Apple Mac Studio

Re:Apple Mac Studio by SamuelAdams on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:40PM (#30605460)

There is a lot of support for M1. See these lists. Please note though that "playable" does not mean "on par with other platforms", ie, Windows and Xbox / Playstation.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1er-NivvuIheDmIKBVRu3...

https://applesilicongames.com/

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Re:Apple Mac Studio by neogodless on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:48PM (#30605638)

Games I've played over the past two years:

Valheim - not in database

ARK: Survival Evolved - "game won't launch"

Conan: Exiles - not in database

Grounded - not in database

Civ V and Civ VI - each shows one record and seems it ran for that person (30-60 fps - for comparison, both run 144 fps on my $1000 Lenovo laptop.)

It Takes Two - not in database

That's all anecdotal, i.e. the games this one person likes to play are not supported, or don't play very well, and some of them are 5+ years old.

Overall the point being, it's hard to shell out all that money for a device that won't play your games. (If this sort of gaming is part of your computer use case). So to that original comment's point "I wish Mac worked seriously well for gaming."

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Re:Apple Mac Studio by sprkwd on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @07:12PM (#30609249)

Not sure why you need a turn based game to run at 144fps. But I guess that’s a different conservation.

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Re:Apple Mac Studio by lelandfe on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:46PM (#30605604)

I believe OP meant Mac, not M1 - I.e. that there are many multitudes of AAA games that still have not hit macOS.

You’re right, though, that M1 has pretty decent parity with Intel Macs for games now.

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Re:Apple Mac Studio by jamesy0ung on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @03:14PM (#30606182)

X-Plane is great on M1.

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