Installing CF Gaming

Four steps

1. 1

   Open the disk image

   Download CFMacGaming-11.5.dmg, and open it.

2. 2

   Open CF Gaming

   Double-click CF Gaming in the disk image's window. macOS asks whether to open an app downloaded from the Internet: click Open.

3. 3

   Click Install

   CF Gaming moves itself into the Applications folder in your home folder (~/Applications), asks whether you'd like a shortcut on your Desktop, and opens from there. No administrator's password is needed.

4. 4

   Eject the disk image

   It isn't needed any more.

CF Gaming sets itself up with you, in its own window.

• Recording first: it asks to record your games, which macOS has to allow. Not Now carries on without it, and Settings can allow it later.
• Auto Setup takes you through a few steps, each one skippable: who plays, your colours, a Steam case, an older setup to bring across if there's one on the Mac, and recording. Manual Setup goes straight to CF Gaming.

Everything the setup does can be changed later, in Settings.

• Once a day, CF Gaming looks for a new version, and downloads it by itself, with nothing to click.
• It waits until nothing is playing, then counts down from 10 seconds and restarts as the new version. Not Now leaves it until you next quit.
• Your cases and games, people, recordings and settings all stay as they are.
• Each update is checked to make sure it really comes from CF Gaming's maker; one that doesn't is refused.

Already have CF Gaming? You don't need this download: it updates itself.

CF Gaming and its disk image are signed with its maker's Developer ID and notarised by Apple, so macOS knows where they come from. What CF Gaming downloads for you, such as Steam's installer, RetroArch and the emulators, is checked before it's kept.