M2 Ultra: 15 games tested on the Mac Studio

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Some quick game testing on the new Mac Studio with M2 Ultra, 24 CPU cores, 64 GB RAM, 60 GPU cores. At the time of recording this is the fastest Mac you can buy, the 76 GPU core variant will be delivered to the public in July 2023. In this video I'll be testing Mac games including games running through Rosetta, native ARM, OpenGL, MoltenVK, Metal, as well as Windows games running through Game Porting Toolkit and also Nintendo Switch games running through Ryujinx.
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00:00 M2 Ultra is great for gaming!
00:51 No Man's Sky
01:56 Resident Evil Village
02:42 Layers of Fear (NEW RELEASE!)
03:54 Dota 2
04:42 CS:GO
05:52 Baldur's Gate 3
06:34 Diablo IV
07:49 GTA V Singleplayer
08:39 GTA Online
09:10 Hogwarts Legacy issues
09:54 Elden Ring issues
10:41 M1 & M2 Ultra chip bugs?
11:15 Cyberpunk 2077 issues
11:55 God of War
12:48 Zelda Tears of the Kingdom
13:50 4K Ryjujinx - Fire Emblem
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[@tasmania9576]

Andrew robbed a bank 😅

[@petrostzekos8914]

I need him to teach me how can I rob one too😅

[@pirateluffy01]

Andrew if you are reading this please make a tutorial for us 😢

[@leandewxw]

Shhh 🤫

[@yazouruaim694]

I does the same, but secret is secret 🤫

[@blueboy3990]

He lost his brain because he plays 4k low settings😭

[@emmabentley7945]

Everyone always seems to miss out X Plane 12 . Something that is windows native and apple silicon compatible. Please include it next time , as a developer for the platform and a Mac Studio owner I’d love to see what the m2 is capable of

[@NicolasPare]

X-Plane seems amazing. I used to play flight simulator quite a long time ago and this game made me want to purchase a flight stick and give it a try. I remember I bought the Cessna Citation-X from a private company; paid almost 100$ just for the plane but man I loved flying it.

[@twoeggcups]

It’s capable of about half the performance of a nVidia RTX 4080.

[@trinity1969]

I play x plane and it runs perfect on m2 air

[@NicolasPare]

@@trinity1969 can you tell me if the Cessna Citation X comes with the base game or if it’s a paid add on please?

[@motivatdguy2000]

@@NicolasPare It comes with the base game. It runs perfectly on my Mac Studio M2 Ultra

[@JuanCarlosRivasPerrettaOboe]

today morning i was exactly looking for this hahaha you are the master!

[@ncard00]

Yes, cannot get enough of Andrew Tsai and MrMarRight’s videos, the MacOS gaming development is so exciting.

[@SafetySheepRnD]

The random perf drops on the Ultra vs Max could be a similar cache coherency issue like we saw with early Ryzen architecture when they went the multi-tile CPU approach with Threadripper. Gen 1 Threadripper performed better in games when you disabled the other tiles to avoid the penalty of memory access across the fabric interconnect, but you lost access to all the other cores on the other tiles. I think it was mitigated by changing the Windows scheduling behavior to avoid moving threads across core complexes, so maybe Apple could do the same here.

[@amigoSeiya]

Great video as usual ❤

[@WMCheerman]

Great work!!!

[@Vickers_light]

The vid I was waiting for.

[@HiiipowerdanniRuns]

Love that you did this video... because I am torn. But this is very insightful. Can you make more content like this?

[@mubin-ansari]

Can you create a similar video like this but on the budget chips like M1/M2? Would be interesting to see how the performance flares there

[@alexeychalov163]

For the price of M2 Ultra I could get xbox x, ps5, build gaming pc and still got some coins left to buy a herd of cows

[@mo.1381]

Totally agree

[@swaggitypigfig8413]

@@alexeychalov163e said “no one is buying m2 ultra for gaming”. It’s for artists working in studios. Everything you listed is useless for artists on Mac.

