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spease ◴[10 Oct 24 16:29 UTC] No.41800525[source]▶

This is super cool.

So, wait, does this mean that gaming is better on Linux, on a Mac?

GeekyBear ◴[10 Oct 24 20:24 UTC] No.41803172[source]▶

Emulation has unavoidable overhead.

For instance, Alyssa mentions in this post that most emulated games will need at least 16 Gigs of RAM at minimum.

In addition, native ARM games on MacOS don't have the additional overhead of emulating a different CPU architecture and Graphics API.

However, that doesn't take away from this emulated support being an amazing achievement.

1. nottorp ◴[11 Oct 24 15:59 UTC] No.41810656[source]▶

> at least 16 Gigs of RAM at minimum.

And the minimum is pretty minimum. A 16 Gb arm mac will go into yellow memory pressure while running emulated games, I've noticed.

AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux