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Jul 05, 2017  Macs don’t come with Windows, but you can install Windows on your Mac via Boot Camp and reboot into Windows whenever you want to play these games. This allows you to run Windows games at the same speeds they’d run at on a Windows PC. Apr 23, 2019 This software will allow you to play Windows Steam games without Dual Boot on MacOS. XQuartz is required because it simulates what you need from a Windows OS to play games without actually needing an entire copy. It allows cross-platform programs, which are typically not designed to run on a Mac, to be used. There’s a small list of known issues using Steam through Wine below and workarounds for them. Run the Wineskin wrapper (double-click or highlight and press Cmd +.

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This tutorial will show you how to use Wine to install the Windows version of Steam on your Mac. Why? Well, even though Steam runs on OS X and Windows, some games are Windows-only.

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This tutorial will not be able to troubleshoot how to get specific games to work. For that, check out Wine's App Database.

Downloading and Installing winetricks

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Note: if you don't have curl installed, simply go to that website, save the page as 'winetricks', move it to the folder with all of your Wine binaries, then do the chmod +x winetricks.

Installing Steam

Now that winetricks is ready to go, installing Steam is no problem:

  • Go to the Steam website and click 'Also available for Windows', beneath the green 'Install Steam Now' button.
  • Save the 'SteamInstall.msi' file to your Downloads folder
  • Open a Terminal and cd ~/Downloads (or wherever you saved the Steam installer)
  • Enter wine start SteamInstall.msi to start the installation process
  • You may get an 'Installation ended prematurely because of an error' message while installing Steam, but don't worry about that.
  • Once Steam installs, cd to and open its folder in Terminal to make sure it's there:
    • cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam && open .
  • Run wine Steam.exe
  • Wait for Steam to update itself, and that's it!
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Video Demonstration

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Here's a video walk-through of the installation process:

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