[@srennelamirez643]

​@@swaggitypigfig8413you can still build a gaming PC with the highest quality digital art equipment and still have money left over with the Ultra's pricing lmao

[@twoeggcups]

@@alexeychalov163 Undoubtedly true. As a gaming rig, the M2 Ultra Mac Studio is literally the 2nd stupidest machine you could possibly buy. The Mac Pro is THE stupidest, of course.

[@slippydouglas]

The games that run horribly on M2 Ultra but run well on M2 Max is likely running into threadlocking issues- not uncommon in render systems (especially a decade ago and longer), since there’s often a physics thread, a game logic thread, a render thread, and the thread timing coming from V-sync. It’s very likely rendering 2 or 3 frames before it frees up another thread to put those graphics on the screen, so you’re only seeing every 2nd or 3rd frame rendered. And that’s completely understandable since the games were never designed for this CPU/GPU (though less understandable on Apple’s end). Fortunately, Apple provided tools to profile these games in Xcode Instruments, so you can visually see for yourself if this is the case - if you see the game’s render thread stacking up 2 or 3 threads before the Metal thread gets a chance to do anything -as can the game dev if they care to make some modest improvements to their threading code for us Mac gamers.

[@etka917]

Great video, but it would be nice to see more resolutions. Most people don’t play at 4k as indicated by the steam hardware survey. A game at 1080p 120 or 1440p 60fps is way more enjoyable than 4k 30fps

[@hartertobak2186]

This!

[@TamasKiss-yk4st]

If you calculating all pixels on the screen the mentioned resolutions are pretty similar. 1920 x 1080 @ 120hz = 249 million pixels in each sec 2560 x 1440 @ 60hz = 221 million pixels in each sec 3840 x 2160 @ 30hz = 249 million pixels in each sec (the screen basically 2x higher and 2x taller like 1080p, and that 4x more pixels are compensated in the refresh 120 vs 30 also has the 4x difference) So each resolution calculating nearly the same amount of individual pixels in each sec, so the result about the same (2x or 4x more frames in each sec if you lower the resolution)

[@mitchell10394]

@@TamasKiss-yk4st That math holds true unless the game has CPU bottlenecks. We see many examples in this showcase where the hardware itself is not even being taken proper advantage of. This works well mostly just for games already optimized for hardware.

[@E6hosting]

I think if you're buying a high end mac, you'll probably be pairing it with a 4k monitor anyway. I am looking to get a smaller desktop, m2 ultra doesn't quite look ready for prime time when it comes to some after hours r and r.

[@karthikeyan53]

Who the hell buy a 3999$ PC just to play at 1080p or 1440p?

[@MaschinenKopf1998]

I would love to see a video comparing the low end chips like m1 and m2 macbook airs.

[@danielseddon3177]

The “crosshatching” you see in GOW is caused by shadow map bias issues.

[@luis_vm]

It would be nice to see a video about Whisky, an open source app that helps setting up GPTK for the non advanced users

[@jeanbiroute]

Thanks.

[@SteelSkin667]

About ray-tracing support: Metal does have ray-tracing as part of the API, but it is all done through traditional GPU compute and therefore isn't nearly performant enough for games. Apple's GPU likely do not have ray-tracing acceleration hardware blocks as implemented by other GPU vendors yet, and should you use an AMD RDNA2 GPU in a compatible Mac Pro it won't take advantage of them either. That is why game developers are holding out on implementing ray-tracing until the hardware properly supports it.

[@BrotherCheng]

There were also some rumors (from The Information) that the iPhone 14 Pro (A16) was originally supposed to support hardware-accelerated ray tracing. So it's possible that it's just delayed in its timeline in introduction to a later A17 chip. Given that M2 is based on A15 though, it may take some time for those features to make their way to the Apple Silicon line.

