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ericthehalfbee said:

I see AppleInsider already has over 2,000 followers. Curious what you think of that?

More please? 

kmarei said:

theile said:

If only the power button would be moved back to the top, so I don’t take screen shots from turning off the display or using volume buttons. 

i do this on a daily basis, several times

🙌 

Hi.

Some comments have been removed from this thread. As per general practice, we get the root and the stem, so apologies to anybody who made reasonable posts addressing the original. I should also apologize to people who reported earlier that it took so long for somebody here to see them. We're working on that 👍

mknelson said:

Japhey said:

You go into great detail describing the new note overlay windows, but only a brief mention of the acceleration Mac users can expect. Why even mention it in the title if you weren’t going to explain it with more detail? You do know that’s the reason most people on an Apple News site are going to click on the article, right?

"The technical work in this update makes it possible to enable hardware acceleration for the Mac & Linux versions of Steam, bringing them up to par with Windows. You should see snappier animations, scrolling and more responsive UI." This is for the Steam application, not games installed by Steam.

Exactly. The most popular way of getting games on a computer got a full UI refresh that brought the mac to parity with Windows in terms of the Application itself. This doesn't change the way any games run. It's just about the Application, which had languished on Apple platforms in a poor state for a very long time. These updates are extremely welcome. 

Here are the full release notes if anybody is actually interested
https://store.steampowered.com/oldnews/195171

Games are a hits-driven business and when 95% of hit titles don't even run on your platform then you're not a "great" gaming machine. Once in a blue moon you'll get a AAA title years late, but even in the most recent case, the Mac version of RE:VIII is one of the worst looking versions of that game you can play. 

Also, Bloober team is... rough. Layers of Fear was a great horror game (some may say the best), but the 5 or so titles they've done since have been pretty mediocre-to-bad. Observer probably gets a nod, but that's about it. I don't think anybody has faith they will do a good job with the SH2 remake.

The MetalFX stuff is good (and needed for the resolution Apple pushes in their monitors), but it's generations behind what DLSS offers at this point. If Apple were serious they would bootstrap a solution based off the work being done on the Linux side of things (Wine/DXVK/VKD3D etc.) instead of trying to get developers to port to their proprietary APIs which will never happen en masse. 

Apple has *never* actually been serious about gaming, but it would be cool to see that change.