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Cyberpunk 2077 Now Available on Mac With High Performance Presets
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Going from memory, the GOG Galaxy installer for Mac isn't preferred. I suppose that is my only choice?
As soon as it goes on sale on Steam I’ll pick it up (so I can take advantage of family sharing). I played Witcher 3 in emulation so it will be nice to have a native port.
Frame Gen is just to get the highest fake FPS, I normally turn it off and with Path RT a 7800x3d and 9070XT lingers around 70-80 fps which at 3440x1440 is pretty decent for a mid range PC.
Here is it running on the base M4 on the 'For this Mac' preset. Pretty terrible. For the same settings as the 7800x3d and 9070xt it gets below 10 FPS.
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M1 Mac cant even run games at 1080P. That speaks volume.
Meanwhile my PC can run the game at 1080P at high/ultra settings with ray tracing.
Max performance needs M4 Max processor and a whopping 36GB of RAM. Those machines are anything but cheap.
Yet still a decent game all things considered. With ray tracing too.
Those links state that the console overheats, but none of them corroborate your claim that they were "literally melting".
Phantom Liberty is not even two years old and the latest content was released just yesterday. The price is also the same for PC so it’s not like the Mac port is more expensive so what’s your point? It’s a popular game so did you expect all content cost $5?
it's SO overrated... it's a shame more brilliant games like NieR Automata get overlooked because games like these get all the attention...
There is no such thing as "fake frames". All frames are calculated by the GPU.
Also until W4(also made by CPR) 2077 will continue to be the benchmark for sometime when it comes to measuring gaming performance.
Why is it pointless? I already have my MacBook Pro, already bought the game on Steam a while ago when it was on sale, and I don't have a PS5. You're saying it's pointless to just install the game and play it?
It got attention because developers took enough “courage” ©️ to get up and craft a Mac version. I think nowadays any dev making games should bear Mac in mind. More and more people choosing Apple computers vs bloated Windows s**tboxes.
For example there was recently STALKER 2 game released, while it is good on paper, it recycles to many elements from older games and brings nothing significantly new to the table except slightly upgraded gfx. They’ve had initially very saturated marketing campaign for literal nothingburger. I understand devs are currently living under the constant bombardments, but I think if they cared enough to make Mac and Switch (2) versions, game would have been much more successful.
For example I might be eager to try Cyberpunk one day and see if 2017 hype was actually worth it, because I’ve never got a chance to play it before, I’ve no consoles or PC
The hardware is 50% of the problem,
It definately is. Most modern games like Alan Wake 2 or Black Myth:Wukong just could not run on Apple Silicon. The M5 could start to bridge that gap with current gen games, coupled with continued improvements to Metals API.
As long as Apple Silicon cannot run new releases in new baseline models, the market will not be be enough to spend $ porting it.
Cool, but I’ve already played this game almost 5 years ago smoothly on high settings on my iMac with 5700XT 😎
By Mac you mean M1 MacBook Air that’s sold under $1000 regularly nowadays? That processor can’t even run cyberpunk 2077 in 1080P, or run a mobile game at decent speed with high quality. Who cares about that kind of Mac.
Instead, if the base MacBook Air can have a processor that matches M1 Pro or even M3 Pro today, then developers will seriously consider entering the Mac market.
Not enough performance. Believe it or not, Apple silicon GPU performance is not great, except top of the line max/ultra chip with tons of cores and they are all expensive, very expensive.
Still a good game, thus worths every penny. At least you don’t have to micro transaction your way to victory.
That’s just NVIDIA being ********, not because of 5090 being value comparable with M4 Mac Studio.
The Nintendo switch single handedly (and years later at that) brought me back to enjoying video games.
I had a parked PS3, PS4, a windows handled and my daily Mac… I just couldn’t be bothered to constantly be spending so much time doing system updates that are tons of GBs, for example, insert a disk on the PS4 to then be met with an hour+ install THEN hours long downloads/installs.
The switch makes it so easy… the system updates when they happen are seconds, never obligatory to play a game, and everything is just more convenient and/or accessible in my experience.
I've had this on PS5 since launch as well as the upgraded "enhanced" PS5 version or whatever they call it, and it's still a festering turd of a game. Avoid, avoid, avoid!