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Not familiar with steamrip. I just use plain steam with normal settings.

It’s still working for me on the latest crossover preview and MacOS 27 beta. Was working on Tahoe as well. M5 Max

When running games through crossover, enabling DLSS activates MetalFX upscaling.

Report: Apple to skip M6 Pro/Max chips, fast-track M7 for local AI

I’d expect it to work exactly the same through EGS

Just finished this game less than a week ago. M5 Max, steam through crossover. Virtually no issues. The only odd thing is that the beta versions of MacOS and GPTK 4 broke DLSS upscaling, but FSR still works great.

I don't own crimson desert and don't intend to buy it unless it goes on sale, but Andrew Tsai did a video on it that shows M5 Max performance: Crimson Desert Mac Review: 7 Macs Tested (MacBook Neo to M5 Max!)

The fan noise never gets extremely loud unless you manually enable high power mode, but in the automatic power mode the noise level is similar to other M series Mac laptops. Whether or not you need to cap fps or reduce settings to make the fan silent all depends on how demanding the application in question is. Modern AAA games are going to push the GPU to its limit and cause the fans to work. PS3/XBox One-era games can run at max settings without really pushing the GPU hard so the fan is much quieter.

That’s only rushing yards. Doesn’t include receiving yards.

This is what happens when we over-rely on AI to do our thinking for us.

Not sure where you’re reading that anyone recommends this laptop for gaming. It’s a powerful laptop that also happens to be capable of gaming.

I tested a few games on crossover. I posted about it on this sub a few days ago. Enoy

Possibly, it's just human nature to skim things. I'm not trying to "spin" the results, though. The order does look intentionally worst to best, but it ended up this way purely by coincidence. I agree that this is a very good generational graphics improvement, at least as good as M3->M4 was.

Everyone's going to have a different opinion on this, but the best graphics out of the games I've played so far belong to Alan Wake 2, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and probably Cyberpunk, but there are many great looking games (many of which I probably haven't even played myself)

I have not tried it, but I'd expect it to be significantly higher there since the graphics weren't as demanding in that version of WoW.

You're never going to get it to stay at 120 in cities or other crowded areas (that's true on both Mac and PC, no matter how good your hardware is), but out in the open world and in most dungeon scenarios, I can get locked 120 fps by tweaking just a few things: I set my render scale to roughly 1440p, turn liquid detail to Good, and compute effects to Good. That's it, everything else maxed out.

All depends on the settings you want (or need) to play at. I think M5 Max is probably around 80% faster than M5 Pro. You can easily get by with an M5 Pro in this game if you don't mind sacrificing the picture quality or refresh rate just a little bit.

It's upper 50s in this scene usually, but the M4 Max gets over 70 in the same scene, so there's something strange going on with the M5 Max in this game. Maybe it's just me; so far, no one else has had a chance to try to replicate what I've seen. If this issue can be fixed, I'd expect M5 Max to eventually be good for 85-90 fps in this scene, which is great with nearly 4k resolution and maxed out settings.

Yes, through Crossover, as the other poster said. You install through steam and that will install the Rockstar launcher as well.

Awesome, thanks! I also started a thread on the Mac Technical Support forum at Blizzard. My original speculation about the cause my be off, because I went back and tested again late last night and didn't see this CPU load behavior again, but the performance was still lower than my M4 Max, so something seems to be going on for sure.

I never experienced this on my M4 Max, either. The only reason I even noticed this behavior is because my M4 Max performs better than this M5 Max in WoW, the only game so far where that has been the case.

Cyberpunk testing was done in my original post, linked at the top of this one.

I didn't test for an extensive period of time yet, but I didn't see any reduction in performance in my testing. I don't think gaming is the type of workload that would cause throttling for this thermal design.

Likely power constraints. That's my guess, at least. Apple is probably letting the Pro increase power draw more this year, whereas they can't really do that with the Max since it already can draw more power than the power adapter can supply sometimes.

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried this, but didn't see a change in performance. I also didn't see the same behavior this time when I checked--the super cores remained loaded whether or not WoW was in the foreground. So there may be more going on than previously suspected.

I fired up WoW again to see if I could duplicate my own issue, but this time, I didn't see the performance cores ramp up so hard when I had the game in the foreground. The CPU load remained mostly on the super cores. So, still more detective work to be done here, because performance didn't markedly improve with the super cores doing most of the heavy lifting, either.