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annathepiperIf you’re an Elder Scrolls fan, but also the owner of an M series Mac, you may be wondering if you can run the new Oblivion Remastered release on your computer. This post is here for you!
The main upshot of this is, if you want to try this at all, then you need to do it with a Wine install. Parallels is the usual solution I hear bandied about for gaming on a Mac–but Parallels only supports up to DirectX 11, and Oblivion Remastered’s system requirements explicitly say version 12.
So Parallels is not an option. (And a lot of you may be going GOOD, anyway, because if you’re a Mac user to begin with, you don’t really want to bring Windows into the picture if you can avoid it. At least, I certainly don’t.)
This means your only other course of action (at least, if you want to run directly in macOS as opposed to trying a Linux VM, or installing Linux as an alternate OS on the machine) is to try to do it on a Wine install. You have two different general ways to approach that:
- Install Wine directly
- Use a wrapper that sits on top of Wine and does the heavy lifting for you
More behind the fold.
Read more on Anna Plays Skyrim.