[@tatianaes3354]

@@BrotherChengToo bad Apple never cared too much about gaming. Otherwise, they would not be many years behind competition. But let’s hope they present a powerful ray-tracing unit to make a real competition to NVidia. Ideally, the next upgrade of Mac Pro should be a real alternative to a PC with a $1.5k NVidia card. And by that time Apple should contract all possible AAA studios so they would produce Metal games.

[@BrotherCheng]

@@tatianaes3354 I don't think their hardware are many years behind competition though? Raw GPU performance is pretty competitive, and the issue is more on software support. (To be fair it's hard to do apples-to-apples comparisons because a lot of games are not ported natively, and the different GPU architectures makes it hard to directly compare)

[@tatianaes3354]

@@BrotherCheng Apple does not have ray-tracing acceleration cores, unlike NVidia and AMD (though AMD’s cores are a generation behind in performance). You can perfectly do hardware acceleration in general graphic cores (rather than specialised) and Metal does exactly that, but it takes away from FPS significantly because they become a shared resource. So there is no competition at all currently.

[@MrAkaacer]

@@BrotherCheng Not really. M2 gpu is equivalent to maybe gtx 1660 super.

[@unknownpleasures_nic]

Ryujinx has a new build almost daily, and from personal experience, the more recent builds work way better than the official release, I did encounter some glitches with the Ryujinx beta like my audio suddenly stopped working, I backed up my save date and had to clean install it and it worked again. (I haven't tried Tears of the Kingdom yet though)

[@maskguyfromsailormoon]

make sure that you launch the GPTK sans esync. there is a file called launch without esync and it made worlds of difference for eldenring on base m2 chip on MAX settings, inside dungeons. low settings run fairly well though through most of it. considering that this is just the BETA, this is phenomenal as a tech enthusiast in general

[@pisnelo]

please do a full video about Layers of Fear 🙏🏾🙏🏾 (i love your work)

[@elementalrabel]

Thanks to the author of this video, there is quite a bit of information on the Internet about this computer in games. This video cleared up a lot of things

[@Andytizer]

Glad I could help!

[@corypage]

Thanks for video ! Need 60fps capture footage tho .. lol

[@jayjaywriter1115]

It would be cool if you could check if some games that were originally brought out for Mac run better with the game porting toolkit. Could be interesting. Keep up the great work!

[@kadirzhanl]

gta v was actually optimized almost perfectly on pc and worked ideally even on old hardware

[@jarodl]

Optimised perfectly 😳

[@loadgamepl]

Yeah I think Andrew confused it with GTA IV, GTA V has a 9800gt for minimum requirements, that's a GPU from 2008!

[@Muskelhias]

@@loadgamepl and GTA V is from 2013; :D

[@tablettablete186]

@@Muskelhias old != optimized

[@kadirzhanl]

@@Muskelhias but PC version was released in 2015

[@jordan23JCC]

Thanks for the awesome vids if you can try dropping resolution to 1080 1444 etc to get a feel God of War is quite heavy too so at 1080p its a beast

[@GuiVG]

Can you test all these games on M1 base? Just to know what's the difference and if it's worth buying the games.

[@ncard00]

Until all works well and no issues, buying more than base M1 makes no sense.

[@Dhrazor]

It is quite likely that the "Glue" between the 2 chips of the Ultra is the problem. Core to Core latency must be really high(CPUs being at the outer edges) and also the GPUs might have a "SLI" problem that can introduce hitching due to frame pacing problems introduced by basically having 2 separate GPUs...

