• Russ
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    249 months ago

    I haven’t had much sleep today so maybe its just me, but I’m a bit confused here:

    Valve isn’t obligated to continue supporting all its games and software features on Mac, especially when Apple’s reluctance to natively support Vulkan and other cross-platform technologies makes game development more complex.

    Then the next sentence:

    There’s no excuse for Steam on Mac to be a far worse experience than on other platforms, though.

    As others have mentioned, Apple was the one who chose to abandon x86 and go with ARM - and anyways are there any games that are on Steam that actually are ARM native? You would still end up having to launch a game that is x86 as far as I understand correctly (I haven’t used a Mac since the Apple Silicon transition)?

    • @[email protected]
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      49 months ago

      are there any games that are on Steam that actually are ARM native

      Yes. Not a game in this case but still from Steam:

      Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Krita/krita.app/Contents/MacOS/krita: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64] [arm64]

      The Steam launcher’s architecture is irrelevant to the games and applications on the Steam store.