I’ve connect my M3 Pro 12 Core to a 27” LG external gaming monitor at 1440p playing DOTA 2 at Max settings and I don’t even hear the Fans spin up. Wasn’t expecting such great performance. 90+ FPS even in huge fights.
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Playing DOTA 2 On Max Settings 1440p 120hz
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On the 12/18 M3 Pro 14 Resident Evil: Village hits the ProMotion display's 120 fps cap regularly at 1080p, default settings with MetalFX upscaling set to the quality mode. Without MetalFX, performance drops to around 50 fps. Upping the resolution to 1440p but keeping MetalFX enabled and everything else the same is generally in the 70-80 fps range. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, which runs under Rosetta 2, is generally a 60 fps experience at 1080p; bumping up to 1440p is closer to 40. In either game, the fan is so quiet that I have to put my ear practically on the keyboard to hear it.
While they are paid solutions, Crossover and Parallels are easy to use and open up a vastly larger library of games that run surprisingly well on Apple silicon. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is one of my favorite games of all time. While it had an official Mac port (including one with physical media that I still own), it was one of many victims of the switch to 64-bit only applications. Just yesterday, I got it up and running in Parallels, and it was actually easier to do than with my Core i9 13900HX gaming laptop. The game has a bug where it will refuse to launch on a system with a lot of CPU cores. Only one fix I tried worked semi-reliably, and even then it was a convoluted mess of having to use the Java development kit and a command line to launch it.
I'm aware of Crossover and Parallels. Unfortunately, the average mac user who wants to game will ignore these.
