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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Bombadildo" data-source="post: 10179646" data-attributes="member: 187316"><p><a href="https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK" target="_blank">https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK</a> <</p><p></p><p>Granted, it's not "official" support and it's not running on bare metal, but neither is this so it's basically as close as you'll ever get. It's compliant with Vulkan 1.2, which has been good enough for Dolphin/RPCS3 to implement, and IIRC Valve ported Dota and Artifact over to MacOS with Vulkan support using this as well. It pretty much does exactly what this does, but Vulkan instead of DX12. And yet despite being available for something like 6ish years now, beyond a couple games/apps that came out with Vulkan support, there hasn't been any huge increase of ports. </p><p></p><p>It's not so much an API problem as it is a "brand" problem. Mac hasn't been known as a gaming powerhouse for years now, pretty much since they swapped from PPC to Intel in the early 2000s, and the hardware specs the most popular Macbooks and iMacs have had were never good enough for most games anyways so there was never any point to point in all that work from a sales perspective. Apples attempting to fix that themselves now, so we'll see if it works, but I don't think they'll make any good headway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Bombadildo, post: 10179646, member: 187316"] [URL]https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK[/URL] < Granted, it's not "official" support and it's not running on bare metal, but neither is this so it's basically as close as you'll ever get. It's compliant with Vulkan 1.2, which has been good enough for Dolphin/RPCS3 to implement, and IIRC Valve ported Dota and Artifact over to MacOS with Vulkan support using this as well. It pretty much does exactly what this does, but Vulkan instead of DX12. And yet despite being available for something like 6ish years now, beyond a couple games/apps that came out with Vulkan support, there hasn't been any huge increase of ports. It's not so much an API problem as it is a "brand" problem. Mac hasn't been known as a gaming powerhouse for years now, pretty much since they swapped from PPC to Intel in the early 2000s, and the hardware specs the most popular Macbooks and iMacs have had were never good enough for most games anyways so there was never any point to point in all that work from a sales perspective. Apples attempting to fix that themselves now, so we'll see if it works, but I don't think they'll make any good headway. [/QUOTE]
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