Old DirectDraw / Direct3D games on Apple Silicon?

[pshirshov]

Hi,

Could please someone clarify if it is or will be possible to run old DirectDraw / Direct3D games (e.g. Diablo 1/2, Heroes of Might and Magic 2/3, Warcraft 2/3) on Apple Silicon?

I found this issue, which seems to be relevant: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55265 , although, as far as I'm aware, there is no proper Vulkan implementation for macOS?

[MaddtheSane]

MoltenVK is the library that translates Vulkan calls to Metal. It should run just fine for the most part.

Warcraft 2 is an MS-DOS application: DOSBox would be better suited to run Warcraft 2 than Wine.

[pshirshov]

Warcraft 2 had Windows version, which is better suited for multiplayer.

Regardless, I was unable to get anyhing Direct3D based working under Wine on Apple Silicon.

DirectDraw apps work with cnc-direcdraw and 3dfx apps work with GLIDE3-to-OpenGL-Wrapper.

[MaddtheSane]

Oh yeah, I forgot that there's a Windows version of Warcraft 2. Battle.NET edition, IIRC.

Did you try to install the DirectX installer for legacy programs (not the exact name)? Winetricks might help with installing the files.

[pshirshov]

I've tried many things which worked on x86. Nothing works on Apple Silicon.