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Like Dota 2, the game had no freezes or shutdowns throughout the testing.

Throughout the duration of the game testing, I was getting 60 FPS consistently with little variation. Sid Meier's: Civilization VI/Rosetta 2: I tested Sid Meier's: Civilization VI at 1440 x 900 resolution on high settings. I never had any issues booting the game or closing it out with no freezes or application shutdowns while playing. Dota 2 was the smoothest game to play on the list that I tested. On average, I was getting between 45-60 FPS consistently while battling rival players. I tried the game at 1440 x 900 resolution on medium to high resolution.

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I will add that the Apple M1-optimized software screamed and was performant.В My recent testing of new, unreleased M1-optimized versions of Office 365 (sans Teams and OneDrive) and Edge reduced power draw and improved compatibility a lot.ДЎ440 x 900 resolution testing in Shadow of the Tomb Raider Shadow of the Tomb RaiderДota 2/Rosetta 2: Dota 2 was the only MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) title that we tested on the MacBook Pro M1 and is a Top 10 Steam game. This review is a follow-up to my first review using the new M1 MacBook as my primary productivity tool for nearly a week, where I had a mixed experience with some productivity software titles. Therefore, I wanted to see how playable AAA games were on the new M1-based Mac, given the giant M1 GPU and its UMA architecture that should speed up memory reads and writes between CPU and GPU. I am confident the company is talking more about iOS developers' games, but it did demonstrate AAA games like Tomb Raider, which led me to believe that AAA games were a target.

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Gaming has not been much of a focus for the Mac operating system, but it has been a significant point of success for Apple on iOS. At Apple's WWDC and Mac product launch, gaming (game/games/gaming) was cited 23 times, so I believe Apple intended to create a good gaming experience. I'd be interested to know how many of the god-awful DRM schemes that BigGames like to run (like Denuvo) take to being emulated in crossover-or-wine-running-under-rosetta.My expectations for AAA gaming on any 13' notebook with integrated graphics are low for any IGP notebook brand. I'm not surprised that perhaps many devs naГЇvely assumed that if you're not running ењ†4, you're a 'cheater'. > Everything felt smooth, works flawlessly in highest settings available, but only few minutes until your account get banned :( SoC power consumption is around 3.5W Apple are really shooting themselves in the foot.ДЄlso, from the article on a call of duty online game: I've literally just finished that on my linux box, under proton, with the gog copy installing brilliantly under lutris and with a 3rd party higher-resolution texture pack. One of the games mentioned is Fallout New Vegas, which apparently gets 15 FPS outdoors, at the lowest graphics quality settings, in a game >10 years old. I really don't know why they do not like Vulkan or don't want to provide a compatibility layer for it. Proton & wine makes gaming on linux genuinely surprisingly performant: I have enjoyed several AAA games (and am continuing to do so).

I really wish Apple would just sort out their graphics APIs. in some cases it might sense to provide augmented information like if you are interested in performance on a MacBook Air while there is no report for MacBook Air it might make sense to add the context that there are reports on using a MacBook Pro 13' with the added disclaimer that wile in the same ballpark is not the same system (that could give enough context for the reader to guesstimate an upper/lower bound on what to expect)

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With enough reports per game this might actually work.ДЇor a while a long-tail of games will only have 1 report though and I wonder how to deal with those.Д®dit: e.g. That said: I do think I need to come up with better wording or at least better definitions of what 'playable' means (perhaps even for every game * settings * spec combination). Imho the key thing about gaming on the M1 Macs right now is that many games that were unplayable on the previous generation of the same Macs (Air, entry model Pro 13', Mini) have flipped from unplayable to playable, which is what many people who use these systems (often not primarily for gaming) care about.

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