Thank you! That makes a lot of sense.

On one hand it is a very comfortable, beautiful keyboard, and wireless has worked flawlessly. On the other hand, 2 blue leds have failed, so currently dealing with warranty.

Is there really a black edition? Isn’t that one the g915 tkl?

If people get enough from a free demo maybe it’s time to make shorter cheaper games, and start churning out 2 hour playtrough 15usd games, but with high quality graphics/acting/voices/etc. Or just abolish capitalism and make fun games no matter if they sell or not 😂

If demos hurt sales, that means that game devs depend on gamers buying games they don’t actually end up liking right? I understand making games has become pricier and pricier, but if the whole business model is dependent on “We want to trick people into getting stuff they don’t want”, then we have a problem.

Different instances have different ideologies. You can get a user on “everything-conservative” which blocks half if the federation, or you can get into a free for all instance which allows all. Big generic instances like lemmy.world do have a big problem on their hands, they have to make the bubble the common denominator of all users, which is hard to know.

Spirited away, just because I saw it as a child and it got me hooked on Miyasaki for life. It remains one of the most fun ones for me. It has the right balance between reality and fantasy, between fun and action/danger.

It also has that feeling of looking at a strange world as an outsider that I love, which is the reason I liked the first harry potter film/book for example. The wonder of a new, strange world with new rules that we do not comprehend.

I think I was running at native resolution, which is much less than what you’re running at.

Edit: Ok, I actually tried running it again, on 1080p, and it’s faster than I remember, maybe there was some optimization along the way or something happened. I still get really bad frame drops when the temperature drops. It runs at 45fps until it drops to 10fps for like 10/15 seconds while the temperature drops.

I actually checked cpu and gpu usage, and the cpu is not max at all, but the gpu is at 100% all the time, that might mean that a faster cpu might indeed be useful. Maybe at around 45fps it starts to become cpu bound?

Edit 2: on native resolution it runs at 30fps, and drops to 4fps when temperature drops.

Edit 3: Running at 960x600 resolution keeps it running at 50fps, even when the temperature drops. GPU usage is still at maximum.

Edit 4: Found the culprit. Global illumination is the setting that made the fps drop so hard when temperature drops. Can you check if it happens for you as well on m2 ultra?

I’d love for apple to keep improving rosetta 2 somehow, games which run on metal+x86 translation are still very slow. But I think it contradicts their objectives, they want native/real support, and are only providing this tools to help the transition, not to replace it.

That’s the one I have! And it only runs to around 30fps, with marked slow downs when the temperature drops, it’s barely playable. I’m not going to upgrade to an m2 max macbook, but I was just hoping a possible m3 max might be good enough for the type of games I’m interested and that I would not need a gaming pc, so I wanted to see the improvement from m1 to m2.

Yo estoy arrancando a ver todas las pelis que me vienen recomendando hace años y nunca veia, porque me compre la tele y ahora es otra cosa.

Hasta ahora me vi Licorice Pizza y la de Pinocho de Guillermo del toro. Tengo pendientes Dune, Fantastic Mr Fox, Everything everywhere all at once y otras mas que no me acuerdo.

Nice, looks like there’s no artificial limitation, and it’s just a matter of horsepower. I’d love to know the difference between m2 max and m2 ultra on this, since if it’s cpu bound they should perform the same (a game won’t use that many extra cores)

Can you try frostpunk for example? I know it felt very slow on my m1 max, specially when temperature drops (in-game, which happens every few in-game days). It runs at around 30fps. What is weird is that it runs the same on a base m1, as an m1 max, according to : https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/Frostpunk.

I think my doubt is where the real bottleneck is, is it just cpu-bound because of translation? Is it single-core or multi-core bound? Or is there a technology limitation that no matter how much more cpu you throw at it, there’s just something about translation timing that does not make it go faster.

If m1 and m1 max perform the same, then it might come down to single-core performance, and since m2 has some single core gains, it might provide an improvement?

Keys download link is already broken. Can we link to the 128bitbay page? Or would that not be allowed? I mean this one: https://rentry.org/128bbkeys

I think the recent game porting toolkit might make it more desirable too. But I have a theory that the reason there’s no games on mac is not that the port itself is hard, but that they don’t want to keep testers/qa/support indefinitely for yet another platform.

You might make a port work with a few weeks of a dev team, but then have to pay qa for years to make sure every update to the game or OS does not break something, and to keep supporting new GPUs.

Maybe Apple needs to offer some kind of cheap outsourced testing, so companies can just pay apple less than what a full qa employee would charge them, and get someone with insider info about apple itself.

And they also need to change their philosphy of “if it breaks and the devs don’t fix it we move on”, like they did with 32 bit apps. Apps are either updated or forgotten because new features are necessary, but games can remain still and be perfectly good.

I actually watched that, but it only tests 2 native games which do not run rosetta. The performance increase there seems quite nice, but I’m wondering if rosetta titles will see less of it.

My guess is that if games where completely native, performance would be good enough that mac gaming would be realistic. Not the cheapest $ per fps, but good enough that if you want a mac for other reasons, you can game as well.

Right now with rosetta/cpu bottlenecks I think gaming is not in a good shape, and most games that are available today and next few years won’t be native. My hope is that generational increases in performance reach a point where new heavy games work flawlessly, and older rosetta games work good too, because of overpowered cpu taking care of the rosetta overhead.

Just an example, even native mac games are very slow because of rosetta/cpu, like frostpunk.

Consulta, esto es /r/argentina, /r/republica_argentina, o no es nada aun?

Basicamente, va a estar lleno de gente pro milei, o lleno de troskos y peronistas?