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		theshrike79 on June 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DirectX 12 Support on macOS I play Civ 6 and it's also "cross platform". Except when it's not. The PC and (M1/2) Mac versions were out of sync for a few months, making multiplayer games between those impossible. Worked perfectly with PC + Steam Deck though.

oynqr on June 7, 2023 [–]

Civ 6 used to not feature cross play between Linux and Windows, because of platform differences with SQLite.

fomine3 on June 8, 2023 | [–]

SQLite is known for compatibility. I'm curious what platform difference was

oynqr on June 9, 2023 | | [–]

This was circa 2016-2017, so it's gonna take some digging. I'll see what I can do.

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