UTM 5.0.5 ran the Windows build of Cyberpunk inside a Mac

On 2 September the UTM project announced beta 5.0.5. The headline is Direct3D Feature Level 12_1 for a guest Windows 11 on a Mac. The team calls itself the first virtualization tool on macOS with that graphics level for Windows 11.

Feature level is a set of GPU capabilities, not just a DirectX 12 label. FL12_1 includes rasterizer ordered views and tier-1 conservative rasterization. The driver uses UTM's own D3DMetal backend: the guest sees a virtual card, and commands pass through Triton/Neptune, VirtIO, QEMU, and virglrenderer before they become Metal on the host.

The demo ran the Windows build of Cyberpunk 2077 inside the virtual machine. A native Apple Silicon version has existed since July 2025 and goes through Metal directly. The point of the video is different: the game lives inside guest Windows. UTM calls compatibility limited and the driver experimental. It wants a clean Windows install, UTM's own graphics driver, and macOS no older than Ventura 13. Version 5.0.4 had only experimental DirectX 11.

It is a lab showing, not a replacement for CD Projekt's Mac storefront.