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really? my games just work. 3 years ago i still had to invest time into debugging/tweaking, just last month i installed 3 random games from my steam library and they all just worked out of the box.
My setup is a Mac M4 Max with wine and or crossover out of the box. Maybe I didn’t config it before using?
I thought at first you were a time traveller from 2009 or something but I totally forgot wine runs on mac
I know macs are a little more different than normal arm CPUs with page size etc. Don't you need fex or box64?
The Mac ecosystem has its own set of tooling for this. It uses Apple’s Rosetta 2 for x86 to ARM translation, and their Game Porting Toolkit (GPTK) for DX12 to Metal (Apple’s proprietary graphics API) translation.
(Should note that Asahi doesn’t have full support for M4 Macs yet so I’m assuming they’re on MacOS)
Oh yeah, I forgot about Rosetta 2.
I admit I bought AMD graphics and use a distribution that is said to be good for gaming (cachyos) to save me some trouble. and I did not test on very recent titles (I dont own/play those)