It’s actually the opposite. If you want to play emulators or old (as in 2015) PC games via Wine/VM, MacOS has got you covered. It’s newer games that give you problems because they don’t get ports and you can’t play them with compatibility applications yet.
Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb.
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The piece about Mac makes no sense. That’s purely a result of Apple’s decision to drop support. In general, if you are interested in older games, MacOS is not a viable platform.
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Can you provide one real world example? An older Windows game that works better on Mac than on Windows?
I will also add that 2015 is a random number. Win10 easily handles anything after 2005 or so. It’s the pre 2005 games that often require some deal of research.
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve heard of some edge cases where Wine is now a better option than native windows for really weirdly built 2000s era games. But overall most won’t run better since they have to run in a compatibility layer. The point is they do run and my computer isn’t just for gaming. Using windows is annoying af for the other 8 hours I’d spend working and losing some FPS in highend games is worth it.
sploosh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Macs also lack GPUs suitable for gaming. The modern ones are remarkably efficient, partly because they didn’t jam a 4060’s worth of graphic silicon into them. Why would they? Macs are for web browsing, media creation, productivity if you’re in the C-suite and making other people think you’re cool if you’re in a coffee shop. Their users do not expect to run AAA games at 4k60fps.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Most the article makes no sense, but the Mac stuff is really weird. This 18 year old YouTube video is still accurate about the Mac part. youtu.be/2B-ekl_cEWk?si=xWJ43QEO48O9t2oY