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[-] mingistech@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Luckily it plays on Apple Silicon Macs beautifully through CrossOver. In the MacGaming sub users are getting 100+fps.

[-] red@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

It does, but Valve doesn't spend money in taking any responsibility over it. Also I presume anticheat might not work properly.

In any scenario, the translation layer has a performance impact which for any competitive player is something that makes Apple a no-go.

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Actually, they kinda do take responsibility for mac gaming. They helped develop https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK which basically runs Vulkan on Metal. The Linux version uses Vulkan, so in theory it shouldn't be too hard to port, they just didn't.

[-] red@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Because, again, they don't want bad press when the translation layer doesn't play ball with anticheat, or some other tech.

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

it's literally just graphics, does nothing with anticheat, look at reshade, unless you use library-modifying addons it won't be picked up by anticheat

[-] red@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Lol. It most definitely is not.

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Elaborate? Are you confusing MoltenVK with wine?

[-] mingistech@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

That's funny because my son compared CS2 on my MacBook Pro vs his RTX 3060 PC build we put together last winter and he said how much more responsive the game felt on the Mac.

[-] red@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That it works is one thing. That it always works as expected is another. Apple doesn't want to take responsibility for that, and neither does Valve, when there's not enough paying customers on that platform. It is what it is. Now the Proton layer is one thing, because Valve is selling Steam Decks. They will want that to become a big thing. They'll go back to selling Steam Boxes (the living room console thing).

If Apple wants to ride that wave, they could.

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