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For all those Mac owners out there, rejoice that "proper" gaming could be just around the corner.

Sadly for me, my 2015 MacBook Pro doesn't support Sonoma, so I can't (yet) take advantage of this. But maybe the folks working on OpenCore will manage to get it working, in which case I'll be jumping all over this.

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[–] ozoned@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Too bad Apple didn't invest into the open source software that CodeWeavers and Valve are working on with Wine. But more choice of platforms is always a win for consumers.

Edit 2: Codeweavers' blog post

https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/mjohnson/2023/6/6/wine-comes-to-macos-apple-s-game-porting-toolkit-powered-by-crossover-source-code

Edit: Looks like it might be Wine according to this https://www.osnews.com/story/136223/apples-game-porting-toolkit-is-wine/

[–] TheTrueLinuxDev@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Well if they want to actually make it easier, give up their Metal API and use Vulkan instead and stop trying to deprecate OpenGL and Vulkan. :/ I blacklisted them for deprecating OpenGL when my Macbook 2015 used to play OpenGL games just fine and then after one update, I can no longer play the same game on the same laptop that used to support OpenGL.

[–] simple@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good stuff. I've never been a fan of Mac but I'm glad video games are becoming less reliant on Windows, even through a compatibility layer. If games actually run well I might consider getting a Macbook for the battery life.

[–] DJDarren@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

According to what I've been seeing over on https://old.reddit.com/r/macgaming/, the performance is already looking fairly tasty, if not perfect.

[–] z2k_@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does anyone know if this works with the Intel Macs? I have an older 2019 MacBook Pro with AMD GPU and would like to do some gaming on it.

[–] DJDarren@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I asked about this on /r/MacGaming yesterday, and didn't really get an answer. It seems that Intel Mac owners haven't bothered because they can dual-boot Windows anyway. Which isn't really the point. My Mac is too old for Ventura, let alone Sonoma, but I'm running Ventura through OpenCore. So I have to wait for when (if) OpenCore manages to support Sonoma before I can investigate.

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