Matt said they will continue to support mac as long as there are enough mac based players, but ofc they will not port the game to run on the ARM chips. That continued support may not include added enhancements since they probably expect to see a decline in mac users.
Still would be nice for Mac users to get an official statement for the sake of clarity.
Note, Nvidia OWNS arm now. I expect the paradigm of a cpu/motherboard and gpu expansion card to shift to the GPU being the motherboard and the cpu going on an expansion card. Windows runs on ARM natively, all that is missing is something like Apple's rosetta technology to make the transition from x86 seamless.
Thats too bad. arm is the future. The power consumption/performance ratio is massive. That said, Rosetta translation on an M1 Mac is something to behold. If Windows had something equally as good....rough time for Intel/AMD. My wifes M1 mb air runs x86 code as fast as my 2019 2.6Ghz i7 16" mbp. No fan, no heat, no noise.
Note, Nvidia OWNS arm now. I expect the paradigm of a cpu/motherboard and gpu expansion card to shift to the GPU being the motherboard and the cpu going on an expansion card. Windows runs on ARM natively, all that is missing is something like Apple's rosetta technology to make the transition from x86 seamless.
ResidentContrarian wrote: »
Doesn't matter, ARM is pathetic at floating point tasks, where this game happens to have lots of it and other games as well. It's true that some operations can be converted or ran on a GPU, but that is only true as long as ESO and other games keep supporting older CPUs and don't require AVX/AVX2 or SEE4+.
Modern games that don't care about older hardware and implement newer and better libraries for multithreding and maximum GPU performance per watt will all have requirements for the newer floating point instructions that ARM would take 4-5x as much time to complete (see PSO2:NGS for a game that requires AVX and SSE4 ).
That being the case, ARM isn't going to replace anything. Also, Nvidia hasn''t actually acquired ARM yet because it isn't finalized as there is antitrust complaints, and rightfully so:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/04/nvidias-40-billion-bid-for-arm-could-be-in-jeopardy.html
I bought a mid-range gaming laptop (on sale) for this game so I could free up my Mac to go back to doing actual work. Sadly the devs are not even remotely responsive to fatal game bugs let alone supporting an OS they do not understand or even wish to accomodate. I just took the hint.
Yup , I took the hint as well, installed Windows on bootcamp. The game runs fine. It's no hassle to reboot into MacOS for everything else.