true colors on macbook m1

[vinito]

can i play true colors on macbook m1 using parallels?

[Qiana]

Answered in https://ibb.co/yd6G1Fs

[Trash]

Replying for anyone stumbling into this.

Short answer is no, unfortunately.

The long explanatory answer is you might be able to get it to start, but you would have frequent crashes and unplayable frame rates (<10fps). Because the M1 is also a different instruction set (ARM) than the game (x86), you would need a translation layer between the game and Windows. The ARM version of Windows DOES come with this, but it's not very good.

So the game would be running in an emulator running ARM Windows, under a x86 to ARM translation layer, and what that produces is unplayable modern games. Very slow.

The best solution is unfortunately GeForce NOW, which is how i played the game on my M1 Mac. You need really good internet for it, but there is a free version where you can play up to an hour at a time.

[A literal running ♥♥♥♥]

I know that M1 is great and i'd get myself mac already but not everyone are willing to f*сk with it which is sad. Maybe in the future? Cloud gaming is not an answer.

[misters82]

Originally posted by Kidd:

I know that M1 is great and i'd get myself mac already but not everyone are willing to f*сk with it which is sad. Maybe in the future? Cloud gaming is not an answer.

Hahaha...Mac is never intented to truly gaming on them. Why someone wants gaming ON MAC is beyond me.

[Aquafoot]

I know I'm super late to this, but I've gotten it to run pretty flawlessly on an M2 MacBook Pro with Whisky. Performance isn't perfect, but then I don't expect it to be. It runs mid-high settings without a garbage framerate.

https://getwhisky.app/

[Qiana]

It is good to know that you found a way to play the game, but you know, if you are serious about gaming, you'll have to change the platform one day or another. Running games through Wine (like in your case) or Proton might or might not work well enough, and if at all, but is an acceptable workaround if you own just a handful of games. Mac is, just like Linux (but even worse), terrible in keeping the software backward compatibility. They change the entire processor architectures every couple of years. They started with Motorola 86xxx, moved to IBM's PowerPC, switched to Intel architecture, and then again to ARM. Users got some Rosetta for a year or two, and afterward, one could throw all software that didn't get the developer's love. Changing processor architectures is a big thing as it is about big vs little Endian and the processor instruction sets. That's not trivial and easily fixable, if at all.

[Aquafoot]

As much as I appreciate your concern, I didn't pop in for a lecture.
I'm well aware of how much Mac leaves their gaming customers (and devs) high and dry when it comes to compatibility support.
But you work with what you've got. I should know, I'm one of those customers. That's why I'm trying to help out in the first place.

Hopefully they'll eventually work out a new deal with Windows for ARM driver compatibility so there can be something like a BootCamp 2.0. Unlikely, maybe. But a fella can dream.

[Qiana]

Originally posted by Aquafoot:

I should know, I'm one of those customers. That's why I'm trying to help out in the first place.

Well, me too. I've been a customer of all three plus some for many years, so  I can compare.

Don't take it so personally. Maybe you "didn't pop in for a lecture,"  but it nevertheless could be "good to know" for someone else. It's a public forum at the end of the day.