M4 Gaming

[PBG4 Dude]

is the high fans a pc/console thing too or just a mac thing? Every mac laptop seems to have this issue I wonder if its same on PC and consoles.

Its just not enjoyable to play a game when it feels like there is a nuclear reactor in the laptop about to explode.I think it might damage the hardware in the long run because you are stressing it so much.

It’s much quieter than my PC gaming laptop with a 105W 4070.

 

[PBG4 Dude]

Native without FSR1? 👍🏾

Correct. FSR1 is set to Off.

 

[Naraxus]

How did it work for Wow

It works amazing for WoW. I get consistent fps, no lag or stuttering even after about four or five hours of gaming, the cutscenes are fantastic and not choppy.

On my old In-hell Mac all of the above would happen immediately on logging in

 

[Homy]

but Mac M chips games are lacking, arent they? Unless you play specific games that got a mac version of them. I do not see game developers hyped about making a specific mac M chip games. On the linux side they opted to put some sort of emulation layer to make windows games work. I do not understand how it works but some reporting windows games on linux work just as fast as native on windows.

this is very confusing for me since my understanding is emulation/translation = slowdowns. I ran a 90s FPS game (Sin Gold) in Crossover (wine) and my macbook 2015 was about to launch into space.

My M4Pro 14/20 plays Baldur’s Gate 3 at 80fps on Ultra settings. The fans are running at max, but even at max, they’re the quietest laptop fans I’ve ever heard.

I was pleasantly surprised at how many of my Steam games have Apple Silicon versions. I’m talking BG3, Lies of P, Shapez 1&2, Hades II, and more. If only Coffee Stain Studio’s Satisfactory and FromSoft games were native…

There are currently 6,330 native Apple Silicon games only on Steam compared to 356 that are listed on PCgamingwiki. That doesn't include all the exclusive ports on Mac App Store, like RE games and Death Stranding. Crossover can run games very well. Death Stranding runs very well with D3DMetal/MSync in Crossover Preview on my M1 Max 24c, 40-60 fps at 1440p Very High without MetalFX, but mostly 40-50 because you’re always outside. Good frame pacing the whole time without stuttering. Only during some intense cinematic parts the performance drops to 25-30 fps. Lowering the quality to High/Medium gives 5-10 extra fps.

 

[throAU]

Correct. FSR1 is set to Off.

FSR for me didn’t improve performance much, just made it look bad. pity it’s only FSR V1

 

[diamond.g]

FSR for me didn’t improve performance much, just made it look bad. pity it’s only FSR V1

Yeah the porting house "got fired" so I don't think we will ever see MetalFX or FSR2 on macOS.