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A comment on Microsoft to Support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs Through Parallels.

Re:Microsoft to Support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs T... by mattcantstop on Thursday February 16, 2023 @05:13PM (#34827239)
I am at a weird spot right now, where I have teenagers who want to play games that are on Windows, but am not wanting to do that through emulation like Parallels. But I am also not willing to purchase a Windows machine as my primary machine. So it leaves me not moving to Apple Silicon and just keeping my old Mac despite wanting to upgrade.
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Re:Microsoft to Support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs T... by manmal on Thursday February 16, 2023 @05:25PM (#34827395)
Some games work great through Parallels, like Left4Dead 2. Others work via CrossOver. But support is not that broad unfortunately. I hope things improve vastly once Asahi Linux can run Proton - Valve has added Linux support to so many games already (for the Steam Deck).
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Re:Microsoft to Support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs T... by ozarker on Thursday February 16, 2023 @05:56PM (#34827804)
ARM support will be a hurdle for those games even with proton.
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Re:Microsoft to Support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs T... by cloudking on Thursday February 16, 2023 @05:17PM (#34827308)
Have you looked at GeForce Now as an option?
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Re:Microsoft to Support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs T... by jraph on Thursday February 16, 2023 @05:27PM (#34827413)
wine, on macOS or on a linux dual boot on your current Mac (with Proton), maybe?
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Re:Microsoft to Support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs T... by zamadatix on Thursday February 16, 2023 @06:11PM (#34828042)
Yeah the hardware is fantastic but ARM->x86, Windows->Mac (or virtualization), and OpenGL/DirectX/Vulkan -> Metal is just too many translation layers to give a quality or reliable experience unless you cherry pick titles. Not to mention you run into a lot of DRMs that don't work because they assume a x86 Windows kernel to interact with.

Of course if you're alternative is to remain on your current Mac then you could just as well upgrade to the new one anyways and leave the old one dedicated towards Windows based gaming.

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Re:Microsoft to Support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs T... by bluetidepro on Thursday February 16, 2023 @06:27PM (#34828247)
As someone else pointed out, check out GeForce Now. It's cloud gaming, and works crazy good. Been using it for a bit now.
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Re:Microsoft to Support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs T... by drexlspivey on Thursday February 16, 2023 @06:58PM (#34828586)
The library is rather limited unfortunately
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Re:Microsoft to Support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs T... by hedora on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:23PM (#34830754)
Parsec + paperspace would run any windows game the last time I checked. These days, I can say the same for my Linux box, so I haven’t checked recently.
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Re:Microsoft to Support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs T... by LightHugger on Thursday February 16, 2023 @08:29PM (#34829466)
Depending on the game, kids using that would be extremely disappointed at the input latency
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Re:Microsoft to Support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs T... by STRML on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:04AM (#34831007)
You'd be surprised, on a solid connection the input latency is incredibly good
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Re:Microsoft to Support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs T... by spaceguillotine on Thursday February 16, 2023 @06:30PM (#34828284)
What about a SteamDeck for the Teens? Add a dock and its a full desktop experience with support for dual monitors for around the price of a base level Mac Mini but also portable.
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Re:Microsoft to Support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs T... by scarface74 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @07:51PM (#34829135)
Where is the issue? Buy them their own computer.
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Re:Microsoft to Support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs T... by jmpman on Friday February 17, 2023 @08:34AM (#34834458)
My kids have started in robotics competition. SolidWorks has provided incredible licenses for free. Can’t run SolidWorks on Mac. So I had to buy them a desktop with a discrete NVIDIA GPU, upgraded the RAM, got them a low latency 32” monitor. Found my old Steam account still works…

Kids…

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Re:Microsoft to Support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs T... by economist420 on Saturday February 18, 2023 @12:25PM (#34848789)
Have you tried Crossover? It's a fork Wine with good support for lots of windows games. Very good performance on M1 for lots of games, even in benchmarks the m1 performs is comparable to the highest end windows machines.
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