How to play Black Desert Online: Prestige Edition on Mac
Game summary
Black Desert is a revolutionary MMORPG that delivers intense, fast-paced combat, life activities, and an expansive open world. Made with Pearl Abyss’ proprietary game engine, Black Desert provides state-of-the-art graphics with spectacular sceneries, realistic environments, and sophisticated details. In addition to that, the insane level of customization allows you to edit everything from height, torso, face, skin texture, to micro-level details, making it possible to create your own unique characters for any of 19 classes currently available in the game.
First released: Dec 2020
Play Black Desert Online: Prestige Edition on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Black Desert Online: Prestige Edition on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.
Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.
Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).
Black Desert Online: Prestige Edition installation steps for Mac
Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Black Desert Online: Prestige Edition like you would on any PC.
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