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How can I run newer Unity games on OS X 10.9 Mavericks?
The crash log indicates that the game is looking for a function called getattrlistbulk. Because this function doesn't exist in Mavericks, the game doesn't know what to do, and crashes. Ergo, in order ...
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MacBook Pro 2016 Left Click lag in games?
I found the solution after a long time searching....
As it turns out, a third party app called "Magnet" was causing the delay. Many other games have had similar issues due to this app running in the ...
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How to resolve "No 3D support is available from the host" error in VMware Fusion 11
Revert to VMware Fusion 10.x, and open that app. It may prompt you to allow something in System Preferences and such; do so.
Start up every VM that is not in a fully shut-down state (anything you can ...
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What third-party games have been included with Macs at some point?
I believe this list covers all models from 2000–present, and most models from 1995–2000. However, this list is still incomplete. Please contribute if you know of anything wrong or missing!
In cases ...
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How can I use different facebook account to sign in a game on iphone?
It’s because you are also signed in on Facebook in Safari browser.
iPhone first looks for Facebook login in safari before looking for it in the Facebook app.
Log out of Facebook in Safari browser.
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How can I prevent Always Allowed apps from counting towards App Limits
The text for "Always Allowed" says that it lets you use certain apps during Downtime or when the "All Apps and Categories" limit has passed. Unfortunately it doesn't say anything about not counting ...
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Playing League of Legends on an external monitor with Apple silicon (display glitchiness)
Welp, I've found the solution by myself!
For anyone who runs into this issue in the future: you have to run the game in Borderless mode (Options > Video > Window mode).
Game runs smooth as ...
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How can I debug a crashing application on OS X?
One possible way would be running:
sudo dtruss -n <app_executable>
where <app_executable> is the name of the executable file in the the app bundle in the Contents\MacOS folder inside the ...
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How best to view the current time while gaming on iPad?
Most fullscreen apps, (majority of games and video player/streaming apps), are programmed to hide the Status Bar. So, it is not possible by any means to have the clock continuously displayed while ...
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Virtual Machine support for DirectX 11 (Windows 10) hosted on OS X
Parallels 15 has DirectX 11 support... finally.
(To be fair, none the competitors seem to have it yet, so I guess it wasn't a simple fix)
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Virtual Machine support for DirectX 11 (Windows 10) hosted on OS X
Answer: Not likely to happen. 😭
After years of pestering, January 2018 Parallels posted a formal statement and explanation regarding DirectX 11:
http://blog.parallels.com/2017/12/04/directx-and-...
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How to resolve "No 3D support is available from the host" error in VMware Fusion 11
By experiment, I found out with Prefer External GPU checked on Catalina:
If you enable on Fusion 11.5 High Performance Graphic support on Windows 10 guest with above lines added to preferences, it ...
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Application displaying "The last time you opened_____, it unexpectedly closed..." error
You might try deleting any Saved Application State for the app.
You might need to scroll through to find the correct one, as they tend to be named with the convention com.companyname.productname
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Circumvent the App Store to install Fortnite on Mac?
You can download Fortnite directly from Epic Game's Fortnite website.
You may need to sign-up and log-in before downloading. The download is a .dmg file.
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How do I disable the "home" button on a game controller in macOS?
MacOS now allows you to disable the home button launching LaunchPad in System Settings under the Game Controllers section.
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How do I recover save progress on my games after resetting my iPad?
It depends.
Does the app save data to the cloud, in which case you provided the game with a login or it asked to use your Apple ID? In this case, log in to that account in the game.
If the data is ...
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How do you download games on a school iPad?
Your school iPad is being managed with some sort of Mobile Device Management (MDM) software. Companies and (especially) schools use it with devices they distribute so they can effectively manage who ...
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Lag spikes when playing
I can only generalise, as I don't know the game at all, but based on experience running helpline for another online structure...
This all assumes your Mac itself is up to the task & that you are ...
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Updating Operating System to play Diablo 3
Just doing a quick search, we can find the System requirements for Diablo III we see that the minimum macOS requirement is El Capitan (10.11). If you are using Yosemite (10.10) or Mavericks (10.9), ...
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PPC emulator to run Tiger
It is now possible to emulate PowerPC for Mac OS 9.2.2 through 10.5 via QEMU: https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/GuestOperatingSystems/MacOS10.4 and https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/...
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Virtualization software options for macOS
You're in luck. It looks like Alto's Adventure has a native Mac version! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1287752517?mt=12&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
However, let's pretend you weren't so lucky, or you ...
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How best to view the current time while gaming on iPad?
Unless you've jailbroken your iPad, no.
If you have a jailbroken device however, there is a tweak that does this.
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How much space for bootcamp?
Windows 10 minimum hard disk space required is 32GB. You need to start there, add up whatever your games/apps are going to require and allocate that much to the Bootcamp partition.
You get this ...
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How much space for bootcamp?
While Microsoft states the minimum required space for the current release of Windows 10 is 32 GB, Apple states, when using the Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows 10, the requirement is 64 GB. Of ...
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Can gaming on my MacBook Pro cause harm?
Gaming on your MacBook Pro is not a problem. Those machines are made to be used with "professional users" in mind. This means high load, for example for pro video editing or 3D modeling, all ...
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PS button on DualSense controller forces opening launchpad on Ventura
There used to be an option for this on Monterey (and before), but this has vanished with Ventura.
The only option I see here is to do it with Terminal. You can run the following command to stop the PS ...
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Can I use Mac Studio to play fancy PC games?
An extremely comprehensive resource dedicated to gaming on Apple Silicon can be found at AppleGamingWiki
It lists quite a lot of games and evaluates their performance (or otherwise) for various ...
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Are Apple keyboards multi-key rollover?
I just wanted to add on some information as to why certain combinations of keys don't register on Apple keyboards. I don't remember in which technical paper I read it in, it would have been at least ...
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Can my Macbook Pro run Starcraft Legacy of the Void?
StarCraft 2 works great on the Macbook Pro Mid 2015. I get around 100+fps currently on all low settings on 1280 x 960 resolution. One thing I notice is that the fan gets loud when using OpenGL. Using ...
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