Highball
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 | Untested | no report yet — send one |
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
Plays, then crashes partway through, after about ten minutes in one report. The crash is Wine's thread pool asserting on 'ioqueue.objcount' when the game closes an asynchronous pipe. Moritz Jost tracked it down in this game and fixed it in highball-engine patch 0025 (#17, 2026-10-19), which ships with the next Wine 11 engine revision. Nothing was measured here.
Known issues
The game crashes partway through a session (reported on an M4 and an M1 Pro, macOS 27.0.1, DXMT, engines r11 and r28)
What helps highball-engine patch 0025 by Moritz Jost, in the next Wine 11 engine revision. Move the game's environment to it under Advanced, Engine once it is out
Why Wine's thread pool asserts 'ioqueue.objcount' (threadpool.c) when an asynchronous I/O object is closed while a completion is in flight
Provenance
Reported by 0Janyx (highball#353, 2026-10-15), Apple M4, macOS 27.0.1, Highball 0.9.39, engine x64-sikarugir10.0_6-r11, DXMT, and IndiannDino (highball#437, 2026-10-22), Apple M1 Pro, macOS 27.0.1, Highball 0.10.22, engine x64-sikarugir10.0_6-r28, DXMT. Not verified by the maintainer.
Before installing anything, it is worth checking whether the game already ships a native Mac build.
Common questions
Does Scam With Your Friends work on Mac?
Scam With Your Friends 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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