Gamers who want to run Windows games on a Mac can do so via Parallels Desktop, and are able to use game controllers with those games. There has been support for DirectX 11 since Parallels Desktop 15.

Windows 11, and Linux. While support for Apple Silicon has been around since Parallels Desktop 16.5, it has been limited in not having x86 emulation support until this update. The new emulation in ...

Parallels Desktop ... based Apple Silicon architecture with the first M1 Mac computers, virtualization was mostly limited to Windows 11 on ARM and some ARM Linux distributions.

The “early technology preview” will let you emulate Intel-based hardware on an M1-or-greater Mac ... Parallels says users will be able to: Run existing x86_64 Windows 10, Windows 11*, Windows ...

Parallels released ... install x86 versions of Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2019/2022, and some Linux distributions with UEFI BIOS on your Apple Silicon Mac laptop or desktop.

Virtualization software like Parallels and VMware Fusion give Mac owners the ability to ... limited to certain 64-bit versions of Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2019 and 2022.