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i would be mortified to admit I gamed on a Mac tbh
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Dec 3, 2022 18:53
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Quantum of Phallus posted:i would be mortified to admit I gamed tbh
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 (MGS:V was surprisingly serviceable via bootcamp)
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Dec 3, 2022 19:01
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American McGay posted:
I’m not gonna stop telling people to play Hades or Disco Elysium until everybody plays Hades and Disco Elysium
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Dec 3, 2022 19:02
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I play real video games on my TV with a controller.
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American McGay posted:I play real video games on my TV with a controller. Yes, simple video games on a TV.
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Dec 3, 2022 19:15
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I have found macs to be the best platform for gaming
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Dec 3, 2022 19:18
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I'm still pleasantly surprised how well my M1 Air runs FFXIV, even though it's running through an emulation layer and I have to use a third party launcher. I would love to see how well it runs with a Mac native client, but SE really dropped the ball and basically abandoned their official Mac client recently and I don't think that's ever going to happen.
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Dec 3, 2022 19:25
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American McGay posted:I play real video games on my TV with a controller. in a big bed, with my wife
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Dec 3, 2022 19:29
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Ok Comboomer posted:in a big bed, with my wife I do this, too, but with my Steam Deck running games either natively or streaming them from the PC in the other room. 
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Dec 3, 2022 20:25
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Ok Comboomer posted:I’m not gonna stop telling people to play Hades Wow, I bought a Mac Studio last month and wrote off games entirely after CK3 ran like such crap, but Hades runs great. What the hell, Paradox? (e: Oh huh, they added Vulkan rendering this week. I don't know what that is but CK3 runs much better now.) Tayter Swift fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Dec 3, 2022 |
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Dec 3, 2022 20:38
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I'm a Linux gamer now. Steam Deck is tight and I'll upgrade to the OLED version as soon as its released. It's also great for PS5 remote play. I could remote play from my gaming PC but meh. I doubt I'll ever upgrade GPU because I'm too cheap and would rather buy a Steam Deck + PS5 + Series X + Switch for the price of a 4090. Corb3t fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Dec 4, 2022 |
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:I have found macs to be the best platform for gaming wtf
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Tayter Swift posted:Wow, I bought a Mac Studio last month and wrote off games entirely after CK3 ran like such crap, but Hades runs great. What the hell, Paradox? Vulkan is a graphics API like DirectX, Metal, and OpenGL. It's what developers use to tell the computer what/how to render graphics.
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Dec 4, 2022 10:58
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I saw the other say that there's Apple Silicon OpenJDK so I assume Minecraft runs pretty well now.
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Dec 4, 2022 11:58
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Mac Hardware - Wow, Hades Runs Great On My $3,200 Machine
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Dec 4, 2022 19:49
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American McGay posted:Mac Hardware - Wow, Hades Runs Great On My $3,200 Machine * At 1080p
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Dec 4, 2022 19:53
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why does apple not sell any display port cables on their site? do they just hate display port?
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Dec 4, 2022 20:08
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American McGay posted:Mac Hardware - Wow, Hades Runs Great On My $900 Machine
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Dec 4, 2022 20:36
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God drat, Apple says they'll pay £325 for my 2020 intel Air (i7, 16GB, 500GB, ~£1650 purchase iirc). For once I feel like I'm ripping them off.
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Dec 4, 2022 20:37
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Ok Comboomer posted:You’re not gonna play Elden Ring on one any time soon, but if you have a big and diverse Steam library on PC then probably a fairly significant portion of that library already runs well enough on a new MacBook to make it worth your while. i agree that i play games on my mac all the time. twilight struggle, for example, and retro games. but that's not the same thing. seems dishonest to suggest the one is all! i love my m1maxbook  but i do wish even loving paradox games could run on it
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Waifu Radia posted:yes, this is all my point was. the way things were being phrased, it implied things like elden ring could work well on a Mac machine, and that is frankly not the case. it is far behind Linux and Windows right now. this thread is a twilight struggle
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Kibner posted:Vulkan is a graphics API like DirectX, Metal, and OpenGL. It's what developers use to tell the computer what/how to render graphics. Yeah I get that much, I'd just never heard of it. Only OpenGL, DX and Metal. And that old rear end one for the Voodoo cards, Glide or whatever.
