The Witcher fans can now enjoy CD PROJEKT RED’s earlier games in the franchise on newer Mac devices and software.
CD PROJEKT RED has announced that The Witcher: Enhanced Edition and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings have received an update on Steam, GOG, and Apple App Store that adds support for Apple’s silicon chips.
Those would include the M1 and M2, the latter of which can be found in the new 15-inch MacBook Air and other Apple devices, and there’s also support for macOS Ventura, although that version of the OS has since been succeeded by Sonoma.
CD PROJEKT RED teased the Mac update for Witcher in October, explaining that while it would be coming soon, support for older macOS versions would be ending due to new requirements:
…we will be discontinuing support for OS X 10.7.5, OS X 10.8.2, macOS 10.15, and changing the new minimum macOS requirement to macOS 11.0. This is because the technology we are using, the JIT-compatible memory management and Apple’s Game Controller framework, require a minimum version of macOS 11.0. These updates are necessary to provide support to Apple silicon chips.
CD PROJEKT RED went on to explain that those who want to play The Witcher: Enhanced Edition and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings will want to keep the old version of the game:
To do it on Steam and GOG, disable automatic updates. On AppStore no action is necessary. On all platforms, if the game is uninstalled, the latest update will be the only one available to install. However, on GOG rolling back to an earlier version is possible.
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition was released on September 16, 2008, while The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, largely a direct sequel, came out a few years later on April 17, 2012.