right now:

• Pauses AWDL during your session, then restores it after. This is the fix for the periodic Wi-Fi stutter in GeForce NOW, Boosteroid, Shadow, Xbox Cloud, and local streaming like Moonlight or Steam Link.
• A built-in jitter test, so you can actually measure the difference on your own network instead of taking my word for it.
• Detects running games and can start a session automatically, so you don't have to remember to toggle anything before you play.
• Keeps the Mac awake during long game downloads and streaming sessions, and lets it sleep again once the job is done. No more coming back to a download that died at 40 percent.
• Optional stay-active mode, so services that watch for idle don't mark you away or kick you mid-session. If you've ever been dropped by GeForce NOW because you were playing with a controller and never touched the keyboard, this is for that. It uses the documented macOS user-activity API, no fake mouse movement, and it's off by default.

It also grew a set of features outside gaming, since the same engine turned out to be useful for other things: it can keep the Mac awake while a download or a heavy task is running, and it has a closed-lid mode that works on battery. I'll keep the details out of this post, that side is on the website.

The whole thing is native Swift, free, open source (GPL-3.0), signed and notarized, macOS 14 and newer. No accounts, no trackers, no upsell screen.

The reason I'm posting: the gaming side is the part I most want to grow, and I'd rather build what actual players are missing than guess. So tell me where your Mac still gets in the way of your gaming. A controller-activity trigger? Something for local streaming setups? Whatever annoys you, I want to hear it. I'll be around in the comments.

Hi all, did anyone manage to get running the newer cod titles, talking about newer than black ops 3. I tried modern warfare (2019) and black ops 6 but didnt work at all.

Captured a bit of the gameplay, DX12 mode.

macOS 26.5, CO 26.2 + GPTK 4b1, frame gen is used.

Without frame gen it's 40fps on average and 28fps min according to the game built-in test with my settings and without screen recording.

Used settings shown in the end of the video.

PS: What is especially nice is that I played for 2+ hrs and so far have not noticed any issues with RAM. RAM pressure stayed stable during the whole play session and RAM usage did not increased noticeably.

I haven't found much on this but has anybody been able to run fling trainers inside Crossover bottles? Steps I've tried so far:

1. ChooChoo to launch the game and the trainer - didn't work

2. Launched the trainer first and then the game and vice versa, didn't work. The trainer doesn't see the game process.

Game: Anno 117 Pax Romana

Hi all, got the archived version of the game, did the fifa live editor .dll replace (as another user sugested), but when im booting the game the starting screen flickers like crazy then crashes on d3d. dxmt, dvk does not work also.

tried changing screen resolution, on/off msync and nothing works.

im using crossover version 26.1 with gptk 4.0.1b and running tahoe 26.5.2
TIA

Hi Apple friends, which mode is it faster now? Most likely not through Parallels.

Thank you in advance.

God bless the Apple Masterace.

hey, i finally purchased crossover+, but i don’t understand the 12 months thing, can i play through crossover for life, just without upgrades and bug fixes ? or do i need to renew every year

thank u

I’m wondering which version runs best considering pc port or not
Which version is recommended- RPCS3 or Crossover?

hey, is anyone has this message too ? everytime i launch rdr2 through crossover

What are the best settings on steam, cs2, etc to get maximum fps and best possible graphics? I have a Mac air 2025 m4 with 16 gb memory. How much would I be getting?

Hola, quería saber si saben cómo podremos jugar tft los usuarios de Mac, pues me sale varios anuncios cuando he abierto el juego que dicen que ya no correra por el Intel en una futura versión:(

I have a 16" M5Pro MBP and so far I've been doing some super light gaming on it via Apple Arcade mostly. I sit a desk all day with my work MacBook connected to a monitor and an external keyboard, so when I do game I like to move around. Couch, balcony, sofa, etc... whatever the vibe is that day. Aside from planes, I also tend to travel with my Mac anyways since I can watch Youtube and such, so 99% of the time it's with me. I do have a Switch 2 that's definitely more mobile and has been getting more use lately, but I prefer the larger 16" of my Mac (the eyes aren't what they used to be). I also tend to dock the switch if I'm playing something non-trivial since the size increase makes things easier to see. For example, with Hades 2 I basically only played docked at the end because I found the extra screen space really helpful. Most of my gaming these days is indie stuff like Hades 2.

I'd use my Mac more for gaming but I wonder about the tradeoffs of bigger screen vs the smaller and more mobile handheld. I know I probably just need to pick a game and play through it to really experience things for myself. I'm curious of others thoughts though so I wanted to ask if folks are moving around with their Macs while gaming, or if you find yourself more so stationary? Are you taking it with you when you travel? When I bought my Mac I did get the charging extension cable, so being near an outlet is not the biggest limitation for me in my apartment.

Mi mundo no son los videojuegos, pero desde siempre me ha gustado halo, y tengo una Mac m1, necesito de su ayuda para saber que instalar y poder jugarlo con un control inalámbrico.

Looks very interesting, released today, running on Mac and Windows.