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sandbags Jan 31 @ 8:53am
Mac system requirements
I'm noting the Mac system requirements don't talk about M-series Macs rather some ancient sounding Intel CPUs. I'm guessing my M2 Max studio with 64GB is going to handily outperform an i5 and those graphic cards sound kinda old but… can you confirm?

OS: Mac® OS X 10.9+ (64-bit)
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4470 (quad-core) / AMD® FX-Series™ FX-4350 (quad-core)
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 (2 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ R9 380 (2 GB)
Storage: 5 GB available space
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Originally posted by x-4000 (Chris McElligott-Park):
Yeah, basically the oldest M1 chips should do plenty fine for the game, so it's not really worth mentioning the M series per se, as far as minimum requirements go. There might be some M1 macbook air that has problems, from the very first generation, but that would probably be failing the gpu requirements, so also kind of baking that in.

You should be able to have a solid 60fps on your machine, depending on if you're playing on a retina resolution or not. At something more like HD or QHD, I'd expect a solid 90 or 120fps on your machine. But at retina, you'll be fine.

They still made intel macs up until about 2019, IIRC, so for the people really wondering if they can run it, they're the ones who really need the info.

Anyway, rambling: TLDR, you should be in great shape, and the game does have native support for the M series, so you're all good from that front, too.
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x-4000 (Chris McElligott-Park)  [developer] Jan 31 @ 8:59am 
Yeah, basically the oldest M1 chips should do plenty fine for the game, so it's not really worth mentioning the M series per se, as far as minimum requirements go. There might be some M1 macbook air that has problems, from the very first generation, but that would probably be failing the gpu requirements, so also kind of baking that in.

You should be able to have a solid 60fps on your machine, depending on if you're playing on a retina resolution or not. At something more like HD or QHD, I'd expect a solid 90 or 120fps on your machine. But at retina, you'll be fine.

They still made intel macs up until about 2019, IIRC, so for the people really wondering if they can run it, they're the ones who really need the info.

Anyway, rambling: TLDR, you should be in great shape, and the game does have native support for the M series, so you're all good from that front, too.
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sandbags Jan 31 @ 9:08am 
Thanks, Chris. Feeling reassured to buy in.
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x-4000 (Chris McElligott-Park)  [developer] Jan 31 @ 9:12am 
My pleasure! And thank you very much for the support. :)
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sandbags Jan 31 @ 11:11am 
Indeed I can report the game seems to run well out of the box. I'm running at 2560x1440 without changing any settings (it seems to default to 60FPS).

The game looks beautiful and I am loving the sound design also.
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x-4000 (Chris McElligott-Park)  [developer] Jan 31 @ 11:34am 
Perfect! Glad to hear it's running that well right off. That resolution is similar to QHD, which is what I run it at, and you can probably get 90fps on it if you wanted to for some reason.

Thank you for the kind words on the visuals and audio! Pablo Vega did an amazing job with the score as always. This time I got to stretch my own legs on the other aspects of sound design more, since I usually make things that are not in environments like this. It was a lot of fun figuring all those pieces out, and how they should sound familiar but alien, etc.
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