Recently I had another go at finding a solution, and discovered PlayOnMac, which is based on Wine but with a nice usable UI. I ended up giving up, and wasn’t able to play any of these games for months. The former requires a big hard drive and a lot of work, and the latter would mean a degradation in performance, so wouldn’t be great for gaming – and I eventually spotted that it was also dependant on you having NOT upgraded to Catalina yet, which was too late for me! PC Mag instead recommended buying Parallels Desktop, installing an older version from a recovery partition then installing Parallels Tools and transferring your 32 bit apps into the virtual system. The official suggestion from Steam was to partition your Mac and dual-boot multiple versions of macOS. But I found that my Wine setup wasn’t working anymore either, and didn’t look like it was ever going to be. I tried to install L4D2 via Wine, which I had previously used to play classic games like Railroad Tycoon 3. I remember reading about that before upgrading, and made sure I backed up my old Word & Excel files as my ancient Office 2011 would no longer run, but I hadn’t considered the impact it would have on my games. It turned out that Apple had dropped support for 32 bit apps. This game may not run.”Īnd yes, I have clocked up an embarrassingly high 134 hours…!

So when one day I upgraded my macOS to Catalina (10.15), I was gutted to find that I couldn’t play Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) anymore: “Your current macOS (Catalina) is unable to run 32-bit games. Here’s one of those meet-ups, when we hooked a laptop up to my 50″ TV: The fans got so loud. I played it a lot in my uni days with my nerdy housemates, and we still try to meet up a few times a year to relive the good old times. In a hurry? Jump straight to the solution.

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