philodonMar 21, 2025
Quinn Nelson
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.
Mar 20, 2025 at 8:19pmWeb
Show threadJonathan ClarkeMar 20, 2025
@snazzyq Woah.
Show threadÁkos DiánMar 20, 2025
@snazzyq Yikes…
Software optimization should be taken seriusly, WTF is with contemporary development?
Show threadMark PauleyMar 20, 2025
@snazzyq does it run through Whisky / Crossover or GPTk? If it runs faster there, we riot
Show threadNate BarhamMar 20, 2025
@snazzyq Wow. Big yikes.
Show threadaeberbachMar 20, 2025
@snazzyq and after everyone finds out how awful performance is and sales are terrible, we will hear how there is no market for Mac AAA games. And so the cycle repeats…
Show threadOskarMar 20, 2025
@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?
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.
Show threadWolfrMar 21, 2025
@snazzyq Apple keeps promising gaming on the Mac, but you need the latest beast to run games decently.
Show threadJonathanMar 21, 2025
@snazzyq don’t worry, at this year’s WWDC they’ll announce they’re getting serious about gaming 🙃
Show threadRobert Jan SchuttenMar 21, 2025
@snazzyq How is it on a MacBook Pro with M3 Max? Asking for a friend 🙂
Show threadsimjndMar 21, 2025
@snazzyq Ray tracing is mandatory for this game and currently only NVIDIA is competent in hardware ray tracing. If you could completely turn it off we would be a lot better off.
Show threadKirk McElhearnMar 21, 2025
@snazzyq I’ve tried it on an M4 iMac and it’s not very good. To get any decent performance, the resolution needs to be set very low, and with upscaling it looks pixelated.
Show threadVojtěch HorkýMar 21, 2025
@snazzyq On the other hand, it feels like they’ve finally got the optimisation on PC right, so it’s not all bad.
Show threadPascal ✌️Apr 6, 2025
@snazzyq Thats crazy, but than again also expected!