possibility of running TTP2 on Mac M1/M2/M3 running Bootcamp, VM-Ware, Parallels etc.?

[Swissorion]

Was anybody of you able to run TTP2 successfully on a Mac with silicon chips running VM-Ware, Parallels etc. Based on some web-sites, it appears to work. https://apps-on-mac.com/how-to-play-the-talos-principle-ii-on-mac/ or https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/17qs9o7/the_talos_principle_2_base_m1_medium_settings_35/ If anybody of you already did it in one way or another, please comment if successful and which method you applied to run TTP successfully. Many thanks for your comments. I'm very eager to continue playing Talos after completed TTP1&DLCs.

[StevenRaith]

From the screenshots in that reddit thread, it looks like Nanite is badly broken, which it uses to 'scale' the geometry depending on distance.

I'd not expect a Mac native version any time soon - Mac has lower market penetration than Linux these days for gaming. That said I believe Mac ARM (IE M1/M2/M3) is a build target for UE5 so it's not impossible, but I imagine they'll want to get any bugs ironed out of the x86 (windows/PS5/XBox) build before looking into other platforms and architectures.

Other options would be something like XBox Live or Geforce Now - IE stream it.

[Swissorion]

Thanks Steven. based on those screenshots, I can not see extremely broken things. I can compare with TTP1 using an AMD Radeon R9 M390. However, Geforce Now was unknown to me and it appears as a very good alternative as they have Steam implemented. Unfortunately, currently no free testing is possible.

[StevenRaith]

If you have a look further in the reddit thread comments, once they get out of the initial Egyptian area (which I expect doesn't use Nanite heavily due to it being quite enclosed), you'll see this set of shots where the geometry is pretty broken:

M1 Mac: https://imgur.com/a/8G216TF

How the last screenshot in that gallery is supposed to look, On PC:
https://imgsli.com/MjE4MTg2/2/1

I'm not aware of any other ways to play Talos through streaming other than those two - and it doesn't look like TTP2 is on XBox Games Pass as yet, so that knocks the Xbox Live Streaming Thingy out of the running I guess.

Without wishing to sound harsh, I'd not expect anything other than very, very AAA games or incredibly popular ones (IE Fornite, call of duty, Baldurs Gate 3 type stuff) to come to to the ARM Macs natively any time soon (it's the exception rather than the rule in the industry at the moment) so if you do like to dip into gaming from time to time, you might want to look at alternative paths, ie start saving up for an XBox/PS5 or maybe a Steam Deck, which will run Talos, a bit slowly, but it will run it, I hear.