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Macs tend to lack decent GPUs, and Apple’s approach to backwards compatibility/industry standards (removing 32bit support and with it half of the Mac Steam li

Macs tend to lack decent GPUs, and Apple’s approach to backwards compatibility/industry standards (removing 32bit support and with it half of the Mac Steam library, and deprecating OpenGL) is hardly encouraging people to support the platform when it comes to anything gaming-related.

danielscrubs 6y ago
> Macs tend to lack decent GPU Are you saying the majority of the emulation calculation nowadays are done in a gpgpu fashion in that emulator? For if that's the case, it would be insanely cool.
- wheybags 6y ago
  No, it's more that the consoles they're emulating have GPUs, so they emulate the GPUs with the computers GPU.
  - danielscrubs 6y ago
    So it wouldn't be possible to play PS2 games on my MacBook because it has an integrated Intel Iris Graphics GPU?
    - galad87 6y ago
      It would be possible. An Intel Iris Graphics GPU is good enough for a PS2 emulator.
Wowfunhappy 6y ago
> Macs tend to lack decent GPUs In 2012, I played through the entirety of Persona 4 in PCSX2 on a Macbook Air with an Intel HD Graphics 4000. I was using Bootcamp (even back then when it was more current, getting the native Mac version to actually run was a PITA), but clearly the hardware is sufficient. Persona 4 is among the easier games to emulate IIRC, but I'd expect that in 2020 both the hardware and software would be more capable.
- karatestomp 6y ago
  My 2014 MacBook Pro with Intel graphics can play lots of Unity games just fine, including Kerbal Space Program. Can't crank the graphics all the way up on all of them (can on some!) but it's fine. Minecraft's good, maxed out. Any older games, of course. Most of the new wave of Baldur's Gate-alikes and sequels, if I don't max out the pretty, run fine. And that's on 6-year-old Intel graphics. Definitely no problem with PS2/N64 emulation or earlier. Only reason I do almost zero gaming on it these days is that they killed 32-bit support, and with it most of my library.

danielscrubs 6y ago

> Macs tend to lack decent GPU Are you saying the majority of the emulation calculation nowadays are done in a gpgpu fashion in that emulator? For if that's the case, it would be insanely cool.

wheybags 6y ago
No, it's more that the consoles they're emulating have GPUs, so they emulate the GPUs with the computers GPU.
- danielscrubs 6y ago
  So it wouldn't be possible to play PS2 games on my MacBook because it has an integrated Intel Iris Graphics GPU?
  - galad87 6y ago
    It would be possible. An Intel Iris Graphics GPU is good enough for a PS2 emulator.

Wowfunhappy 6y ago

> Macs tend to lack decent GPUs In 2012, I played through the entirety of Persona 4 in PCSX2 on a Macbook Air with an Intel HD Graphics 4000. I was using Bootcamp (even back then when it was more current, getting the native Mac version to actually run was a PITA), but clearly the hardware is sufficient. Persona 4 is among the easier games to emulate IIRC, but I'd expect that in 2020 both the hardware and software would be more capable.

karatestomp 6y ago
My 2014 MacBook Pro with Intel graphics can play lots of Unity games just fine, including Kerbal Space Program. Can't crank the graphics all the way up on all of them (can on some!) but it's fine. Minecraft's good, maxed out. Any older games, of course. Most of the new wave of Baldur's Gate-alikes and sequels, if I don't max out the pretty, run fine. And that's on 6-year-old Intel graphics. Definitely no problem with PS2/N64 emulation or earlier. Only reason I do almost zero gaming on it these days is that they killed 32-bit support, and with it most of my library.