Compared with Microsoft Windows, macOS (previous mac OS X) has exceptionally sparkling designs and strengthened security protection. It comes with a simple and cleaner user interface, dedicated features of multitasking, optimized software and hardware, and useful free productivity apps you cannot find on Windows. On the contrary, if you get a little more about macOS, it's not perfect as you think.
One of the big cons of macOS is the limited and restricted availability of apps, particularly for games. Therefore, the Apple Macintosh can never be an ideal selection for games. If you're a big Apple fan but at the same time, an enthusiastic game player, how do you balance the two different operating systems? Isn't it exciting to play Windows games on Mac if possible? As a matter of fact, it is possible to play Windows PC games on Mac without installing Windows using Boot Camp. How?
Since many popular games residing on Windows platforms are not available to Mac, you can try to play PC games from an outer source on your Mac. That's why it is necessary to create a portable version of Windows OS on a PC to a USB drive. And, Qiling Disk Master is the essential tool you're going to use.
Using this way to play Windows games on Mac, it's de facto a behavior of:
If this is your case, do some preparation work as follows:
Follow the step-by-step guide to create a Windows games portable USB drive:
Step 1. Install Qiling OS2Go on your Windows computer, it will display your system drive's used space. Plug in a USB drive that is larger than the system drive used space. Choose the target USB drive and click Next to continue.
Step 2. Qiling OS2Go will notify you that the following operation would delete all data on your drive. Make sure that you have backed up all the important data. Click the Continue button to proceed.
Step 3. Adjust disk layout. The default disk layout on the target drive will be exactly the same as the resource drive. You could also edit the layout according to your needs. Tick the option there if you're using a Solid State Drive as the Windows bootable drive. Next, click Proceed.
Step 4. Then Qiling OS2Go will start to create the portable USB drive. It usually takes a while depending on your OS and Network condition. When the progress reaches 100%, the USB drive should be bootable now.
Step 5. Insert the portable Windows USB and start your Mac. Press the Option/Alt key. Choose the yellow EFI Boot icon to boot from the USB drive. Then follow the onscreen instruction to boot your Mac.
Basically, if you're with experience in managing a device and operating system by configuring the missing part, you can challenge yourself for the two methods.
WINE is short for "Wine Is Not an Emulator". It's an open-source program that is designed to make Windows games and applications work on Linux and Mac computers. However, we say only the apps and games that really work. The biggest problem of using WINE to play Windows games on Mac is that most of the wanted games cannot run ideally in WINE, and the supported games crash a lot as soon as you launch.
In comparison, the latter two methods of Boot Camp and Virtual Machine are more solid options, but they do have their own issues.
Boot Camp is the native Mac utility that lets you switch between macOS and Windows. That is to say, to be able to play Windows games on Mac, all you need to do is have dual-boot operating systems on your Mac. This requires you to download your copy of Windows OS like 11 or 10, and use the Boot Camp Assistant to complete the installation steps. Playing games directly within Windows on your Mac is fast and convenient unless you can stand the immediate overheat on your Mac.