OS X List of Mac Metal games

Can you please explain this? http://www.macgamerhq.com/news/bioshock-remastered-mac/

Because that's a no buy for me if that's the case. I'd rather just run the original in full 5K.

 

Hmm, this looks like a misunderstanding. (Not from you guys.)

BioShock Remastered for macOS will indeed run at 1080p. However, it will also run on higher resolutions, including that 5K iMac of yours, ErikGrim.

As with all games there may be a performance hit if you go super-high, but you'll get a warning as jeanlain said.

 

Do you think we will be ever able to reach windows performance or Feral alone can't do much about as the engine has to be written with metal in mind? Or again it's more a driver challenge?

 

What we can say is that BioShock Remastered on macOS is using Metal, which is looking to have a very positive effect. Play the game when it's out and see how the performance feels; I'd be interested to see what you make of it.

 

Perfect, thanks. I can live with that if I can run it at least decently at 2.5K. 1080p looks terrible on a 5K screen.

 

starcraft remastered?

 

The "old" OpenGL renderer is in fact a new OpenGL renderer, as the original StarCraft only had software rendering. OpenGL support was only added with the recent 1.18 patch for the original SC. SC:R uses the same codebase.

 

Depends who is doing the work - the original developer probably would (and should) use the native UE4 Mac support, but I would expect Feral and Aspyr to use their own porting libraries when bringing a UE4 game to Mac.

They'll get the behaviour they expect from their own code and bugs they fix or optimisations they make in their porting library carry over into their future games. It also means they avoid having to recook game data which UE4 does make easier than most engines but still isn't desirable when porting.

I'd like them to be able to use the native Mac support and have it be a case of just running the Editor and packaging a Mac build, but I am old enough and experienced enough to understand that is unlikely. I'll happily be corrected if I'm wrong though.

 

On the topic of another (possible metal) game. What's the deal with Ark?

They're listing that they've upgraded to the latest version of UE4. But the requirements on the steam store list a mac with OpenGL 3.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/594820656447032287/

 

If I recall correctly for Bloober's previous game, they developed the Mac and Linux themselves and Aspyr only provided some support and acted as distributor. I guess it's the same now.

 

It's out in stores? Or from website?

 

And there we are folks, I stand corrected - sounds like you two know more about this case than I do.

 

Fingers crossed that Feral will continue working with Relic for the upcoming Age of Empires 4.

 

I wouldn't get my hopes too high: AoE 4 is published by Microsoft, which haven't brought any of their games to the Mac in the last 12 years. Incidentally, AoE 3 was the last one. And they seem to be hellbent to make AoE 4 and the upcoming "Definitive Editions" of the previous games in the series Windows 10 exclusives.

 

Next up on Feral's growing repertoire of Metal games is BioShock Remastered, which is out as of... *checks watch*... now.

Then we'll have F1 2017, out in just a few days simultaneously with the Windows release (25 August).

 

Purchased and downloaded.

 

I agree, they do seem to want to keep them as Windows 10 only. The tactic might just work on me, these AoE games might just get me to use boot camp, and pay for a Windows 10 license for the first time. I've stuck to Mac native games since I switched, but I played AoE to death 20 years ago, and I'd love to play updated versions.

 

I've created a section on the Metal Wiki for all of the metal supported games, including the games listed on this forum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_(API)