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I'd love to be able to use the controller to browse the web, etc; usually I have my hand resting on my mouse on my desk, but i've been developing tendon issues and having my hands in my lap would reduce the strain in my fingers when I'm passively reading or researching.

I've tried adjusting the settings in Steam for "desktop layout", but moving the sticks and pressing buttons in chrome doesn't seem to do anything.

I tried playing this game on my m1 max and it was running pretty good, except for terrible frame drops whenever the temperature dropped. It went from 45fps to 10fps, for all of the time that the animation for temperature drop was playing. Found the only setting that caused this was global illumination.

It is probably a game bug that can be fixed, but I don't think the devs will do it since they are focused on frostpunk 2.

There's also official support from cable matters since a few weeks ago (seems they got the idea from the thread, which is much older):

https://www.cablematters.com/Blog/HDMI/how-to-get-4k120hz-with-mac

Does not run to bad, Using sodium and all the settings cranked to low. Stays over 60.

Does anyone have benchmarks on how much better m2 is at gaming?

Specifically I'd like to see benchmarks for native games, and rosetta games like frostpunk, which seem to be cpu bound quite heavily.

I have found lots of individual benchmarks, but no direct comparison.

This could be great news for the Mac gamers among us! Could the new Mac Studio be a viable gaming rig? Time will tell - I actually have one on order myself and will report back with benchmarks once I'm up and running!

You may have seen the WWDC news about Apple's new Game Porting Kit , which among other things, can run Windows/DirectX 12 games, ostensibly to let developers test drive their games to encourage them to port to macOS.

Fortunately for us, said tool is actually built on WINE/Crossover, Apple forked it and built a bunch of patches to map DirectX onto Metal.

Introducing Whisky, an open-source app that wraps the Game Porting Kit much like Crossover wraps WINE, allowing you to run many Windows games that previously didn't work with such a setup.

You need to be running the macOS Sonoma beta to actually use this. Here's how to do that.

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