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Re:Running Games on a MacBook Pro with an EGPU by p_l on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @07:49AM (#20343408)
Middleware might have Metal support but not be used by the game nor tested. And not everyone is going to redo testing and QA on niche backend.
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Re:Running Games on a MacBook Pro with an EGPU by pjmlp on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @08:49AM (#20343833)
iOS gaming is bigger than desktop Linux....
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Re:Running Games on a MacBook Pro with an EGPU by p_l on Saturday July 06, 2019 @01:17PM (#20370654)
and smaller than other platforms for the users of such middleware - and due to physical and power differences isn't usually running the same game but a modified one. A lot of porting to Mac depended on OpenGL being an API that you could start debugging on other platforms as well.
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