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Which renderer to use
Highball can run each game through three different Direct3D translation layers. This is what the database knows for this title — empty rows are open questions, not failures.
| Renderer | Verdict | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| DXVKDirect3D 9-11 over Vulkan | Untested | no report yet — send one |
| DXMTDirect3D 11 over Metal | Untested | no report yet — send one |
| D3DMetalApple's Game Porting Toolkit | Reported | 1 report |
No dated Highball run yet. When one lands it records the renderer, the engine build and the macOS version it was seen on — which is what stops a verdict quietly rotting. Send one.
Notes
Does not launch. On the default D3DMetal path the game refuses to start with 'Your graphics card does not support Shader Model 6.7'; D3DMetal reports Shader Model 6.6. A contributor confirmed the D3DMetal libraries Highball ships are byte-identical to CrossOver's, so no Wine frontend changes this - the ceiling is Apple's to lift. It is a gap rather than a hardware limit: Shader Model 6.7 only requires QuadAny/QuadAll and wave ops including helper lanes on top of 6.6, all of which Metal can already express, and the advanced texture operations are optional. Replacing the translation chain does not help either: stock vkd3d-proton cannot create a device on MoltenVK at all, failing earlier on missing transform feedback. Corrected from the original report: tiled resources tier 2 is NOT missing from Apple hardware. Metal supports sparse textures from the Apple6 GPU family and placement sparse buffers and textures on Apple8 and later, and D3DMetal itself calls those APIs; the gap is that MoltenVK implements no Vulkan sparse. Full teardown in the issue.
Provenance
community report with a full teardown (highball-db#6, Michael-Liendo), unverified by Highball
Before installing anything, it is worth checking whether the game already ships a native Mac build.
Common questions
Does Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 work on Mac?
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has no native Mac build, but it is reported to run on Apple Silicon through Highball, a free open-source compatibility layer. This comes from community reports rather than a Highball test run, so treat it as a reasonable expectation rather than a guarantee.
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