Playing grim dawn on Mac M1

Grim Dawn General Discussion
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Hi. Would love to play this game on my Mac M1. Anyone have experience getting it to work? Many thanks in advance.

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Try Parallels or Crossover for Mac.

Crossover , in theory will cost teh least, but may require more effort.

Paralells is just VM system, and you will need a Windows License to install with. It’ easier to get runnig but costs more.

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Testing now for the first time. Mac M1 pro with crossover 23.5.
Tried multiple settings, but the best one so far was to start the game with /d3d9 and add d3d9 as a library in Wine config in the Grim dawn bottle.
Looks like it runs on 100+ FPS, but needs further testing.

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I’ve been playing Grim Dawn for the past few years in Crossover on my Intel Mac and now on the M1 mac. It works great, only issue I would occasionally run into was odd screen flicker from some game lightsources (street lights), or character armor (pretty odd to see a helmet flicker into and out of existence). These visual issues never harmed game play though.

I just installed Crossover 23.5 so trying with Metal and eSync enabled, so far seems fine. (<— yes this is probably overkill, was curious. Running it with options and using ‘/d3d9’ like Stefane81 suggests would be more then sufficient. I’ve been running without either and its been fine.)

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Hi All, I am trying to run GD on M1 air.
Tried Wine with GPTK - texture issue where graphic flickers
Heroic launcher - no texture issue but extremely slow and sound stutters with every move
Now trying to get Whisky working. Not starting.
I am new to Wine config so struggle a bit. I will try dx9 option in config.

Any luck playing with above options for anyone? Otherwise I stay on vmware which runs fine.

Thanks

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I figured it out. GD works well on Crossover. No texture or music glitches. Good graphic setting too.
However i wanted to have possibility to sync with Gog to get saves.
After 2hr… i kept Crossover bottle but installed the game via heroic which synced with GOG. Initially there were the same graphic issues as before but after changing the bottle to DXVK it seems ok.

Steps:

  1. install grim bottle via crossover.
  2. change to DXVK, Esync on, High res on. Leave other setting untouched
  3. in heroic, Game defaults choose Crossover 23.5 as wine version,
  4. Link to crossover bottle via global setting. Choose bottle for grim dawn you created in step 1
  5. when installing the game (64bit in my case) choose above and specify bottle name (as it shows in crossover) or choose Default Wine
  6. when installing choose DLCs (there is no option later to add them via heroic)
  7. if not working: check and add the path to crossover bottle again in game settings (Applications/CrossOver.app/Contents/SharedSupport/CrossOver/bin/wine)
  8. in game setting select autosave to enable gog saves
  9. hope for the best :slight_smile:

I guess it can be done way easier but this worked for me.