How to install Genshin Impact on Mac using Game Porting Toolkit and CrossOver

have fun today I'm going to be showing you how to run gentian impact using crossover and game porting toolkit so this is going to be taking advantage of Apple's new d3d metal however we're going to be running this through crossover itself now I wouldn't say necessarily that this is going to be much different from say using Game porting toolkit command line interface or an alternative launcher project like yet another anime game launcher and also there are some graphical flickering issues that I notice within the game however this crossover version has probably the greatest chance of being upgraded over time because we can take advantage of the advancements of d3d metal and of crossover's own future potential improvements so this video today is going to go through the entire process from start to finish of installing crossover downloading the windows version of genshin impact running what's called CX Patcher as well to make crossover compatible with game porting toolkit so a couple of things to note before we start this is not an officially sanctioned way of modifying crossover these changes are not supported by codeweavers so please do not ask them for technical support if you do need help go to the Apple gamingwiki Discord there is a dedicated CX Patcher Channel there where the developers hang out secondly you need to have Mac OS Cinema installed so technically some of these games could run on Macos Ventura but Sonoma is where you're going to get the best game experience check the link in the description for my video tutorial on how to dual boot Macos Cinema and Macos Ventura can also do this without losing any of your data so once we are logged into Macos Sonoma what we're going to do is to go ahead and download crossover so make sure to click the link at the top of the description if you do make a purchase it helps to support this Channel and the content that I create so after we've click the link in the description what we're going to do is just scroll down here I'm going to press the buy now button and within by now you can enter the promo code Apple gamingwiki new then you're going to get a 20 discount off the recommended crossover plus press buy now and go ahead and download crossover or alternatively what you can do is is to press the China button here and we can try a 14 day free trial just enter your name and email address and then press the download Trial Now button and that's going to go ahead and download the latest version of crossover which at the time recording is 22.1.1 once that's finished its download we're going to go ahead and drag and drop this into the applications folder and then let go and then within applications we're going to go ahead and find crossover double click here it's asking us if we still want to open it press open so here we can make use of the crossover free trial by pressing try now or if you've bought it already press unlock with purchase info and then enter your username and password but for now we're going to use the crossover trial press try now and now we're met with the installation screen here so this data we have crossover installed and because we're using Mac OS Sonoma at the time recording this is in beta and if you try to use plain crossover and install Steam then this is going to throw up a whole load of error messages so we're going to do is close crossover completely I'm going to download CX Patcher this will help to fix crossover on my course Sonoma and we'll load in gameporting toolkit support at the same time so I'll leave a link in the description for CX Patcher what we want to do is is to download the latest release the time recording this is version 0.2.15 just go down to the assets section here and then click on cxpatcher.app.zip and then download this into your downloads folder and if your browser warns you just press the arrow button here and press keep then we'll navigate to find it into downloads and then double click on sexpatter.app.zip and then we're going to take CX Patcher here and then drag and drop this into the applications folder and then within applications we're going to double click on the CX Patcher says it can't be opened if that's the case then just scroll down in applications go to utilities then double click on Terminal we're going to open up a terminal window and then we're going to type in the command XA TTR space-cr space so make sure there's a space here because we're going to drag and drop Six Patcher onto here press return close this and then we can double click on CX Patcher and now this has opened so next thing I'm going to do is to download game porting toolkit so I'll leave a link in the description for the Apple developer website just go ahead and log in and here's any free account to access this this is no longer locked behind a paid developer account if we just do a search for game porting toolkit kit and then we're going to download the DMG file here then click on this button to download the game porting toolkit DMG so once this DMG has downloaded I'm going to go into finder go to download and we're going to mount game14talkit.dmg press the agree button here and then make sure that this is mounted so now we're going to go back to tcx Patra press agree and proceed and then what we're going to do is to click integrate external resources I'm going to press locate external resources and then we're going to scroll down and then select game porting toolkit here and then press open we're also going to enable re-patch and upgrade next we're going to go to finder and then find our crossover app and then drag and drop this into the crossover Patcher now it says here crossover.app has been successfully patched and now we're ready to open up crossover so double click on crossover so now that crossover has been installed and it's been patched with CX Patcher we're going to go ahead and download the windows version of the genjin impact launcher so I'll leave a link to the website in the description we need to make sure that we click on the PC download and then download this Windows version exe and then once that's downloaded we're going to go back to crossover and then and click on install and then install an unlisted application then we're going to select our installer source and I'm going to select the launcher file that we've just downloaded from the genjin impact website then when we press the install button it's going to prompt us to create a new bottle so I'm going to create a new one and give it a name again chain impact I'm going to make it a Windows 10 64-bit bottle and then we're going to find the installer file that we've just downloaded so select this exe file and then press choose installer and then let that start up here crossover is going to ask for permission to go into downloads folder press OK and then again impact launcher window is going to pop up here we're going to press install now it's okay for us to install this into this default location which is going to be inside the bottle itself so if the installer hangs at all just make sure to check your dock that's because the VC redistributable window might be hiding behind the launcher window just make sure to click on it and then continue the process another launcher window pops up fully and then we're going to press the get game button so now I just let that game fully download so this is the majority of the game data it's quite a few gigabytes in size so just wait for that to finish before we can move on to the next step so here we've got engine impact I want to make sure e-sync is turned on and then double click on getting impact to launch so when you launch for the first time you might find it won't launch correctly and the bottle hasn't completed its install process so you can control click on the engine impact icon on your Dock and then first quit this and then the gentian impact bottle will complete its install within crossover so before we move on I'm just going to explain how gamepointing talker interacts with crossover so basically if you turn this on then that means that if we run a DirectX 11 or 12 game we are going to be using dxvk molten VK which is the standard crossover translation layer however if this is off then we're going to be using Game porting toolkit for DirectX 11 on 12 and if we're using DirectX 9 and Below then we'll be using 1D 3D instead so if you want to make use of game 14 toolkit make sure that this is turned off so sometimes I find that double clicking on the gentian impact shortcut within the bottle itself doesn't work often I've had better luck control clicking on the shortcut itself and then clicking run with options and then running from there that will work a bit better also another way to do this is to run command and then we're going to navigate within the bottle folder structure and I want to find the actual gentian impact exe file and then run this one manually so for whatever reason this seems to work a little bit better than trying to run it through the shortcut itself for some reason so once we've got our launcher up we can do an update if necessary you can ignore any kind of crushing wine windows don't worry about that it's going to download any necessary updates so once the update has completed we can continue to The Next Step just launch the game again and then the game will launch in full screen and then once you're in you can go ahead and enter your username and password now we've managed to get into the game so this is basically the full version of Windows gension impact running on Apple silicon mac3 gameporting toolkit through crossover as well and the performance and Graphics are pretty good there are some occasional graphical issues with the kind of flickering textures you might see here and there but overall it's a very playable experience if you wanted something that might be slightly better than this you might want to try yet another anime game launcher you can find a tutorial for this on my main Channel anyway thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video

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Length: 8min 20sec (500 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 17 2023