Just curious to know how many folks out there have seen a marked improvement in graphics performance under Sonoma? I haven't seen a post about this yet.
I'm not sure if it's graphics stack improvements, or Game Mode, but I've seen a marked improvement in most games running on Sonoma. I figured Game Mode was a nice gesture towards the focus they're placing on game development with the Game Porting Toolkit, etc, but I figured I'd be seeing a marginal improvement, at best. Instead, it's quite profound. My M2 Air is mostly a writing machine, but I do like playing games on occasion. Due to some glitch somewhere, the FPS counter isn't showing up for games running from Steam like it was in Ventura, so these are just seat-of-the-pants observations.
Euro Truck Simulator is one of my time-sink, play-to-relax games, and previously set to "Medium" settings in 1080P resolution I was able to hit 35-40fps. Now I can set the same game to "Ultra" settings, and I'm seeing roughly the same frame rate. Another example is Alien Isolation. Under Ventura, I was lucky to hit 45fps at Medium settings. I'm hitting 60fps+ with everything cranked up to maximum. Looks gorgeous and is liquid-smooth.
It's worth noting that neither of these games, to my knowledge, is optimized for Apple Silicon. To see such a huge jump in graphics performance while the games are running under Rosetta is fantastic. If this is a result of Game Mode, then it certainly is no gimmick. The one game I currently have that is AS optimized, The Long Dark, was already hitting 60fps with all settings turned up in Ventura so I can't tell if it's actually faster in Sonoma.
Anyway feel free to discuss, chat, share your own observations. It'll be great when the Steam FPS counter is working again so I could get some hard numbers for what I'm seeing.
I'm not sure if it's graphics stack improvements, or Game Mode, but I've seen a marked improvement in most games running on Sonoma. I figured Game Mode was a nice gesture towards the focus they're placing on game development with the Game Porting Toolkit, etc, but I figured I'd be seeing a marginal improvement, at best. Instead, it's quite profound. My M2 Air is mostly a writing machine, but I do like playing games on occasion. Due to some glitch somewhere, the FPS counter isn't showing up for games running from Steam like it was in Ventura, so these are just seat-of-the-pants observations.
Euro Truck Simulator is one of my time-sink, play-to-relax games, and previously set to "Medium" settings in 1080P resolution I was able to hit 35-40fps. Now I can set the same game to "Ultra" settings, and I'm seeing roughly the same frame rate. Another example is Alien Isolation. Under Ventura, I was lucky to hit 45fps at Medium settings. I'm hitting 60fps+ with everything cranked up to maximum. Looks gorgeous and is liquid-smooth.
It's worth noting that neither of these games, to my knowledge, is optimized for Apple Silicon. To see such a huge jump in graphics performance while the games are running under Rosetta is fantastic. If this is a result of Game Mode, then it certainly is no gimmick. The one game I currently have that is AS optimized, The Long Dark, was already hitting 60fps with all settings turned up in Ventura so I can't tell if it's actually faster in Sonoma.
Anyway feel free to discuss, chat, share your own observations. It'll be great when the Steam FPS counter is working again so I could get some hard numbers for what I'm seeing.
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