• @sky@codesink.io
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    2031 year ago

    Apple: only implements a proprietary graphics API

    Also Apple: Why does no one make games for my platform??

    • @mingistech@lemmy.world
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      421 year ago

      Luckily it plays on Apple Silicon Macs beautifully through CrossOver. In the MacGaming sub users are getting 100+fps.

      • redfellow
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        101 year ago

        It does, but Valve doesn’t spend money in taking any responsibility over it. Also I presume anticheat might not work properly.

        In any scenario, the translation layer has a performance impact which for any competitive player is something that makes Apple a no-go.

        • @mingistech@lemmy.world
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          -41 year ago

          That’s funny because my son compared CS2 on my MacBook Pro vs his RTX 3060 PC build we put together last winter and he said how much more responsive the game felt on the Mac.

          • redfellow
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            That it works is one thing. That it always works as expected is another. Apple doesn’t want to take responsibility for that, and neither does Valve, when there’s not enough paying customers on that platform. It is what it is. Now the Proton layer is one thing, because Valve is selling Steam Decks. They will want that to become a big thing. They’ll go back to selling Steam Boxes (the living room console thing).

            If Apple wants to ride that wave, they could.

            • @mingistech@lemmy.world
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              -11 year ago

              Yes, CodeWeavers takes responsibility, Crossover is their product. Same company that originally created Proton for Valve. Solid product.

              • redfellow
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                01 year ago

                Wrong. Just fucking wrong. Graphics was solved ages ago. Anticheat for mp has not.

                • @mingistech@lemmy.world
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                  01 year ago

                  No you’re wrong. MP works just fine in CS2.

                  No need to have a meltdown because Mac users are enjoying the game too. lol.

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      51 year ago

      Steve Jobs quite openly hated the idea of anyone gaming on a Mac because he felt like it made their products seem more childish or something. It seems like either nobody at Apple has managed to dig that particular brainworm out yet or have just decided that printing iPhone money makes all other concerns irrelevant.

  • @Molecular0079@lemmy.world
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    821 year ago

    So…how long before Apple realizes that game devs are notoriously time-crunched and forcing them to target yet another proprietary graphics API is a stupid move for their gaming ambitions?

  • @i_cant_sports@lemmy.ml
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    341 year ago

    Was CS:GO available natively on Mac? If so, this is unfortunate news for the small subset of Mac users who played, since CS:GO is now no more.

    • kate
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      11 year ago

      I heard they’re offering refunds to any users who had the majority of playtime on MacOS although I’m not sure that means much for an esports title

  • @naught@sh.itjust.works
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    201 year ago

    Honestly? Kinda hate cs2. It runs worse (3080ti btw), most of my smoke grenades no longer work, they removed team deathmatch, they removed short competitive matches, and you can no longer play csgo. The more I play the less I’m a fan

    • @Molecular0079@lemmy.world
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      251 year ago

      I get the feeling it was pushed out before everything was ready. I am willing to bet that all these missing features are coming later. Not sure why they didn’t just wait before pushing out the game. The smokes are just different, players just need to adapt to new mechanics instead of using the same grenade tactics that they’ve memorized for years.

      • @naught@sh.itjust.works
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        31 year ago

        Yeah they haven’t confirmed whether these features are making it back I believe, but they really ought to and I expect they will too. Smokes Im fine with. Mostly just annoying since the game feels almost identical to GO. A lot of smokes still work too so it’s kinda trial and error to find which ones work now and dont.

        I also find it annoying I can no longer see how much I damaged an enemy via console, but that’s fair enough too.

        • Freeman
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          41 year ago

          The fact that CS2 feels, looks and plays the same as GO did was the biggest aim by valve and wish from players. This was the goal: Redo the game in a new engine. Thats what they did. We can argue if there are inportant features missing or not, but the same feel but reworked smokes is both a feature which most of dedicated players wished for

          • @naught@sh.itjust.works
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            21 year ago

            I am in that camp, honestly! I just miss my old features and there are some quirks and growing pains. I really miss most of all short competitive. It was much lower stress and commitment. I can only play so many games and to be stuck in a one-sided long one feels bad. I am just a bit underwhelmed overall, but perhaps it is my expectations.

          • kratoz29
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            31 year ago

            Huh, I thought this was an entirely different game… is this a similar scenario of what happened with the Warcraft III remake?

            • @poke@sh.itjust.works
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              61 year ago

              It’s on a new engine and is technically a new game but Valve overwrote cs:go to make the inventory changeover work afaik. Lots of people seem to not know about the beta option to play GO, I think Valve should make a better process to access it so more people know that it’s an option.

        • Dandroid
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          41 year ago

          Well now that I think about it, I never played CS GO on this laptop, so I have nothing to compare against.

          • @naught@sh.itjust.works
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            I would say it runs “fine”. Just far worse than such a visually unimpressive game should (I don’t play cs for graphics anyway). The whole release feels like a dud. Feels like they pulled an Overwatch 2:

            Replace the old game, remove a ton of stuff people liked (at least I liked). I’ll still play - it’s not terrible - but it feels lacking

        • @adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca
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          31 year ago

          3080ti here at 3440x1440 and I don’t think I’ve ever dipped below 150 FPS, and whenever I look it’s in the mid 200’s

    • @PixxlMan@lemmy.world
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      71 year ago

      I think much missing stuff is going to be coming. I think they just didn’t want to delay CS2 any longer. CSGO is still playable from the properties panel. You can enable a legacy CSGO mode. Not sure about matchmaking though.

      On my 3060ti with max everything I always have over 200 fps, but yes, definitely not as fast as CSGO still. What fps are you getting?

      • @naught@sh.itjust.works
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        21 year ago

        It seems odd not to have TDM from the outset. I somehow doubt turning off team damage or shortening the match length requires a huge dev lift. Maybe some surrounding infrastructure but still. On the FPS, I’ll have to check! It feels like a lot lower than 200. I only have 144hz anyway so it must be worse than that

  • Gianni R
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    161 year ago

    I think everyone would rather development effort for games go into Linux as opposed to macOS.

  • @teraflopsweat@lemm.ee
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    161 year ago

    As a Mac user, I’m fine with this tbh. I don’t game on my Mac and most people I know with one don’t either.

  • @bentropy@feddit.de
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    141 year ago

    Wow you guys hate apple more than I do and I really think they’re overpriced but okay hard and software for people with other needs. The apple users I know don’t really think about gaming at all, wondering how many seriously do.

    • @Cornelius@lemmy.ml
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      141 year ago

      The hatred has nothing to do with the products but the lack of participation in open standards like OpenGL or Vulkan.

      Their products are incredibly well made (though I’d fuckin hope so given the pricing) and their software experience (barring the lack of good graphics API support) is quite nice.

  • @ulkesh@beehaw.org
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    121 year ago

    And there’s nothing wrong with this. While I’d love to see companies develop games that run on all of the main three OSes, there is cost involved. And Valve determined that cost to be too high to worry with. This doesn’t mean Macs suck, it just means Macs are not a viable gaming platform for some companies and some games.

    Imagine if we saw reason instead of simply adding ourselves to the “Macs suck” bandwagon. What a world that would be – with logic and reason and understanding. Nah, just pissing on things is better.

    • @Cornelius@lemmy.ml
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      171 year ago

      Wine is available for Mac, and Apple has started work on their game toolkit which was shown to run cyberpunk (albeit not well)

      So yeah, but you’re probably better off just dual booting asahi tbh.

      • @loganthered@lemmy.ml
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        41 year ago

        Does Asahi have full support for the GPU yet? Would Proton work on a non-x86-x64 architecture? Last time I tried it (around 6 months back, been a minute) it worked great for anything that didn’t need acceleration but I didn’t think it could handle much more.

      • @Voyajer@lemmy.world
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        71 year ago

        CS skins are practically pay to lose thinking about it. They make you stand out against the map more.

      • @kadu@lemmy.world
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        -81 year ago

        And you don’t HAVE to go inside a casino, and you don’t HAVE to try a cigarette, and so on. Those are still predatory and addicting things.

        • @Molecular0079@lemmy.world
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          …so is gaming in general. What’s your point?

          My point is that they’re just cosmetic, unlike gacha games or other free to play games where you’re FORCED to buy loot boxes to unlock good weapons and items.

          A casino REQUIRES you to spend money in order to participate. CS2 does not. Big difference.

