Go to Advanced Settings, then Tools, then Config Utility. In case your game acts weird, reopen Wineskin.app under the Steam app contents and try changing these settings: Once it's done, you can now download and install Windows Steam games and play them all you want! I'd recommend using the Mac Steam client to buy games, and the Wineskin Steam client to download and play the Windows games. Once the Steam installation completes, a dialog box may come up that says 'No executable was found.', and a dropdown list of executables in the wrapper.

Even when it looks like it's not doing anything (for example, 0% progress after a full minute), it's doing something. The Steam installation wizard will pop up, and lead you through the install process. In the Finder window that pops up, select 'SteamInstall.msi', the file that you downloaded from me. Click that button, then select 'Choose Setup Executable'. Inside will be a window with a button that says 'Install Software'. Double click that, then double click the item labeled 'Wineskin.app'. A finder window will pop up with a 'Contents' folder. Right click it and select 'Show Contents'. Inside the Wineskin folder, you'll find 'Steam.app'. You should find a 'Wineskin' folder in the folder that you put Wineskin Winery in. Name the file 'Steam' (Wineskin will include the. Once you have done this, click 'Create New Blank Wrapper'. Download and install the latest one (no admin password required). The window that opens should have a list of engines for download. msi installer that I uploaded worked for me. Note that the steam.exe installer may not work, as it did not work for me, but the. Here's how it works:įirst, download this file (no malware, I promise), and this file (no malware there either, I promise). This method will allow you to play Windows-only Steam games on your iMac as if they were Mac games, with no difference in performance at all. You might have already seen this guide to playing Windows Steam games on Mac, by NHRoccodog.

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