For laptops or if you need more memory, there's no external or internal way to upgrade those.
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Apple Releases Tool to Help Developers Port Windows Games to Mac
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For laptops or if you need more memory, there's no external or internal way to upgrade those.
On consoles the storage is internal, on macs add on storage is always external, except for the Mac Pro that starts at $7000.00, even gamers with 4090 aren't spending those amounts of money.
The Mac gaming community isn't big enough to really support big AAA exclusives and capable Macs are too expensive to make anyone buy one just for the games.
So as far as I can see it, this is effectively an ad-hoc emulator to run DX12 windows games on a mac. You have zero optimization, but you get info like "hmm, okay, my game can reach 40 fps on a base M1 Mac" with basically zero effort, so you know that a Mac Port would be feasible. Thats cool for developers!
This wont get us any AAA game, but I am pretty sure this could open up the mac as a platform to all major indie titles. If Apple can optimize their conversion kit in a way that it takes a studio less than a week to make a port, then the flood gates are open.
This wont get us any AAA game, but I am pretty sure this could open up the mac as a platform to all major indie titles. If Apple can optimize their conversion kit in a way that it takes a studio less than a week to make a port, then the flood gates are open.
There's a lot of small things which should be modified inside MacOS before gaming, for one - the mouse acceleration.
Also, it doesn't help that Apples magic mice are not even remotely suitable for any decent gaming.
In order for Apple to say they are interested in pursuing gaming, on any meaningful level.. they should bring out a mouse which is suitable for the purpose, and make it an option instead of the magic mouse at point of sale.
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It's unreal for Apple to even produce the Magic Mouse these days to be honest.
Charging port is badly placed, making it unusable while charging. Latency is ridiculous.
Battery doesn't compare to its competitors anymore.
"It's for productivity", anyone who is even remotely serious about productivity here uses a MXMaster 3s.
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I can’t believe what you guys talk here. I play Diablo 4 and others do call of duty on Mac for some days now. You can argue all you want.
Imagine a MacBook Pro with an M2/M3 max chip becoming the best gaming laptop on the market. Maybe not the fastest graphical hardware, but 8 hrs of gaming without having to plug in and still very decent fps. Most gaming laptops are hindered by graphics hardware that throttles while on battery power to the point that they are far slower than apple silicon. M1/2/3 won’t have that problem since they are far more efficient.
The GameSprockets technology is from the last time they took gaming seriously. Those lasted a couple of years, having no real commitment.
Developers have made an effort for their games to run well on Steam Deck. Nothing is 100% but there are always chances that positive change will occur.
You were talking about storage complaining about 256GB and I'm saying there are external solutions for both Macs and Mac Books. You just need a USB-C connections which every Mac has and for gaming you don't need internal M.2 SSD.
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MiHoYo wasn't interested in making it macOS-compliant through an iPad version.
You'd think that making extra money would be important to them but what are a few more million dollars when they got so much from mobile players already?
They should have been working with Valve on Proton, which isn't all that different, to make games on macOS as good as games on SteamOS, plus Mac/Vision Pro users might be able to run alyx, the VR game.
Not sure where this much intensity and bile is coming from. You can still build a PC or get an Xbox or Playstation if performance is really important to you.
My MacBook Pro compares pretty well to my gaming PC - trounces it in CPU (Ryzen 2600) and is about equivalent in GPU (1660 Super). Given that I haven't upgraded it to the latest and greatest, I don't need more performance at the moment. I prefer my Mac which is smaller and lighter and quieter, why not game on it if the games run on it? That's all we're talking about.
Are you so attached to the PC form factor that the idea of games running on Mac whips you up into such a hateful frenzy?
P.S. What did Zelda do to you? Sir, this is a Wendy's.
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Which is why I feel like Apple needs to show value for its more expensive machines, and what developers can produce when given resources. If not the makers of the Mac, then who. Especially with them flexing on their integrated GPU, and not allowing any 3rd party.
Yes, if they could bring back Bill Budge's Pinball Construction Set, that would be great.
Some of the other titles like Apex Legends and The Sims might be okay, too.
I think he escaped from Wccftech. 🤣
My Ryzen 7 5800H and RTX 3050 Ti seem to be fast enough but not overly fast compared to my MacBook Air M1.
Progress is being made and performance for certain use cases, ASi does out perform other mid to high end systems. As the software catches up to the hardware we should expect further improvements. For example,
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...f-graphics-card-support.2392550/post-32243586
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...f-graphics-card-support.2392550/post-32243660
There are other examples optimized for the ANE that demonstrate even more significant performance gains.
Absolutely not. 100% objectively false. Have you heard of a little company called Valve? Probably not, they're tiny and definitely don't run what is by far the biggest PC gaming store on the planet. Anyway, they have a device called a "Steam deck" that plays Windows games. It doesn't run Windows, it uses Wine running on Linux. (Wine Is Not an Emulator.)