Awesome Mac Story

[Josephus]

I was playing BG3 on my Macbook Pro M2 MAX 32Gb. It runs flawlessly on this machine, yes even Act III. I was in the Iron Throne and doing VERY well and then it died. Goes black. I realized I did not have the charger plugged in. The machine ran the game like a champ for an hour until the last volt. No performance dump.

Here is the good story. Of course I plugged it in immediately cursing, then laughing at myself for making a rookie mistake and no save. Well I give it twenty minutes to charge up and the damn thing saved the whole OS and game state when it died. I logged in and the game was right where it died and I just finished the Iron Throne.

As a long time Windows gamer this was just astonishing.

Apple Silicon ROCKS.

[astarion]

As a gamer, what made you switch to a Mac? I just got a new MacBook Pro M3, and am a longtime Mac user, but there's no denying that Macs are not a good choice for gaming. I've been using Shadow to play BG3, but quit because of the recent data breach. I'm planning to eventually install BG3 on my Mac, but I already have 700+ hours of gameplay so I'm planning to wait until the DLC comes out next year. In the meantime, I wish there were more better gaming options for Mac, ie. more games to choose from.

[Josephus]

Originally posted by astarion:

As a gamer, what made you switch to a Mac?

I got the Mac for development. I also have a beastly PC. When I heard about the Game Port tool and then developers started to port their games to Apple Silicon I had to try it whenever I owned the game on Windows.

To be honest I was not expecting much, because these games are optimized for the PC chipsets and such, and ports are not generally BETTER performing than the original.

I have tested the Apple Silicon versions of No Man's Sky, ARMA and BG3 thoroughly on my M2 MAX and these games need no scaling at 2056x1329 Aspect and Resolution. Looks amazing on the 16 inch screen at 120hz.

I also play on a 43" 4k monitor.

Lots more devs will make Mac ports with the game port tool. What DLC are you referring to? There is no DLC planned for BG3.

You should buy this game now and install it on the Mac. I play with a PS5 controller when using the Mac. I love using sticks to walk.

[seeker1]

I love how this game runs on my M2 Mac Mini. No complaints.

Like you I use my machine primarily for other things, but then also gaming ... not the other way around. And of course the Silicon Macs can't emulate Windows anymore, but ....

If I had a quibble, it's the usual story of Mac patches being delayed much later than the Windows ones. And, of course, we got the game itself later. But that was announced. Whatever, all I can say is at least Larian isn't just shafting Mac users, as I could note about certain other titles in development ....

That said, the Mac modding scene is held back by the lack of Script Extender for Macs although I may have just found the solution for it. Also, at least at release there was no Mac Mod Manager, though there is one now ... and I love it. Kudos to the author.