Game mode for CrossOver, Whisky and Wine

Keeps macOS out of your game.

No second cursor over your crosshair. No menu bar taking the clicks you meant for the game. No Dock stealing your aim at the screen edge.

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  • Free forever
  • Open source
  • macOS 13+

01 The problem

If you play Windows games on a Mac, you have hit some of these.

  1. 01

    Two cursors.

    The macOS arrow shows up over your game and moves on its own, separate from your in-game crosshair.

  2. 02

    Aiming near the top of the screen does nothing.

    You right-click to aim, the menu bar takes the click, your game never gets it.

  3. 03

    A menu opens over your game

    mid-fight, from an app you never clicked.

  4. 04

    The Dock slides in

    at the screen edge and your camera stops turning.

  5. 05

    A notch app draws over your HUD.

    Something you installed for the notch is suddenly part of the fight.

Each mark sits where it actually happens

None of it is your fault or the game's. It is macOS behaving normally around a window it does not consider truly fullscreen.

02 What you get

macOS stops interrupting, then everything goes back.

Without DeadeyeWith Deadeye
macOS arrow appears over your gameThe arrow stays hidden. Only your crosshair is on screen.
Clicks near the top go to the menu barThey go to your game. Aim-down-sights works up there.
Menus open over your gameNothing opens.
The Dock eats your aim at the edgeThe Dock stays down while you play.
Notch apps draw on your HUDQuit while you play, reopened after.

Nothing to configure. Install it, grant one permission, play. No per-game setup.

03 How you know it is working

An eye in your menu bar, and one blink.

The mark, idle and holding

It blinks once when a game starts and again when you finish. The open eye is idle; the hooded one means it is holding macOS back. That is the entire interface.

Open — idle Hooded — game mode

04 Install

Three steps, no Terminal.

  1. Download the latest release, open the disk image, and drag Deadeye to the Applications folder beside it.
  2. Open it. macOS will refuse the first time, because Deadeye is not notarised. Go to System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll to the bottom, and click Open Anyway.
  3. Grant Accessibility when asked. It is the only permission Deadeye requests, and it needs it to see a click before the menu bar does.

If there is no Open Anyway button, some Macs report the app as damaged instead. It is not damaged. Clear the download quarantine once and open it again:

Terminal 
$ xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Deadeye.app

05 Compatibility

Built against CrossOver, should work with any Wine runner.

  • Tested Tested with CrossOver. That is what it was built against and verified on.
  • Should work Whisky, Porting Kit and Game Porting Toolkit should work, because Deadeye detects games by how Wine names its own processes rather than by looking for CrossOver. Untested, so not claimed.
  • Requires macOS 13 Ventura or later, Apple Silicon or Intel.

Using another runner? Open an issue and say whether it worked. That is genuinely useful.

06 Support

Deadeye is free and always will be.

Buy me a coffee.

The first $99 goes on an Apple Developer account, so Deadeye can be notarised and open with no warning at all. After that, hosting and domains.

  1. First $99
  2. Developer account
  3. No warning at all
Buy me a coffee

Tell another Mac gamer.

At this stage that is worth more than money.

Ready when you are

Keeps macOS out of your game.

Install it, grant one permission, play.

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Free · Open source · macOS 13+