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Hi. I'll buy a MacBook Pro. I have a PlayStation 4. But I want to play indie games on my computer. For example Terraria, Hotline miami 2, Caravan, Euro Truck Simulator. Are such games played in high graphics settings?
 
Hi. I'll buy a MacBook Pro. I have a PlayStation 4. But I want to play indie games on my computer. For example Terraria, Hotline miami 2, Caravan, Euro Truck Simulator. Are such games played in high graphics settings?


Depends a lot on how well optimised the game is for macOS. Euro Truck Sim runs a hell of a lot better under Windows than macOS. Terraria, well, it runs pretty good. Don't know about the other two you mentioned. Haven'tried.

You can always stream from your PlayStation to you Mac too.

If you have a Windows licence you can also install Windows next to macOS on the Mac and the games will run brilliantly. - It's not because macOS itself can't run the games btw, but because of market share. More people game on Windows, so the developers spend more money and time optimising for the platform. Metal based games generally perform really similarly, like F1 and HITMAN. In fact, in some cases F1 performs better on macOS. But yeah, it really varies loads from game to game. Hollow Knight also runs really quite well on Mac, but Dreamfall Chapters doesn't run very well compared to its Windows version. Though they've worked on it and made it better relative to launch.
 
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