Pros: Game will launch and load to menu.
Cons: BattleEye Anti-Cheat will prevent you from staying in multiplayer matches as it will not run properly in Crossover.

Side-note: It does run on Proton on Linux, so there may be some service hook that's missing for BattleEye that's required or Wine Prefix needs to be adjusted.

This was performed on both Parallels 26 and VMware Fusion Pro 25H2u1. Screenshots were taken in VMWare Fusion Pro 25H2u1.

## General Notes:
You will need to adjust settings in Parallels or VMWare to avoid having Windows force the Retina display settings. Recommended is 1920x1200 to keep aspect ratio and still look okay. The game plays best if Windows installation is on internal drive and an external SSD/HDD game drive is mounted within the VM (USB Passthrough, format as NTFS). This splits the I/O and memory overhead. With the 18GB model you will need to make sure you are giving enough memory, otherwise a lot of memory swapping will occur.

## Performance:
The game itself runs and will take a minute to fully cache system for PRISM. You will experience an intermediate FPS drop because of the nature of the JIT compilation and Rosetta 2 translation. However, the game is still playable.

## BattleEye Anti-cheat:
For a while this was the biggest limitation, but on Windows for ARM64 it is allowed. I have been able to play matches with little to no issues.

There is a quirk where sometimes it will fail to launch the BattleEye AC service, but usually a restart of the VM or a relaunch will fix that issue. I am not 100% sure of the condition that causes that service to fail.


## MacOS (Host) Tweaks:
1. Disable Spotlight Search for VM directory so it doesn't get indexed.

System Settings -> Siri & Spotlight -> Spotlight Privacy
Add: ~/Virtual Machines.localized

2. Reduce transparency and motion effects (Terminal) (Tahoe Liquid Glass):

defaults write com.apple.universalaccess reduceMotion -bool true

defaults write com.apple.universalaccess reduceTransparency -bool true

killall Dock

3. Purge MacOS file cache to give the VM a cleaner memory environment:

sudo purge

## VMware VMX File Tweaks:
1. Disable Side-Channel Mitigations (Spectre/Meltdown):

Add to the .vmx:
ulm.disableMitigations = "TRUE"

2. Memory Reservation (Prevent host from reclaiming VM RAM):
Add to .vmx:
sched.mem.min = "8192"
sched.mem.min = "8192"

## Windows VM ARM64 Guest Tweaks:
1. Power Plan: High Performance

Run PowerShell as Administrator and run the following:
powercfg /setactive 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c

2. Disable SysMain (Superfetch):
Sysmain causes random disk I/O spikes against the VMDK as it tries to pre-load apps. Not beneficial in a VM environment.

Win + R and run 'services.msc' (without single quotes)
Double-click "SysMain"
Set Startup Type to Disabled
Stop the service.

3. Disable Windows Search Indexing:
Manual search will still work, just not against an actively updated index.

Win + R and run 'services.msc' (without single quotes)
Double-click "Windows Search"
Set Startup Type to Disabled
Stop the service

4. Disable the Xbox Game Bar and Game DVR:
This adds overhead in the VM.

Run PowerShell as Administrator and run the following:
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage

5. Disable Transparency and Animations:
Reduces virtual GPU overhead.

Settings -> Accessibility -> Visual Effects -> Disable All

## Enlisted Game INI Video Settings:
The config file is usually located under:

C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Enlisted\settings.blk

Here is what I use for my Macbook Pro M3 Pro 18GB RAM 512GB SSD:

video{
mode:t="borderless"
monitor:t="\\.\DISPLAY1"
antialiasing_mode:t="tsr"
driver:t="dx11"
fsr:t="ultraquality"
resolution:t="1920x1200"
vsync:b=yes
fpsLimit:i=60
}

## Steam Launch Options:
1. Right-click Enlisted -> Properties -> Launch Options
2. Add -dx11

NOTE: DX12 translation causes a lot of overhead on ARM.