REFramework — Wine / macOS (Apple GPTK / D3DMetal) ⚠️ WIP

A fork of praydog/REFramework adding a Wine / Apple Game Porting Toolkit (D3DMetal) code path so RE Engine mods can load on macOS. Work in progress. The Wine path is gated on is_wine(); the Windows / Proton path is unchanged. Worked on both GPTK3 and GPTK4.

Use

1. Get dinput8.dll — download from Releases, or build it (see Build).
2. Put dinput8.dll in the game folder, and make sure Wine is set to override dinput8 to native, so the game loads this proxy DLL instead of the built-in one.
3. Install your mod per that mod's own instructions, then launch the game inside the CrossOver / GPTK bottle.

A release (and this code) may be out of date relative to upstream REFramework.

Sample mod

A release also includes re9-lmdf-test-mod.zip — a small sample mod, used only to sanity-check that the overlay loads (the project targets REFramework itself, not this mod). It unlocks infinite ammo in Resident Evil Requiem's "Leon Must Die Forever" minigame. Unzip it into the game folder so the script lands at reframework/autorun/re9_inf_ammo_lmdf.lua, and keep DLSS frame generation enabled at startup.

Tested

• MacBook Pro 14" (M3 Pro)
• macOS Tahoe 27 beta 1
• CrossOver Preview 20260616 (27.0.0.40643)
• Apple GPTK 4 (D3DMetal 4.0 beta1)
• Resident Evil Requiem (Steam AppID 3764200, buildid 22898177)
• Tested at commit 43bd68a6470e7cb7e3dc630dd88be6a8a28c97d7 (this fork, branch d3dmetal-wine-support)

Build

An x64 dinput8.dll. Build it in the cloud (GitHub Actions on a windows-latest runner) or in a local Windows VM (same commands). A VM example:

Local VM example (Apple Silicon)

A Windows 11 ARM guest, e.g. in VMware Fusion.

1. Install Git for Windows and Visual Studio 2026 Community with the Desktop development with C++ and .NET desktop development workloads (the .NET one is required, or CMake configure fails).
2. In the VS developer command prompt:

   git clone --recursive -b d3dmetal-wine-support https://github.com/realyxl/REFramework.git
   cd REFramework
   cmake -S . -B build -G "Visual Studio 18 2026" -A x64 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DDEVELOPER_MODE=ON "-DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5"
   cmake --build build --config Release --target REFramework
   

Output: build/bin/REFramework/dinput8.dll.

⚠️ Known limitation — IMPORTANT

The overlay requires DLSS frame generation to be enabled while it loads at startup; you can turn it off again afterwards.

Credits

Based on praydog/REFramework; informed by the closed PR #1589.