for some odd reason gog will not allow me to download a game a purchased that is pc onto my Mac. I have a converter but the install button is grey and won't allow me to install it. anyone have any solutions to this problem?

Are you talking about the website or galaxy? Because you can download windows or linux files just fine from the website under MacOS. If a game has multiple versions you can choose the OS and the language right in the header for the game files, next to "Game Downloads" on the left side.

Or are you trying to install windows game onto MacOS? That's not possible, simply because they aren't compatible even a converter won't help. Unless you use a virtual Windows environment on your mac but even this is not really a good idea for games, older might work better but it might require a lot of work.

I would guess that after 6 years (curiously same day) the the OP has already found the solution, or moved along.

For anyone else who might landed here after a google search, and kind of missed the answer in the 2nd comment, Here's how to do it:

From your library in a browser, click on the game.

Open "Download Offline Backup Game Installers"

And here's the key:
Right under the game name is a drop down menu for "System." Switch it from Mac to Windows, and you can download the Windows installer(s).

Or use Galaxy, select game, click Extras, click on the offline installer. That way you don't have to deal with downloading the separate 4GB files for larger games.

The installers for Mac and Linux don't use the same 4GB parts, it's a single download.
Neat.

Yes, that's why I recommend using Galaxy to download Windows offline installers. You still end up with separate parts, but it makes downloading much more convenient.

Downloading and running PC games on a Mac can be a bit tricky due to compatibility issues. If you're encountering a grayed-out install button on GOG, it might be because the game isn't natively compatible with macOS. To play PC games on your Mac, consider using software like Wine, Parallels Desktop, or Boot Camp to run a Windows environment on your Mac.

This would allow you to install and play the game as if you were on a PC. Alternatively, check if GOG offers a Mac version of the game, or consider looking for alternative platforms that offer macOS-compatible versions of the games you're interested in.

You spout some crap, even for a bot... Oh, and I guess a Mac isn't a Personal Computer after all...

They are Personal Computers, but apple themselves have spend years arguing that Macs are somehow NOT PCs via both toxic adverts and whenever they fight the right to repair movement.

Indeed The image suggested being:

PC = x86 + Windows
MAC = OSX (or MacOS or whatnot)

For a while Mac also ran on exclusively PowerPC for a while (and moved to x86 in 2007 i remember) so you couldn't install windows even if you wanted to. (Well you might via good emulation, but you'd be heavily hobbled). Also Mac quickly took up FreeBSD Unix making it very stable, and very secure, compared to windows which had frequent bugs and tons of hacks on it. Some so notorious that they shut down whole industries for a while when the computers were rebooting every minute, huge security holes from microsoft terrible decisions (like allowing scripting in outlook express, allowing viruses and worms to auto-execute).

I suppose it's also the reputation, Microsoft was made by a geek in a basement and providing a product people wanted but had major issues, while Mac was more 'professional' and had suites of programs for video, audio editing, and music work long before windows had comparable options.

And now they went ARM and lack dedicated graphics.


This idea that Mac is more "Professional" is a bit laughable to me, considering the Enterprise sector is the main customer of Microsoft. Apple may have a few good video and audio apps, but their office suite still has nothing on Microsoft. At most, Mac can claim to be for "Creative" hipsters. Ditching dedicated graphics, even in Mac Pro, isn't doing them any favours though, even in the "creative" space.

That, and refusing to play ball with OpenGL (and later Vulkan) probably did no favors.