Is it possible to play FIFA 22 on Mac?
Developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts, FIFA 22 is the 29th installment of the entire FIFA series. It brings an already familiar, yet new experience with some graphic improvements and innovative gameplay changes. As always, the football classic offers its players to share the joy of lovely sport with 17,000 players, 700 teams, 90 stadiums, and 30+ leagues gathered from the entire world to your disposal. Developers have kept the tradition of the 3 most popular playing regimes – Career Mode, Ultimate Team, and VOLTA Football, which are already known to players. All of them have held their part in the FIFA universe whilst building your dream roster to conquer the top of European football. There is also a new technology called Hypermotion Technology, which helps FIFA 22 capture the traits of real-world footballers and copy them into the game. This feature will be only available for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and Google Stadia. Overall, FIFA 22 is another exciting and next-to-real football simulator to play alone or with friends. At this point, FIFA 22 can be officially launched on Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and three more we mentioned above. It is less likely any FIFA chapter will ever get support for macOS. Despite this being a shame, we are having some methods to share and launch it on Mac regardless. Learn them below.
Play FIFA 22 on Mac with Parallels
FIFA 22 requires lots of PC resources, but you can play the game if you have a powerful Mac computer (iMac, iMac Pro, or Mac Pro), and Parallels Desktop can be a solution. This is software for Windows virtualization on Mac with the full support of DirectX and GPUs. It allows you to install Windows 10 on Mac with a couple of clicks and switch between MacOS and Windows instantly. You can run Windows just like on a regular PC, install Steam and enjoy the FIFA 22 game on Mac.
Note: Recommended devices to run resource-demanding games: MacBook Pro (models with Intel processor, discrete graphics cards, and 16 Gb of RAM or more), iMac (models with Intel processor, discrete graphics cards, and 16 Gb of RAM or more), iMac Pro (all versions are suitable), Mac Pro (all versions are suitable). Parallels on Mac computers with M1 (M1 Pro, M1 Max) chips may not support recent games. Games that require DirectX 12 and later currently not supported by Parallels.
Play FIFA 22 on Mac with cloud gaming services
Update: Boosteroid (US) fully support FIFA 22 to the date! Register and explore cloud gaming now!
If you have an old Mac or it cannot satisfy FIFA 22 game system requirements, there is an easy solution. Cloud gaming provides you with sufficient cloud resources for a fixed fee. All you need is a small client program (or just a browser in the case of Boosteroid) and a good internet connection starting from 15 Mbits/s. There are several great services, that provide such an opportunity, among the best are Boosteroid. Boosteroid have FIFA 22 in their game catalog, Boosteroid offers the game via Origin or Steam, while if you purchase FIFA 22 ($35.99) in Google Stadia it will only be available on this platform. Cloud gaming allows you to play it on any Mac device and even Android in 1080p or 4k!
Play FIFA 22 on Mac with BootCamp
Note: Mac computers with new Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3 Pro, or M1, M2, M3 Max) currently do not support BootCamp. In this case, please, use the options above to run FIFA 22 on Mac
This method is simple but time-consuming. If your Mac meets all the system requirements above, this is probably the best way to play FIFA 22 for now. You need to set up a dual boot of Windows and Mac via BootCamp. BootCamp allows users to choose the system to work in on startup, however, you won’t be able to switch between systems like in Parallels. You will need to reboot your machine every time you switch from Mac to Windows and vice versa. Remember that Mac is just a computer, that uses common processors, RAM, disks, and other components. So you can install Windows on Mac by allocating disc space of a minimum of 64 Gb (to be able to run Windows and a couple of games). To set up Windows via BootCamp, please, do the following:
For OS X El Capitan 10.11 or later
Mention, that for MacOS versions prior to OS X El Capitan 10.11 you will need to create bootable Windows USB.
- Download Windows ISO file
- Open Boot Camp Assistant (Go to Applications > Utilities)
- Define the Windows partition size, choose downloaded Windows ISO file
- Format Windows partition and go through all Windows installation steps
- When Windows boots for the first time, follow on-screen instructions to install Boot Camp and Windows support software (drivers)