You have Steam running on an M1 via Rosetta? I was under the impression it didn't work, or at least not well.
I have tried the following and they work flawlessly:Just asking, has anyone tried actually playing games on M1?
While I do understand OS has gone ARM fully and that most of apps will do, my biggest current fear of M1 is how it will perform in Intel based games? Has anyone tried something more demanding on M1 Class Mac (e.g. Civ 6, Divinity Sin 2 ...) or gaming should be simply forgotten?
And no, I dont mean Steam Play service, I mean real downloaded to hard drive MacOS X versions.
I know, there is PS4 and Windows for games, but its good to have something for fun
Howdy David,
That's definitely not what Rosetta 2 does, OpenGL and Metal are very different technologies. Btw most benchmarks actually place the 5500M on the same level as the M1 GPU, so the overall game performance should be roughly the same (unless that particular game's game loop is actually CPU bound -- heavy physics etc).
This is what I was essentially meaning by saying Rosetta 2 translating to Metal, but based on some follow-on posts and some subsequent reading (https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-1.html need to read all 3 parts), this is the only possibility. Rosetta 2 is translating the x86-64 code to ARM, and macOS is "wrapping" OpenGL calls to Metal. It makes more sense that macOS itself was doing the translation (or wrapping if you prefer) of OpenGL calls to Metal calls. This would mean that any application on macOS would continue to function, even if it was still using OpenGL, which the M1 GPU does not seem to natively support. The real sneaky thing about this, is that since OpenGL performance is so poor under macOS, performance improves despite the overhead of the translation. Thanks everyone!
