Quinn NelsonMar 20, 2025
Assassin's Creed Shadows launched today on the Mac App Store. $69.99 gets you a game that runs at about 23 FPS on an M4 MacBook Air with 11FPS 1% lows (aka, unplayable) using MetalFX upscaled to 900p "low" graphics preset from a ~500p render target. Yikes.
Show threadOskar
@snazzyq To be fair here, the MBA is a computer without a fan. I’m not sure there is any hardware out there that could run this beast of a AAA game with passive cooling. Maybe a MBP is a more appropriate benchmark?
Mar 20, 2025 at 11:14pmMastodon for iOS
Show threadMieszko ŚlusarczykMar 20, 2025
@oskargroth @snazzyq Framerate/resolution is really low though. Let’s stop making excuses for poor optimisation
Show threadTibo LoeteMar 21, 2025
@spitfire @oskargroth @snazzyq Yea this is bad enough to at least lay partial blame at the game and not just the hardware
Show threadMieszko ŚlusarczykMar 21, 2025
@Mister_Eel @oskargroth @snazzyq Exactly. Apple showed playing games on an iPhone with Ray tracing enabled was possible, so M4 definitely has power to do the same, and more thermal headroom, even in the Air.
Show threadhömmaMar 21, 2025
@oskargroth @snazzyq Yes and No. Is this was released on an iPad (with roughly the same hardware specs), a lot of people would get very concerned that this game doesn’t run decent on the latest iPad Pro.