I'm installing windows via boot camp atm and will find out soon. It probably would. OMG... squinting my eyes to read the tiny windows installation screens due to retina resolution; its like reading font size 6.
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I'm installing windows via boot camp atm and will find out soon. It probably would. OMG... squinting my eyes to read the tiny windows installation screens due to retina resolution; its like reading font size 6.
That 6yo Nvidia 320m GPU still beats the snot out of anything Intel is shipping.
Rocket League
1280x800
Render detail set to "high performance" (lowest setting)
Disable everything in video
Render Quality Level:
- High Quality & Quality: 34-52fps
- High Performance & Performance: 60+ fps
Not pretty looking, but very playable, I am using a steam controller.
Overwatch
Lowest setting possible and still only ~20-40fps. It runs, but not really playable for actual matches. Maybe if you play as torbjorn and sit stationary firing turrets. For some reason I can't use mouse clicks in fullscreen mode but it works in in windowed mode.
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Windows will give you a slightly better fps but personally don't think it's worth the hassle of switching between OS and not really being able to use macOS. If you are getting let's say 60 fps, 10 fps more isn't a really huge jump, especially if you can already play it well enough.
But if you were using a cider port game (Guild Wars 2 comes to my mind) and the Cider port isn't making the game playable (less than 30 fps) you get almost a 50-100% boost in fps which makes it worthy.
Absolutely, OpenEmu even works on 2008-2009 laptops.
What kind of framerates were you getting at native res with 100% scaling? Any way you could make it playable at 100% scaling with lower settings?
I'm currently looking into buying a 256 gigs m7 and will mostly play indie games on steam, but with the occasional wow.
Anyone got Overwatch to work decently on the 2016 MacBook, and by decently, I mean just barely playable state?
With all lowest possible resolution & settings, I was able to get 20-40fps on Win10 Bootcamp. You can play it for fun, but not competitively. This is using a 2016 M7
Just did the latest overwatch update and now i'm getting 50-70fps on lowest possible settings. Not sure what changed, but something did.
Don't know about the 2016 models but people were having issues with emulating PSP, NDS, PS2, and definitely Wii/Gamecube due to thermal throttling. Those particular games require high CPU and for PS2 and Wii, high GPU utilization as well which the Core M model do not do well in (if both CPU and GPU are pinged constantly, they will throttle to reach their 5 watt TDP). This is especially with increased resolution and texture settings turned on (PSP reports are pretty mixed, settings similar to what PSP usually play like 480 resolution should be fine but increasing towards higher resolution and textures will suffer).
Thank you for this. Yeah I wasn't going to attempt anything past the consoles I mentioned for that reason. I figured I may be okay with PS1 being the graphics are what they are compared to what you mentioned.
Sorry this is kinda late, but how does it look? I don't care about shaders and stuff, but how's the resolution look?
So I have the 2015 12" macbook with retina (not air not pro). Has anyone tried napoleon Total War on it?
Well, Empire Total War runs okay on the 2016 Macbook with the M7 CPU.
"Okay" is naturally subjective, but I was quite pleased with how it ran with the resolution set to 1440x900 with low to medium settings.
Just curious. Why would you want to give up a PS4, which is built for gaming on a nice big screen to play a game on a computer that is not?
Lmao I can't even get it to be playable (at a reasonable res) in a 2016 MacBook Pro with touch bar
I was able to get 40-60fps in overwatch with my macbook 2016 12" M7
But.... it had to be the lowest resolution, 50% scaling and all lowest possible graphic settings. It doesn't look pretty, but playable to the casual.