![]() ![]() Then Windows 10 came along, and I got caught up in the hype. Then I discovered modding, and .īy the time I was done, my character was so OP, and my save files so jumbled, that I lost interest, and started playing other things. I think I was getting to level 70 or so, but memory fades. Years ago, I picked up Skyrim on a Steam sale, and immediately fell in love with it. Posted on OctoOctoCategories Technology Tags ESO, Gaming, Mac Ah… Windows, My Old “Friend” I think you should just buy a PC laptop if you’re going to do that. I dual booted my PC’s between Linux for work and Windows for gaming for decades. I wonder what New Worlds’ situation is… Oh. World of Warcraft has been ported to native M1. (Including last night’s update to the Monterey public beta, which restores proper tabs in Safari.) It gives me hope that the platform will continue to be a good one for developers, and not be morphed into a mobile-like experience. It’s so great to see Apple responding to clamorous and sustained criticisms of their MBP hardware from power users in places like Hacker News. Once I get better, if I would stop playing ESO again, I could put the PC back in the closet. I started playing ESO again because I’ve been shut in with health problems for a long time. I’ve been tempted to move to PS for ESO, but I can’t give up my investment, and I couldn’t live without a whole slew of mods I rely on. God, I wish I could cut Windows completely out of my life. Now that both halves of the whole are completely different architectures than their PC brethren, I don’t see any gaming companies making the effort. I mean, there were only a handful of AAA titles ported to Mac when they were running Intel CPU’s and AMD GPU’s. Bethesda has already said that will not be porting ESO to M1. This isn’t surprising. Whatever “power” they may put in the thing, I just don’t see gaming companies supporting it. ![]() If I had just waited a couple of years, and given up on the stupid idea that gaming on a Mac is ever going to be a thing, I’d be in computing nirvana now. The new MacBook Pro’s look perfect, and base models start out about half the price of this one. The fact that this rig plays the game pretty well only adds salt to the wound that my expensive MBP basically can’t play it at all. So I continue to play ESO on a twelve-year-old PC with an Athlon64 and a nVidia 9xx-series GPU. But then I saw it running on a friend’s 2020 MBP, with only integrated graphics, and it runs… pretty well, actually! So I spent an extra $750 upgrading to the best GPU I could get, and it actually made gaming on the Mac worse for me. It stutters every few seconds, like it’s texture thrashing, and I thought, well, Bethesda just didn’t optimize it for the Vega, and that’s too bad. Then I started playing Elder Scrolls Online, so I tried it on my Mac. It played it about as well as my old PC, so I just kept playing it on there, to keep the heat load off the MBP. The only thing I was really playing on the PC at the time was Civilization V. So I bought a 2019 with an i9, 32 GB of RAM, 512 GB SSD, and a Vega 20, hoping beyond hope that it would play some AAA games passably well. When your wife is open to you making a major purchase, you do it, even if you’re not quite ready. So I thought I’d just wait, and see what the next generation would bring.īut then my wife started saying that we probably had the money for me to upgrade, and I don’t need to be told twice. There was never a “killer app” for the TB to make it interesting, and I use ESC extensively when running vim. (My son has it now.) However, I didn’t want a TouchBar, nor to put up with a lack of a physical ESC key. Source: M1 Max Chip May Have More Raw GPU Performance Than a PlayStation 5īack in 2019, I was starting to think about an upgrade to my 2014 MBP, which is a darn-near perfect machine. ![]()
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