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183 points ahamez | 4 comments | 09 Apr 25 12:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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giancarlostoro ◴[09 Apr 25 12:41 UTC] No.43631399[source]▶
Does something like Whisky work in the new macOS Apple Silicon world? I assume its quite a bit slower to simulate Windows while at the same time translating x86 to Apple Silicon. I ask because this would be a justified break from this project, it's kind of a nightmare setup, you're better off just buying a $300 Windows laptop at Walmart or something.
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1. dimillian ◴[09 Apr 25 12:45 UTC] No.43631436[source]▶
It's not. It's very fast, especially for gaming. Playing POE 2 with GPT2 or a recent wine version at max setting on 60+ FPS on those days. On a M3 MAX.
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2. p_ing ◴[09 Apr 25 12:54 UTC] No.43631503[source]▶
Tried Noita on an M2 Air. Yikes, unplayable.
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3. kcb ◴[09 Apr 25 12:57 UTC] No.43631530[source]▶
Really need the fan to maintain clocks while stressing the CPU and GPU. Still depending on the game the Air can still be pretty impressive, especially for native games.
4. msk-lywenn ◴[09 Apr 25 13:11 UTC] No.43631669[source]▶
I played horizon zero dawn on my M2 Air. It ran in 1080p and better than on my old PC on 720p (i5 4570, gtx 960). I had to plug it in and follow the wiki though. There's a regedit change to do for some cpu frequency thing, otherwise the games runs in slow motion - not slowly as in low framerate, the framerate is good, it's just time passing slowly.