[@casperes0912]

The memory is shared, and the architecture is entirely transparent. That is you cannot even try and write NUMA-aware code to place data closer to the memory attached to one die over the other. But the idea is that the ultra fusion fabric is fast enough to where the latency "should be" imperceptible. The implementations station may not be perfect, but it doesn't work-share like SLI, it uses the split GPU as if it were a single GPU and the idea is that the memory bandwidth across Ultra Fusion is good enough to cover for the latency delays. So you don't get the split frame rendering of SLI, but if the bandwidth is not good enough there's of course still issues. The best you can do from ad development perspective to increase memory residence is cache locality optimisations

[@shakeitoff1000]

Andrew, as a die-hard Mac user and avid game enjoyer, I love all you do for Mac gaming. But I really think you need to make it clear what GPT is and what it isn't. You are highlighting Windows games here, alongside native ports, as if it it's an official way for people to run Windows games. It's not, as you are well aware. It's designed for developers to see how their game runs "as-is" and to gauge a port's viability. People are stupid. They'll see your video, as well put together as it is, and take completely the wrong things from it. The Mac gaming subreddit is full of people treating this toolkit like it's the defacto way of playing games that previously weren't supported. They still aren't supported, and there's no guarantee of any support. This is some weapons-grade copium, getting Elden ring running at garbage fps at 1080p and treating it as a stable release. "When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" perfectly sums up the rabid desire to jerry-rig some games and go "THE FUTURE OF MAC GAMING IS FINALLY HERE!". If you keep perpetuating the toolkits viability, why would any developer bother to release a native port, at a time when there is already little to no incentive to do so?

[@shashank1630]

That’s the point. Mac is finished as a gaming platform. This translation is all we will get - period.

[@onlythebest3311]

Let the guy enjoy his moment please…poor dude being grasping for straws to get games to work on mac for years, now he finally got bunch stuff running due to the toolkit, don’t ruin it lol. I gave up 2 years ago and got a rtx 3070 laptop hooked to the same monitors and keyboard to my Mac jut for gaming and it’s so much better than trying to use Mac to play games.

[@SteelSkin667]

The main thing is that performance in the GPT's preview mode is likely not going to get much better over time, since the whole point of it is to profile and evaluate where performance issues lie before porting the game. Automagically fixing said performance issues through software would be fairly counter-productive in that context. With Crossover rolling out their own DX12 support, chances are that they will leapfrog GPT in terms of performance over time.

[@blasiankxng]

you should give some games that players generally run heavily modded a shot and see how M2 handles those (like skyrim, mount and blade, rimworld, etc.)

[@alienmorf]

I have same results on my MacBook M1 Max 64Gb 😊

[@qoez]

Nice

[@DavidJBradshaw]

Would love to know how City Skylines does with a large city on both the Max and Ultra.

[@noahtorocalzado]

Cities Skylines is extremely bad optimized

[@DavidJBradshaw]

@@noahtorocalzado that’s why I’m interest in if it runs better on the full Max chip or the Binned Ultra chip

[@knightsofazeroth]

Would have loved to see how the M2 Studio runs World of Warcraft both Retail & Classic in Raid or Dungeons as this have been Metal optimized

[@coolierewind]

I have the Studio M2 Ultra and it runs WoW with zero issues in any setting. I have the studio display as well so it's locked at 60 fps and I pretty much get that everywhere.

[@pratafwd]

Please make a video for M2 base on MacBook Air. The one that most of us have!

[@nimrodsun]

I’d love to see if the game New World will run, please!

[@DJPixcell]

I appreciate the information here. I'm not a big gamer but if I'm spending the big bucks I really want the option. I feel like the future is bright for games porting to metal, but the frames you are getting for the ungodly amount of cores and memory you have available to you.. that's hurting. I've been wanting to move my workstation to mac for a while for audio and video editing, but I will always want the option to hop on a game with friends.. and get great performance. And let's be real.. PC is upgradable.

[@bovineox1111]

M2 Max Mac Studio is a tidy unit, especially in the base model. Ultra is a bit crazy cash but you are at least getting a stack of extra processing and I think ram and storage

[@Sam-pn2kc]

I will wait untill new mac os comes out and a GUI for that game tool kit

[@_edgodd]

Would really love to see BeamNG drive with porting kit, a lot of issues have been had with textures/shaders with other methods. as it stresses the cpu and gpu quite a bit it could be a good performance test!

[@twoeggcups]

A proper Mac native build of BeamNG Drive could work very nicely indeed. The M2 Ultra has really excellent CPU performance and a huge common memory pool should lend itself very well to a physics sim.