            • @Molecular0079@lemmy.world
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              81 year ago

              That’s how it works on most games

              Not really. A bunch of F2P games have lootboxes that give you a chance at better weapons / characters early on instead of going through a long grind. The set of CS weapons is the same and does not change.

              The community gets upset when it becomes pay-to-win. I wouldn’t consider CS to be pay-to-win though so I find the casino comparison a bit inaccurate.

              • @kadu@lemmy.world
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                It’s not pay to win. But I never argued it was, so I’m not sure why you’re debating this point as if I were.

                The third party market for skins, with systems designed to literally be a casino, was not only allowed but encouraged on CS as it did make a lot of money.

                • @Molecular0079@lemmy.world
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                  11 year ago

                  But I never argued it was

                  You’re the one who brought up the idea that the game is a casino. A casino is pay-to-win, because you literally have to pay money to participate and having more money gives you advantages.

                  This is not what CS is. You don’t have to pay money to participate and there are no upgrades weapons or characters as a result of paying more money.

    • @aluminium@lemmy.world
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      01 year ago

      Same is true for many other games that get shit for their Microtransactions. But Valve is on the “good guy” site, so rules don’t apply the same.

  • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ
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    41 year ago

    Will there be any new Macs really? Isnt everything just some iPhone/ipad with iOS soonish? I doubt macs have any relevance in the future - just like last time when there was no Steve Jobs around. I mean there arent really any apps even for their watch… So why bother? Maybe they can just usw some cloudgaming …Apple ppl love paying and subscriptions.

    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      101 year ago

      Not sure what you’re talking about, a whole lot of people use MacBooks, I don’t think their market share dropped significantly. Desktop Macs, sure maybe but I think even that won’t completely die out.

        • space_comrade [he/him]
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          31 year ago

          I’m not sure if that’ll happen any time soon, they’d lose out on the IT professionals, audio professionals etc.

          I got one just this year and it certainly doesn’t feel like an iPad at all.

          • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ
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            You got a desktop or MacBook? Macbook pro is pretty nice but i dont see a future for osx or desktop. And while i agree some real professionals might keep using it for another decade but the vast majority of Adobe professionals will be replaced by other tech like AI or nuke artists etc

            • space_comrade [he/him]
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              21 year ago

              I got a MacBook Pro M2. It’s a good piece of hardware, MacOS was kinda annoying at first since it’s my first MacBook but I got the hang of it and it’s basically a normal desktop environment to me right now and I can’t see that changing significantly in the near future, I don’t think AI is gonna move that fast as to completely eliminate the need for typical PC desktop environments.

              • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ
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                I stopped using it over ten years ago and dont look back at crap like quarkxpress or the finder. Only contact with osx i have now is old people with macbooks that have troubles with user permissions and Safari. Desktop PC can strive but i doubt mac desktop or osx will be part of that.

    • @ulkesh@beehaw.org
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      31 year ago

      Millions of developers of numerous technologies use Macs. To say macs won’t have relevance in the future is clearly uninformed. As a gaming platform, sure, Macs leave plenty to be desired, but as development computers, they work extremely well, if overpriced.

      • @Moonguide@lemmy.ml
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        They’re also the standard in some industries, inc. design and video production. At least where I’m at. Hate the OS with a passion but not having a mixed OS workplace sucks.

        • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ
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          11 year ago

          That is the past. I know Photoshop ppl are getting laid off everywhere and replaced by nuke,ai and so on.Does Apple even do new desktop Workstations? Is that coke can still a thing?

    • Big P
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      31 year ago

      People have been saying that for years

    • body_by_make
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      lol MacBooks are insanely good with the release of the M chips, this opinion you’re sporting is pretty dated.

      • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ
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        Maybe. But who needs it? I say nobody. The poor Photoshop and illu guys are already getting replaced. There is no need for osx so there is no need for desktop Macs and macbooks will run IOS and be nothing but a superpowerd ipad. Innovation with Apple is zero - they the money to do a new chip but nobody devs anymore for the iwatch since the idea how Apple wants to make business is pretty dated.

        Meta app on iwatch …lol. 90s are calling and they want Apple back in the grave i hear. Or maybe Bill Gates can help them AGAIN?

  • @Auzy@beehaw.org
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    I switched from windows to Mac… I agree. The video cards on the M1/M2 is pretty bad (no proper raytracing and such). I actually got a PS5 and use that instead for gaming (and already have a XBOX Series X)