How to play Rainbow Six: Black Ops on Mac

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Game summary

Black Ops is a standalone fan-made mod that ties all Rainbow Six titles that kinda use the same engine together. Instead of running Rogue Spear using RogueSpear.exe, you can use the latest Black Ops engine to run the game so it works on modern-day systems. All seven Rainbow Six parts merged into one game: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (1998), Rainbow Six: Eagle Watch Expansion pack (1999), Rogue Spear (1999), Rogue Spear: Urban Operations (2000), Rainbow Six: Covert Ops Essentials (2000), Rogue Spear: Black Thorn (2001), Rainbow Six: TakeDown - Missions in Korea. Play Rogue Spear and other Rainbow Six parts with the latest 2.61 engine. It contains: all levels unlocked (Custom mission: Terrorist Hunt/Hostage Rescue/etc), unlocked/modded access to all Lone Wolf Missions, modded/fixed Rainbow Six / Eagle Watch levels - very few glitches remain, Vista/7 audio fix, X64 Registry, Win7 Registry fix, remapped a load of the game files to be able to work with Black Thorn, modded campaign - play 57 missions from Rainbow Six to Black Thorn, 53 Weapons in total to choose from, special unlocked terrorist weapons - Uzi, Dragunov, AK47, AK74, Skorpion; secondary weapons have been modded so the player can choose 2 primary weapons, default 6 grenades instead of 3, has its own registry paths - this version will not affect your current Rainbow Six installation, modded MP weapons so you can select all weapons as secondary. It's a small game, easy for LAN-gaming.
First released: Dec 2014

Play Rainbow Six: Black Ops on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Rainbow Six: Black Ops 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).

Rainbow Six: Black Ops 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 Rainbow Six: Black Ops like you would on any PC.
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