I've been meaning to get screenshots from my Mac, which is still running Sierra (from 2016, and yes, I know), for comparison. This is complicated by the fact that I can't even play in anything close to my Mac's native resolution—the game won't even get past the splash screen. (The macOS port is truly terrible.) So I got all new screenshots, all at 1280x800 and with the same ultra settings minus water and high detail lots, because I didn't want my Mac to disown me.
Side note: fps was 20(!) in macOS with these settings, even with only WA, Ambitions, Generations, and a couple SPs installed, and in Sunset Valley of all places. The macOS port is truly terrible.
For all these screenshots, Mac is on the left, Windows is in the middle, and Windows plus some HQ edits is on the right. Pay no attention to the thin vertical line in some of the Mac screenshots; it can't be helped.
Beau seems to look better in HQ, but the Mac version isn't bad.
https://i.imgur.com/qeaEy6S.jpg
Beau's arm looks equally bad no matter what. I turned up sharpness, exposure, and contrast, so imgur wouldn't completely ruin the effect this time, although it looks a lot worse in its original form.
https://i.imgur.com/Em4t67B.jpg
This is Victoria's arm, similarly edited and looking similarly bad. Was it always like this? I can't even remember.
https://i.imgur.com/e92RJDC.jpg
This is Gunther's chest, with sharpness maxed out twice but no other changes.
Edit: I'm glad to see the dots and other noise show up now.
https://i.imgur.com/6byymlR.jpg
I know the level of detail, particularly on the clothing, is a lot worse in macOS. The game doesn't look like that; I think it's an artifact of some compression, probably the same reason there are vertical lines in the screenshots.
But it's not the point. The point is with a driver written specifically for macOS, one that hasn't been updated in forever, the game still looks bad, although of course playing on a MacBook Pro isn't supposed to be ideal conditions. It does make me wonder though if Windows had some graphics optimization that isn't there anymore.
