There are a few online games that I play on my Win 10 machine that I wanted to play on the Mac. They are Fortnite, League of Legends (LOL), and Steam. Fortnite is from Epic Games and there is also a client that runs on the Mac. Riot Games distributes League of Legends and they have a client that runs on the Mac. Steam has a client that runs on the Mac.
The League of Legends application starts up ok. But there are problems with the other two. Steam requires a case-insensitive filesystem and it won’t start. The Epic Games launcher uses the Unreal Engine and it also needs a case-insensitive file systems. It too doesn’t start. While you can move the Epic Games Launcher to a drive that has a case-insensitive file system, you can’t do the same with the Steam launcher. I tried using the Crossover (Wine) application to run the Windows Steam application. While I was able to get it to run, the game Among Us locked up on me. I chose APFS case-sensitive for the drive when I installed Catalina, while the default was APFS case-insensitive. As a Unix/Linux fan, I prefer to use case-sensitive. I am planning to upgrade the current 500G NVMe drive to a 1TB NVMe drive since I was running out of space. Since I will be using APFS for Catalina, I could create a volume that was APFS case-insensitive and put those application there. “Space sharing” is one feature of APFS that will allow me to create a volume without need to determine the size of the volume initially. The volumes in the APFS container will share space. As long as the total space used by the volumes is less than the total available space, things will work out ok. The current drive will then become a Win 10 boot drive. Catch you later.