• Stern@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    The key to making gaming on macs great… you mean having games?

    I’m not saying it’s a desert… but no one is calling it a tropical paradise either.

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    28 days ago

    They are years too late. The effort to make 30+ years of games, launchers and Windows based divers compatible would be staggering. The only way this happens is if they just run Windows or Linux virtually. They walled themselves off a long time ago. Now they get to suffer from it.

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    28 days ago

    Windows literally retains itself as the defacto gaming OS, despite doing crap all except for cheapo driver support.

    Apple has been reportedly “entering” the game market for decades now for nothing to show.

    I have much higher hopes for Linux taking over than MacOS ever becoming good for gaming.

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    28 days ago

    Apple does have a compatibility layer. But it’s restricted only to devs wanting to port their games to metal.

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    28 days ago

    Oh no guys, watch out—Apple is going to start letting you play candy crush with even shittier graphics now. Oh no!

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    29 days ago

    Do MacBooks even have dedicated GPUs to play high end games? Or is the hardware powerful enough without one, but the games just need to be rewritten from scratch?

    I used to love Macs back in the early 2000s but I’m so out of touch now.

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      29 days ago

      They have powerful iGPUs; something similar to Strix Halo. I am not a Mac user, but in my understanding the top end SKU have iGPUs comparable to high end dGPUs (with respect to synthetic performance, actual gaming performance tends to lag heavily).

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      28 days ago

      MacBooks do not. I think the Mac Pro tower supports AMD dGPUs, but for nearly their entire computer line you’re working with integrated graphics. I will say, their high end Apple Silicon chips have some decent graphical capabilities that are comparable to APUs you would find in something like a Steam Deck or Xbox/PS5, so it’s not a total wash. I’ll see if I can find some M series graphics benchmarks now.

      Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but looking at this, it looks to me that the best Apple Silicon results for this specific benchmark put their best processors at about the same level as a 3070 or so.

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      28 days ago

      I use a Mac. I’m not really interested in high end games though. I like turn-based things.

      I’m still using a 2018 Mac Mini (middle-of-the-road specs) and I run things like Pathfinder:Kingmaker and Wasteland 3 just fine. Both are older, but came out around the same time as the computer. However, Baldur’s Gate 3 suffers.

      You can add eGPUs to them, but I’ve never bothered to look too much in to it because I’m satisfied with the games available to me.

      I’ve heard nothing but good things about the new M-series but have yet to try one.

      • 🇨🇦 tunetardis@lemmy.ca
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        28 days ago

        I upgraded from a 2018 Mac Mini to an M1 Macbook Air. It was quite noticeably faster. I had a big code project at the time that took over a minute to compile on the Mini, and on the Air, it zipped through it in <20s. I think even Intel programs emulating through Rosetta were faster, which is just crazy.

        But now I’m thinking about going back to a Mini again. That M4 model sounds like it’s an absolute beast!