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MacBook M1 – will it run Crysis 4?
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I need to start selling shovels, people are gonna dig up the dead “will it run crysis?” jokrr rt to no end.
No idea if it will, but I hope so! Strangely, I was alerted to it's existence by a tweet from an Apple engineer (who apparently worked on the cryengine previously) which was then re-tweeted by another Apple engineer. This probably means nothing other than they are fans of the games, but it was interesting.
Crysis 3 runs under Parallels (requires subscription) albeit at 1080p low settings so likely Crysis 4 will also run since it looks like it's based on CryEngine 5.x/DirectX 11 which is currently more doable than DirectX 12 and Vulkan APIs.
https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/Home
Better and easier to just get a PS5 or Xbox Series X/S.
https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/Home
Better and easier to just get a PS5 or Xbox Series X/S.
All Crysis Remastered use DirectX11+Vulkan so currently unlikely but maybe Crossover/Parallels will have evolved by then or Crytek will allow a DirectX 11 only option without Vulkan for Crysis 4. Still stands that it's less hair loss getting a console or PC.
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Didn’t they announce some time ago that the next Cryengine is going to have Real-Time Raytracing built in?
They patched it into Crysis Remastered (and by patched I really mean hacked, lol). It is a safe bet that the new game (engine) will have it.
Probably not. Apple doesn’t seem interested in being a part of the traditional gaming industry.
It could change very soon. There is a rumour that Apple is poaching some Xbox engineers.
If they're only poaching them now, then "soon" is probably many years away.
macOS is far from the gaming industry. No matter what people say, macOS has no hope until they increase the market share dramatically.
Apple has to make an investment like Microsoft did with Activision Blizzard otherwise 2.7% MacOS market share won't even fund the idea of starting a game development house. Second biggest hurdle is convincing consumers to buy $3k+ Macbooks vs $500 consoles that have better gaming graphics capabilities.
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam
“You can do your taxes, make movies, program your own games, stream directly from your device, make art, make music, all on top of playing games.
That’s a good argument. Unless your brain is just hyper focused on gaming.
Whoopty doo? Xbox Series X/S have Edge browser for Turbo Tax online, can stream directly to Twitch.tv, etc. Hardware wise it's pretty much a $500/$300 PC. If Microsoft flips the switch to give the OS full PC mode then they'll own the console along with PC markets.
Microsoft is spending a record $67 billion dollars on a deal that may or may not be successful for them. Just because you own the franchise and IP doesn't mean the talent will stick around. Good luck to them, regardless.
Apple doesn't do big mergers. The largest was Beats for $3 billion, and for Apple, that was practically a luxury purchase. The second biggest would be Intel's cellular division for $1 billion. Other than that, you have to go back to 1997 when Apple purchased NeXT for about $400 million.
My point is that Apple prefers to keep it in house and they have shown zero interest in being a "AAA" gaming publisher just for the Mac. I sympathize with your argument, as a gamer myself I'd like to have more titles on the Mac, but the Steam charts aren't a blip on Tim Cook's radar.
And the original Nintendo Entertainment System was more powerful than an Atari 800, but nobody ever composed documents on the same device as Mario Bros. This argument has been put forth for four decades, yet consoles remain consoles, because that is the intended market for the device.
I just use NVIDIA Now. I can play most PC games on max settings on my Mac. Otherwise I still don't see the Mac taking off as a gaming platform, even though they are full capable of gaming now.
Their track is such that that they seem to be keeping talent in prior acquisitions plus it appears that many folks working there seem cautiously optimistic, given the toxicity of that studio.
What it does, is strengthen MSFT's game catalog, and for many gamers makes the game pass subscription a must have.
stop trolling/double posting without anything else to say
Bottom line, it could be able to launch the game someway ?! maybe yes, but irrelevant since the M1 gpu power is so weak for this kind of game, probably 5-10fps at low settings
Maybe try a online gaming platform for your M1
Too late, Apple should bought the Act-Blizz since blizzard was into macOS for so long..they miss the opportunity...or they really dont want to, they dont care about this at all
If Crytek makes a Switch port, the answer to this question should be yes. If they do not, but still use DX11 or Vulkan then the answer would be CrossOver/Parallels. If they use DX12, well, maybe the answer will be a future version of CrossOver?
I disagree, just because they could, doesn't mean they should have. The profit margins of AAA games, is not that great, Apple could take those billions of dollars and put it to greater use, i.e., select business sectors that offer a better return and also what they're good at. Gaming is not a major item on Macs for lots of reasons.