Originally Posted by rodeolifant
None of these games you mention take any resources on hardware, though, they'll work on anything, which is why they can be easily modified to work on Mac. BG3, on the other hand, most certainly does take hardware resources. If it needs to look anything like you'd expect, there is a serious issue of making it work on the average Mac. And that's the thing. There's no point in making it available for the million-dollar UltrApple, if it only sells two copies. It needs to work and be reasonably received on the average one. Which is more or less the same price as the average pc, but with half the specs.

For Pathfinder WoTr and mid to max settings I get near 60fps, running cool, beautiful 16 inch screen, 4 HOURS playtime on my M1 max Macbookpro (oh and its not even optimized for apple silicon), a nearly 5 year old laptop (10 hours battery for non gaming stuff).

What do you get on your windows laptop I wonder. A bit more FPS but for 90 minutes playtime and burned laps and fans going nuts? And non gaming, what, 2 hours tops? lol

When I'm travelling, Im not bringing my PC desktop and PC notebooks are shit if not plugged in. 120FPS means nothing if you can just play 1 hour with burned laps and palms running ventilators full blast.

Last edited by Count Turnipsome; 08/09/23 06:58 AM.
It just reminded me of the bowl of goat's milk that old Winthrop used to put outside his door every evening for the dust demons. He said the dust demons could never resist goat's milk, and that they would always drink themselves into a stupor and then be too tired to enter his room..