Skip to content

MacVolvo 1.0 — release candidate

Pre-release
Pre-release

Choose a tag to compare

View all tags
@haeli05 haeli05 released this 16 Oct 13:06
v1.0
8849801

MacVolvo 1.0

Release candidate — build 6 is Developer ID signed and Apple notarized.
The app and DMG are stapled and pass Gatekeeper. This prerelease is available
for testing; review the known issues below before installing.

What's new

  • Play and Open Steam remain visible while a game is running. Open Steam focuses
    Steam rather than the game; Play returns to the already running game.
  • Per-game resolutions, custom sizes and fullscreen options sync to Steam Properties.
  • Black-and-white icon, solid backgrounds and a monochrome launcher.
  • Raw mouse timing no longer depends on diagnostic logging being enabled.
  • Fixed a captured fullscreen display-lock deadlock and improved launch handoff.
  • CS2 uses a default 120 FPS cap (preserving an existing user launch cap) and
    a separate shader-worker setting. These are mitigations, not a measured fix
    for combat spikes.

Download and install

Use assets attached to MacVolvo Releases,
not GitHub's automatically generated “Source code” archives, to install the app.
Open MacVolvo-1.0.dmg, drag MacVolvo.app to Applications, then launch it.
Quit an older MacVolvo launcher before installing. The earlier unsigned ZIP is
retained only as a historical test artifact; use the DMG for build 6.
Verify the download with its accompanying .dmg.sha256 file.

Requirements: Apple Silicon, macOS 26.5+, Rosetta, a Steam account and internet
access. Allow about 70 GB per game; 16 GB RAM recommended. Intel Macs are not supported.

Known issues

  1. Black screen with sound on launch: quit the game completely and restart it.
    This can occur through MacVolvo or Steam; intermittent cases remain unresolved.
  2. Audio static: in Audio MIDI Setup, choose Window → Show Audio Devices,
    select the output device and set Format to 96,000 Hz (96 kHz) if supported.
    Quit and restart the game. This helped on the tested M2 Max; it is not a universal fix.
  3. CS2 combat lag spikes or sustained severe FPS loss: investigation continues.
  4. Deadlock mouse pan stops after a match: quit and restart the game.
    Post-match recovery has not been fully verified.
  5. Steam store/profile pages may flicker while loading.

Validation and limits

A native regression test detects the old fullscreen self-lock and passes with
its deferred-query repair. One launch on the repaired runtime recorded actual
native presentations. Repeated-launch stability and full-match input behavior
remain player-test items; no CS2 combat benchmark improvement is claimed.

See docs/RELEASING.md for packaging, verification and publication steps.

Assets 8
Loading