Can’t wait for all that’s in store next.

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    1 year ago

    Being a Mac user, this year is indeed a good year.

    I’ve been a very longtime WoW player but couldn’t stand the game anymore. I dropped it after a few months of Classic WOTLK (my personal fav) both out of boredom and because Blizzard contempt for macOS users

    Finding a game that I love and runs natively wasn’t easy but it finally happened. I never was an hardcore gamer (except maybe in the early days of WoW) so I never felt the need to get a dedicated PC (I had a PC but it only ran macOS and Manjaro)

    I’m currently playing Metro Exodus and BG3 (which I absolutely love even in EA). I also bought REV, NMS and Cliff Empire, but they weren’t for me.

    The other game changer is Game Porting ToolKit which allows me to test a whole bunch of Windows only games thanks to a friend who added me to its Steam family.

    Most of the games run smoothly enough for me (60FPS) so I guess the times I was thinking about buying a gaming rig are over. This money will go in some overpriced Mac option.

    Anyway, I never spent that much money in video games. It definitely must be a sign.

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      1 year ago

      Which Mac are you running on? I haven’t gone through the game porting kit setup yet because it seemed like a real pain in the ass and I want confident the performance would be worth it in the end on my m2pro

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        I got a 30 GPU cores M2 Max running the Public Beta of macOS Sonoma.

        I just installed Whisky and followed the guide.

        After that I just created a bottle and run Steam.exe which I then use as an installer and launcher. Super easy to use.

        Not every game is working OOTB yet, but I guess it’s a matter of updates. I didn’t dig too much for that reason.

        One weird thing I noticed is that CyberPunk is capped at about 30 FPS, no matter the settings.