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Capcom Bringing Resident Evil Village to Apple Silicon Mac Next Week
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True. One game that I really wish would be updated to Apple Silicon is Civ 6, however I don't think they will. Last I heard they were finished developing it, so maybe that means Civ 7 will come out sometime.
I just hope they let you drag it to a different monitor than the one you launch it on
And yeah, hoping for a Civ VII sometime soon too.
I'm a PC gamer since birth. I love the Apple Silicon Macs, they got me to switch to Mac after a lifetime of being a hater during Mac vs PC. I want Mac gaming to be a thing, a lot of us do. The Mac solved almost all it's problems that kept it from being gaming viable: Price is now good and the new Apple Silicon chips are more than capable of hardcore titles even at the lowest end. The problem is not hardware now, but Apple themselves. macOS is not easy to make games for, especially AAA games. With OpenGL getting divested, 32 bit app support being removed with no compatibility mode available, Apple forcing Metal when the industry begged them to adopt Vulkan instead, and Apple's attitude towards the game industry especially during Apple vs Epic made virtually every publisher pack up and abandon the Mac.
Until Apple starts supporting developers to come back and actually support macOS, that's not gonna change, and Apple just doesn't care. It's gonna be even harder to convince developers to come back with the blowout success of the Steam Deck making Linux gaming popular.
Bare minimum, if you want games on macOS, there needs to be a compatibility layer like Proton. (No, CrossOver isn't good enough, and it's paid software.)
I asked Aspyr many times. They're in disarray right now since they got the KOTOR remake taken away from them. Maybe if you beg them enough in their Discord server they'll do it. After all they recently updated Simcity 4 for Apple Silicon.
Which makes RE Village on Mac even more confusing lmao.
Well then you got three options: Get a Playstation 4/5, get a Xbox Series X/S, or get a gaming PC or Steam Deck.
Interesting, is this the first real game to be released on the M2? Reading about benchmarking something like Shadow of the Tomb Raider the M2 seems to really struggle with anything over 960p/medium settings, although I'm assuming that wasn't optimized for Metal. It will definitely be fascinating to see if the M2 can hang with the big boys. If Apple really wants to compete it should aim higher than its app store, maybe consider buying a gaming studio or two. That's the hard part, actually getting games on the Mac, maybe the future is to figure out a Rosetta solution for them.
Edit: found an older review mentioning SOTB 1080p/Medium at around 54fps, not too shabby at all for not having a discrete GPU.
Edit: found an older review mentioning SOTB 1080p/Medium at around 54fps, not too shabby at all for not having a discrete GPU.
Great news. Apple needs a lot more of this type of thing. Especially if they want to complete with Sony in the VR space.
Apple's not competing with Sony in the VR space. Their focus is AR so Meta is gonna be their main competitor.
You didn't take the shaders into account!
While Apple integrated GPU has around 4000 shader cores, NVIDIA 3090 has over 10000 cuda/shader cores .
FPS is not everything, you need to compare FPS at the same graphics quality level, NVIDIA smokes Apples integrated GPU. The 4090 even comes with over 16000 shader/cuda cores.
Could this pave the way to the iPad Pro lineup as well? I mean, it has an M1/M2 as well. And 8GB of RAM.
The developer sets the price for their apps in the App Store.
We will see what’s it’s like. The clips that were shown during keynote it looked like it was running pretty terribly, with poor graphics.
As impressive as the Mx chips are, they still can't hold a candle to a full eGPU. I hope apple adds support for those back into the OS.
No it’s not a fair comparison. But in defence. The poster was claiming the M1 would outperform PC Versions running a 3090
Village is a direct sequel to Biohazard, which was a bit of a soft reboot of the series - it introduces a new protagonist and the story has little direct connection to previous games, except with a character who shows up at the end.
So, I'd recommend playing Biohazard if you have the means to do so before playing Village. That said, I think Village has a story recap that should get you up to speed on what you need to know.
Its true isn't it..The sort of series that's still relevant even if you play it years after initial release.
MacOS doesn't mean you are restricted to only their store, you can purchase software from the developers on their secured web pages if it is available that way.