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Five Games Worth Firing Up to Show Off Your New MacBook Pro
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The Mac port of Final Fantasy XIV despite still being x86 runs exceptionally well on an M1Max.
I see 60-80 FPS on High which is nearly double what I saw on my 2019 i9 MBP with Radeon 5500. If I bump the resolution up to Maximum I’ll get 50-60.
In short, it’s very playable and am super impressed!
I see 60-80 FPS on High which is nearly double what I saw on my 2019 i9 MBP with Radeon 5500. If I bump the resolution up to Maximum I’ll get 50-60.
In short, it’s very playable and am super impressed!
Mario Bros was also AAA once.
When time passes the A’s fades away.
I think that’s the impressive part. While the raw performance might be lower than on Intel chips, these M1 rigs run much cooler and quieter.
For me, I’m not looking to Apple for a gaming rig, but it’s nice to know that I can run them if I want to. Given I’m not so interested in AAA titles and the plethora of FPS / RPG / Sandboxy games that are being introduced, and the power is plenty for the Steam titles that do interest me, that’s a win - all without the aggrevating fan noise that’s prominent with Windows gaming notebooks, or the 2019 MBP 16” i9 5600m I had before it.
I used to game on OS X a lot, there used to be a lot of good titles out there in the olden days. These days if I want to game I'll fire up my X, PS4 or my G14 ROG. I would not need to game on a new MacBook.
Considering ultra settings, 4K and most of these are not even Apple Silicon native. It is quite impressive. These SoC are faster than most notebook 3080 implementation.
AAA Games developers should just release Mac versions of their games in line with the Windows/Playstation and X box versions. The new M chips and their CPU/GPU‘s are now more than capable, as Metro and Deux Ex have shown (very demanding games).
Ok most of new MacBook Pro users want to play games too after a day of work on the same computer. Performance are awesome, titles are not so much... But better than nothing.
These are so-so ports compiled for Intel Macs running on an emulation layer. Emulation layers typically have a performance hit, yet these games are performing as well as or better than they do on the hardware they were compiled for. A lot of folks are meh, but it makes me wonder what a well-optimized, M1-native AAA title could achieve.
I don’t game on my Mac as I have a Switch and a PS5 hooked up to a 55” TV, but I remember trying to play games on my first Mac laptop and how lousy the performance and battery life were. This is astonishing.
?? See some video in this thread or check MrMacRight channel, you can even play some games in 4K even under emulation. those Macs rival RTX3080 on highend gaming notebooks.
OpenGL still runs, and with MoltenVK you can use Vulkan too. Anyway Metal performance are INCREDIBLE even under CPU emulation.
World of Warcraft runs on max settings at 100-200 FPS and that's specifically optimized for the M1 chip and is a current game.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is not even out. Mac can be thank to Apple Silicon a great game machine, especially if you use it already for work. Nobody is saying you should buy a MacBook Pro for gaming, but you can game very well. Sadly the market share isn’t there but your attitude won’t help. Things will improve.?
Shadow of the Tomb Raider - 2018
Metro Exodus - 2035- 2019
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - 2019
A Total War Saga: Troy -2020 - Woohhh
Baldur's Gate 3 - 2020 - Woohhh²
These aren’t games to show off anything hardware related… but they are fine to play.
Sounds like macOS still has nothing to offer, game wise, and this won’t change anytime soon.
Just recycled games!
Do yourself a favor and don’t buy Macs for games…
That's especially impressive since the "port" is basically the Windows client running in a Crossover wrapper.
How does the laptop handle the load? Does it heat up significantly?
So? You have a gaming PC which the GPU alone consume the double of these MacBooks. Many users have only a computer and works with it. Now thank to M1 Pro and M1 Max you can game quite well even on non native titles.Sticking to my RTX 3080TI on a Ryzen 5800X for gaming.
Funny how things have turned over the past 2 decades.... I ended up using the Mac for office work 90% of the time
I have a Mac for everything and yes I can have fun with it too other than work on it.
It's awesome that Larian will have a AS native version of Baldur's Gate 3 next year. They're fine people and they engage a lot with the community as well. I'm enjoying Divinity Original Sin 2 in glorious 60fps on an M1 iPad as well.
I can’t say I have the MacBook Pro with predominant focus on gaming, have a PS4 Pro for that, however I have enjoyed a few games on it including the Divinity series, Pillars of Eternity Series, Subnautica and Tyranny which ran pretty well. It’s also worth noting that Witcher 3 seems to work too, at least according to GOG when I look at my Mac library.
Maybe not, but most of those games certainly aren’t crappy, or particularly old
I think you make a good point here, it’s also worth mentioning that this article probably shouldn’t be taken at face value but rather at the possibilities it outlines. I vague parallel would be how they got the Witcher 3 to run on the Switch, something that worked better than it had any right to