Lost Ark won six-game awards in various categories at the Korea Game Awards 2019. Developing the game cost about $85.4 million. It is a fantasy massively multiplayer online action role-playing game (MMOARPG). It is co-developed by Tripod Studio and Smilegate’s game development subsidiary Smilegate RPG. It was fully released in the South Korean region on December 4, 2019. The game has released in European and North American regions on February 11, 2022, where it has published by Amazon Games, and it seems to only be available on Windows as of yet. Thankfully though, you can download and install the game on particular MacBooks. However, there are a few tedious steps that you’ll need to go through before you can get the game up and running.
For information, let us tell you that to download and run Lost Ark on your Mac, you need to be running Windows in virtualization mode using any software of your choice. For this tutorial, we will be using Parallels as our preferred software. We're sorry that we don't have any information on this topic as the developers have not yet given us any information on when we can expect the official Mac release, this is the only way to play the game on the platform for now.
Installing Lost Ark on Mac
In terms of performance, you can expect to be getting 60+ FPS if you have a newer Macbook. However, as always, since Parallels is ultimately running on an emulation layer, you can expect there to be slight hiccups here and there.
The very first thing that you should keep in mind is that, you will need to have Parallels Desktop up and running on your PC. While Bootcamp also works, it doesn't provide stable frame rates when it comes to playing games. Therefore, we advise against it. Here's what you'll need to do:
- Install Parallels Desktop on your Mac
- When prompted, enter your User Name and Password
- After doing so, you can either redirect Parallels to a local Windows 10 installation or have the software install it for you.
- Downloading Windows may take a while depending on your Internet’s speed.
- After Windows is up and running, you’ll be able to use your Mac just like a Windows desktop.
- After you’ve booted into Windows, install Steam and login to your account as usual.
- You’ll now need to download Lost Ark from the Steam Store.
- After doing so, you’ll be booted into the game with all your controls working the same way.
Can Lost Ark Run on M1 / M1 Pro / M1 Max?
So guys, now you can download and install Windows on your M1 (Apple Silicon) device by using above method. However, since the M1 processors run on ARM, you will only be able to run an ARM version of Windows that does not support Lost Arch at the time of writing this.
If there are any changes to this or if an official Mac / M1 version is released, we’ll be updating this space!
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