After 30 years of PC gaming, I cannot believe my eyes. NMS on Mac runs butter smooth at FULL RES!

[The Mash]

Hi all,
I'm not the best community poster in general as I'm approaching my forties and my time is limited due to work, personal life priorities, etc.
I've been playing on PC since I was kid, basically for 30 years. Started on Commodore 64, 8086, etc till to modern systems.
PC has been my daily driver for everything: gaming, video editing, photography, some html coding and very light programming, VMs, servers, etc.
Recently I've purchased my first Mac, to be used for work (PS, Resolve, etc), as I'm tired to deal with Windows inefficiencies, super running hot hardware, bad optimisation both on software and hardware side.
Purchasing an Apple system of course was an informed decision, in terms of gaming: apart from few titles, native gaming on Mac is pure utopia.
Owning NMS for PC, and playing it on VR (an incredible experience) I discovered today about NMS for Mac.
Well, long story short... It runs. SMOOTHLY. At full native resolution 3000x2xxx, high detail.
Runs smoother than PC.
Just wanted to share with the community the happiness in seeing these little gems coming from great software houses.
It's incredible that a 2016 game has been made not only compatible, but runs incredibly well and flawlessly.
How they managed to such an incredible port?
I guess this happens when the software is so well optimised for the hardware and the hardware is designed and tailored to run perfectly on the software itself.
Hats off. Just my opinion of course!

EDIT: forgot to mention my Mac and PC spec, to give a little bit more context!
PC is a gaming laptop, TongFang chassis, i7 10875H 8 cores, 32GB DDR4, RTX 2070 8GB (Max-P, 115W), Samsung 970 Plus 512GB.
Macbook PRO M2 PRO, 16GB, 1TB SSD.

[Krash Megiddo]

Thanks for that report!

[Guyver8]

ha ...another story with a happy ending
oh ...and welcome fellow traveller

[Zak]

It's pretty cool indeed. I switched over to Windows for gaming a long time ago because Macs used to be so inadequate for gaming. It's good to see Macs being good gaming machines again.

I fired up NMS on a M1 Mini and, while slowish for my liking, it was cool to see a real game run on a Mac:)

[6Taylor4]

... one button mice ... never used/owned/borrowed one. My choice of PC was simply it's cheaper and wide open to programmers at reasonable prices, which was not the case with Apple computers. Competition keeps prices down, exclusivity allows over-pricing.

Opening up NMS to an entirely new platform will be good for all. TO THE STARS!

[6Taylor4]

p.s.
No Man's Apple!

[Zak]

I never used a one-button mouse with a Mac. Mac OS supported multi-button mice and right-click since the days of Mac OS 7 or earlier.

[6Taylor4]

Originally posted by Zak:

I never used a one-button mouse with a Mac. Mac OS supported multi-button mice and right-click since the days of Mac OS 7 or earlier.

"Apple had sold only one-button mice with its computers, beginning with the Apple Lisa; Lisa was released to the public on January 19, 1983, at a cost of $9,995."

Who knew.

[Masque]

It is refreshing seeing that others still share the same wonder that I continually experience, with regard to how far this technology, and hobby, has come since the Ataris and Commodores of the 1980s.

I'm glad not everyone has given in to cynicism. I know it's easy to do.

It's good for the spirit when you can still experience the wide-eyed wonder of a Rip Van Winkle who just woke up to all this, after a long sleep.

I have a 4th gen i7, a 3060 TI, and 1080p 60 HZ -- and I'm only ever slack-jawed at what I have, compared to what I had in 1988. And I hope I never lose that feeling.

[ZeroKarma]

Not only does it work but it has shown us that games don't have to be greedy to be amazing. Just think of any other game out there that continuously gives so much free content. A game that isn't full of in store purchases, game passes, seasons, loot boxes etc...
You can't becasue very few exist, and none on the scale of this game. I have been playing since release and have watched this game go from a very basic empty game to something that I keep coming back to years later because they keep making it better. All the little complaints and annoyances directed to the game are miniscule compared to the absolute greed and destruction of gaming that is going on in this industry.
And on that note, my PC is over 12 years old and still runs the game like butter. Sure I built it future proofed and it should hold up, but at some point I thought it wouldn't handle it.

[Zak]

Originally posted by 6Taylor4:

Originally posted by Zak:

I never used a one-button mouse with a Mac. Mac OS supported multi-button mice and right-click since the days of Mac OS 7 or earlier.

"Apple had sold only one-button mice with its computers, beginning with the Apple Lisa; Lisa was released to the public on January 19, 1983, at a cost of $9,995."

Who knew.

True, Macs came with a single button mouse, but there were third party multibutton mice that worked with Macs. There were even Mac specific ADB multibutton mice and trackballs from Kensington, etc. Right click has been supported with Ctrl-click in mac OS so you just needed a proper mouse for that.