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Using Game Mode with Game Running through GPTK

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Silverstreak158 (talkcontribs)

Have installed GPTK and all its required components, and all is working well (for now). Steam is installed, and have gotten Witcher3 to run well (~35-40fps, native resolution, max settings, MPB 16" M1 Pro [non-binned]).

Is it possible to have Sonoma's new Game Mode feature turn on when playing games through GPTK? Game mode, apparently, needs to read an application running in full screen for it to turn on automatically (there is no way [that I know] to force it on for a specific app/process). Both Steam and Witcher (for example) if windowed, do not have the red/yellow/green (close/minimize/maximize) buttons on the top of their respective windows, and they do not act as actual applications visible to MacOS, rather, simply as processes.

Enabling full-screen mode in-game (which does correctly go into full-screen) does not result in that full-screen window to show up as a separate window in Mission Control (i.e. to the right of the "Desktop" at the top of the screen when in Mission Control). Going to the desktop or doing anything outside of the in-game window requires a press of "Command+Tab" — going to the top of the window with the mouse (even if windowed/borderless) does not allow the menu bar to pop up (which would occur in normal full-screen applications). Are there any ways to make these windows (Steam, games from Steam, etc. running through GPTK) be seen by MacOS as actual programs/windows? I assume that if that would be possible, Game Mode would also recognize them as applications/windows/games that can be fullscreen and thus can be used with the Game Mode feature.

Any thoughts?

Izymi (talkcontribs)

Maybe after the official release of sonoma there will be such an opportunity, but now it's not possible