I'm getting ready for the release of Battlefield 2042 and wanted to play a little BF4 when away from my PS5. Just for fun I installed the ARM preview of Windows 11 on Parallels, installed the Origin client, and installed Battlefield 4. I hooked up my PS5 controller with a USB C cable and went through the control mappings manually (select each item and push corresponding button or stick on controller). This was a good exercise anyway because it gave me a chance to tune my controller settings to be the same as I'm used to on PS5.
It worked great! I couldn't believe I was getting a consistent 50 to 60fps. No problem doing some damage on Locker TDM. Granted I was getting killed by keyboard/mouse warriors; so I should probably practice that vs. using a controller...but I did OK-ish. I wish I was good at keyboard/mouse FPS...but I've got too many years of controller muscle memory.
I realize BF4 is a pretty old game at this point; but I was genuinely surprised at how well it all worked with SO MANY levels of emulation (both X86 -> ARM and DirectX to Metal).
My setup is 14" Max with 32 core GPU and 32GB RAM. I set up my VM with 6 cores and 20GB RAM (yeah, I know, not supposed to go past "half"...but it worked well for me). It ran quietly and didn't really seem to be breaking a sweat (even though iStat CPU graph was showing high loads all around). I used the default resolution in game of 1800x1125 and the default graphics settings in game (I believe Medium all around). It looked pretty much the same graphically as it does when I play the PS4 version of BF4 on my PS5.
In my opinion, Battlefield 4 is one of the best FPS games of all time; with an incredible variety of complex maps and game modes. You can do jet combat, tank combat, regular FPS Team Deathmatch, or whatever you are into. Many of the buildings and environments are destructible. Amazing to be able to play this awesome game on my M1 Mac!
It worked great! I couldn't believe I was getting a consistent 50 to 60fps. No problem doing some damage on Locker TDM. Granted I was getting killed by keyboard/mouse warriors; so I should probably practice that vs. using a controller...but I did OK-ish. I wish I was good at keyboard/mouse FPS...but I've got too many years of controller muscle memory.
I realize BF4 is a pretty old game at this point; but I was genuinely surprised at how well it all worked with SO MANY levels of emulation (both X86 -> ARM and DirectX to Metal).
My setup is 14" Max with 32 core GPU and 32GB RAM. I set up my VM with 6 cores and 20GB RAM (yeah, I know, not supposed to go past "half"...but it worked well for me). It ran quietly and didn't really seem to be breaking a sweat (even though iStat CPU graph was showing high loads all around). I used the default resolution in game of 1800x1125 and the default graphics settings in game (I believe Medium all around). It looked pretty much the same graphically as it does when I play the PS4 version of BF4 on my PS5.
In my opinion, Battlefield 4 is one of the best FPS games of all time; with an incredible variety of complex maps and game modes. You can do jet combat, tank combat, regular FPS Team Deathmatch, or whatever you are into. Many of the buildings and environments are destructible. Amazing to be able to play this awesome game on my M1 Mac!
