SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Are the new specs published anywhere yet? Curious what they're going to be, as I play ESO on both Windows and Mac.

PC RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5 2300 or AMD FX4350
System RAM: 8GB
Hard Disk Space: 105GB free HDD space
GPU: Direct X 11.0 compliant video card with 4GB of RAM (NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 970 or AMD Radeon™ RX 570) or higher
Sound: DirectX compatible sound card
Internet: Internet Broadband Connection
PC MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5 2300 or AMD FX4350
System RAM: 4GB
Hard Disk Space: 105GB free HDD space
GPU: Direct X 11.0 compliant video card with 1GB RAM (NVIDIA® GeForce® 560 or AMD Radeon™ 6870)
Sound: DirectX compatible sound card
Internet: Internet Broadband Connection
MAC MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Operating System: Mac® OS High Sierra v 10.13
Model: Mid-2017 Macs and Newer
GPU Memory: At least 4 GB
Hard Disk Space: 105 GB free HDD space
Internet: Internet Broadband Connection

How long have the Silicon Macs been out now, it is not like they are brand new now. Yet ESO still does not have things done? Why the heck not? What, you bought one old guy from the Blue Meanies, locked up him up in a broom closet some where and that is the only person that works on the Mac end of things?

My guess is theres no real finical reason to forward port the game.

The game basically runs fine under emulation.

Porting it to M1+ will probably not improve that in any real way.

https://elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/59187

Tl;dr: "It is a huge undertaking to port a product as old, large, and complex as ESO to a new CPU, with no certain outcome of success. Because of these factors, we will not be porting ESO to run on the new ARM-based Macs."

I've seen nothing since that announcement to suggest that they're working on or otherwise planning to support ARM-based macs, so idk not sure what folks are expecting in that department. If anything, development resources for ESO have only been reduced since that announcement.

Of course, they could probably do some work on making the lack of official support for ARM-based macs much more clear to potential customers.

CrushDepth wrote: »

How long have the Silicon Macs been out now, it is not like they are brand new now. Yet ESO still does not have things done? Why the heck not? What, you bought one old guy from the Blue Meanies, locked up him up in a broom closet some where and that is the only person that works on the Mac end of things?

2020 so not very old

I am still able to run the game on a 2019 Intel MacBook Pro. Game performance is not great, particularly when moving the character forward; going straight ahead is fine, but turning left or right causes frame drops. Sometimes the world view will freeze for up to a couple seconds. I've had to step all the video parameters down a notch or two or turn them off.

The powers that be don't believe supporting Macs is in their current DNA. If Apple were to pay Microsoft for the work required to support the game on the platform, they might do it.