During the keynote event of WWDC 2023, Apple introduced macOS Sonoma, the new software update of the operating system for Mac computers, and with this new release, the Cupertino company, An update for your Game Porting Toolkit to move games from Windows.

This tool is still beta phasehowever, last week it received a major update to carry out the task of porting games from Windows to Mac with more simplicity and ease.

Game Porting Toolkit: tool to migrate games from Windows to macOS

Game Porting Toolkit presented during WWDC in June 2023

Apple’s game migration tool, WineAn open source platform that translates Windows software to Linux environments such as macOS. Presented during WWDC 2023 as part of Apple’s efforts to continue growing in the video game industry.

Game Porting Toolkit includes numerous improvements over the original Wine version. can Convert DirectX 12 to Metal 3 in real timeso games run locally with much higher performance.

And with Apple’s latest update, the Windows port game tool now lets you enjoy games at a higher file speed. frames every second.

For example, as you can see in the video we’ve attached to these lines, Game Porting Tool beta 1.0.2 runs the popular game Elden Ring at: 32FPS On a Mac with the M1 Max chip, usually running at 26 FPS.

Curiously, everything seems to indicate that games are ported with this tool Perform worse with M1 Ultra chip or M2 Ultra chip than they do with less powerful processors. This must be due to an incompatibility issue that Apple will fix in future updates.

If you want to try Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit for playing Windows games, you can download it from the company’s developer website.