[@Fox_McCloud]

Could you do a Tomb Raider benchmark? It's a game that has a fairly well known and benchmarked scene in it--it would allow for a better generalized comparison to roughly how good an M2 Ultra is vs say, AMD or Nvidia. This is particularly useful to get an idea of just what the top end of this chip is capable of.

[@ozzy30190]

Whoa I have to chime in (thank you so much for the videos btw) because 11 years later and GTA V is still the game I use to benchmark. It is easily the best optimized game I have ever played in terms of a port. I ran it on a gtx 760, 1050ti, 1660 super, and now 3080

[@gossalex]

Whoopi is gonna be stoked for Diablo

[@razorbackroar]

my boy out here robbing banks now lmao proud of you bro.

[@El.Duder-ino]

Thank u for making all of these tests👍 M2 Ultra confirms what we've seen on M1 Ultra that putting 2 Max chips in one isn't the same when they are made as single chip with monolithic die. Multi chip/chiplet on single package isn't the same thing as one chip designed from ground up.

[@DerekDavis213]

And one chip designed from the ground up with ARM technology is going to run games poorly that were designed for AMD/Intel x86 chips. Mac Studio with M2 Ultra is about $5000 USD. A Windows machine for $1500 is *MUCH* faster for gaming. It's no contest.

[@El.Duder-ino]

@@DerekDavis213 Of course, code written to run natively on x86 and Windows will always run faster on cheaper PC than Mac Studio with M2 Ultra which has to translate layers code to its ISA and try to to be twice as powerful as M2 Max with the Fusion interconnect packaging (silicon vias). However if u look at the code written and optimized for Apple's Mx chips there's NO contest when it comes to what these SOC's can deliver per watt of power battery or wall! Performance per watt and incredible efficiency is the most amazing feature of Apple's Mx chips since their inception. This is the awesome beauty of all ARM based and well optimized SOC's and with optimized code it runs amazingly with uncompromised efficiency. Apple leads in this field for years in the smartphones and tablets segment and now also in laptops and desktops. Maybe Qualcomm with Nuvia's chip improvements or Mediatek with Dimensity architecture will come closer to Apple's leading performance, but I think Apple will continue to improve their tightly optimized HW&SW formula to keep the lead at all costs. I am not saying I will replace PC with the Apple any time soon as I wouldn't find use of it, but I am honestly and sincerely impressed what they have achieved with the transition from x86 to their (ARM) silicon. Their chip R&D team and labs deserve without a doubt a very special recognition and respect!

[@MrAkaacer]

@@El.Duder-ino Yeah whatever. All theorycraft and excuses. You pay for a premium product, but Apple treats you like crap and won't support a graphics API. What strange times we live in for personal computing... Apple says its hardware is great, it's the crappy software letting it down, whilst Nvidia hardware is crappy and they're relying on their software.

[@El.Duder-ino]

@@MrAkaacer that's why I am not saying Apple's silicon and closed/locked environment is for everybody and that's why I hate how they approach open source community. On the other hand they r protecting their IP and secrets and I think u and I know there r quite some very significant ones... Still I am no Apple rainbow fanboy or some brainwashed Apple addict, but I think Apple has achieved something amazing with their chips and very tight SW integration. Yes, its limited, but somehow I can't help to like that performance per watt efficiency... but yeah I hate how they do business and their closed mindset, not mentioning their some of their anti customer behavior... I think this is the main reason why they r not more successful and stay what they got... but on the other hand they r happy with that. Who wouldn't be as trillion $ company?😁

[@MrAkaacer]

@@El.Duder-ino The IP secret thing is BS. All computer software engineers know how Apple OS works. There's no secrets you can hide. Windows gave the same dumb ass excuses. If you could hide these OS secrets, they wouldn't work on Virtual machines. And even if there were certain parts of the OS you need to hide, you can distribute the binaries for those libraries and not the source code. Take a step back and take a real look... Apple hasn't achieved anything new or innovative. Intel/AMD rejected this design this way as it would make the PC a closed system and un-upgradeable. Apple has essentially made a consumable. Once its life is up, you throw it out... well ok, they let you upgrade the battery for now, but watch for future versions that will prevent this. Ok this last part might not be true as Europe has passed a right to repair bill... but you know Apple wanted to do it :).

