Legacy Screen Saver

[southerndoc]

Noticed an Intel processor running on Ventura RC2: legacyScreenSaver-x86_64 (Screen Saver (System Settings)).

Anyone know why Ventura is using this?

 

[DeltaMac]

that would be the screen saver. Animations likely require some code to run, and the system provides that process.

Apparently, that screen saver is not using a native (AS) process, and needs that "legacy" process to be running.

 

[southerndoc]

One would think Apple would have made all their apps AS-native by now.

 

[DeltaMac]

Apple still gets to support Intel processes. Even if Apple apps are all AS-native, those apps, and the system itself, will still continue to support intel processes. Certainly, not all third-party apps are there. That's where Rosetta is used. And, last I heard, at least a couple of Apple's pro apps are not fully AS-code. All that takes time. Universal-coded apps will still be useful for another major macOS update or two. Very much the same thing happened when Apple changed over from the old PowerPC to Intel.