Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General BG3 running on Mac - who cares?

Does ANYONE care about BG3 running on Mac? And if so, how many percent of players actually play BG3 on a Mac? I'm guessing way less than 1%. Even if it runs on Mac, the performance and graphics is gonna be lacking at best.... That's not to rant about Mac at all, but objectively speaking, these computers are simply not made for gaming. I don't understand why Larian are wasting time and resources on that, instead of adressing feedback and bug fixing.

Its probably because adressing feedback and bug fixing has more than enough recources and they are able to take care of both on a good level.

However some people (not adressing to you precisely) expect larian to comment in every thread were nothing is to say rather than "yeah, we read that, dont know about it because the game still is in early development" or fix bugs on a weekly basis - i think those have wrong expectations to early access

What's this hate for mac users exactly? Don't you have other things to do in your life than assuming mac users don't deserve to play this game on their machine and you should complain about it?

I would say in return: who cares about your complains?

Wow hold your horses - I specifically said that I am not ranting about Macs. I dont have anything against Mac users whatsoever. Why would I? Your claim that I supposedly hate Mac users is baseless. Jeez.

So if you dont have anything to say about the threads topic, dont write in here, and dont accuse me of thinking that Mac users dont 'deserve' to play this game, since I have in no way claimed that.

All I am really trying to say with this post is that a really small percentage of players play the game on Mac, and IN MY OPINION (that said, it is really just an opinion of me, a standard player) that is not worth the time and recources. If you have a different opinion, I would love to hear your argument and discuss this without baseless accusations, llike adults.
Thank you.

Well, your claim macs are not made for gaming is totally false and shows you don't know anything about mac computers. My cousin plays this game on a macbook pro 2018 and it runs as smoothly as on any PC right now.

Plus, you say it's only 1% of the player base. The game has sold more than 1 million copies already. So who are you to think your complains are more valuable than the enjoyment of 10k players?

I've noticed a lot of people on social media today going at this Mac announcement pretty hard.
My only issue with distribution across multiple platforms is that resources are being put into those things and delaying fixes and patches for the EA process.
Yes, I understand that they're likely different teams, but appealing to smaller niche audiences in general (Stadia, you dead platform, I'm looking at you) does sorta annoy me because that's time and money that could be put into any countless number of things to get this out of EA even just a few weeks faster.

I don't agree with coming at the users specifically (which I don't feel OP is doing, as his complaint appears to be clearly targeted at the platform and not the people,) but I understand the frustration.

This is a very selfish argument if you ask me. Why should your platform be more optimized and loved than others exactly? Personally, even if I am PC player, I am happy this game is distributed on as many platforms as Larian can because everyone deserves to play a good game, no matter what machine they are playing it on.

Suffice to say, I hate platform exclusivities. These practices should be banned. The games and the players are important, not the platforms they are playing on. And as a computer engineer myself, I can tell you it angers me when I see some commercial exclusivities signed by big techs even though the game uses some codes that can run on basically anything.

If your cousin really plays BG3 on a macbook pro 2018, I'm glad for them. My boyfriend cant, for instance, and he has some newer version. But this is not the point of the discussion.

As an example, there would be way more people with consoles that would also like to play the game. But they cant, as of yet. Does that mean Larian think these people dont deserve to play? Of course not. And neither do I think Mac users dont deserve to play.
In fact, if Larian want to do that, thats totally fine. All I am saying is that RIGHT NOW there are other things with higher priorities, IN MY OPINION (cant stress this enough).

As I am glad you pointed out, I am NOT targeting Mac users. I think I made this clear.

Ok, then your boyfriend must have another problem on his mac. Because I could run BG3 on my ipad pro if it was available. The newest mac machines are graphics powerhouses.

Ehh... hold your horses buddy.

While my main gaming machine is my PC, I do sometimes off game on my MacBook Pro when I'm away and it's hardly AS horrible as people make it out to be. It sure is not a powerhouse gaming platform, but for example it's enough to run something like WoW at native resolution at 60FPS with average details and quite a few other titles too.

It certainly is plausible that BG3 will be able to be tuned to run on these machines reasonably well considering it's not some absolutely insane graphics powerhouse there.

Thats great, but not the point of the discussion.

no they are not

Vega 56
Radeon Pro Vega 56 graphics processor
with 8GB of HBM2 memory

is GARBAGE

a rtx 2070 is 40% stronger

Newest MacBook Pros come with 5600M option, that's a 1660Ti mobile level of 3D capability. That's plenty enough for A LOT of games, really.

I think going this ego trip aside - for a laptop that does not weight 5 tons like these Eurocom monstrosities, it's not bad at all. Definitely enough power to run BG3 at native resolution for example.

1660Ti is the bare minimum entry lvl gpu for a 2020 computer

lightyear away from graphic powerhouse

they make computer with 2020 i9 CPU but then throw in there a 2014 GPU

I don't know about Vega. But we manage to get a very good framerate with a Radeon Pro 560X on a 15" macbook pro, which is from 2018. So I assume the newer macbook pros are even better.

