Crossover 25 Looks to be a great way to run ESO on Apple Silicon Macs

ningauble_7b14_ESO

I tried installing the windows version of eso in the latest Crossover release, and performance is substantially better than the native mac client. The installation process went without a hitch, and after switching Graphics to use DXMT and Synchronization to use MSync, I've been getting 60-100 fps pretty much everywhere, and way less random stuttering than I was getting with the official Mac Client.

This is on an M3 Max 14" MacBook Pro with the 40 core gpu.


My settings are basically Ultra but with screen space reflections on low, and planar reflection off. Things like FSR and Multi-threaded rendering are available in the Windows client only and can give a big boost. Only issues are if I ran in fullscreen instead of fullscreen(windowed), I would lose keyboard and mouse focus after command-tabbing out of the game, and walking out of range with my AirPods on causes the audio to stop working. I think it would be great if ZoS created their own Wrapper/Installer like Swtor did, if and when they discontinued support for the current Mac client, which seems to be languishing a bit.

Achernar

Thanks for the report on Crossover 25. Many years ago I played ESO in Crossover on my Mac and it worked really well, but then at some point it stopped working for me and I couldn't launch the game anymore. Glad to hear it's working again! While I would much prefer it if ESO came out with a properly optimized Apple silicon client for Mac, creating an official Crossover wrapper for ESO would definitely be the next best thing. Just do it ZOS--save both you and us from the sad travesty that is the current Mac client!

Taucheranzug

Hey,

I just tried to install ESO using CrossOver 25, but after a couple of Windows components have been installed, I always receive this error window when CrossOver tries to launch Install_ESO.exe:



I have restarted my Mac and tried all the usual things, but it's always that same error.

I am on a Mac Studio M1 (2022).

Can anybody help?

Thank you guys in advance!

Best

ningauble_7b14_ESO

You might need to delete the bottle and reinstall. I do remember a couple of months ago I tried using the previous crossover build and had issues with the launcher not working/crashing, but I don’t remember the exact error message. This time the only thing I did differently, aside from running the newer crossover build, was to be sure to put check marks on any prerequisites the installer wanted to add during the process. Not sure if that helps.