Unity and Unreal Engine on Apple silicon

[Acorn]

I searched YouTube for unreal and unity on apple silicon and there was lots of videos of unreal crashing like hell on apple silicon. Unity kinda worked but was slow. Is this still the case or has it gotten any better?

 

[Irishman]

I searched YouTube for unreal and unity on apple silicon and there was lots of videos of unreal crashing like hell on apple silicon. Unity kinda worked but was slow. Is this still the case or has it gotten any better?

Um, I think that UE5 crashes on every OS it runs on

 

[terminator-jq]

Can’t comment on unreal but Unity has been pretty solid in my use. Both the Apple Silicon version and the Intel version via Rosetta are pretty good.

 

[Boil]

Apple should buy Unity; take all those tools (including the Weta Digital dealio) and use them for a Triple-A game studio, their Apple TV+ productions, and as part of a comprehensive 3D/DCC software suite (including FCP & Logic)...

 

[XB982]

I have a MacPro 5.1 (Dual Xeon + AMD RX580) and I have a triple boot : BigSur, Monterey and Win10Pro. From my experience, UE5.0.2 works ok on MacOS and Windows. It never crashed on me. But it's slower and have limitation (Lumen+Nanite) on MacOS than on Windows. So it's not an hardware problem but OS issue.
Have a read to the test I did with the same UE map on both OS:

UE5 for M1 Apple Silicon

Hello Chris, I can tell you that since UE5.0.2, Lumen and Nanite (quality is degraded on MacOS compares to Win10PRo) are ‘working’ on a MacPro 5.1 with an old RX580 AMD GPU booting on BigSur. Performances are not as good as on Windows10Pro on the same machine but it works ! Same basic map...

forums.unrealengine.com

Hope this helps.

 

[Marble]

I use both these tools every day for work. Unity is insanely fast and fully native on M1 Max (except for Hub, which is annoyingly still emulated Electron). Unreal is a comparatively awful experience through Rosetta, and Nanite still not functional. Waiting to see how much they care!

 

[Nugat Trailers]

I use both these tools every day for work. Unity is insanely fast and fully native on M1 Max (except for Hub, which is annoyingly still emulated Electron). Unreal is a comparatively awful experience through Rosetta, and Nanite still not functional. Waiting to see how much they care!

A decent bit, it seems.

'With Unreal Engine 5.0 and earlier versions, the Unreal Editor was running as an x86_64 (Intel) executable on M1 macOS computers. This approach did leverage all the performance benefits of the platform.

The UE team is actively working on porting the Unreal Editor and its dependencies to support natively the Apple Silicon platform, thus offering increased performance and stability.'

https://portal.productboard.com/epicgames/1-unreal-engine-public-roadmap/tabs/80-unreal-engine-5-1-in-progress

 

[BootLoxes]

I know this isn't what you are looking for, but the Godot engine runs amazingly well on my M1 Air

 

[Acorn]

I know this isn't what you are looking for, but the Godot engine runs amazingly well on my M1 Air

I appreciate the post. always good to have options