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I tried Windows gaming on a Mac

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Re: I tried Windows gaming on a Mac

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Post by LorenDB »

MillironX wrote: post #37

Alternatives that I haven't seen mentioned yet: - Just download the Game Porting Toolkit from Apple - Use Porting Kit - Dual-boot Asahi Linux and game from that partition I've used all of these, and they all seem to perform about the same for me.

Sadly Asahi doesn't support M3/ME silicon yet, so the Mac in the article couldn't take advantage of Asahi.

Re: I tried Windows gaming on a Mac

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Post by II2II »

iandanforth wrote: post #12

This should be titled, "I Tried Windows Gaming on a Mac and With a Lot of Effort It's Passable!"

To be fair, one couldn't have even said that much about Linux a decade ago even though Linux ran on the same hardware as Windows. Now we can say that we can do Windows gaming on Linux and it is amazing. It is possible to both play a huge swath of Steam games under Linux, with comparable performance to Windows, and to go the "a lot of effort" route with non-Steam games under Wine (again, with comparable performance to Windows). That's before considering native Linux games.

Re: I tried Windows gaming on a Mac

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Post by LorenDB »

ddtaylor wrote: post #35

Does Mac not do Steam gaming the same way? In Linux I just press install and it works with my AMD card. I haven't pressed any other buttons. Fedora 42

Steam works, but most games can't be bothered to provide macOS builds, and some that do are 32 bit and thus cannot be run (macOS only supports 64 bit executables nowadays).

Re: I tried Windows gaming on a Mac

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Post by LorenDB »

p_ing wrote: post #47
jsheard wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, unfortunately Apple have backed themselves into a corner there with their ~220ppi Retina display standard. Nobody makes monitor-sized panels that dense which also support high refresh rates, they're all limited to 60hz. The Apple monitors still don't support VRR either, even though the software support has been in place on macOS for a while it only works with third party monitors.

I have a 27” 5K display with 218 ppi running at 75Hz. It’s a newly released monitor from Viewsonic. 75Hz would be acceptable however macOS has funky mouse acceleration that makes gaming feel weird.

You can turn off mouse acceleration IIRC.

Re: I tried Windows gaming on a Mac

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Post by pelagicAustral »

I love gaming, that's what got me into programming in the first place... my career right now. And I just learned after many painful attempts that unfortunately Windows, macOS and Linux all got their territory... I don't want to preach about any particular system, it's pointless, I gave up on trying to force my OS to do something is just not meant to be, that's how I ended up with one gaming laptop with Windows, one with pop OS and a macbook pro. I just switch them over and to be honest Im Happier now.

I must recognise that there is some overlap on the dev functionality now that WSL is a thing... years back it was crazy talk to try to do Rails on windows.

Re: I tried Windows gaming on a Mac

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Post by dham »

Not releasing Mac or Linux builds this day in age, should be an arrestable offense. At least if someone is using Unity, Unreal or Godot. I actually do it in reverse and do most development on mac or linux and just release a build on Windows at the very end.

Re: I tried Windows gaming on a Mac

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Post by [deleted] »

p_ing wrote: post #47
jsheard wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, unfortunately Apple have backed themselves into a corner there with their ~220ppi Retina display standard. Nobody makes monitor-sized panels that dense which also support high refresh rates, they're all limited to 60hz. The Apple monitors still don't support VRR either, even though the software support has been in place on macOS for a while it only works with third party monitors.

I have a 27” 5K display with 218 ppi running at 75Hz. It’s a newly released monitor from Viewsonic. 75Hz would be acceptable however macOS has funky mouse acceleration that makes gaming feel weird.

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Re: I tried Windows gaming on a Mac

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Post by mayoff »

Noumenon72 wrote: post #48

Can the Mac run non-FPS's? eg Heroes of Might and Magic, Slay the Spire, games that don't seem to stress the system much.

I use CrossOver to play lighter-spec games on my Mac, like Animal Well, Loco Motive, Ori, UFO 50, and The Outer Wilds. I also have a gaming PC but I pretty much only use it for more demanding or super latency-sensitive games like Overwatch and Elden Ring. I’m not into most of the really high-spec AAA titles so I have not idea how well those would run.
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