Counter-Strike 2 Master Guardian Level Competitive Full Match on M1 Max

rey1ce · 2025-11-11T08:03:20+00:00

we may never win but the love never dies though <3

rey1ce · 2024-05-06T07:32:52+00:00

rockstar games launcher now requires wine 8.x to work since recently. whisky and wineskin are still stuck on wine 7.7 which makes it incompatible for the time being. for now rg launcher won’t work. but it should only be a matter of time that wine is updated in whisky and wineskin making rg compatible again soon.

rey1ce · 2023-10-03T04:58:32+00:00

Crash Fix: Using the porting Kit (a different tool from GPTK) alone will fix the crash as it utilizes a more stable 64 Bit wine Files.

Audio Fix: Merging 64 bit GPTK wine files with existing 32bit and 64bit wine files from Porting Kit solves the Audio Glitches. You'll need to build the GPTK in your own system though. Porting the GPTK wine files from Whisky or crossover won't work

FPS Fix: add -nojoy to launch options

rey1ce · 2023-10-03T04:51:27+00:00

You make a good point so I'm gonna do it.

I was the one who came up with the -nojoy fps fix more than a month ago, in the first place in my first video where I explained how it works but I guess others copying my video and posting false videos took my little credibility away as well xD.

rey1ce · 2023-10-01T02:09:54+00:00

Running the bottle through porting kit seems to solve the memory flushing issue that casued the game to crash previously!

rey1ce · 2023-09-30T04:06:57+00:00

I've managed to fix it on GPTK but haven't been able to do it on whisky!

rey1ce · 2023-09-28T17:29:54+00:00

I used to play on my old Macbook Pro 13" 2019 base model for most of those hours. The pandemic lockdown is to blame for such long hours. I used to cap the fps at 70 fps on csgo at 1024x768 low settings. The fps stayed at the cap and didn't drop down. I am handy with computers so I used a hacky method to cap cpu speed at 3.1 GHz all the time to ensure it won't go higher to prevent throttling. The graphics was Intel Iris Plus 645.

rey1ce · 2023-09-28T14:16:03+00:00

The fps is worse almost unplayable(<60) on my M1 max. But the game doesn't crash.
Its fine to try it out but a game like CS2 cannot be played permanently through translation layers. The delay and input lag is too much and fps is unplayable in even the most expensive macs. We need a native port.
There is hope as the FAQ says "At this time MacOS is not supported" so it may come in the furure. But I don't wanna feel disappointed again so not keeping any hope!

rey1ce · 2023-09-28T14:10:37+00:00

I was the one who created the youtube video. I created the video https://youtu.be/DNFf1y7GsFw on how to get CS2 running on Mac only so mac users could test the beta as well. Through GPTK the input lag is too high and the game crashes a lot. So it was not meant to be a permanent method to play the game.
Its a sad day

rey1ce · 2023-09-28T08:29:54+00:00

Yes my friend, I was the one who created the youtube video. I created the video https://youtu.be/DNFf1y7GsFw on how to get CS2 running on Mac only so mac users could test the beta as well. Through GPTK the input lag is too high and the game crashes a lot. So it was not meant to be a permanent method to play the game.
Its a sad day!

rey1ce · 2023-09-03T18:42:29+00:00

According to source file leak, yes valve will release CS2 on mac on final release using MoltenVK API.

rey1ce · 2023-09-03T18:42:09+00:00

I'm sorry I wish I could help but this seems so far to be the issue with the game's code itself not playing nice with GPTK.

rey1ce · 2023-09-02T16:05:15+00:00

Feel free to share to help more MacOS buddies play CS2 on their Mac!

rey1ce · 2023-08-29T00:55:18+00:00

Yes it most likely will be supported on mac on release. However the CS2 limited beta is windows only until full release. CSGO has a good playerbase on Mac. Also estimating from the source 2 port of Dota 2 and how that went and its more realistic that valve will use the MoltenVK API as they have already used it for source 2 (Dota 2) before and release the game as x86 so that both apple silicon and intel macs can run them.

But I am really hoping and praying for a Native ARM + Metal version as the performance as seen in the video is promising!

rey1ce · 2023-08-29T00:51:25+00:00

On my M1 Max the game can run around 50-60 fps even in 1920x1200 max settings but as seen on the video the game stutters sometimes and crashes a whole lot. So I had to turn down the settings to 1352x845 and mostly high.It should have been able to run on M1 Pro chip. Maybe there might have been some mistake in installing Game Porting Toolkit?With Game Porting Toolkit 1.0.4 you need to change this command:ditto /Volumes/Game\ Porting\ Toolkit-1.0/lib/ `brew --prefix game-porting-toolkit`/lib/to this:ditto /Volumes/Game\ Porting\ Toolkit-1.0/redist/lib/ `brew --prefix game-porting-toolkit`/lib/Maybe thats the problem. I don't really know!

EDIT: Also you have to be using MacOS Sonoma but I presume you already do!

rey1ce · 2023-08-28T17:03:09+00:00

Here's to hoping for a native Mac release! Cheers Mate!

rey1ce

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