• HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 days ago

    If developers actually supported macOS, it would be a way better form factor over PCs. PCs consume ludicrous amounts of power, while my M1 Max MacBook Pro could run Baldur’s Gate 3 at max graphics with no performance issues. On battery. Over extended periods. Make ARM better already.

    Macs can game–people just don’t want them to.

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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      16 days ago

      People being the people making the games.

      Apple’s love affair with Metal and the utter lack of Vulkan support for ages on Apple silicon slowed down/totally killed anyone porting games.

      This really didn’t get sorted out until pretty recently, and shit’s gotten better in the last six months or a year.

      Hopefully it keeps getting ports and such, but it took WAY too damn long to even be in a position for this to start happening.

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        15 days ago

        Yep this is the real reason - Apple is so hostile towards developers and no support outside of proprietary Metal API it’s no surprise there are few games.

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      11 days ago

      I couldn’t believe how long I could get out of my 15" M2 Air’s battery when playing No Man’s Sky. A good five hours of gameplay without needing to worry about plugging in. Meanwhile, my previous Intel MacBook struggled to get five hours on standby.