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Waifu Radia posted:yes, this is all my point was. the way things were being phrased, it implied things like elden ring could work well on a Mac machine, and that is frankly not the case. it is far behind Linux and Windows right now. I feel like I’m missing a joke, because almost every game I play regularly is a Paradox title and they’re all running fine.
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Tayter Swift posted:Yeah I get that much, I'd just never heard of it. Only OpenGL, DX and Metal. And that old rear end one for the Voodoo cards, Glide or whatever. It is basically the dx12-equivalent successor to OpenGL. It's not particularly widespread for similar and more reasons as dx12 (when compared to dx11) but, in general, it allows easier, lower level access to the hardware.
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Baronash posted:I feel like I’m missing a joke, because almost every game I play regularly is a Paradox title and they’re all running fine. there's a known thing where ck3, vicky 3, etc. run at 15 fps if you're lucky on M1 Max Macs. EU4 just runs worse than on windows by a large margin, which makes playing w/mods undoable there too. it is bad e: oh maybe it is better after whatever update added Vulkan? i'll give it a try sometime this week with vicky 3 then, when i tried vicky 3 on launch it was unplayable
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Waifu Radia posted:there's a known thing where ck3, vicky 3, etc. run at 15 fps if you're lucky on M1 Max Macs. EU4 just runs worse than on windows by a large margin, which makes playing w/mods undoable there too. it is bad Try it in a parallels VM or using crossover too.
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Dec 5, 2022 09:41
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Waifu Radia posted:there's a known thing where ck3, vicky 3, etc. run at 15 fps if you're lucky on M1 Max Macs. EU4 just runs worse than on windows by a large margin, which makes playing w/mods undoable there too. it is bad I just tried CK3 with Vulkan on my M1 Pro 14 and it runs pretty well. You have to switch to Vulkan in the settings, don't be confused like I was if it's still running like crap after you update.
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Breadnought posted:I just tried CK3 with Vulkan on my M1 Pro 14 and it runs pretty well. You have to switch to Vulkan in the settings, don't be confused like I was if it's still running like crap after you update. Ok maybe this was the issue I was having on my M1. It was running like absolutely crap and I just kinda gave up on it. Stellaris seems to run pretty drat ok though
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I think I'll see if the M2 goes down in price at all during xmas, if so I'm going to get midnight, 8-core GPU, 16 GB ram, either 256 or 512 (though I still do fine with just 128 so prob the former). I can get an academic discount at least, so right now 1299 with the dual usb-c adapter
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Dec 5, 2022 19:10
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My M2 MBA just arrived. Looks svelte and feels lighter than expected. I ordered a shell case because I saw that the midnight color attracts fingerprints and scratches easily. I also got a keyboard cover, but I read somewhere that it's a bad idea because the tolerances are so small that it could end up damaging the screen when closed. Is that a real concern?
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T Zero posted:
I think so yeah. I know it’s real tight on my m1 MBP
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doesn't getting a shell case kind of defeat the point of getting that color?
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actionjackson posted:doesn't getting a shell case kind of defeat the point of getting that color? Not if it’s clear! 
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I remember reading that this was a fairly common issue months ago, but when I plug an SD card into my 14" MBP I have to reseat it several times before macOS mounts it, and some cards it just refuses to see period. I've started carrying around an external reader which never has an issue. I don't know if this is a hardware or software issue, but is there a way to force macOS to refresh the slot or something?
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actionjackson posted:I think I'll see if the M2 goes down in price at all during xmas, if so I'm going to get midnight, 8-core GPU, 16 GB ram, either 256 or 512 (though I still do fine with just 128 so prob the former). I can get an academic discount at least, so right now 1299 with the dual usb-c adapter I’ve seen a couple deals on M2 Airs here and there but only from 3rd party retailers and they only stock the base 8gb configs. B&H or Adorama are the only ones stocking BTO configs afaik
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T Zero posted:My M2 MBA just arrived. Looks svelte and feels lighter than expected. I ordered a shell case because I saw that the midnight color attracts fingerprints and scratches easily. Hope you don’t scratch up the finish with that shell case!
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MarcusSA posted:Not if it’s clear! is this issue only with midnight, or all colors?
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actionjackson posted:is this issue only with midnight, or all colors? the other colors just act like the same finishes macbooks have had for a while (daylight is kind of a hybrid gold-silver), but the midnight has a reputation for being a particular fingerprint magnet (just like the black polycarb before it)
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