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Re:Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iP... by etra0 on Saturday July 04, 2026 @06:44PM (#48789771)
Apple never released a driver that supports Vulkan out of the box, therefore MoltenVK was born, which translates Vulkan IR to Metal source then recompiles to Metal shaders.

This was the pipeline in Proton for macOS (I'm not sure if it's still is the case, been quite a while since I checked).

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Re:Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iP... by debugnik on Sunday July 05, 2026 @06:02AM (#48792818)
Proton itself doesn't exist for macOS, but CrossOver already existed instead, which is mostly the same tech, and indeed supports D3D either through DXVK over MoltenVK, or through Apple's D3DMetal.
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Re:Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iP... by throwaway27448 on Sunday July 05, 2026 @01:58PM (#48796311)
I'm more surprised by DXVK working cleanly
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