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Gaming on 16 inch MacBook pro
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They are still warm, but I use a controller for gaming anyway.
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The 8GB 5500M is seeing more than double the performance in Black Ops 4 vs. the VEGA 20. Breath of the Wild gets 45-60fps with the new Vulkan builds.
Amazingly, this card performs about just as good at MacBook native resolution as a 4K Razer Blade would perform at native resolution.
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The reviews have not been kind.
Going to try Destiny 2 soon in Boot Camp, feeling optimistic that it will be my first decent "PC version" experience of the game.
From early reactions, it looks like Microsoft’s Project xCloud is the one to watch. Sony is also yet to reveal its streaming option. Competition is heating up.
As far as I'm aware, the 8gb is not really needed for gaming, though the 5500 will give a slight fps boost.
What do you mean? Sony already has their streaming option, PlayStation Now
I've gotten it but it's not a convenient solution. You have to, depending on the game, either change between borderless fullscreen and exclusive fullscreen, or keep the AMD app open in the background and check GPU Scaling and uncheck it. Only trouble comes if you have to change graphic settings mid-game, then you might have to repeat the above process. I hope this gets fixed soon.
Got Destiny 2 up and running. It suffers from the same full screen bug where any resolution other than the native goes into a weird small letterbox. At native res and medium textures, the 5500M kept me 30-45FPSish when I was in the bigger zones. I would really, really like to try it at 1080P, but the little box it currently plays in is so small!
Do we expect Boot Camp drivers to be updated soon to help with this, or should I be on the lookout over at bootcampdrivers.com and that sort of thing? Want to get it working right!
EDIT: I just discovered that for some reaosn, if I set it to run "windowed fullscreen" instead of just "fullscreen" it works correctly? I have no idea what the difference is between the two. I tried messing with scaling in the AMD GPU app and didn't see any success with that.
Do we expect Boot Camp drivers to be updated soon to help with this, or should I be on the lookout over at bootcampdrivers.com and that sort of thing? Want to get it working right!
EDIT: I just discovered that for some reaosn, if I set it to run "windowed fullscreen" instead of just "fullscreen" it works correctly? I have no idea what the difference is between the two. I tried messing with scaling in the AMD GPU app and didn't see any success with that.
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The bootcampdrivers.com guy said he's be adding the new GPUs in the December update.
What do those drivers address exactly ? I've been wanting to play the new CoD Modern Warfare, but textures are completely broken though FPS is great.
Apple is lazy and almost never updates their drivers. It's likely that textures will be fixed with the modded drivers.
Playstation Now is PS4 and Windows only. It is not currently a stream-anywhere service. However, Sony have entered into a deal to use Microsoft Azure servers for its next-gen offering. It simply hasn’t been unveiled yet.
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my thinking is that the upgrade to the 4GB 5500m is quite small considering the cost of the computer that its worthwhile even if it gives a small boost when gaming. But if I can save the cost I’d the 8GB I rather would.
He is right it’s Apple drivers, the normal amd ones don’t work, and Apple never update boot camp drivers so you are stuck unless you use the modded ones
Two things: they bring allow you to install the latest AMD drivers without official support for the Mac GPUs (before latest MBP the majority of drivers are still stuck on 18.X through AMD, though the 16 MBP comes with 19.3 in bootcamp drivers), and it fixes a lot of issues with using eGPU in bootcamp if you have a dGPU, as the drivers tend to conflict otherwise.
His drivers don't actually "fix" anything driver related that AMD hasn't fixed themselves.
Someone who tried to run Red Dead Redemption 2 here? How will run in a i9 2.3, 5500 8GB and 32 RAM?
Thanks team!
Thanks team!
wait, huh? sorry i'm confused. I was referring to "own or disowns" review of the 5500m. He played the same game and got the same graphical artifacts. All i was saying is there is most certainly a driver update coming soon.
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Probably awful lol thanks rockstar!
There are definitely some minor graphics bugs I noticed vs my 2017 iMac (weird coloring of background on menus, graphics slider doesn't actually change any of the settings, some other minor artifacts), but it's definitely playable performance-wise. It was playing pretty well at 1080 via my TV at high. Fans kicked on real loud, but it plays well. (Running same specs)
Exactly. And why don't the normal one's work? Because AMD will not allow them to be installed. Why won't they allow it? I have no idea. All it takes is literally adding a device ID to a list. They just don't feel responsible.
As much as I dislike Nvidia for their anti-competive business practices, they at least didn't artificially block the drivers from working with Apple-branded computers.