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M1/M2 Macbook Air Gaming Thread
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Next you need to play some Star Trek 25th Anniversary and Star Trek Judgement Rites. Careful though. With a 256 color palette. It may be a bit much to handle.
the beauty of retrogaming is even though I started computer gaming in 1982, there are still thousands of games that I have not checked out yet. I am using a logitech gamepad instead of my trusty Wico though.
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With emulators and retro gaming. You could really keep playing new to you games for the rest of your life. Never making it to current games. There’s just so many of them.
If you really want to burn some hours. Play Realmz.
Yep, between OpenEmu, Virtual64, VirtualAmiga, and Dosbox-X, I never see loot boxes.
The only game I play here is World of Warcraft (full resolution on all settings) and it runs fine, frames stay high the entire time even in a large group.
I'm not saying you can't game on a MacBook Air. What I'm saying is you shouldn't game on a MacBook Air. I wouldn't get an F350 Diesel pickup to street race. It's a professional tool to increase productivity and make as much money possible.
Same thing with the Air. Why game on a professional device crafted to make money for professionals? Go get a 7 pound, RGB infested, transformer looking PC to game and leave the professional devices to us.
Same thing with the Air. Why game on a professional device crafted to make money for professionals? Go get a 7 pound, RGB infested, transformer looking PC to game and leave the professional devices to us.
I said "one of the best" and subroc wasn't on the commodore 64 which is the emulator I was showing. learn your history.
Just curious, can it handle FIFA?
Gonna be my first air after almost 8 years
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the playstation version runs fine in OpenEmu.
I run FF14 just fine on mine with the default settings (medium high I think is what it defaults to).
Who cares? Casual gaming is definitely a thing. I occasionally play one game and it’s the same game I’ve been playing for a decade 😂 I don’t think it’s available on Mac, but if it was and ran fine..which I’m certain it would.. why not?
Exactly. There is nothing wrong with casual gaming on any Mac.
Apologies for not being clear about this and, thank you but, I was asking/implying if it’ll run just fine for the upcoming FIFA23?
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This is some of the best gaming yet. Everything I have tried runs at a smooth 60 FPS on my M2 Air with xbox controller.
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Yep. I used to casually "game" on my 2012 MacBook Pro and would just deal with 10fps on the minimum settings. These new base model Apple Silicon machines are absolute screamers compared to those older machines.
If they can easily handle 1080p at medium-high settings and get 60+ fps on just about anything, who is to say that they "shouldn't be used for gaming?"
Been playing these two pretty much since release with the battle of good versus evil still raging on LOL. Both games are now on fresher fields and platforms due to updated source ports with many bug fixes & improvements. Better still now native to Apple silicon & 64-Bit Intel thx to Mac Source Ports.
Doom 3 (2004)
A survival horror focused FPS that genuinely gets under your skin. Quite literally a very dark experience. dhewm3 (source port) Keeps the original experience with bug fixes and far better support for newer operating systems and hardware.
Dev:
"Compared to the original version of Doom3, dhewm3 has many bugfixes, supports EAX-like sound effects on all operating systems and hardware (via OpenAL Softs EFX support), has much better support for widescreen resolutions and has 64bit support."
Doom 3 BFG (2012)
Feels and plays more action focused, reduces the tension of the original in trade for some quality-of-life mechanics. I tend to drop the brightness to match as close as possible the original as I like the horror aspect. RBDOOM-3-BFG (source port) vastly improves immersion due to a complete overhaul of the games lighting systems.
Dev:
"RBDOOM-3-BFG is based on DOOM-3-BFG and the goal of this port is to bring DOOM-3-BFG up to latest technology in 2021 making it closer to Doom 2016 while still remaining a DOOM 3 port regarding the gameplay."
Naturally the battle continues to which is the better game LOL. Personally, I like both and therefore have the best of both worlds
Both source ports are freely distributed; however, you will require the original game data files to play either title. Those that want to install on Apple Silicon or 64-Bit Intel need to download from Mac Source Ports.
RBDOOM-3-BFG might be a push for the passively cooled Air, runs fine on my 13" MBP. Dhewm3 is very close to stock Doom 3 so think the Air could manage reasonably well.
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due to updated source ports with many bug fixes & improvements. Better still now native to Apple silicon & 64-Bit Intel thx to Mac Source Ports.Doom 3 (2004)
A survival horror focused FPS that genuinely gets under your skin. Quite literally a very dark experience. dhewm3 (source port) Keeps the original experience with bug fixes and far better support for newer operating systems and hardware.
Dev:
"Compared to the original version of Doom3, dhewm3 has many bugfixes, supports EAX-like sound effects on all operating systems and hardware (via OpenAL Softs EFX support), has much better support for widescreen resolutions and has 64bit support."
Doom 3 BFG (2012)
Feels and plays more action focused, reduces the tension of the original in trade for some quality-of-life mechanics. I tend to drop the brightness to match as close as possible the original as I like the horror aspect. RBDOOM-3-BFG (source port) vastly improves immersion due to a complete overhaul of the games lighting systems.
Dev:
"RBDOOM-3-BFG is based on DOOM-3-BFG and the goal of this port is to bring DOOM-3-BFG up to latest technology in 2021 making it closer to Doom 2016 while still remaining a DOOM 3 port regarding the gameplay."
Naturally the battle continues to which is the better game LOL. Personally, I like both and therefore have the best of both worlds
Both source ports are freely distributed; however, you will require the original game data files to play either title. Those that want to install on Apple Silicon or 64-Bit Intel need to download from Mac Source Ports.
RBDOOM-3-BFG might be a push for the passively cooled Air, runs fine on my 13" MBP. Dhewm3 is very close to stock Doom 3 so think the Air could manage reasonably well.
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