[@haeven1622]

I wonder if software systems for games on Mac should be simple or remain complex.

[@JstYari]

Hey can you please do a step by step tutorial on how to launch games on the Game porting toolkit WITHOUT the performance HUD showing on the top right & also how how to create a shortcut to launch steam after installing it through the game porting toolkit , ive seen the instructions but I'm still struggling to get both of those things to work.

[@AzamatoTheGreat]

can you do a video like this checking the M1?

[@provolutionnic3482]

Thank you so much 🙌🏼 can you please test AC Valhalla and Odysee with the game proting toolkit? Never read something about those 2

[@minefacex]

The issues are probably related to shader generation.

[@bergbergberg4976]

do you know if sonoma make any difference? i think the new OS can turn on gaming focus?

[@oscarcorral1428]

Thanks for these reviews. I know a lot of people are interested in what they can currently get away with an M1. You went the opposite direction.

[@bravestbullfighter]

That's because he's become Apple's evangelist pitching M2 Max and M2 Ultra for gaming.

[@twoeggcups]

@@bravestbullfighter It’s just an intellectual exercise that points to the future, nobody would be insane enough to buy this machine for gaming.

[@v3rlon]

Came hoping for Flight Sim like DCS world. Leaving empty-handed.

[@floppa9415]

Wtf, GTA 5 was in fact one of the best optimized games on Windows. I could run at it 4K high on a GTX 970 - A 300$ class GPU from 2013.

[@michaellatta]

I play bauldur’s gate 3 on my m1max at 4k with good frame rate, so the m2 ultra it seems is slower than the m1max.

[@loganwebb5449]

Another thing to note - CSGO is hard to play on Mac because of the native mouse acceleration

[@jeongcheolyeom7483]

Andrew, did you try to disable Esync on Cyberpunk? I have M1 Ultra Mac Studio. With Esync on, I get 10 FPS in the benchmark, no matter what setting I use. When Esync is off, I get 20 FPS, though it is still slower than my M1 MacBook Air. BTW, there is no issue in Hogwarts Legacy, 30~60 FPS in 4K.

[@casperes0912]

That's weird given that ESYNC should improve performance

[@user-sp5yw2fi3i]

nice

[@Sam16842]

I wonder how long it might take games like iRacing or DCS to be playable on Apple Silicon 👀

[@martinsnelaudioenhancement]

When you put the resolution of GTA V to native, you'll be able to play it without any delay of stuttering.

[@tompp2100]

Well, you probably have not used SLI or Crossfire. There is a reason multi gpu did not catch on for gaming. As a developer, my hunch is that the two gpu chiplets of the m2 ultra either share memory, and one chip has to go to the slow path (numa), or there is a quirk on how work is submitted on M2U. Not familiar with Apple Silicon enough to have an informed opinion.

[@twoeggcups]

Apple Silicon really does not work like that.

[@tompp2100]

@@twoeggcupsthe ultra does . ‘two chips glued together’ - just check most of the reviews. its two chips on a fast interlink.

[@scottrichardson7838]

Layers of Fear DOES have Lumen/Ray Tracing enabled. It's just software based.

[@bose5160]

NMS on even the beefiest gaming PC still stutters when leaving/entering atmospheres. There are mods available to eliminate or reduce this, but it isn't MacOS's fault.

[@iaminyourballs]

Yes it is lol, I have no issues with stutters on Linux

[@sdwvit]

some say m2 ultra has issues with dye interposer when using GPK, have you looked into it?

[@MacGamingGuides]

Thanks for doing this test. Please could you test Overwatch 2?

