Whisky development has been restored! After being deprecated, Whisky is now actively maintained with a gaming-focused approach for Apple Silicon Macs. This major update optimizes gaming performance and transforms it into a dedicated Windows gaming emulator.

• 🎮 Gaming-Focused: Repositioned as a Windows gaming emulator
• 📚 Complete Documentation: Comprehensive gaming guides and setup instructions
• 🛠️ Modernized Codebase: Swift 6 compatibility and build system updates
• 🌟 Community Ready: Gaming issue templates and compatibility reporting
• ⚡ Gaming Optimized: Enhanced DXVK, msync tuning, and Metal performance improvements

👉 See Gaming Improvements Guide 👈

Whisky provides a native macOS interface for running Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs with optimized gaming performance through Wine, DXVK-macOS, D3DMetal, and Apple's Game Porting Toolkit.

Whisky is a gaming-focused Windows emulator for Apple Silicon Macs. Built with native SwiftUI, it provides a clean interface for running Windows games with no technical knowledge required. Whisky leverages Wine 10.0 with ARM64EC support, DXVK-macOS, D3DMetal, and Apple's Game Porting Toolkit for optimal gaming performance on Apple Silicon.

• Current Wine Version: Wine 10.0 (ARM64EC support, gaming-optimized)
• Distribution: Custom WhiskyWine build with Apple Silicon optimizations
• Gaming Focus: Enhanced DirectX 12 support with ARM64EC architecture

• High-Performance Gaming: Optimized Wine configuration with gaming enhancements
• DirectX Auto-Detection: Smart detection of DirectX 9/10/11/12 with automatic DXVK optimization
• DirectX 10/11 Support: DXVK enabled by default for better compatibility and reduced stuttering
• Apple Silicon Optimized: Native performance with Game Porting Toolkit
• Advanced Gaming Graphics: DXVK-macOS, D3DMetal, MoltenVK integration
• Gaming Performance Tools: Metal HUD, DXVK HUD, performance monitoring

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• CPU: Apple Silicon (M-series chips)
• OS: macOS Sonoma 14.0 or later

Whisky is on homebrew! Install with brew install --cask whisky.

• Enhanced DirectX 10/11: DXVK enabled by default for better compatibility and reduced stuttering
• Apple Silicon Optimization: msync tuning and memory enhancements for native performance
• Metal Performance: Enhanced Metal HUD with logging for real-time monitoring
• Startup Optimization: Cached DXVK setup for faster game launches

• DirectX Auto-Detection: Automatically detects DirectX 9/10/11/12 from game executables and suggests optimal settings
• Smart DXVK Configuration: Auto-configures DXVK based on detected DirectX version for maximum compatibility
• DXVK (Enabled by Default): Improves DirectX 10/11 compatibility and reduces stuttering
• DXVK Async: Smoother shader compilation for gaming
• Metal HUD: Real-time gaming performance monitoring with frame rate, GPU usage, and memory metrics
• Enhanced Sync: Apple Silicon-optimized msync for gaming
• Process Elevation: "Run as Administrator" for games requiring it

💡 Gaming Tip: Whisky automatically detects your game's DirectX version and suggests optimal DXVK settings. DXVK is recommended for DirectX 10/11 games but not needed for DirectX 12 games. The auto-configuration feature takes the guesswork out of optimization.

Some games need special configuration. Check out:

• Gaming Wiki - Game-specific setup guides
• Gaming Performance Improvements - Gaming optimizations and setup guide
• Gaming Performance: Use Metal HUD and DXVK HUD for optimization

Now Available: Whisky has been upgraded to Wine 10.0 with significant gaming improvements for Apple Silicon Macs.

• 🏗️ ARM64EC Support: Native Windows ARM64 application support
• 🎨 Enhanced DirectX 12: Improved raytracing and graphics performance
• 🖥️ Better High-DPI: Improved scaling for modern gaming displays
• ⚡ Process Elevation: Full "Run as Administrator" support for demanding games
• 🔧 Windows 11 Compatibility: Enhanced support for newer Windows applications

• ✅ Code Integration: Wine 10.0 fully integrated
• ✅ Gaming Optimizations: DXVK and performance tuning active
• ✅ Binary Distribution: Custom Wine 10.0 build deployed
• ✅ DirectX Detection: Automatic optimization for all DirectX versions
• ✅ Production Ready: Live for all new installations

Experience Wine 10.0 gaming performance! Join our Discord community to share your gaming results and optimizations.

Whisky is possible thanks to the magic of several projects:

• msync by marzent
• DXVK-macOS by Gcenx and doitsujin
• MoltenVK by KhronosGroup
• Sparkle by sparkle-project
• SemanticVersion by SwiftPackageIndex
• swift-argument-parser by Apple
• SwiftTextTable by scottrhoyt
• Wine by WineHQ
• D3DMetal by Apple

Special thanks to Gcenx, ohaiibuzzle, and Nat Brown for their support and contributions!

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