How to play Riders Republic on Mac

Is it possible to play Riders Republic on Mac?

Riders Republic is an epic extreme sports videogame developed and published by Ubisoft. To feel the real taste of extreme sports activities, the game offers 4 main disciplines including mountain biking, skiing, snowboarding, and wingsuit flying. Apart from having a regular competition with bots, players can enter the multiplayer and battle with up to 64 players in Mass Races events. The game also offers a mode known as “Tricks Battle Arena”, which allows multiplayer contenders to team up with others in a 6v6 match and perform various tricks to score the most points. This and more action mentioned takes place in an open world connecting 7 big national parks of the Western US into a single map to play on. All of this 2022 experience is accompanied by beautiful graphics and realistic mechanics while competing in one of the four sports disciplines. Riders Republic is currently available for all major platforms like Windows, PlayStation, Xbox, and more. Wondering how you can launch it and play on Mac despite it being unsupported officially? – Then follow our guide below to learn all the possible ways to do it.

System Requirements

Play Riders Republic on Mac with Parallels

Riders Republic 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 Riders Republic game on Mac.

Download Parallels Desktop

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.

Install Windows 10 on Parallels (Step 1)

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Play Riders Republic on Mac with Amazon Luna or Google Stadia

Update: Amazon Luna and Nvidia GeForce Now fully support Riders Republic! Play the advanced game on a Mac, old Windows PC, and even Android!

If you have an old Mac or it cannot satisfy the Riders Republic 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, Google Stadia, Amazon Luna, and Nvidia GeForce Now. Among them, only Amazon Luna and Google Stadia have Riders Republic in their game catalog, and you can play on any Mac computer (starting from MacOS 10.10) and even Android! Amazon Luna and Google Stadia can stream games with high resolution (1080p), every service has its pros and cons.

Play Riders Republic 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 Riders Republic 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 Riders Republic 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.

1. Download Windows ISO file
2. Open Boot Camp Assistant (Go to Applications > Utilities)
3. Define the Windows partition size, choose downloaded Windows ISO file
4. Format Windows partition and go through all Windows installation steps
5. When Windows boots for the first time, follow on-screen instructions to install Boot Camp and Windows support software (drivers)