[@NandoMex5000]

Do you think you could try the game RUST? Very curious what the performance would be on a max m2

[@shinen95]

Hi guys! are you able to use you're xbox wireless controller on steam? I have a Macbook air M1 and it doesn't work properly

[@Muskelhias]

Could you please compare with M2 Max?

[@AbeDillon]

I'm having trouble finding comparable benchmarks, but I found a couple videos showing similar frame rates for RE Village on the RTX 4070 Ti at 4K max settings. I'm not sure how that compares to high settings, but it would be interesting to see an integrated GPU trade blows with a discrete desktop RTX 4070 Ti.

[@mosesdavid5536]

4k metalfx is actually rendering the game at 1440p. 4070ti is slightly faster than 3090...so look for vids on that

[@twoeggcups]

@@mosesdavid5536 The 4070 most certainly is not faster than the 3090, unless you’re cheating with frame generation. The M2 Ultra is nowhere near the performance of a 4070ti, however. The 4070ti is a 40 TFLOPS GPU, the M2 Ultra is less than 25 TFLOPS.

[@samic]

M2 Ultra is at best RTX4060ti. It's nowhere close to 4070. Using M2 Ultra to play games is like emulating a $400 GPU with overhead.

[@twoeggcups]

@@samic 4060 ti is a pretty good match in terms of FP32, but the M2 Ultra has far more memory bandwidth and VRAM. Of course, nVidia cards and drivers have been optimised for gaming for years, so I’d expect better gaming performance nine times out of ten.

[@twoeggcups]

I do think it’s a little misleading to describe the M2 Ultra as having an “integrated GPU” rather than being an SOC. A better comparison would be the SOCS found in the XBox Series X or the PS5.

[@mannkeithc]

When you play No Man's Sky on a M2 Mac what game controller are you using? I have been using a Sony DualSense wireless controller and also tried a Sony Dual Shock 4 controller, and both randomly lose connection during game play. I have to press the PlayStation button to reconnect the controller with the game. I tried disabling the Steam overlay and still have the issue. I have not experienced this with other games on M2 Mac (native, Rosseta 2, running via CrossOver, or running within Parallels Desktop), so I suspect it is specific to No Man's Sky. I am going try playing No Man's Sky with an Xbox Elite 2 controller to see if this avoids the controller connection dropout problem.

[@PieStudios]

I don’t blame you for returning it lmao

[@KeberMaknaan]

now that m2 ultra runs games even better, who'll admit buying it for everyday including gaming?

[@TommyxD92]

same method working for xbox app will be superb !!

[@grizzlypaws461]

It’s safe to say that if mac gaming does become a thing the two most popular chips for gaming will be the Max chip and Pro chip right? The Max will be what we want but the pro will be what we can afford.

[@AngeAlexiel]

this gaming porting toolkit api will help a lot and Apple did a really good job to port easily games to the Mac , one question I have though I use the switch emulator and a ton of others for all consoles, and the Mac is a emulation heaven if you have an M1 ultra to an M2 ultra chip ( including the Max ) my question was how to you manage to get that performance graph even on the switch emulator ? do I need to install Sonoma for that ?

[@cylack]

It is called the Metal Gaming HUD. You can enable it system wide. Just google how to do it.

[@dennispena5496]

Andrew, if I buy the Mac Studio now do you think it will come with the 76 gpu core? or will it have the 60gpu? It does say 76 on their website. But it isn't July yet, so not sure if they're still shipping with 60.

[@blackmamba6938]

You can configure it however you want. Obviously if you want more cores then it's more expensive.

[@utubekullanicisi]

I would appreciate it if you tested especially the higher powered M2 parts at native resolutions more in addition to these settings that are, in fairness, ideal for a person trying to find a sweet spot between fps and graphics quality, instead of trying to benchmark and stress the M2 GPU as much as possible with as few CPU bottlenecks as possible (which is what the other half of your audience is trying to learn). Also, there are a lot of purists who'd rather prefer playing at a lower native res than a higher upscaled res, and I also don't agree with the tradeoff of a lower native res + high graphical settings for a higher upscaled res and lower graphical settings, which sometimes you seem to make.

