Is it possible to play Resident Evil: Village on Mac?
Resident Evil: Village is an iconic sequel of the entire Resident Evil series, which has been growing its fans since 1996. Being the 8th chapter already, Resident Evil: Village continues the story of somebody named Ethan Winters after surviving the horror and curing his vanished wife Mia of the deadly virus spread by the Umbrella laboratory in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. Now, having a newborn daughter Rose, Mia and Ethan are trying to start a new life and forget about what happened. Everything changes after Chris Redfield, who relocated the family over to Europe, breaks into the house to kidnap the girl. As they move out of the city, the car gets struck by mysterious events leaving Ethan alone to look for his daughter. This is when the adventure begins getting players involved to explore the infected village. A truly exciting plot saturated with various creatures and bosses will keep you always in tension. To find the daughter, Ethan has to survive an avalanche of monsters and bosses that stand in the way of saving the child. This is why there are a number of treasures to find and gear the players with better weapons to help in a perilous adventure. Resident Evil: Village is a very popular game being available for Windows, PlayStation, and Xbox series. Yet, it is a sorrow that Mac users are unable to play the game as usual. This is why we are making this guide to help you launch it on macOS despite incompatibility.
Play Resident Evil: Village on Mac with Parallels
Resident Evil: Village game requires lots of PC resources, but if you have a powerful Mac computer (iMac, iMac Pro, or Mac Pro) 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 Resident Evil: Village 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 Resident Evil: Village on Mac with cloud gaming services
Update: Boosteroid fully supports Resident Evil: Village! Play the advanced game on a Mac, old Windows PC, and even Android!
If you have an old Mac or it cannot satisfy the Resident Evil: Village 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 browser or a small client program 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, AirGPU, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Nvidia GeForce Now. Among them, Boosteroid and AirGPU support Resident Evil: Village, and you can play on any Mac computer (starting from MacOS 10.10) and even Android! Boosteroid can stream games with high resolution (1080p), every service has its pros and cons.
Play Resident Evil: Village 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 Resident Evil: Village on Mac
This method is simple but time-consuming. If your Mac meets all system requirements above, this is probably the best way to play Resident Evil: Village 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)