{"id":31370,"date":"2023-07-04T15:03:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T14:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/is-mac-on-the-verge-of-a-gaming-revolution\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T15:03:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T14:03:26","slug":"is-mac-on-the-verge-of-a-gaming-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/is-mac-on-the-verge-of-a-gaming-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Mac on the verge of a gaming revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mac gaming has always been a bit of a punchline, despite Apple’s best efforts. The fundamental problem is that it takes substantial development resources to bring games over to the platform, which occupies a small fraction of the computing market. Every year a few high-profile games are trickled out, while most other titles skip macOS entirely – but that might be changing. <\/p>\n

Apple recently released a tool called the Game Porting Toolkit (GPT), which simulates a Windows environment and translates DirectX API calls to Apple’s own Metal API, all the while translating x86 instructions to Apple Silicon’s ARM instruction set. It’s effectively a translation layer, like Valve’s Proton on Steam Deck, with the same capability to run high-end games at playable frame-rates. But how good is GPT – and are we really on the verge of a Mac gaming revolution? <\/p>\n

Actually getting the Game Porting Toolkit set up on a modern Mac computer is a fairly simple process – just upgrade to macOS 14 Sonoma<\/a> and download Whisky<\/a>, which is a graphical interface by developer Isaac Marovitz for the Game Porting Toolkit. From there, download the disk image file for the Game Porting Toolkit<\/a>, boot Whisky and drop it in. <\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – eurogamer.net<\/p>\n

All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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