You also can’t play Valorant on a Mac using Google Stadia. GeForce Now For Mac is NVIDIA’s cloud gaming platform but unfortunately, Valorant is not available on it so you can’t play Valorant on a Mac using GeForce Now. The only way to install Windows games on M1 & M2 Macs is to use a virtual environment such as Parallels but since Valorant’s Vanguard anti-cheat protection won’t work in virtual environments, it won’t allow you to play Valorant on an M1/M2 MacBook or Mac Mini. You can’t play Valorant on an Apple Silicon M1 or M2 Mac because Boot Camp does not work with the new M1 & M2 Macs including the more powerful M1 Pro and M1 Max chips.īoot Camp only works with Intel Macs so you can only install Valorant on an Intel Mac. $50.00 Buy Now Can You Play Valorant on M1 & M2 Macs?Īt the moment, there’s no way to play Valorant on M1 chip Macs such as the M1 MacBook Pro or M2 Macs. Vanguard is a kernel level anti-cheat system which also causes problems for Windows users sometimes and virtual environments cannot support it at all.įor more on playing Windows PC games on a Mac, check out our guide to the best ways to play Windows games on Mac. Vanguard will not work in virtual machines that run Windows and macOS side-by-side such as Parallels. This is because Valorant uses the Vanguard anti-cheat software which only works in Boot Camp. However, although there are many ways of running Windows on a Mac, Valorant will only work if you install Windows on macOS using Boot Camp. There is no version of Valorant for Mac and you can only play it by installing Windows on a Mac.

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