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Gaming on M1 (Look inside, Games List)
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Added BeamNG.Drive (v0.21) (Windows on ARM)
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BeamNG on M1 Mac (AS) (Look Inside (Windows on ARM) Huge Update ! v0.21
BeamNG on M1 (AS Mac Mini (16/512GB) Original post was with crossover EDIT 12/17/2020 Parallels released a M1 tech preview today ! heres the results...
www.beamng.com
Metal Gear Solid V should work in Windows on ARM. In fact, with the right settings, it seems like the game is hitting consistently about 40 - 60fps, which means it's highly playable and is in fact probably on par with my PS4.
I've also tried Double Dragons Neon and that works as well.
Crysis 2 (heh) doesn't work.
Dragon Quest XI doesn't work either.
I'm too lazy to try anything else.
I've also tried Double Dragons Neon and that works as well.
Crysis 2 (heh) doesn't work.
Dragon Quest XI doesn't work either.
I'm too lazy to try anything else.
I posted this in another thread, but Steam now also has a game streaming feature. Last night, I was able to play Batman Arkham Knight on my M1 Mac by streaming it from my gaming PC. That alone has tripled the number of games I can play on this machine without paying a dime. This also means you can play older 32-bit games on an M1 Mac running Big Sur because it is streamed to the Mac rather than running natively on the machine.
Like you, I do 99% of my gaming in PlayStation, Switch and Xbox (as well as my retro systems of course). And I totally agree that some games are just better suited to a mouse and keyboard.
I’m also not normally a fan of digital game purchases. Being an old fashioned chappie, I like a tangible product that I know, no matter what, will still be available to me in 30 years time. Just like all of my old games are.
Having said that, I am rather partial to GeForce Now. There are some games which just don’t get a physical release, so those I will buy on Steam or the Epic Store. Not to mention the ridiculous amount of, often very high quality, games you get for free from Epic - I have loads of those. And the seemingly never ending discounts and vouchers make the odd game purchases inevitable - for instance, I just purchased Metro Exodus for £3.99. Can’t resist that.
My days of spending thousands on gaming PCs stopped when I became an Apple customer a long, long time ago. So the inexpensive GeForce Now lets me play all of those games at high resolution, with maxxed out settings, ray tracing and so on, which I just couldn’t do on a Mac without external GPU’s and a good Intel system running BootCamp at least. The streaming quality is stunning (I have a 500 meg connection, so it’s always good quality), there’s so little lag that I don’t even notice it 99% of the time. Now we can even play on iPhone and iPad, which is a bonus.
I used to be dead against digital and streaming games in any way, shape or form, but I’m slowly coming round a bit - though, as long as there’s a console and physical games, those will still always be where the bulk of my gaming purchases are.
Thanks for the amazing work UCDHIUS! Being a fan of racing simulation, impossible to boot Assetto Corsa via steam Crossover 20.0.2. Installed DXVK and Direct modern games in Crossover Steam bottle. Right click and Backend DXVK in settings. Do you guys have any advice?
Thanks a lot, using MacBook Air M1 7gpu 16gb/512mb
Thanks a lot, using MacBook Air M1 7gpu 16gb/512mb
Is it launching to a black full screen or throwing any kind of error?
I had no issues with assetto corsa
it’s one of the smoothest running games that I’ve tested actually.
I can't do much gaming on the M1 yet until Steam hopefully does something about updating controller drivers for Apple Silicon
They just released an update today:
"January 5 - Steam Client Beta - January 5th
The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:
Note: This update has been re-released with a Steam Xbox controller driver crash fix. If you have installed it and Steam has updated, you should go to the Controller Settings, click the button to update the driver, and restart your computer to get the fix."
If you have installed Steam on your M1 Mac and have Steam Play(SP) enabled (and a Windows PC also running Steam), you can run any SP-compatible game on the M1 Mac. This includes games such as Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition. So far I've only tried playing Batman: Arkham Origins and Arkham Knight this way, but both games were playable with minimal input or interface lag.
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Did that fix controllers on M1 hardware?
On ASi, the driver installation would never even finish without an error
Thanks for answer buddy, the game icons come in the dock for 2sec then disapear..No window open, no message!!
Was it the 2014 version or the 2019 assetto corsa competitionne you run?
Original AC, i'd try making a new 64 bit bottle.
Sometimes they can get screwed up.
Don't install, DXVK manually because crossover 0.20.0.2 already has a specialized DXVK for mac os.
(It can cause conflicts)
Yow, thanks for advices man, just desperate spent 4h trying to make it work! created a undread bottles 
no way to get it started. With or without DXVK/directX..Windows 64bits from 7 to 10..no way. Maybe mac air 7gpu version..
If you guys now a great simulation playable on M1 but Dirt and F1 2017, i take!!
no way to get it started. With or without DXVK/directX..Windows 64bits from 7 to 10..no way. Maybe mac air 7gpu version..If you guys now a great simulation playable on M1 but Dirt and F1 2017, i take!!
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Updating myself just to add that as of this morning, the latest Beta of the Steam client for Mac does not fix the controller driver issues.
Fingers crossed they will address this before too much longer -- sucks to play some of my games with the kb/trackpad
Yow, thanks for advices man, just desperate spent 4h trying to make it work! created a undread bottles
If you guys now a great simulation playable on M1 but Dirt and F1 2017, i take!!
I have downloaded 10 TBs+ worth of games since I got my M1. (Installing, uninstalling, reinstalling) tweaking setups.
Its all trial and error with getting any of this to work.
I've also got Assetto Corsa running smoothly using CrossOver but noticed that when I try to look at a race/practice replay, all the TV cameras show a very (and I mean "very"!) blurred image. Everything is totally out of focus to the point where the car is a blurred blob moving through blurred scenery and track.
Any ideas where I may be going wrong, please?
Interesting, regarding BeamNG: someone I know claimed to receive 50 FPS gameplay, with max settings and resolution (2560x1600), on his base M1 MacBook Air; this was via Crossover Steam, and the test map was East Coast USA. Separately, on an open grid, the amount of FPS was out of the ballpark—as high as 125 FPS.
This is way better than I expected. If I get an M1 Mac, I can say goodbye to having to start up a Windows PC just for BeamNG.
This is way better than I expected. If I get an M1 Mac, I can say goodbye to having to start up a Windows PC just for BeamNG.