Mac Gaming Gets Overpowered Upgrade with Game Porting Toolkit 4
Mac gaming is finally getting the overpowered upgrade it deserves
I tested Apple's new Game Porting Toolkit 4 beta on my M4 Pro MacBook Pro and was stunned by the results. GTA V saw a massive 66% frame rate boost, proving that software translation is finally catching up to Apple Silicon's raw power. This update transforms how we view Mac gaming, suggesting the hardware was never the real bottleneck.
Because after this beta, the hardware no longer feels like the limiting factor. The software is finally starting to catch up.
- SXX
Apple could easily make gaming on Mac feasible by contributing to Proton, Wine, DXVK and officially supporting Vulkan at least through translation layer.
Or just partner with Valve to do exactly this for their platform.
Instead they choose to build another proprietary solution nobody gonna use and that will die as soon as they lose interest.
- keyle
This, once again, misses the elephant in the room.
The fact is simple, there isn't enough of a Mac gaming market for the game developers to go through the effort.
The hardware has been good enough for a while now.
I'm not saying this will never change but the developers that shipped games on PC and Mac report something along the lines of 6-11% of users use a Mac. That isn't worth the effort unless you have a very strong IP and you've already targeted the switch2, the PS5 and XBox.
- cousin_it
Oh, who gives a damn. Half the games in my Steam library don't work since Apple killed 32bit. When they fix it, I'll know they care about Mac gaming.
- bakoo
The high pixel response time on macbook displays means you'll want an external monitor for multiplayer shooters etc., which most gamers are already fine with, but annoying if you want to game while travelling.
- VCFundedGenYer
Game Porting Toolkit will be irrelevant unless it's as open and free to use as Proton is. Linux has far and away taken the lead here.
It also doesn't help that x86 compatibility is being ejected, so you can't even run basic Wine in the near future. Due to all this, there's no reason to be excited for this misguided endeavor of Apple's.