nanoUFOValve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening Because There Aren't Enough Players on Mac to Justify It
colourlessponyI wonder if part of the reason is that apple deprecated opencl on mac os and replaced it with their property graphics api Metal. I image it would be a lot of work to port the source the engine to Metal just for a small amount of users.
Send_me_nude_girlsNot just OpenGL, they also moved to ARM64 CPU architecture in 2020, which isn’t any longer out of the box compatible with x86_x64 software. It requires extra work and optimization. Using a Mac for gaming is like shooting yourself in the foot. This is also unlikely to change, as moving to ARM64 would lose us all backwards compatibility. I always considered this move of Apple to be a mistake.
Number358moving to ARM64 would lose all backwards compatibility.
Well Apple uses a backwards compatibility layer to help with that, it works pretty well from what I’ve heard, but there is a significant performance loss with this approach.
I have an m1 Mac and the Rosetta 2 layer is insanely performant. There is some performance loss but I’d hardly call it significant. It’s imperceptible to me.