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Are you sure? Portal 2 had no issues on my M1. Half Life 2 also runs well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4NESG_fXgo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4NESG_fX

• skrrtww 3y ago
  Yes, Portal 2 and Half-Life 2 are both more playable because they don't use x87 to the same extent. It's only HL that uses it heavily enough that it becomes unplayable. Side note, I think HL2 does for physics, or something; fast moving objects and explosions cause drastic frame drops via Rosetta. I haven't been able to look into it in detail to confirm the cause. Edit: The best "official" way to play Half-Life on an Apple Silicon machine is through Parallels, which uses WoW64's x87 translation instead of Rosetta. I've also heard you can compile Half-Life yourself using the leaked Source Engine code, but I haven't tried it myself.
  • xcv123 3y ago
    The 25th anniversary release is a major update to the engine and may be compiled for newer CPUs. Worth a try.
  • mepian 3y ago
    Why use the leaked code, when there is an open source reimplementation: https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs