Can i play steam games on mac and pc

How can I play PC games on my Mac? :: Steam for Mac

I have read on other posts that it is possible to play PC games on a Mac computer using different plug-ins or applications, and I was just wondering how to do that. I am using macOS Sierra. If you could tell me what to do step-by-step, I would really appreciate it! Showing 1 - 14 of 14 comments.

This thread Nthsideplaya View Profile View Posts. Try play on mac, its a front end for wine, so it does it all for you. Ive only tried it with steam but it works great for games although the community features wont load in the steam client. Steam market, activity feed, forums etc. However chat works fine and have played at least 60 different games with it so far with only a couple of minor graphical glitches. Then you can install the games from within the playonmac steam Just a heads up, when you open the playonmac steam, it will look like it is doing nothing but just wait about a minute or so as it seems to take a minute for the steam login to appear on screen.

Last edited by Nthsideplaya ; 29 Nov, 8: Originally posted by Nthsideplaya:. Hmmmm am not sure.

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Havent had that error personally. From google: Apparently steam and play on mac need to be installed into their default locations, not into any other directories. Honestly I'm really not sure mate, I haven't got any idea on what that could be other than like i was saying earlier about some graphics glitches.

For example, Minecraft supports Mac, too. Virtual Machines: Virtual machines are often the ideal way to run Windows desktop applications on your Mac, as you can run them on your Mac desktop. However, virtual machines add overhead. Modern virtual machine programs have improved support for 3D graphics, but 3D graphics will still run much more slowly than they would in Boot Camp. Wine is a compatibility layer that allows you to run Windows software on Mac and Linux.

However, Wine is an incomplete product and is not perfect. Games may fail to run or you may experience bugs when running them under Wine. You may need to do some tweaking to get games working properly, and they may break after Wine updates. WINE, as mentioned in another answer, may give you some success, but in my experience, it is very case-by-case in how well it works.

Steam does not make you re-buy games. Once you own it, it is attached to your account for good.

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You do need to download your games again, though. You might be able to copy the steamapps folder from Windows to Mac, but I don't have experience doing that cross-OS. It does work reasonably well from Windows to Windows, though.

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At the very least, it might let you just "validate integrity of game cache" instead of re-downloading from scratch. So if you bought a game for PC you can run it in any of the game's supported operating systems, be it Windows, Linux or OS X which are the only ones who can currently run the Steam client. They should appear as cute little icons in the right sidebar of the game's store page both in the web browser and the Steam client. By clicking "Post Your Answer", you acknowledge that you have read our updated terms of service , privacy policy and cookie policy , and that your continued use of the website is subject to these policies.

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Although like Kevin said you will loose a lot of games due to cross OS issues. Apple doesn't really like to share: You don't lose any games. You can't run many of them in Steam on Mac natively, but you still own the games that you've purchased. Also, the last time that I checked a year or more ago, admittedly , you could run Steam in Wine or a Wine-wrapper such as CrossOver and play Windows-only games from there. There is at least one exception where you do have to purchase the Mac version separately filthy, disgusting, putrid, greedy CoD franchise but this is very rare.

If anyone knows of any others, please comment. Not all games have been ported to Mac.

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Clearly, the term PC was used here to differentiate between PC hardware and console hardware. The idea that the poster meant any specific operating system is at odds with the sentence, the paragraph, the post, and the thread. I think you failed to read the post prior to the edit. There are exceptions to this. For example CoD: BlOps has a separate Mac version.