People, please, thats not the point of the discussion.

no nobody care, nobody play on mac any way I say 3.5% let look at the steam data
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

yeah 3.5% plau on iso while 89% on windows and the remaining % is all othere OS

linux and iso , are not worth the investissement compared to say a consol port

Yes, the point of the discussion is the OP whining about the fact she knows better than Larian where to put their resources to make their game. That's fantastic news. Maybe the OP can get a management job at their headquarters or something.

It might be a good idea to apply.

Get off your horse brudda...

You know what is the most popular GPU used by Steam users? 1060... what's the second most popular? 1050Ti - these two together account for almost 20% of all Steam users when it comes to 3D capability.

If you take all the variants and flavors of 1060 and comparable GPUs - it's more than 35 % there. And I'm not even talking about lower than that.


I think some people need a reality check, as if everyone rocks 3080s or some such. A LOT of people game on laptops and these are the GPUs you can overwhelmingly expect there.

BG3 is no Crysis, it does not push revolutionary graphics, so I am not so sure why you are going such "pikachuface" over prospect of it running on MacBook Pro - which it perfectly will be able to do.

if you go buy a 2020 computer it wont come with a 1060 if it have a 1060 in it, its not a 2020 computer

mac are not gpu powerhouse.

Would you do us all a favor and calm down a little? I did not whine, nor did I claim Mac users are not important or dont deserve to play, nor any other of your baseless and rediculous accusations. You obviously dont have the ability to make a calm, thoughtful argument here. Instead you choose to make strawman arguments in order to ridicule me.

I am, in fact, not trained in programming, management or something similar. I do not claim to be able to do a better job than Larian. I merely voiced my opinion. Since this is a feedback forum, I believe that is all in the norm.

Ye okay bruddah...

I think you live in an alternate reality where everyone buys gaming PCs filled with LEDs and shit.

BG3 is a last gen title, it's not really a current gen title - 1060 and the likes are enough to run it and 16inch 2020 MacBook Pros mostly have around that.

But you go tell 'em dumb Larian what's what - I bet they need your advice on platforms they should develop for.

KEKW.


Here are the powerhouse GPUs required by BG3:



I think MacBook Pros 15/16 inch starting 2018 models can manage that.

you are totaly out of context , Nyanko said mac are gpu power house not I , I was only rectifying him. get lost.

nobody here is talking about the sys requirement of bg3, we just talking about mac in general.
even the new 2021 model have bare bone gpu from 2016 its 150 buck card in a 5k$ computerr

Daww did a hurt ur feeweings? I'm sowwyyy...

Here have a cookie.


You guys can flail all you like, but reality is MacBook Pros are enough to satisfy all BG3 needs in 3D department and likely more going forward.

still a 1660ti is 150$ gpu ............in a 5000$ computer

its not a bad card, but def. not a GPU POWERHOUSE

You are arguing semantics in a context of the thread. The thread is about whether there are people that care about running BG3 on Mac, not whether Macs are some amazing value proposition or whether 5600M is some sort second coming of JC of a GPU.

The reality, people seem to care after all - that's what matters... and $$ ofc.

Ok, so at this point would a moderator please show mercy and close this thread? Since this has apparently turned into a game of angrily comparing computor stats.

I mean, just look at the title of your thread. Don't you think it's kind of aggressive to mac users? And then you go on afterwards telling it's not what you mean.

You ask "Who cares?" and we reply "We do". Is it enough satisfying an answer or you want us to add some explanatory pictures or something?

Pretty much. But I guess some people still do this silly war of worlds, as if OS you use is some sort of religion and you need to "burn the infidels" at every opportunity.

Bottom line, plenty of people would like to see BG3 on Mac, including me, even if it's so I could fire it up on my MacBook when I travel, despite having a full blown gaming PC at home with all bells and whistles.

And that's why a version for it is being developed.

'Who cares' is a simple question without any aggressive incentive, and interpretation of that question is a completely different story. If I wanted to choose a title that wont ever trigger anyone, noone would ever click on it because it sounds boring. BuI would argue that everything I said within the thread clearly shows that I am not agressive toward mac users at all.

Besides, if you replied 'we do' from the beginning instead of accusing me of things I didnt say, everything would be fine.

You realize that all of that is completely your interpretation of my words, and not based on any evidence? For the record, once and for all. I do not have anything against mac users, nor console users. Strawman arguments dont further the discussion.

You got your answers.

There is definitely enough of a base for such a version of a game and it's why Larian are doing it. MacBook Pros have enough hardware to satisfy official recommended requirements. And finally apparently, as you can see, there are people that care enough.

Done, as it's not the most productive discussion I've seen today. And it's the first one I've looked at since I woke up.

fwiw I suspect a less provocative title may have seen better results.