Feature request: Windows games

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Zenkora 24 Apr @ 10:53am

Apple already did the work and made their own answer to Proton, that works pretty well. Valve doesn't have to do anything but integrate Whisky or the GPTK into the Mac client and allow Windows games to be installed. This would eliminate the need to have the Windows client installed in a bottle and potentially have two copies of Steam running at once.

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The_Abortionator 29 Apr @ 2:26pm

Valve doesnt control either of those projects and whisky's dev has left the project.

I have no idea why Mac gamers have this fetish of trying to put Apple's burdens on Valve but no Valve isn't going to bundle 3rd party software with Steam and potentially violate licenses.

Also no, Apple has "done all the work". They are claiming there newest versions of middle ware can see "up to" 80% performance of what Windows gamers see and again for a limited set of titles.

In contrast proton plays literally everything only being stopped by some 3rd party anticheats and with native performance or better compared to windows.

If you want better compatibility take it up with Apple and stop with this insane idea that its somehow Valve's responsibility.

Zenkora 21 May @ 6:26pm

Originally posted by The_Abortionator:
Valve doesnt control either of those projects and whisky's dev has left the project.

I have no idea why Mac gamers have this fetish of trying to put Apple's burdens on Valve but no Valve isn't going to bundle 3rd party software with Steam and potentially violate licenses.

Also no, Apple has "done all the work". They are claiming there newest versions of middle ware can see "up to" 80% performance of what Windows gamers see and again for a limited set of titles.

In contrast proton plays literally everything only being stopped by some 3rd party anticheats and with native performance or better compared to windows.

If you want better compatibility take it up with Apple and stop with this insane idea that its somehow Valve's responsibility.

You were this close 🤏 to getting a clown award from me but I don't want to give you my points

The_Abortionator 21 May @ 6:36pm

Originally posted by Zenkora:
Originally posted by The_Abortionator:
Valve doesnt control either of those projects and whisky's dev has left the project.

I have no idea why Mac gamers have this fetish of trying to put Apple's burdens on Valve but no Valve isn't going to bundle 3rd party software with Steam and potentially violate licenses.

Also no, Apple has "done all the work". They are claiming there newest versions of middle ware can see "up to" 80% performance of what Windows gamers see and again for a limited set of titles.

In contrast proton plays literally everything only being stopped by some 3rd party anticheats and with native performance or better compared to windows.

If you want better compatibility take it up with Apple and stop with this insane idea that its somehow Valve's responsibility.
You were this close 🤏 to getting a clown award from me but I don't want to give you my points

Sorry, you think its Valves job to clean up Apples mistakes?

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