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jajay119
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Hi all. I was recently gifted an iMac and was surprised to see that there is no Mac OS support for DBD. I play my Xbox version through XCloud which isn't perfect but fine. How come there has never been a Mac version? Just our of curiosity.

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  • hailxsatanxeveryxday
    hailxsatanxeveryxday Member Posts: 913
    edited August 2023 Answer ✓

    If you have an Intel Mac, you can install a Linux distribution that supports gaming (it's free) alongside macOS and play it on that.

    I know there's a version of Wine (which runs Windows programs) for Mac, but since Apple doesn't support Vulkan or any new version of OpenGL, my understanding is that it doesn't work for gaming. Linux's Wine implementation will work fine, though, and they're pretty similar operating systems under the hood.

    If you have an M1/M2 or other ARM-based Mac, there's not much you can do, and what little gaming support for Mac there is is going to dry up. Games just aren't compiled for those processors. Apple doesn't care about that market.

    Pop_OS! would probably be the easy choice, since it's reasonably up-to-date and easy to use. Fedora, Arch, and Gentoo (listed from simplest to most difficult) are also good choices, but those require more configuration. Again, it'll only work for Intel-based Macs, though. Basically nothing gaming-wise is going to support the new processors.