Whisky - run Windows games under macOS on Apple Silicon

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Ran across this video on YouTube last night about Whisky. It uses Wine and Apple's Game Porting toolkit to run Windows games.  The example video walks thru installing and running games from Steam.

 

I don't have many games in Steam, and most of the games I have do not run (denoted with 🚫) on my current Mac (a Studio with Apple's M2 Ultra CPU):

 

 

So I installed Whisky, then install Steam in Whisky. The 🚫 symbol does not show up by any of the games:

 

 

Haven't played Peggle in years so decided to install it. When I launched it the program displayed the Loading screen for long time:

 

 

Long enough that I thought it hung.  I let it be though, and it eventually finished loading. I started a game:

 

 

and while it did run the audio and game both stuttered.  Did a little research, found this, and did the following in Whisky which resolved the stuttering issue:

 

1. File -> Kill All Bottles
2. Click on Winetricks...
3. Select DLLs tab
4. Select dsound
5. click Run...
6. Run Steam
7. Launch Peggle