If MacBooks had native support for videogames I would switch to a MacBook real quick. But with all that performance of M-chips, Apple are still not willing to invest anything into desctop game support. So frustrating.
@@Leonzkyhv Arm is actually much easier to optimize for, especially since if you develop for one arm device, it can run on most on the same generation.
@@MM-fu3cx there's no incentive to do so, apple does not pay these developers and apple makes up such a low portion of computer gamers. Apple has always been as advertised for business and they pushed for that exact image
I have been consistently impressed with my base model M2 MacBook Air for gaming, considering it wasn’t really designed for that purpose. That being said, it costs more than many mid-range gaming laptops.
8gb or 16gb of Ram? can you play games for many hours without overheating? macbook air has no fan. but hear different story on how that goes - macbook pro has a fan probably better for long term gaming?
Haven't used Mac since my 2010 iMac as I moved firmly back to windows a few years after, but grabbed an M1 Air for $800 this Christmas mostly for schoolwork as I already have an M17 R4 Alienware with a 2070 and wanted something lighter and easier to get around. I love it. It's no gaming PC but it definitely has a ton of potential as a secondary computer and I LOVE that it is fanless. I see that as it's number 1 feature, not introducing dust into your system is huge.
Incredible that you guys could make this video without mentioning that you cannot currently run any games that only have DX12 renderers. That’s a pretty important piece of this puzzle, especially now that we’re pretty solidly into this generation of consoles.
@@destructodisk9074 Why as me developer should make my game run of minority systems? Plus directx is windows thing and will never be stupid apple silicone supported.
@@SnowTheKitsune "minority"? Apple sold tens of millions of M1 Macs (Macbooks, Mac mini, iMac etc) to this day and now lets not forget that Apple is also selling M1 iPads (iPad Air and Pro). There is a huge market that no one seems to want to tap into.
While true, not everyone plays the newest games. It would be amazing if devs started to port their old catalogue to M1 in general... M1 Air GPU is about as powerful as the old Xbox, so just port games with Xbox settings and make the software hardware aware so it runs at higher settings on the bigger SOCs. Kinda like games run on iOS/iPhones where the highest settings are greyed out when you are on an older iPhone. But for some reason devs avoid Apple Silicon macs... you can see this with mobile games already. The iOS version of Genshin runs perfectly fine on M1 iPads, yet it's not on the MacOS Appstore. It makes no sense to me.
Literally my idea…. Saw a video of it that randomly popped onto my feed, and now I’m buying it for my girlfriend because of how ridiculously cheap and powerful it is.
@@massformationpsychosis7681 Apple may have actually made a run away hit with this one. The only problem I have with Apple hardware like this is the expensive upgrade options and no choice to upgrade later. I think 16 gigs should be the base but I have less experience with intense use or gaming on Macs.
@@JohnCiaccio 8 should be fine, all gaming my girlfriend will be doing is over the cloud anyways…. If/When she decides to learn CAD drawing for her career 8 might struggle, but should be fine
I’ve been gaming on the M1 Max, MBP for the last year. It’s no problem at all. Tons of games are available on Steam, Minecraft runs incredibly well, and X-Plane 12 actually has better performance than on my gaming PC with an i7 8700k and 1080ti GPU, at 1/5th the power consumption.
I play Warcraft on a MacBook Pro and 32” 4K monitor with medium settings. For the most part it runs pretty well. If games are written for ARM, they should run well. But I don’t think that developers will bother.
Definitely not. It's a terrible mousepad. If you buy a Mac in order to play games, that's clearly crazy. But if you just prefer to use a Mac, and sometimes want to play a game, then you absolutely can (several caveats depending on what you'd like to play).
Most of my games I play nowadays are mobile games (iOS based). It’s a shame I can’t play most if not any of them at all on an M-chip based computer, which would be excellent for saving my phone battery life.
It's the base model M1 Air. If you take a look at LTT's video on the M1 Max MacBook Pro, they ran Deus Ex Mankind Divided on it at playable framerates with high settings. And Mankind Divided is pretty demanding
Ive played METRO EXODUS on my m1 max laptop, and it works great, very playable, i think it was also thru rosetta though, but extreme settings with the highest settings for sampling, and what not, its a pretty heavy game I would say, that worked incredibly well.
Well, you need to understand that games that run on M1 or M2 are specifically made to run on those chips Cause originally those games are made to run on Cisc x86, non on arm chips So if apple allows you to play a certain game, it will most likely work well, because all they care about is marketing, they wouldn't let you play something that runs like shit And videos like this are what they want, lol Having to explain this in 2023 is kind of sad
@@thunderarch5951 thats not how rosetta works... any program that was written for x86 macos can be emulated without "permission" from apple because rosetta was designed as a general emulation layer for any 64bit x86 macos program. Its actually hilarious how confidently wrong you are. Unless apple and Adobe specifically wanted me to be able to run my pirated copy of Lightroom 2018 for marketing.
@@thunderarch5951 no, metro exodus was an intel game ported ofr amd graphics card (on mac), now it works perfectly trhough rosetta 2 translated... its useless to throw word to appear knowledgeable if you dont know what you are talking about
If the game developers makes more games to support natively the ARM architecture on mac will be one of bast gaming device, I know it can run the games by rosetta with good performance but supporting natively will be the best, the PC in general still a choice for gaming without extra steps
It is interesting but If you see Skyrim (2011) with medium and had around 40-50 fps, it is bad. Not the worst case, but still bad. With card like 1060 (6 years) you can easy in 1440p on max got around 100 fps. Same result as M2 chip, you will get with 4600g in some games:) So maybe M3 should be able to play games in better way.
Parallels is the slower way of running Windows games on Mac. WINE (with wrappers such as Crossover or Porting Kit) is generally faster. Also, M2 is a laptop chip w/ integrated graphics that barely uses any power at all. Built in Intel HD graphics often perform worse than M2 going through multiple layers of compatibility layers. The fact that it gets perfectly playable performance on games not even written for this hardware or software is impressive no matter how you think of it.
@@mbvglider For the cost of MacBook (staring from $999) you could get decent gaming laptop with more RAM and storage . And you could play infinitely more games. That is about it. Comparing MacBook with some $300-400 non-gaming laptop again wins no favors. Intel HD is way better than you expect, and could now run games from 2011 decently.
@@aleksazunjic9672 at being a portable device, gaming laptops are kinda bad though. For the one thing they’re good at, gaming, they’re specialized and pretty good at it. I’m comparing them to premium ultraportable PCs in the same price range, like the Dell XPS13, which is what they compete with. Those computers don’t have good graphics and aren’t expected to play much more than esports and old games at low settings.
All you need is GeForce Now. Plays my steam library on my Mac. Windows or Mac games. Runs flawless. Also takes zero local storage to play my whole library. Nothing compares to it. Right now I am playing Cyberpunk 2077 on ultimate ray tracing settings, at 1440p averaging 70fps on a MacBook Air M1.
You don't have latency? I have 2 Gbps internet and cant even stream CP2077 from my Xbox to my Alienware M17r5 without the most stuttery POS you've ever seen lol
@@linuxes9681 having to run both devices through Ethernet for it to even be feasible is kind of redundant.... OnLive (currently PSNow) from a server worked better 10 years ago and I too have an M17R5 with the same issues, but it's not exclusive to that device. Game Streaming is pretty garbage on PC for the cost and setups you need to get it to work well. Definitely a luxury more than a commodity.
RUclipsr Mumbo Jumbo got Minecraft Java to stay running with nearly 19,000 rendered entities on the ground (at about 0.5 fps)with the Studio. for context even the beefiest of PCs crash out at about 10,000. He also was able to keep a world of nothing but falling sand running without crashing at 32 chunk render distance.
Well PC build simulator is just not optimized enough but there are actually already a significant growed list of games there run pretty well on Apple Silicon Mac through Parallels Desltop. And you could adjust the Ram size slightly up to increase the performance. Also installing the game into your hard drive would increase the performance. Finally, don't forget, the games you are running in Parallels Desktop, might need another layer of translation from x86 to arm.
I played on an old Mac like that for 3 years and it was relatively fine, then I switched to a M2 chip 2023 Mac and it is even better, no lag, no fan sound, doesn't overheat at all and I can run multiple things at once.
I've been enjoying Austin's videos for years. This is probably the furthest he's strayed from "mainstream IT videos". He plays a whopping the least demanding 5 seconds of RE8, the most demanding game there, and said "yeah it's sooper playable guys". Tried a single one of the least demanding games on Dolphin for 5 seconds, mentioned "lil stuttery at 3x but eh moving on". 5 seconds of an extremely non-demanding game with zero combat running through Rosetta. All that effort Kinsey apparently went through, just for 5 seconds of the intro to Skyrim. On the Mac Mini, he tested one additional game for 5 seconds alongside RE8. And then bam, he tried Skyrim again on an M2 Pro. Cute vid, but one of his most shallow, rushed ones. I get the whole point wasn't a deep dive, but this could've been presented a LOT better.
It does. Atleast, it does when doing intensive tasks (video export, Photoshop, etc) so I reckon it'll do the same with games. The MacBook Air is incredibly powerful, but also "just" for casual use. Writing documents, watching RUclips and HBO Max and some occasional iMovie use. It doesn't have a single fan (which is crazy, right?), which means that it has a thermal limit. Like phones do, I guess.
I'm thinking of switching to the 13" M2 Air for portability when I take classes on campus, but I'm hesitant because I'm an avid Simmer. Not sure if an Air can handle Sims 4.
As someone who plays league and RuneScape, mac is adequate. Where it starts to fail is when I need software for my accessories like my mouse that has 12+ programmable buttons. Need windows to program the mouse.
As someone who’s mainly a pc user also interested in a Mac mini because I like having all options 😉.. you can’t deny it’s impressive if Steam or someone else could do what Steam did for Linux . That be amazing
@@sd30001 apple locked the boot loader like they would on an iPhone literally only 1 linux distort Asahi has managed to boot on a Mac and still nothing works yet.
@@PanosPitsi I mean they have open GL 1.2 support I believe. They have a functioning desktop on M1 with some early stages of hardware acceleration. Vulkan is also being worked on but I don't know how far that is.
I was just about to say you forgot Apple Arcade. My wife is addicted to Apple Arcade and I got her a MacBook Pro 14 and she loves playing them on a “large” high resolution screen, though she misses the touch.
All of you are missing the main point, M1 and M2 chips are ARM Games are made mostly for x86 CISC architectures So the few games that are available, are actually made to run specifically on MacOS, so of course they'll run decently, otherwise they wouldn't have put them, it's all about marketing folks It's always been a out marketing with Apple, I'm surprised in 2023 there's still the need to say it, it's really sad
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This video forgot about Ryujinx, the Nintendo Switch emulator that has native MacOS port. It runs new Switch games such as Fire Emblem Engage, Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII Reunion and other recent Switch games without a sweat on a mac.
As one that got M1, I installed xp on my old hp550, and I can still game better on that than the M1, like that runs nfsu and nfsmw, no need of emulators or extraspace I think I can play underground even from my stick with out having to install it on laptop
This is such a shame - the ability to stick bootcamp/steam (etc) on a Mac device so it can be used for games (instead of having a separate Win/gaming machine) made Macs really great value IMO.
I play league of legends and wizard 101 on my 2021 m1 MacBook air. Pretty much anything else I tried said does not support Mac so good thing I play league of legends and wizard 101 the most. I'm level 502 on league.
I want to know if everything set to ultra though remember just because your screen resolution can say 4K or whatever or is it 4K low settings is it 4K high medium ultra extreme I mean come on here
Apple lets you play 5 games now. Impressive.
To be fair, their chip is arm, try and pay EVERY single developer to make games run on a different architecture than x86 just for you, lol
It's 5x more than what i was expecting
@@zayneytem Most school laptop that you get are locked performance in the Bios so not a good compression lol
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Amazing
If MacBooks had native support for videogames I would switch to a MacBook real quick.
But with all that performance of M-chips, Apple are still not willing to invest anything into desctop game support. So frustrating.
tell that to the game developers not to apple lol
It's both I think. Devs don't optimize and push (and now with different architecture even more difficult)
Apple no API support, graphics card support
@@Leonzkyhv Arm is actually much easier to optimize for, especially since if you develop for one arm device, it can run on most on the same generation.
What? Imagine if more Devs started supporting ARM....I would be really happy.
@@MM-fu3cx there's no incentive to do so, apple does not pay these developers and apple makes up such a low portion of computer gamers. Apple has always been as advertised for business and they pushed for that exact image
Apple will make their products crazy powerful but not allow us to use all that power 💀
Blame that to developers, not apple
Because the CPU architecture is different. Unlike x86 and x64 (which is backwards compatible for x86).
@@superqaxclub yeah blame developers for not spending R&D on games to run on ARM for the 3% of people that are gonna play on it…
@@superqaxclub Blaming apple because they dropped open GL support and refuses to have vulkan. They only use their own api
If i cant see the performance,how do i even know its real?
I have been consistently impressed with my base model M2 MacBook Air for gaming, considering it wasn’t really designed for that purpose. That being said, it costs more than many mid-range gaming laptops.
8gb or 16gb of Ram? can you play games for many hours without overheating? macbook air has no fan. but hear different story on how that goes - macbook pro has a fan probably better for long term gaming?
What exactly is it designed for?
do you have a learning disability? @@nerdguyX3
Haven't used Mac since my 2010 iMac as I moved firmly back to windows a few years after, but grabbed an M1 Air for $800 this Christmas mostly for schoolwork as I already have an M17 R4 Alienware with a 2070 and wanted something lighter and easier to get around. I love it. It's no gaming PC but it definitely has a ton of potential as a secondary computer and I LOVE that it is fanless. I see that as it's number 1 feature, not introducing dust into your system is huge.
you nail it, it's only as good as a secondary laptop
You ever tried to run parallels?
Yeah I use an m1 air in addition to a desktop PC and its great.
enjoy cooking your hardware, looks at 2015 MacBook retina
Incredible that you guys could make this video without mentioning that you cannot currently run any games that only have DX12 renderers. That’s a pretty important piece of this puzzle, especially now that we’re pretty solidly into this generation of consoles.
@@destructodisk9074 we’re missing some stuff, maybe in the future metal 3.x versions for now it’s not possible yet. We are close though.
@@destructodisk9074 Why as me developer should make my game run of minority systems? Plus directx is windows thing and will never be stupid apple silicone supported.
@@SnowTheKitsune "minority"? Apple sold tens of millions of M1 Macs (Macbooks, Mac mini, iMac etc) to this day and now lets not forget that Apple is also selling M1 iPads (iPad Air and Pro). There is a huge market that no one seems to want to tap into.
While true, not everyone plays the newest games. It would be amazing if devs started to port their old catalogue to M1 in general... M1 Air GPU is about as powerful as the old Xbox, so just port games with Xbox settings and make the software hardware aware so it runs at higher settings on the bigger SOCs. Kinda like games run on iOS/iPhones where the highest settings are greyed out when you are on an older iPhone.
But for some reason devs avoid Apple Silicon macs... you can see this with mobile games already. The iOS version of Genshin runs perfectly fine on M1 iPads, yet it's not on the MacOS Appstore. It makes no sense to me.
@@destructodisk9074 No one is buying a Mac to play a game.
Crossover would likely run games much better on the M1 MacBook Air, as there aren't RAM limitations to that degree.
I had one mid-range mbp2017 with windows operating system. Can I also do that on M1/2 chip?
@Dinghao operating system is parallels (a very good virtual machine) but if you wanna play Windows games and such crossover is a much better option
I am seriously on the verge of grabbing a Mac Mini as a secondary desktop because for the price even the base Mini runs incredible.
Literally my idea…. Saw a video of it that randomly popped onto my feed, and now I’m buying it for my girlfriend because of how ridiculously cheap and powerful it is.
@@massformationpsychosis7681 ”ridiculously cheap”
@@massformationpsychosis7681 Apple may have actually made a run away hit with this one. The only problem I have with Apple hardware like this is the expensive upgrade options and no choice to upgrade later. I think 16 gigs should be the base but I have less experience with intense use or gaming on Macs.
@@JohnCiaccio 8 should be fine, all gaming my girlfriend will be doing is over the cloud anyways…. If/When she decides to learn CAD drawing for her career 8 might struggle, but should be fine
@@JohnCiaccio yeah, I wish it didn't cost hundreds of dollars extra to get anything other than 8gb ram and 256gb of storage
I’ve been gaming on the M1 Max, MBP for the last year. It’s no problem at all. Tons of games are available on Steam, Minecraft runs incredibly well, and X-Plane 12 actually has better performance than on my gaming PC with an i7 8700k and 1080ti GPU, at 1/5th the power consumption.
Yeah, but x plane and Minecraft HAVE support for Mac
You can't play much on it cause M1 is an arm chip, games are mostly made for x86 platforms
Yes I agree! I’ve play games on my M1 Mac all the time and also everything just runs flawlessly! X-Plane 12 is also just incredible on Mac.
Your 3000 dollar MacBook out performs a 6 year old (minimum) device? Well I'm sold.
I play Warcraft on a MacBook Pro and 32” 4K monitor with medium settings. For the most part it runs pretty well. If games are written for ARM, they should run well. But I don’t think that developers will bother.
MetalFX is not neural upscaling
Why is the m2 pro segment only 3 minutes long with 2 indie games?
Best way to game on a macbook is to use it as a mousepad for your pc
Ouch😭🥶
Definitely not. It's a terrible mousepad. If you buy a Mac in order to play games, that's clearly crazy. But if you just prefer to use a Mac, and sometimes want to play a game, then you absolutely can (several caveats depending on what you'd like to play).
but can it run crysis?
Most of my games I play nowadays are mobile games (iOS based). It’s a shame I can’t play most if not any of them at all on an M-chip based computer, which would be excellent for saving my phone battery life.
I remember playing Asphalt on my ipod nano. It was the hottest thing around at the day
Congrats on the impressive task of playing a 12-year-old game at decent framerates. That really shows off the capability of the Mac.
It's the base model M1 Air. If you take a look at LTT's video on the M1 Max MacBook Pro, they ran Deus Ex Mankind Divided on it at playable framerates with high settings. And Mankind Divided is pretty demanding
@@notlNSIGHT Mankind Divided has recommended specs for 2011/2012 hardware. Any decent modern system should be able to run it.
@@PixelatedH2O Youd be surprised. It's quite demanding, even for a game with those recommended specs.
>12 year old game
Game released Jan 23, 2017
Are you ok?
@@Fallen-Saint My mistake. The hardware requirements are 12 years old, not the game itself.
Imma say it…
But can it run Crysis?
I've done a little light gaming on an M1 Air, but I feel like RE8 would melt it.
I tried it, it's actually pretty good on m1
2:13 oof that macOS mouse acceleration in a first person game lol
You should've pushed it even harder and see what you could have gotten if you went higher up with more ram or even using the MacStudio
They're like you can play no man's sky while you cab play that on a switch
If more gaming devs would support games from MAC, it would be a viable choice for gaming.
Crossover runs certain games surprisingly well. I never thought I’d be able to run 2017 battlefront 2 on my M1 MacBook Pro.
yeah its like proton for linux
Imagine the surge in revenue and market share if Apple released a dedicated gaming Mac.
Will never happen.
Or a real update 😅
My 2015 MacBook air 13" runs windows. MacOS was removed completely and replaced with standard win10. Best Mac I've ever used tbh
crossover works well
Austin you are such like a perfect youtuber. You hinge us in, and make us laugh, thanks for cheering me up man and have a good day to all of you.
Ive played METRO EXODUS on my m1 max laptop, and it works great, very playable, i think it was also thru rosetta though, but extreme settings with the highest settings for sampling, and what not, its a pretty heavy game I would say, that worked incredibly well.
Well, you need to understand that games that run on M1 or M2 are specifically made to run on those chips
Cause originally those games are made to run on Cisc x86, non on arm chips
So if apple allows you to play a certain game, it will most likely work well, because all they care about is marketing, they wouldn't let you play something that runs like shit
And videos like this are what they want, lol
Having to explain this in 2023 is kind of sad
@@thunderarch5951 thats not how rosetta works... any program that was written for x86 macos can be emulated without "permission" from apple because rosetta was designed as a general emulation layer for any 64bit x86 macos program. Its actually hilarious how confidently wrong you are. Unless apple and Adobe specifically wanted me to be able to run my pirated copy of Lightroom 2018 for marketing.
@@thunderarch5951 no, metro exodus was an intel game ported ofr amd graphics card (on mac), now it works perfectly trhough rosetta 2 translated... its useless to throw word to appear knowledgeable if you dont know what you are talking about
Ah yes, don't forget Apple Arcade! So you can play like Flappy Bird at 500 FPS and 420 hertz.
If the game developers makes more games to support natively the ARM architecture on mac will be one of bast gaming device, I know it can run the games by rosetta with good performance but supporting natively will be the best, the PC in general still a choice for gaming without extra steps
The only reason I have not switched to MacBook is gaming. Also I'm poor.
That's the one thing that's stopping me getting into the Mac ecosystem. I would love to play games on these
They play games fine. Just depends on what games. The only 2 games that keep me needing a PC is RDR2 and Battlefield.
@@M21assult Same
well I have the base Mac air 2020 with 8 gigs and I'm playing league of legends : teamfight tactics at full settings and It works perfect at 90 fps
It is interesting but If you see Skyrim (2011) with medium and had around 40-50 fps, it is bad. Not the worst case, but still bad. With card like 1060 (6 years) you can easy in 1440p on max got around 100 fps. Same result as M2 chip, you will get with 4600g in some games:) So maybe M3 should be able to play games in better way.
Parallels is the slower way of running Windows games on Mac. WINE (with wrappers such as Crossover or Porting Kit) is generally faster. Also, M2 is a laptop chip w/ integrated graphics that barely uses any power at all. Built in Intel HD graphics often perform worse than M2 going through multiple layers of compatibility layers. The fact that it gets perfectly playable performance on games not even written for this hardware or software is impressive no matter how you think of it.
@@mbvglider For the cost of MacBook (staring from $999) you could get decent gaming laptop with more RAM and storage . And you could play infinitely more games. That is about it. Comparing MacBook with some $300-400 non-gaming laptop again wins no favors. Intel HD is way better than you expect, and could now run games from 2011 decently.
@@aleksazunjic9672 at being a portable device, gaming laptops are kinda bad though. For the one thing they’re good at, gaming, they’re specialized and pretty good at it. I’m comparing them to premium ultraportable PCs in the same price range, like the Dell XPS13, which is what they compete with. Those computers don’t have good graphics and aren’t expected to play much more than esports and old games at low settings.
Macs (even 8GB M1) are arguably the best way to play GameCube & Wii games. 4K60 in a compact, silent device.
All you need is GeForce Now. Plays my steam library on my Mac. Windows or Mac games. Runs flawless. Also takes zero local storage to play my whole library. Nothing compares to it. Right now I am playing Cyberpunk 2077 on ultimate ray tracing settings, at 1440p averaging 70fps on a MacBook Air M1.
That also requires a good internet connection
You don't have latency? I have 2 Gbps internet and cant even stream CP2077 from my Xbox to my Alienware M17r5 without the most stuttery POS you've ever seen lol
@@huskers1278 that's local. Internet doesn't matter at all. Are they both wired in with Ethernet or do you have them both on wifi?
@@huskers1278 😂😂
@@linuxes9681 having to run both devices through Ethernet for it to even be feasible is kind of redundant.... OnLive (currently PSNow) from a server worked better 10 years ago and I too have an M17R5 with the same issues, but it's not exclusive to that device. Game Streaming is pretty garbage on PC for the cost and setups you need to get it to work well. Definitely a luxury more than a commodity.
It's weird your videos don't start anymore with " Hey Guys this is Austin" 😭
RUclipsr Mumbo Jumbo got Minecraft Java to stay running with nearly 19,000 rendered entities on the ground (at about 0.5 fps)with the Studio. for context even the beefiest of PCs crash out at about 10,000. He also was able to keep a world of nothing but falling sand running without crashing at 32 chunk render distance.
Well PC build simulator is just not optimized enough but there are actually already a significant growed list of games there run pretty well on Apple Silicon Mac through Parallels Desltop. And you could adjust the Ram size slightly up to increase the performance. Also installing the game into your hard drive would increase the performance. Finally, don't forget, the games you are running in Parallels Desktop, might need another layer of translation from x86 to arm.
I played on an old Mac like that for 3 years and it was relatively fine, then I switched to a M2 chip 2023 Mac and it is even better, no lag, no fan sound, doesn't overheat at all and I can run multiple things at once.
I was surprised to learn Minecraft runs quite nicely on even the base M1 MacBook Air.
How did you install windows
Will it run civilization with all the high settings that’s all I need
I've been enjoying Austin's videos for years. This is probably the furthest he's strayed from "mainstream IT videos". He plays a whopping the least demanding 5 seconds of RE8, the most demanding game there, and said "yeah it's sooper playable guys". Tried a single one of the least demanding games on Dolphin for 5 seconds, mentioned "lil stuttery at 3x but eh moving on". 5 seconds of an extremely non-demanding game with zero combat running through Rosetta. All that effort Kinsey apparently went through, just for 5 seconds of the intro to Skyrim. On the Mac Mini, he tested one additional game for 5 seconds alongside RE8. And then bam, he tried Skyrim again on an M2 Pro. Cute vid, but one of his most shallow, rushed ones.
I get the whole point wasn't a deep dive, but this could've been presented a LOT better.
I mean once windows for arm actually becomes good for gaming thats most likely when gaming on mac will actually be feasible
Thanks a lot for using the base model Macbook Air M1 as your test machine! Please make more videos to test the limits of this laptop!
The thing I'd liked to see is sustained performance on the macBook Air. Like, does RE VII start chugging after a while?
It does. Atleast, it does when doing intensive tasks (video export, Photoshop, etc) so I reckon it'll do the same with games.
The MacBook Air is incredibly powerful, but also "just" for casual use. Writing documents, watching RUclips and HBO Max and some occasional iMovie use. It doesn't have a single fan (which is crazy, right?), which means that it has a thermal limit. Like phones do, I guess.
Would you guys do a video, on the m2 max chips in the new laptops that just came out?
So in short answer no it still cannot game
Windows xp background on a mac, i saw what you did there.
You forgot about Wii U and switch emulation Austin
The sims 4 runs very well on the M1. Dont use Retina resolution and adjust it lower and adjust some settings and its a good experience
I'm thinking of switching to the 13" M2 Air for portability when I take classes on campus, but I'm hesitant because I'm an avid Simmer. Not sure if an Air can handle Sims 4.
@@arese- it can
@@simsforever791 Awesome. Thanks!
@@arese- you’re welcome
Gaming on Mac has come a long way, I wonder what next is in the cards for Mac gsming; especially with the new Apple Silicon!😁
Technically Mac OS is still next up 😂
Running the big games Window has
Probably not a whole lot unless Apple finally decides to put Vulkan into macOS.
Actually, gaming on Mac has regressed significantly since the loss of Boot Camp.
As someone who plays league and RuneScape, mac is adequate. Where it starts to fail is when I need software for my accessories like my mouse that has 12+ programmable buttons. Need windows to program the mouse.
As someone who’s mainly a pc user also interested in a Mac mini because I like having all options 😉.. you can’t deny it’s impressive if Steam or someone else could do what Steam did for Linux . That be amazing
They can’t , apple killed open gl so it would be literally impossible. Any mac game must be native code sadly..
Surely they can run Linux on this, then Windows games via the various options there.
@user-fr2fm3ri3w ok yah that sucks
@@sd30001 apple locked the boot loader like they would on an iPhone literally only 1 linux distort Asahi has managed to boot on a Mac and still nothing works yet.
@@PanosPitsi I mean they have open GL 1.2 support I believe.
They have a functioning desktop on M1 with some early stages of hardware acceleration. Vulkan is also being worked on but I don't know how far that is.
I was just about to say you forgot Apple Arcade. My wife is addicted to Apple Arcade and I got her a MacBook Pro 14 and she loves playing them on a “large” high resolution screen, though she misses the touch.
Fun fact: MACOS Launchpad has controller support.
But can it run Crysis?
So you can actually play the same games you can play on a $100 mini pc. Amazing!
When I filmed my unboxing and setup for my new MacBook I realized it does turn hot quickly. Did you have the same experience?
All of you are missing the main point, M1 and M2 chips are ARM
Games are made mostly for x86 CISC architectures
So the few games that are available, are actually made to run specifically on MacOS, so of course they'll run decently, otherwise they wouldn't have put them, it's all about marketing folks
It's always been a out marketing with Apple, I'm surprised in 2023 there's still the need to say it, it's really sad
@Thunder Arch. I agree
Nah most games on steam in Mac OS are Rosetta. It still works well though. There are a few exceptions of course like World of Warcraft.
@@richarddcrossley The steam version of no mans sky and resident evil doesn't have the m1 version, it's only on apple arcade. That's a problem
@@Ffom177 ah fair enough. I’ve got Apple Arcade and never once used it! Heard there is some good games on it though.
I use a base iPad 9th gen and I can run games like Minecraft and World of Warships just fine. Not super intensive games but it works.
I actually play BTD6 on my 14 inch MacBook Pro fairly often and while it’s not a demanding game at all it works pretty well
Same, love the game on my $350 phone 😂
Hey Austin, you should do a video on the new PS5 DualSense Edge Wireless Controller :))
Kinda sad that Witcher 3 and Arkham Asylum which I purchased from steam is unplayable on my macbook air M1😢
Great video, however, you forgot to mention Crossover for gaming.
he also forgot Ryujinx for Nintendo Switch emulation that works natively AND is open source community driven emulator
You can’t just game on Mac 😂
My 150$ gaming pc run better than this 1.3k$ mac mini
@@ermesslavoi1649 macs cpu isnt for gaming lol you people expect any computer to game lol
I found a way to game on my mac. I unplug the MacBook Pro from the display and connect my gaming laptop.
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apple should try to get gaming working if they want more market share
I used to play Dota 2 on my M1 MBP. Its...fine but definitely takes some time to get used to the performance and keyboard.
GAMING
It's a problem I have with the lack of supported game
Why so expensive if it can't barely run candy crush?
i have it and it is only good if you play kb&M also use gforce now
he has just purchased a mac to use widnows in macOS to install a game where che can build a PC. This is definetely the future.
Apple needs to boost their storage options without charging an arm and a leg. It’s ridiculous the amount of storage they put on their devices
should really reccomend Crossover if only for gaming
Switch Emulation is Native on Mac OS through Molten Vk/ Metal , look up Ryujinx or Yuzu both are amazing switch emulators
Yes but that's gray zone illegal and can't really be shown on youtube if you don't want a strike from Nintendo
I have watched you for a while I love your videos
Prefer the old studio....
I remember running Skyrim on a cheap $70 windows 8 tablet back in 2015 or so 😂
Seems like technology gets more complicated instead of getting simpler and more accessible
Bootcamp was the best
TF2 Players when they seen their game for a second on an Austin Evans video: *we were seen*
3:05 i guess the red plumber man is coming for you.
Nice watch
This video forgot about Ryujinx, the Nintendo Switch emulator that has native MacOS port. It runs new Switch games such as Fire Emblem Engage, Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII Reunion and other recent Switch games without a sweat on a mac.
The video didn't forget anything, showing emulated switch games with illegal roms will get the video striked
As one that got M1, I installed xp on my old hp550, and I can still game better on that than the M1, like that runs nfsu and nfsmw, no need of emulators or extraspace I think I can play underground even from my stick with out having to install it on laptop
This is such a shame - the ability to stick bootcamp/steam (etc) on a Mac device so it can be used for games (instead of having a separate Win/gaming machine) made Macs really great value IMO.
bro you played the part of resident evil village where nothing happed. Play to the first combat at least my guy
This video in a nutshell... What the hell lol
I play league of legends and wizard 101 on my 2021 m1 MacBook air. Pretty much anything else I tried said does not support Mac so good thing I play league of legends and wizard 101 the most. I'm level 502 on league.
If you can find a code F1 2017 was released for MacOS
I have played Terraria on my MacBook Pro M2 for over 40 hours and have never had any problems
10:13, luxenburg arent a city :D
Crossover by Codeweavers is another really good way to run Windows programs on Mac, they run as if they were native Mac apps ☺️
Let me know when they can play star citizen
I want to know if everything set to ultra though remember just because your screen resolution can say 4K or whatever or is it 4K low settings is it 4K high medium ultra extreme I mean come on here
You should've tried cyberpunk 2077 or Portal rtx