And World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth will only support Metal for macOS.
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Game Devs Express New Fears Over Future of Mac Gaming as Apple Deprecates OpenGL and OpenCL in macOS Mojave
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Unfortunately, Valve doesn't seem to feel the same way. And that's pretty much the short list when it comes to major developers supporting the Mac.
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Deprecation can mean a lot of things, that point is covered in the article. Apple deprecated 32-bit applications and now they no longer function, it's a safe bet that OpenGL will go the same way.
I agree with the rest of the points.
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Apple seem determined to force game players to buy other systems to play games above mobile standard.
For me this means I will be buying iMacs less often with lower specs.
For me this means I will be buying iMacs less often with lower specs.
Yeah and they also brought MoltenVK to the Mac and used it for Dota 2, they are only going to be supporting Vulkan from here on out especially since they are all in on Linux support too. I guess we'll see if that's good enough.
Well, from what I gather... Those games appear to be getting a metal backend.. Even ones dating back to the DX7 era
But their other games do.
Overwatch fell into the awkward point where OpenGL was too slow, and Metal wasn't quite ready.
All of Blizzard's recent macOS games*
Except Diablo 3, I guess, which may never get Metal support.
No. There's also OpenGL ES.
OpenGL is still being actively developed by the Khronos Group. It's only Apple's fault that Mac OS X doesn't use the latest version.
No, Vulkan isn't ment to replace OpenGL. Vulkan is lower-level, whereas OpenGL is slightly higher. It can make programming for OpenGL slightly easier for newer developers.
"Mac OS X is already at version 10.14.0. Ban POSIX and UNIX"
Considering that the Steam app isn't even 64-bit, I would not be surprised to see Steam pull Mac support.
They just did a bunch of work and paid a bunch of money to get Dota 2 working on the mac via MoltenVK, and they did a bunch more work getting SteamVR working with Metal - it's a safe bet that they are not pulling out of macOS.
Going back and reading posts by @marksatt made me understand that this whole thing really isn't a big deal (though it may be for old legacy games eventually).
Well, books are just a waste of time anyway. Go outside hunt and burn some witches or something.
Initially released 1992. DOS 6, Windows 3.11, Mac System 7. Nah, not old /s
Of course it’s been updated but just like DOS, Windows 3.x and classic Mac OS at some point you have to drop the legacy altogether.
game devs:
stop doing crappy ports
Use native renderer like you do on Windows (DirectX vs. Metal) or console - or use MoltenVK for cross-platform. Stop being lazy and targeting ancient versions of OpenGL for the Mac because you can't be bothered supporting the platform properly. You'll need to learn metal anyway for iOS.
The solutions exist, stop whining and use them. You do this every time there's a new version of directX.
Given how badly out of date OpenGL is on the mac, this is a blessing in disguise. Deprecating and removing it will force developers to actually commit to something modern, be it vulkan via MoltenVK or Metal.
stop doing crappy ports
Use native renderer like you do on Windows (DirectX vs. Metal) or console - or use MoltenVK for cross-platform. Stop being lazy and targeting ancient versions of OpenGL for the Mac because you can't be bothered supporting the platform properly. You'll need to learn metal anyway for iOS.
The solutions exist, stop whining and use them. You do this every time there's a new version of directX.
Given how badly out of date OpenGL is on the mac, this is a blessing in disguise. Deprecating and removing it will force developers to actually commit to something modern, be it vulkan via MoltenVK or Metal.
Well, macOs still supports HTML in Safari. HTML was intially released in 1993. E-mail got more mainstream in the mid 1970's. It's still supported in macOs. DNS have been in use since 1985, and is also still supported.
This move is directly related to Apple's transition to ARM and Apple's use of its own custom-designed GPU. It appears Apple's GPU will only support Metal.
Your missing out! I have over 1000+ hours on that game.That is why I never played Overwatch.
Metal works with Apple's custom made graphics chips on iPads and iPhones, so if Apple decides to use their own chips on Macbooks this Metal deal will be huge
My thoughts exactly. I was having a debate with 2 members recently, who were trying to argue that Apple uses the best gpu's.....
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