Mac & Windows saved games not syncing via Steam cloud I've played 10 hours of XCom EU on my iMac at home. At my campus, I have a Windows PC with Steam & XCOM EU installed (but no play time yet).

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General

• During game install allow the user to pick a different language if they’ve changed the per-game language setting or previously installed the game in a different language
• Fixed a rare crash Steam could cause in some Steam VR helper processes when Steamworks is initialized in an unexpected manner
• Fixed Steam client crash when errors are encountered in audio encoding or decoding when running a game using Steam Voice
• Fixed achievement notification images for some games
• Fixed the achievement section of library game pages not updating when a user gains an achievement
• Fixed intermittent failures in broadcast, YouTube and other web video playback. If you are currently or have previously experienced this please ensure that the “Enable hardware video decoding” setting is enabled in the Interface tab of settings.
• Updated embedded Chromium build in Steam to 79.0.3945.117

Library

• Decreased the number of network requests made when initially loading a game page
• Added the ability to resize the game list by dragging the divider between the left and right panels
• When viewing game details for a demo, added a section with a link to the main game.
• Fix formatting of game reviews displayed in activity feed
• Fixed long lists of trading cards not properly wrapping in game activity sections
• Fixed What's New section not resizing properly when Automatic display size is selected
• Fixed the play bar freaking out when scrolled to the top on very short windows when viewing game details for games with very little content in the right panel

Chat

• Improved the performance of large chat room groups.

Steam Cloud

• Fixed using multiple Steam accounts on one machine under the same local user – if the game files are written to a common (non-Steam) location, they were previously mixed between Steam accounts
• Fixed inability to download files greater than 256MB

Steam Input

• Increased responsiveness of Switch Controllers when alt-tabbing
• Added support for the Victrix Pro FS with Touch Pad.
• Fixed some cases where Switch Controllers could lock up Steam on Windows.

Steam Networking Sockets

• Fixed a bug that could cause a P2P connection to drop if a relay went offline while in use

Remote Play

• Added a controller overlay with mouse mode, on-screen keyboard functionality and more! Default way to bring up is a long press of the Back button and can be configured in Remote Play settings.
• Added the option to record/playback input from the controller overlay when on the Windows login screen
• Added loading screen tips for useful functionality, including which button opens the overlay
• Added additional detail when running install scripts during PC to PC streaming
• Added Steam Overlay to the streaming client in Remote Play Together.
• Reduced audio dropouts when streaming microphone input
• Fixed sending controller input to the remote side in Remote Play Together
• Fixed muted audio when streaming after an RDP session
• Fixed controller overlay showing up automatically when connecting
• Fixed doubled up controller input when doing PC to PC streaming
• Fixed black screen when streaming from a locked computer
• Fixed Play button saying 'Stop' instead of 'Connect' when the stream stops unexpectedly
• Fixed crash in Remote Play Together when one or more player has a controller connected
• Fixed characters being doubled when typing in foreign languages.
• Fixed remote client discovery when using link-local ipv4 addresses (IP auto-configuration)
• Fixed low audio volume when starting the stream
• Fixed VR games getting auto filtered during a VR session when a Remote Play spectator is connected.
• Fixed several stability issues during launching, task switching, overlay, and shutdown of various games.
• Fixed custom cursor size on specific games such as Heroes of Might and Magic III HD Edition.
• Fixed player names displaying in the wrong position for InGame and Snooze status.

Big Picture Mode

• Added plumbing to use the desktop client’s image cache for games. Game icons should now load quicker and start working in offline mode.
• Added the ability to rumble controllers in the “Reorder Controllers Dialog”. Controllers which support LED color such as the DS4 will also have the controller’s LED color setting reflected in the controller image.
• Fixed navigating community content panels for games w/ mature content
• Fixed some cases where the Overlay would not come up when using a controller w/ gyro bound to mouse in Steam Input

SteamVR

• Fixed incorrectly adding non-Steam app screenshots to SteamVR.
• Fixed some hybrid 2D/VR games not appearing in the VR UI.

