macXenos 1.0

macXenos is an unofficial macOS port of Xenia Canary with a native Metal
renderer. It runs Xbox 360 games on Apple Silicon Macs, and on Intel Macs
with an AMD GPU (Radeon RX 580 with 4 GB or better). It needs macOS 15 or
later. This is the first public release; it follows beta 8.1 (2026-11-04).

Install

Download macXenos-1.0.dmg, open it and drag macXenos to Applications. The
app is a Universal app, signed and notarized by Apple. From here on it can
update itself: System > Software update in Preferences checks for new
releases.

What changed since beta 8.1

Stability

• Battlefield 3 (Disc 2) no longer freezes about two minutes into the
  campaign, and no longer crashes in its first load.
• Ninja Gaiden II plays its opening cutscene: it crashed or froze there
  on every boot.
• LEGO Indiana Jones no longer hangs at the scene change after the
  title screen.
• Dynasty Warriors 6 no longer crashes when the Musou attack starts.
• Fallout: New Vegas, Fight Night Champion and BioShock boot.
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Modern Warfare 3 and Black
  Ops II boot (network error codes now match the console's).
• Infinite Undiscovery no longer crashes in its work queue.
• Quantum Theory and other games that interrupt a waiting thread no
  longer hang.
• Multi-disc games find the content their first disc installs:
  Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Grand Theft Auto V (Disc 2) and
  Battlefield 3 (Disc 2) no longer ask for an install that cannot run or
  report a dirty disc.

Graphics

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Modern Warfare 3 and Black Ops II:
  no more noise over textures.
• Dishonored and Batman: Arkham Origins: no more garbage effects.
• Red Dead Redemption: no more red and green sparkles in characters'
  hair, and the shadows in the distance are right.
• Burnout Paradise: no more shadow line across the road.
• Grand Theft Auto V (Disc 2) and NBA Street Homecourt: no more
  straight cut across the picture with a broken image below it.
• Far Cry 2: no more occasional missing objects.
• Lost Planet: Colonies: no black screen on the first boot.

Speed and memory

• Render targets take only the memory a game actually uses (Red Dead
  Redemption: 971 MB to about 120 MB of render targets).
• Audio decoders take memory only when a game uses them.
• Ultra Street Fighter IV stays at 60 fps with the new, more accurate
  CPU atomics.

App

• The app, its executable and its settings file are all called macXenos
  (macXenos.config.toml; an existing xenia-canary.config.toml is
  renamed on first launch, so settings carry over).
• Screenshots (F12) go to ~/Pictures/macXenos/<title ID> instead of inside
  the app.
• Adding a game folder shows its progress ("Reading game 37 of 182"), and
  multi-disc games keep their disc number.
• The window title and Preferences > About show the version.

Known issues

• Need for Speed: The Run sometimes stops during the opening race on
  M1 Macs (about 1 boot in 3; not seen on M4).
• Fight Night Round 4: on some boots the boxers' skin shows a foil-like
  rainbow, or stretched shapes come off a boxer's head.
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim crashes now and then (about 1 boot in 5).
• Jurassic: The Hunted: a vertical seam can show in the opening walk
  with MetalFX upscaling on.
• See the compatibility list for every tested game.