How To Fry An Egg With An M2 MBA

[jdb8167]

It depends on what settings. On medium settings the M2 MBA was still faster in Shadow of the Tomb Raiders, but as soon as you hit high settings, the M1 MBA became faster.

So on the M2 MBA, you have to lower the settings in order to not stress the GPU too much for it to outperform the M1 MBA. That is basically to trick to gaming on the M2 MBA, don’t run nice graphics.

I saw one video. They stopped as soon as the M1 reached the same frame rate as the previously ahead M2. The FPS were the same but the M1 produced a few dozen more frames. At best you can say they were the same speed. Most graphics intensive software still produces better results on the M2 than on the M1.

 

[Yebubbleman]

I would not recommend a MBA for gaming. The setup isn't there for it due to the lack of a fan.

This is a Mac game that ran decently well on the first Intel MacBook Pros from 2006. If you're comparing raw performance, that's like saying that a 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro is too slow to run the version of Oregon Trail kids from the 90's played in elementary school; it's wrong and not the reason why there's difficulty whatsoever.

I think there is a Mac version of Civ 4?

Yes. 32-bit Intel binary (which is to say, not gonna run on any Intel Mac running newer than Mojave and certainly not going to run on any Apple Silicon Mac).

Since when has a Mac been considered a gaming device....

You DO realize that this is a Mac game that ran decently well on the first ever Intel MacBook Pro, right? Your whole "since when has a Mac been a gaming device" argument is basically dismissive nonsense when you factor that fact in.