[@goytia]

Can you make a video running World Of Warcraft in the Mac Studio? Thanks! Like Dungeons and Raids (25 people)

[@JayzBeerz]

So what would you say this GPU is close to for a windows desktop?

[@MxSmack]

How can we enable that FPS overlay? If anyone know it would be helpful!

[@p3rrypm]

Umm, these all work great with codeweavers on the M2 Ultra now.

[@Salaht]

It's happening guys gaming on mac is closeeeee!!!

[@iaminyourballs]

Apple sheep be like

[@theglowcloud2215]

Resident Evil logic: multiple headshots, zombie doesn't die.

[@Nikitafrom233]

Seems like M2 Max have the same or even higher performance, maybe due to chiplet organization.

[@benjaminthomas3386]

Did the issues with M1/M2 Ultra chips get ironed out? Or are they still having low frame rate problems with the toolkit?

[@egor1g]

Many games on mac have something really strange. For example, I have mac mini m2 pro 10/16 and Dota 2. I have 50-60 fps on low settings 1080p and stable 60 fps on almost max settings in 4k resolution. WHY? I don't know. It's not scale, it's just works strange. Many unoptimized games do have something and if you try some different graphic settings it can be really good.

[@WujoFefer]

Pls. test Total War games like Troy or Warhammer 3... Some strategy/economy games pls...

[@thomasferner7006]

Is it right that GTA 5 may hit the 60fps when the resolution is lower? Andrew only mentions that he is playing it in 4K. I wish Andrew would go more into GTA in general. In other videos he doesn’t mention GTA very often, but GTA is the most popular game. It is very interesting to see how it runs on MAC.

[@christianhotter]

Is this with the Mac OS 17 developer beta? I’m not sure if the ‘game mode’ is helpful.

[@aarroozzaarriioo]

would love it if you could test Street fighter 6.

[@Vili69420]

I gave up when this guy said that gta v isnt very well optimized, like man u can get this game working on a potato with higher frame rates, its not that the game isnt optimized its just that its going trough many translation layers , its a windows binary that goes trough wine then trough that roesta thingy thats x86 to arm ASM and then then dxvk to metal so u get 3 layers of emulation pretty much , its not the games fault, its sad to see tech channels not doing their research

[@kermitrehab]

Can we please try Dota2 on max graphics and 4K resolution?

[@dawidzymeka2861]

Can you do the same with base MacBook Pro 14.2 with M2 Pro?

[@justinhalsall4077]

Could you try Command and Conquer Remastered?

[@themaniacwolf]

Diablo IV just needs to disable Dynamic Shadows; it can achieve 60+ FPS by changing that setting alone.

[@SandroMacena]

Is there any tutorial to try these games? Whats do I need to do?

[@Leemanyiu]

Wondering can Mac run the RE4 Remake properly now?

[@danielrhodes7594]

Can these games also play well on the Mac Studio M1 Max?

[@BubbaSatori]

A $5K computer with the gaming performance of $2K PC. Tim Apple 😂

[@jackofallgamesYT]

I’m really stuck because I got Steam working perfectly on my M1 Max through GPTk. But it opened once on M1 Ultra and then refused to open again and I’ve heard it’s due to an external screen? And yet you can’t use the Studio with an external screen so I’m lost 😆 If you know of any workarounds would be very grateful!

[@xingzhexin8843]

1:07 Hi, I'm no expert on this, but I saw that it's using MetalFX Temporal for anti aliasing and not upscaling? I don't think No Man's Sky metalfx is the same as the resident evil village one (in resident evil you can actually use metalfx to do upscaling and anti aliasing and NMS only AA. Can you confirm this? Thanks!

[@lol-di3tf]

No results without MetalFX?