Will BF2042 support Mac users
Will Mac be supported? I know that I am going to be probably be roasted for this, but I would dearly love to see this ported to a MAC as I use it for work and not a Windows Machine, It is pretty dece...
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I'm just being super curious, why exactly don't most games like BFV and the like come to Mac? I know we have the origin launcher and the like but i am just super curious why it's not always supported? Or other games like C&C? If I am being off topic and rude I do apologise.
@KnightRa1der Not really a gaming demographic, windows (as much as it's tried to marginalize it at times after microsoft started with the xbox) has always had a fairly large game development following on x86 architecture, and apple for a long time used their own non-x86 chips to further complicate matters outside the OS differences.
There was a little traction from some developers after apple switched to x86 chips and started shipping hardware with more "conventional" graphics options from AMD and Nvidia, but if i'm not mistaken they're moving away from that again.
The M1 should be ARM-based, though ARM chips now aren't the market share/development dead end it was in the early days (strictly gaming wise, mobile devices and all that).
A few developers have made efforts over the years, but it's been scattershot to say the least.
I remember bungie with marathon before halo was a thing, and some games like wow?
I honestly don't mess with apple much these days and no idea if it's gaming titles are backwards compatible with the different mac architectures over the years.
If apple will cater to that market with their hardware/software and support other platforms going forward though, that's an entirely different matter.
With that said, regarding something you mentioned above, gaming via VMs is.. painful to say the least performance-wise.
Did a little digging and you may want to read up on this and keep an eye on it in case apple decides to give it some support in the future (or if you just want to mess about and sideload linux)
*If* they do get the hardware working properly and natively in the near future, the wine/proton option via linux would be better than nothing, at least better than running things in a VM.
https://www.corellium.com/blog/linux-m1
There was a little traction from some developers after apple switched to x86 chips and started shipping hardware with more "conventional" graphics options from AMD and Nvidia, but if i'm not mistaken they're moving away from that again.
The M1 should be ARM-based, though ARM chips now aren't the market share/development dead end it was in the early days (strictly gaming wise, mobile devices and all that).
A few developers have made efforts over the years, but it's been scattershot to say the least.
I remember bungie with marathon before halo was a thing, and some games like wow?
I honestly don't mess with apple much these days and no idea if it's gaming titles are backwards compatible with the different mac architectures over the years.
If apple will cater to that market with their hardware/software and support other platforms going forward though, that's an entirely different matter.
With that said, regarding something you mentioned above, gaming via VMs is.. painful to say the least performance-wise.
Did a little digging and you may want to read up on this and keep an eye on it in case apple decides to give it some support in the future (or if you just want to mess about and sideload linux)
*If* they do get the hardware working properly and natively in the near future, the wine/proton option via linux would be better than nothing, at least better than running things in a VM.
https://www.corellium.com/blog/linux-m1
Thank You so much for replying both so kind and non aggressive towards mac, as I often run into people who tell me buy a PC or stuff like that. It has been very enlightening, i understand it completely as an ex windows owner, so thank you again, out of context, will support for mouse and keyboard for BF2042 also be implemented for the Xbox? I know I have asked one question, just thought to save making two topics, well anyway, any thoughts that could happen. Also reading that link you left, it's very interesting stuff.
@KnightRa1derRegarding the M/KB thing, as of now it's a "nope" on consoles in general i believe, as for the rest, no problem.
(there's a fairly comprehensive thread on the M/KB bit on consoles a bit further down on the front page if you want more details, no point reposting it all here)edit: since there's a bunch of them now, this is probably the most comprehensive for now;
- @Fringerunner Thank You Again Very Much for your kind response
@Fringerunner , it could actually be fun to hear from @KnightRa1der if he could get a virtual windows machine loaded up on his Mac and then hear about the BF2042 performance in that environment! 😀👍
Though I agree with you, that I would not expect it to do that well, except if @KnightRa1der has one of the absolute top-end Mac rigs setup for his supreme pleasure? 😎
Aka one of the monster Mac Pros???
28-core Intel Xeon processors and 1.5TB RAM.
And the Apple GPU MPX Module with up to 56 teraflops...
Such a Mac monster can support up to 12 streams of 4K video in real time, leaving most home PCs behind in the dust.
