They said, MacOS users are out of luck. And I doubt they are going to spend time on using non portable APIs like Metal.

See https://www.winehq.org//wwn/404 They don't elaborate here, but the reason is clear - MacOS doesn't support OpenGL features needed for implementing DX11.

Does 'Shantae and the Pirate's Curse' work?

The intro played for me in 1.9.0 (staging) on Linux. I had nothing else installed but l3codecx for some other game. I also did not have quartz/devenum installed. Unfortunately the game runs too slow on integrated intel graphics for me, too.

How can I do this? I need an instruction. ;)

Do you use the stable release, which is already more than 3 years old, or a more recent version from the git repository?

I've found a demo and have tried that under Wine. It works, but also has this issue.

So far I'm not sure if this is a game for me. I like the graphics and atmosphere, but the controls are quite frustrating. Has the Linux engine the same controls or have they been improved?

Huh, really? It sounds like it may rely on Indeo Video then. I really didn't think of that from looking at my Wine log, but I'll update my entry to reflect that. While devenum and quartz aren't necessary to get the game running, I found I experienced random freezes when navigating the main menu.

I wouldn't put it past the people at Codeweavers for coming up with a way to kludge some kind of solution to enable DX11 compatibility (in at least a limited form), but I'm certainly not holding my breath. As a Mac gamer who's been on the Mac for many, many years this state of affairs comes as absolutely no surprise to me (though it's still disappointing nevertheless).

First, I'd encourage you to run the installer again and just leave it to do its thing. If it actually does hang near the end for several hours, you can try to run the installer in debug mode and see afterwards what dependencies the game needs...

If you are on Wineskin:
- Go to ~/Applications/Wineskin/YourWindowsGame
- Control-click/Right-click on your game and select "Show Package Contents"
- Go to the Wineskin app
- In Wineskin, go to Advanced > Configuration
- in Windows EXE, browse to the location of the installer
- in EXE flags, enter "/debug /nogui" (without the quotes)

If you are on CrossOver:
- Go to CrossOver > Bottle > Run Command...
- Under "Command:", browse to the location of the installer and add at the end: /debug /nogui

Hope that helps!

Thanks I'm going to try this out.

No, I had this codec for another game, it's not used by Corsairs. I checked and the intro video plays properly in a clean wine prefix, but produces many fixme messages. After overriding quartz, I also have no video in the intro.

The controls are the same. I think you will get used to them after a few hours, if that's the only problem.
You can try Arx Libertatis with the demo too.

Ah, I see. It's likely an OS X-specific issue then.

The same was said for any kind of 64bit support on macOS. I'm pretty sure they will figure out a way eventually. It could just take a while.

It seems that there is a new WINE Staging package called Wine Staging Nine. It's pretty much the same as Staging but has a new feature which lets you toggle use a patch made by Gallium_Nine for better D3D9 graphics performance.

So far I have found out in ArchLinux.

That's not a new package, wine-staging with Gallium Nine exists for over two years now... it's essentially pushing the D3D9 calls directly to the GPU, without translating them to OpenGL first.

I think Gallium 9 should work for any Gallium based driver. But since Nouveau can't have full performance mode because of no reclocking, it's not that useful for Nvidia anyway.