Windows

• Fixed behavior of some Steam windows in certain multi-monitor + mixed high DPI/scaling scenarios

Linux

• Disabled CEF keyring integration by default. The -enable-keyring option can be passed to the Steam client to reinstate it.
• Fix race condition that could cause some Proton-enabled games to redownload
• Fixed Big Picture Mode on-screen keyboard not popping up when clicking on text fields with Touch Screen Mode enabled
• Fixed Big Picture Mode on-screen Keyboard not allowing more than 3 clicks on a key in quick succession with mouse/touch input
• Fixed a client crash occasionally happening while iterating directories
• Fixes to Steam overlay for titles that use XInput2

Linux Steam runtime 0.20200318.1

• Updated to latest version of libvulkan
• Added exports for more WSI functions for Proton
• Improved runtime diagnostic tools

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The Mac has plenty of games, but it'll always get the short end of the stick compared to Windows. If you want to play the latest games on your Mac, you have no choice but to install Windows ... or do you?

There are a few ways you can play Windows games on your Mac without having to dedicate a partition to Boot Camp or giving away vast amounts of hard drive space to a virtual machine app like VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop. Here are a few other options for playing Windows games on your Mac without the hassle or expense of having to install Windows.

GeForce Now

PC gaming on Mac? Yes you can, thanks to Nvidia's GeForce Now. The service allows users to play PC games from Steam or Battle.net on macOS devices. Better still, the graphic power of these games resides on Nvidia's servers. The biggest drawback: the service remains in beta, and there's been no announcement when the first full release is coming or what a monthly subscription will cost.

For now, at least, the service is free to try and enjoy. All supported GeForce NOW titles work on Macs, and yes, there are plenty of them already available!

The Wine Project

The Mac isn't the only computer whose users have wanted to run software designed for Windows. More than 20 years ago, a project was started to enable Windows software to work on POSIX-compliant operating systems like Linux. It's called The Wine Project, and the effort continues to this day. OS X is POSIX-compliant, too (it's Unix underneath all of Apple's gleam, after all), so Wine will run on the Mac also.

Wine is a recursive acronym that stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. It's been around the Unix world for a very long time, and because OS X is a Unix-based operating system, it works on the Mac too.

As the name suggests, Wine isn't an emulator. The easiest way to think about it is as a compatibility layer that translates Windows Application Programming Interface (API) calls into something that the Mac can understand. So when a game says 'draw a square on the screen,' the Mac does what it's told.

You can use straight-up Wine if you're technically minded. It isn't for the faint of heart, although there are instructions online, and some kind souls have set up tutorials, which you can find using Google. Wine doesn't work with all games, so your best bet is for you to start searching for which games you'd like to play and whether anyone has instructions to get it working on the Mac using Wine.

Note: At the time of this writing, The Wine Project does not support macOS 10.15 Catalina.

CrossOver Mac

CodeWeavers took some of the sting out of Wine by making a Wine-derived app called CrossOver Mac. CrossOver Mac is Wine with specialized Mac support. Like Wine, it's a Windows compatibility layer for the Mac that enables some games to run.

CodeWeavers has modified the source code to Wine, made some improvements to configuration to make it easier, and provided support for their product, so you shouldn't be out in the cold if you have trouble getting things to run.

My experience with CrossOver — like Wine — is somewhat hit or miss. Its list of actual supported games is pretty small. Many other unsupported games do, in fact work — the CrossOver community has many notes about what to do or how to get them to work, which are referenced by the installation program. Still, if you're more comfortable with an app that's supported by a company, CrossOver may be worth a try. What's more, a free trial is available for download, so you won't be on the hook to pay anything to give it a shot.

Boxer

If you're an old-school gamer and have a hankering to play DOS-based PC games on your Mac, you may have good luck with Boxer. Boxer is a straight-up emulator designed especially for the Mac, which makes it possible to run DOS games without having to do any configuring, installing extra software, or messing around in the Mac Terminal app.

With Boxer, you can drag and drop CD-ROMs (or disk images) from the DOS games you'd like to play. It also wraps them into self-contained 'game boxes' to make them easy to play in the future and gives you a clean interface to find the games you have installed.

Boxer is built using DOSBox, a DOS emulation project that gets a lot of use over at GOG.com, a commercial game download service that houses hundreds of older PC games that work with the Mac. So if you've ever downloaded a GOG.com game that works using DOSBox, you'll have a basic idea of what to expect.

Some final thoughts

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In the end, programs like the ones listed above aren't the most reliable way to play Windows games on your Mac, but they do give you an option.

Of course, another option is to run Windows on your Mac, via BootCamp or a virtual machine, which takes a little know-how and a lot of memory space on your Mac's hard drive.

How do you play your Windows games on Mac?

Let us know in the comment below!

Updated October 2019: Updated with the best options.

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