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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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look, a multibillion dollar company can't pay for twitter API
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so sad
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Not a huge loss? Lol
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someone is saying ultimate nes remix didn't had less games, it makes my brain hurts
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well it had more games than either of the individual nes remixes
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and it had all the good ones
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like who the fuck cares about NES Golf
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there a bunch of good games missing, one of them (which makes a lot of sense for this type of game) was wario woods
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whoever made flog cared about NES golf
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i brung that up because i remembered it randomly and it has become my hyperfixation
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nes remix 1 had the bad one, nes remix 2 had the good one
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@NinStar
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but at least 2 doesn't have sports games
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loved nes remix, but hated having to play Baseball, Tennis and Golf in order to progress
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or fucking Clu Clu Land for that matter
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Not a big fan of NES kid Icarus either... I know it was popular but I didn't care for it.
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