Sorry about that, what I mean is, will Starcraft 2 run on any Mac Mini from 2018 or later that is the Core i5 or Core i7 models, excluding the Core i3 models. Thanks.
Yep. Mac OS games tend to be ported with min effort. more effort put into Windows as MS provide more support via DirectX then Apple does in Mac Os and it’s API/Frameworks.
Great to know. Thats the answer I was looking for and thanks, also a big thanks to everyone else for their input. Do you think Blizzard will release a patch for Starcraft 2 in the future to make it run better on Apple silicon?, or does anyone else know?. I know during the transition from PowerPC to Intel, Blizzard did release a patch for that and SC: BW ran pretty well after that, but I guess the question remains IF a patch will be released.
Maybe, but I would not count on it. You have to deal with the fact that if you want to play AAA games on a Mac, you have to go for an Intel based hardware and a Bootcamp. Or, as someone already said, buy a separate gaming rig. Generally, for AAA gaming Macs perform poorly in comparison to the same games run on Windows.
There appear to be a dedicated Blizzard Mac Technical Support forum (https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/sc2/c/mac-technical-support/16) which may have the answer(s) you seek!
Cool, thanks alot for that link, I'll ask on there. Cheers. Anyone else looking for the latest news on this potential patch go here: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/sc2/t/apple-m1-cpugpu-performance-patch/23461/8
@tomekwsrod is absolutely correct.
@tomekwsrod is absolutely correct.
Blizzard forums are full of Mac users complaining how poorly Starcraft runs on Mac. I don't think Blizzard cares - Starcraft got nickel and dimed by them with the free to play- I don't think they're going to put much more effort into it. Now that Microsoft owns them, who knows, but I wouldn't expect much.
Like the link you posted right above this post - I love Starcraft II. The campaigns are amazing and I love the mutations - quick games that don't require me to invest large mounts of time. Starcraft II is probably the #1 game I've played over the last handful or so of years.
The M1 does really well at old games in my experience but Starcraft II is just poor. I can do Age of Empires II with Crossover and it plays extremely smooth, even large 500 pop / 6 player games on extra large maps. I can even do old dos / windows 3.11 games on Crossover/Parallels in Windows on the Mac and it plays like native (where it didn't on the Intel Macs). Got Star Trek Armada to run but couldn't get Homeworld to work.
But yeah unless you're ok with playing Starcraft II on low graphics settings, it's a poor experience and even then, expect crashes often - don't change settings while playing mutations, lol, it will crash. It is doable on low settings (1080p).
Warcraft Classic (WOTLK) and I think retail is Apple Silicon native and plays beautifully. Been having a lot of fun on BC/WOTLK with some old BC/WOTLK friends recently.
