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It's not like Valve ever tried their best on Mac: • Even years after the introduction of Apple Silicon, the Steam STILL only has a legacy Intel version which r
by Razengan 3y ago
It's not like Valve ever tried their best on Mac:
• Even years after the introduction of Apple Silicon, the Steam STILL only has a legacy Intel version which requires Rosetta. Despite being little more than a glorified web view, apparently they can't even bother to compile it for the newer CPUs.
• They outright LIE about macOS compatibility: The store pages of some games show a big warning banner about being 32-bit-only and unable to run on Catalina+, BUT THEY RUN FINE!
So Valve is not only not trying, they seem to be actually sabotaging Mac gaming. It's a good thing I started switching to GoG even back when I was still on Windows, and making most of my purchases there than on Steam with its additional DRM bloat.
As for the hardware, even my previous fan-less MacBook Air M2 with just 8 GB RAM ran games like Baldur's Gate 3 at a playable framerate, and my current M2 Max just blazes through everything (that's available).
- russelg 3y agoDota 2 (also built on Source 2 like CS2) works completely fine on Apple Silicon, albeit running through Rosetta. Not sure what excuse the CS2 team has when the smaller Dota team can do it (they even fixed a bug preventing it from launching on macOS very quickly)
- ThatPlayer 3y agoWouldn't the store page be up to the game? I don't think Valve are expected to monitor every single game's system requirements.