Game Porting Toolkit - a new Apple tool for porting games to Mac, similar to Proton in Steam Deck

At WWDS, Apple presented a bunch of stuff, including the Game Porting Toolkit, a kind of Proton, like Steam Deck, but from Apple and for Mac. Thanks to Game Porting Toolkit, developers will be able to port games from Windows to Mac much easier and faster.

Here's What We Know

Apple's Game Porting Toolkit is based on the source code of CrossOver, a solution that uses Wine to run games from Windows on macOS. This tool quickly converts Windows games to run on macOS, allowing developers to test an unmodified version of the game on Mac before doing a full port.

Games for Mac have long lagged behind their PC counterparts, with the exception of a few recent ports such as Resident Evil Village and No Man's Sky. However, the new Game Porting Toolkit could change that, allowing more Windows games to run on macOS.

"The new Game Porting Toolkit creates an emulated environment to run your existing unmodified Windows game, and you can use it to quickly evaluate the game's graphics features and performance on Mac," explained Aiswariya Sreenivassan, engineering project manager for GPUs and graphics at Apple, during WWDC.

If Apple continues this work on its translation layer, perhaps one day it will be enough for end users to run Windows games on macOS the same way they do on Steam Deck. That dream is still a long way off, but this week Apple showed that it could eventually become a reality.

Source: The Verge