Name: Can You Game on a Mac? (2017)
Uploaded: 2017-08-04T07:07:35.000Z
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So to find out, I have two
of the most recent Macbooks

in front of me. So this is
the base line 13" model,

8 gigabytes of memory, and
integrated Iris graphics.

with the Core i7 quad core,
16 gigabytes of memory

and the dedicated Radeon Pro 460 graphics.

Obviously, no one should go out and buy a

Mac as a gaming PC, they
just don't make sense.

However, what I'm curious about is if you

already do have a Mac for whatever reason,

What's kind of cool is
that over half of my

Steam library will work
on macOS, no problem.

Now, a couple of things
actually have changed on

the gaming side of Mac
in the last couple years.

This is very similar to a lower level API,

such as DirectX12 on the
PC, or something like Vulkan,

and essentially, it should allow us to get

better performance by abstracting all the

get as close to the hardware as possible.

which does take advantage
of Metal on the Mac.

Now I'm going to start
using the 13" Macbook Pro,

I don't have a way of
testing the exact framerates

No torn frames or anything
dropping too badly.

So right now I'm using the
Playstation 4 controller,

which interestingly
enough, actually just works

You literally just pair it
via bluetooth and that's it.

Oh, nope, you can't go
flat out everywhere,

Okay, so maybe you actually
can't go flat out everywhere.

I will say the graphics
are not the greatest,

but, I mean, I would say that
this looks roughly equivalent

a difference Metal makes since
I actually can't turn it off

but considering that I'm running
on an integrated graphics

Next up, we have Minecraft
and because of our

wonderful dongle life, I
have to use an adapter,

but besides that, we should be good to go.

Maximum, Fancy, this is
pretty much all turned up.

I mean, after running
Minecraft on the Raspbery Pi,

I'm really not surprised that
anything can run Minecraft,

but I think the nice
thing is that we're really

not losing anything with the Macbook Pro.

Yeah, maybe you can do stuff
like shaders and whatnot on PC,

I was just having fun,
and then Ken started

zooming the camera and pointing at my face

so I feel like that just
made in in the video.

Now this is another game
I know will run on Mac

but what I'm curious
about is what happens if

we actually try to crank up
the resolution and settings.

Alright, it works but it's
definitely dropping some frames.

To be fair, we actually are
playing at 2560 by 1600.

It's decent, but let's see if we can crank

So cranking the resolution
down to 1280 by 800

pretty much immediately
fixes all the problems.

There is a little bit of
screen tearing though,

Almost immediately, I
could tell this is usable.

It's definitely playable
but it's not as nice

as it would be on a
machine running Windows.

So next we have Rocket League, and again,

this is another game that
natively does support

So it thinks that we can run at 900p with

pretty much everything cranked
up, so let's give it a try.

It looks like we actually have pretty much

Graphic wise, on high
it looks pretty nice.

We've got stuff like the
rain, and the particle effect.

it's maybe not the
smoothest thing in the world

but we definitely do have a lot of room to

Next, I want to see how a more
powerful Mac handles games.

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