Your reviews of Feral and racing games more generally, my favorite genre, are the best. But enjoy your content across the board. Happy New Year, MrMacRight.
I tried to play the game on 1440p on M1(with custom Medium-high preset metal fx quality)... It barely went below 30fps on benchmark but when I went into story mode and It was 24fps or lower all the time(the ram usage was 8.6GB at the time on my 8GB MBA)
I've been playing on my M1 Max w/ 32c GPU connected to an ultra-wide at 3440 x 1440. The benchmark gave me Avg FPS: 74, Min FPS: 57, Max FPS: 92 with a mix of High settings, TAA anti-aliasing, and MetalFX set to Ultra Quality. Tested a few racing wheels, Logitech G92, G920, and G923. FYI, the newer G923 isn't listed as a tested wheel by Feral and does not work. Been playing with the G92 though and it's been a blast. This is by far the best racing game I've played on macOS by a long shot. If you like raging games, get this!
There is FlatOut 2 which I understand has been updated with Apple Silicon support. Not sure if it's using Metal, though. But I guess so. It's a pretty fun arcade racer that has multiplayer support!
I think the M1 Ultra testing could be explained that at 1080p it’s CPU bound and the faster cores in the M2/3 generation are making up the distance. While at 4K it’s more bound by the GPU
@@winstonthompson6210 that’s irrelevant to the issue which is at lower demanding graphics settings the M1 Ultra is performing worse than at higher graphics settings. At lower settings, the CPU performance is more important. Hence, the higher single threaded performance of the newer m series is performing better.
@@chidorirasenganz no, the performance was better for 1080p than 4K, he said it didn’t beat all the laptops at 1080p, but beat them all at 4K. He wasn’t comparing it itself. The fps at lower graphics was higher than at higher graphics
Great to see proper games available for purchase on macOS with full controller support including vibration / haptics. I see that you mainly use a PS5 gamepad in your testing. Does Grid Legends work with Switch Pro Controllers in the same fashion with vibration/haptics? Rock on! 🤘🏼
I wonder what it is that makes the frame rate fluctuate so much even on the higher end machines? I mean M2 Max going allt the way from 154 FPS at 1920 x 1080 pixels down to 74 FPS as the lowest. But maybe it's like that on WIndows too?
Nice summary. I have the exact same M1 Max as you, same memory etc., and I cannot get my min FPS to be above 60fps with the same present. The best I can get is 55fps and that's with the fans on full blast. Is there some other setting you're tweaking? My Max is 121.7fps so pretty close your yours, within margin of error, but 65fps min seems very high
I am playing re4 remake on mbp 14 m2 pro using external display but it hang when using 1080p resolution. The max resolution i can use right now for the external display is 1440x810, do you have any issue like this ? On the desktop mac the external display show 1080p fine without any problem
The fact that is an Apple Store exclusive is understandable but extremely annoying. I don’t know, I’d like to have it so I can play it when I’m not home but I’m not sure if it is worth it. Cheers mate.
Hello Stewie, do you have any idea why the FPS improvement from M1 to M3 is only 43% on high settings 1080p (Apple keynote claimed a 65% GPU increase)? Is it due to bad code optimization from Feral Interactive or is it the M3 architecture itself?
@@MrMacRight Why don't u make a video on limits of virtual Machine and try running some games on it on m3 max chip ?? just to check parallels max performance ?
@@MrMacRight Well is the truth, I have a lot of apple devices, but in Mac OS the games just sucks, I hope in the future that changes I really hope that...
I don't think it's odd that just the MBP 14in and 16in only have HDR. Those are the only HDR displays for macs with a built in screen. The iMac and MBA do not have HDR capable displays so them not getting HDR is understandable. Plus I don't think HDR is worth it on a single zone LCD based display because the brightness and contrast isn't there to provide a meaningful HDR experience. Of course HDR should work on an external display with proper HDR support As for the M1 Ultra being under the M2 Max and M3 Max, that's likely a CPU limitation
4:36 wait a muinte.. i have G27 and i try to connect it to my intel iMac 5K with i5 and dosen't work!! actually the G27 gone crazy the second i plug the usb cable to the iMac..!! 🤔 hmmm. that's make suspicious. and about the m1 ultra with the mac studio. i believe something not right til now with this machine!! i don't know is it hardware or software..!!?? i don't see anyone COMPLETLY happy with it til now.. thank you for this video. 👍🏽
