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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (9 children)

If developers actually supported macOS, it would be a way better form factor over PCs. PCs consume ludicrous amounts of power, while my M1 Max MacBook Pro could run Baldur's Gate 3 at max graphics with no performance issues. On battery. Over extended periods. Make ARM better already.

Macs can game--people just don't want them to.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People being the people making the games.

Apple's love affair with Metal and the utter lack of Vulkan support for ages on Apple silicon slowed down/totally killed anyone porting games.

This really didn't get sorted out until pretty recently, and shit's gotten better in the last six months or a year.

Hopefully it keeps getting ports and such, but it took WAY too damn long to even be in a position for this to start happening.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Yep this is the real reason - Apple is so hostile towards developers and no support outside of proprietary Metal API it’s no surprise there are few games.

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