Spintires on Mac

About Spintires

The award-winning, million-seller indie hit, Spintires®: The Original Game. The ultimate off-road challenge, climb aboard incredibly detailed soviet inspired vehicles and venture across the rough and tough terrain motherland Russia has to offer. Featuring a highly unique physics-based deformable terrain and water interaction technology. Spintires boasts a quirky new experience every time you play. Winch yourself, or friends out of a mudslinging exercise and explore the depths of Russia, finding garages and fuel stations to keep your vehicle alive – carry logs and bring them to the objectives without becoming lost or stuck in the mud. Unlock and use more capable vehicles, or install one of the vast amounts of attachments available to help you along the way. Offering a truly immersive driving experience, watch in amazement as your vehicle becomes entangled in trees, bogged down in mud or swept away by river currents. A physics sandbox that is vastly moddable with a huge modding community expanding the horizons every day – try some of the mods available on the Steam workshop or have a go at creating your own with the included Spintires Editor. Features:
Deformable terrain with detailed mud particle effects. Interactive water with physics-based water animations. 10 highly detailed soviet inspired vehicles and trucks with various attachments. 7 maps based on the beautiful harsh lands of Russia with physics-based trees, bushes and rocks. A dynamic weather system, featuring rain and wind.
Physics vehicle simulation with deformable tires, wobbling body parts and detailed exhaust smoke. Highly detailed audio system, with true to life vehicle sounds. Day and night cycle. Ability to use winches and cranes. Manual and automatic gears control. Gamepad and steering wheel support.
4 player multiplayer (peer to peer).
Moddable with Steam Workshop, create your own vehicles or maps. Sandbox
Spintires editor.

How to Run Spintires on Mac

Mac Version Available

Option 1: Use Parallels

Parallels is the fastest, easiest, and most powerful option to run Windows on your Mac. Data can be shared between Mac and Windows and switching between the two is as simple as switching screens. Run it On Mac recommends Parallels as the #1 best way to run Spintires on your Mac desktop or laptop.

Pros: Very Cost-Effective; Easily transfer files; Easily switch between Windows & Mac.

Cons: May see a slight decrease in performance; Cost varies from $50-80 for a personal license.

Option 2: Use Bootcamp

Boot Camp is a boot utility included with most Apple desktop and laptop products that allows users to install a Windows operating system alongside the native macOS/OS X operating system. Using Bootcamp is a relatively technical process and should probably only be undertaken by someone who understands the process.

Pros: Free; Good option if you need high performance or are using an older machine.

Cons: Switching between operating systems requires a restart; difficult, technical installation process.

Spintires System Requirements

    Minimum: Full Version of original Call of Duty, 3D hardware accelerator card required - 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 32MB hardware T&L-capable video card and the latest drivers*, Microsoft Windows 2000/XP, Pentium III 800MHz or Athlon 800MHz processor or higher, 128MB RAM (256MB Recommended), 1150MB of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus 600MB for Windows 2000/XP swap file), 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers, 100% Windows 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers, DirectX 9.0c (included)
    Multi-player Requirements:
    • Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported
    • Internet play requires 56kbps (or faster) modem and latest drivers
    • LAN play requires network interface card and latest drivers
    Important Notice: *Some 3D accelerator cards with the chipset listed here may not be compatible with the 3D acceleration features utilized by Call of Duty United Offensive. Please refer to your hardware manufacturer for 100% DirectX 9.0c compatibility.
    Supported Chipsets
    • All ATI Radeon cards
    • All nVidia GeForce cards
    • Matrox Parhelia