1mo ago

Steam beta gets native Apple Silicon support — the only public Arm version of Steam

www.tomshardware.com

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1mo ago

Steam beta gets native Apple Silicon support — the only public Arm version of Steam

www.tomshardware.com /video-games/pc-gaming/steam-beta-gets-native-apple-silicon-support-the-only-public-arm-version-of-steam

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1mo ago

Steam beta gets native Apple Silicon support — the only public Arm version of Steam

www.tomshardware.com /video-games/pc-gaming/steam-beta-gets-native-apple-silicon-support-the-only-public-arm-version-of-steam

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Steam hasn't forgotten about gaming on Mac, even if Apple has.
- laughs with Apple AirBuds in ears
  
  No hate but what is this even supposed to mean?
THEY NEVER HAS ARM SUPPORT??
- To be fair: How many games on Steam support ARM anyways?
  
  I believe ARM will be the future, developers should not ignore it. Qualcomm has been doing the Snapdragon Elite processors in Windows laptops for a bit now, and they are quite snappy - there is definitely something there. LTT had mostly positive reactions to the Snapdragon laptops they tested, and Apple silicone Macs are just so insanely powerful.
  I told my help desk manager at work that I would like to be the pilot user when we start getting Surface laptops with the Snapdragon Elite processors. My past 3 work-issued HP Elitebooks (860 G6/G8/G11) on Intel have all been so disappointing.
  
  There's Proton for Apple sillicon IIRC
  
  True
- It’s a small company with very little resources, and they only take 30% cut of nearly all PC game sales so they couldn’t afford it. /s
  
  Why would they prioritize resources into something with low demand..?
- And only adding Apple Silicon just now??? It's been out for 5 years!
  
  Was thinking the same thing
I think it is because they are killing Rosetta support. Will this affect gaming?
- Rosetta 2 is supposed to be available for older games only but I’m not sure how they’re planning to enforce that. Maybe some kind of whitelist? Either way it was a travesty that Valve didn’t bother before. Running what is essentially a full web browser through Rosetta couldn’t ever work well because of all of the recompilation already happening there.
  
  I mean sure, but apple killing Rosetta support is also idiotic. I think that they just want to turn OSX into iOS which is just awful.

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