M1 — Quake 3 Mac

Unlike the original PowerPC or early Intel builds, modern macOS (Catalina and later) dropped 32-bit support and OpenGL deprecation creates issues. However, modern source ports solve this perfectly. The industry standard is ioquake3 , an open-source engine that is 64-bit, supports modern OpenGL (and Metal via wrappers), and is compiled natively for ARM64.

seta in_mouse "1" // Use macOS native mouse seta m_filter "0" // Disable mouse smoothing seta cl_mouseAccel "0" If you have a MacBook Pro 14/16" (120Hz ProMotion) or external 144Hz+ monitor: quake 3 mac m1

Here is the solid technical content regarding running on Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4) Macs. Unlike the original PowerPC or early Intel builds,