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0 pointsyieldcrv3y ago0 comments

I'm only a very casual gamer these days (although anyone I go on a date with would only see a gaming accessory or console and immediately think hardcore), I recently went down the gaming rabbithole to see what I can do with my M1.

It seems like MacOS on M1 architecture can play almost everything! Like, there are so many titles that don't have OSX listed as ever being released for, but it can either be played out the box or with a slight tweak. But I guess that does preclude Steam releases if you don't have direct access to the per game, installers.

And nowadays these indie games release on all major consoles, mobile, and windows, macos.

What are you encountering? A few examples on whats missing for you?

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lapetitejort3y ago

Three semi-broad examples, Elden Ring (Japanese dev), Horizon: Zero Dawn (Dutch dev, PS4 port), and Inscryption (indie dev) do not show MacOS support. I have not tried installing Windows-only games on a Mac. Can they be installed regardless if they don't show support? Does Valve have Mac-specific APIs to get them runnable like they do for Linux?

david_allison3y ago

Did you get any VR games working?

https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/Home paints a sorry picture of the state of M1 gaming (partially due to dropping 32 bit support).

yieldcrvOP3y ago

No VR! I’m sad I can’t get to experience Half Life Alyx, but I mostly forget

culopatin3y ago

Can you expand on “almost everything” and what you do to achieve that?

yieldcrvOP3y ago

I look at tables online that show game compatibility and experiences

Its surprisingly good and I think this is partially because of Apple’s network effects

But aside from that the rosetta translations work really well, allowing a lot of x86/x64 to work

And then there is Crossover which is a GUI for WINE

And then VMs

I got a Windows 95 game playing on my M1 yesterday with Crossover, more resource intensive stuff seems to be doing well too, with maybe flagship games failing some enthusiast benchmark

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0 pointsyieldcrv3y ago0 comments

And nowadays these indie games release on all major consoles, mobile, and windows, macos.

What are you encountering? A few examples on whats missing for you?

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lapetitejort3y ago

david_allison3y ago

Did you get any VR games working?

https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/Home paints a sorry picture of the state of M1 gaming (partially due to dropping 32 bit support).

yieldcrvOP3y ago

No VR! I’m sad I can’t get to experience Half Life Alyx, but I mostly forget

culopatin3y ago

Can you expand on “almost everything” and what you do to achieve that?

yieldcrvOP3y ago

I look at tables online that show game compatibility and experiences

Its surprisingly good and I think this is partially because of Apple’s network effects

But aside from that the rosetta translations work really well, allowing a lot of x86/x64 to work

And then there is Crossover which is a GUI for WINE

And then VMs

I got a Windows 95 game playing on my M1 yesterday with Crossover, more resource intensive stuff seems to be doing well too, with maybe flagship games failing some enthusiast benchmark

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse