
People shouldn't focus so much on status quo and should instead have some patience. I think that's the path many developers have taken. Our goal is to accommodate as many Mac gamers as possible for as long as it is technically feasible and commercially viable." "For now we intend that all new Feral releases will offer native support for both new Apple hardware and older, Intel-based Macs. Application (Universal) means the app supports both.

See the information labeled Kind: Application (Intel) means the app supports only Intel processors and needs Rosetta to work on a Mac with Apple silicon. From the File menu in the menu bar, choose Get Info. As you can see Total War: Rome Remastered already has native M1 support and so will Total War: Warhammer III. To identify apps that need Rosetta or can use Rosetta: Select an app in the Finder. For that reason they have decided to put their efforts on new native ports for Apple Silicon. These games will fly on the future Macs for many years.

They have tested their existing games and ensured that they run fine. There wouldn't be much need for porting existing games with such performance. It means you should be able to run Borderlands 3 at 1440p ultra settings at 60 fps with 32 GPU cores in Rosetta. Although many larger games still may lack good performance on M1 developers know that Macs in the near future, as near as the next month, will have 2-4 times better graphics performance. The current problem with bad performance in games is not Rosetta but M1 8-core GPU. There are already several examples.Īnother reason is the upcoming M1X and M2 with 16-32 GPU cores or more. Some apps/games also don't gain much speed or any at all with a native M1 port. This makes Rosetta 2 so fast it sometimes is faster than a native Intel app. It is much better now because Apple has implemented x86 features directly into the M1. Last time native ports were much more needed because Rosetta 1 was so slow. When it comes to porting existing Mac games to Apple Silicon I understand why developers/porting houses take their time. I have opened up a ticket with Parallels but no luck as of now.Developing new games and porting them usually takes 3-5 years. Only one game gets to a game menu (The Last Stand: Aftermath), but when I start the game I am presented a blank black screen. When I launch GTV5 or BO3, looks like the games wants to do some sort of initial set up and it says installing 1 of 3, but then the window disappears and nothing happens after that.


