[samtheprogram]

After my gaming computer started rebooting (probably needs a new power supply in order to hit peak power draw), I tried out my new M2 Pro for gaming again.

I've been using Codeweavers Crossover to play games that are Windows only, and it's been surprisingly fine. I never fixed my gaming PC (for gaming, at least) and converted it to an at home server. It's been a couple months now. I just lent a friend my GPU.

Epic Games doesn't seem to work, but you could always use Legendary for those titles -- I just don't have any titles on Epic that I want to play.

I'm hoping in one of the future updates that Crossover can activate macOS Sonoma's Game Mode for the games running within Wine, because I assume it'll improve performance even more. I'm also having a bit of buyers remorse -- I didn't plan to use this for gaming, and now I'm wondering how much better an M2 or M3 Max would be for more demanding titles.

[catlover76]

Ehh yeah the prospect of using such patching software doesn't appeal, and I don't want to run the risk that games work poorly or not at all even with that kind of fiddling (which is something I abhor about Linux, so why would I want it on my expensive and supposedly superior Macbook).

[philsnow]

Just want to throw out there that ~20 years ago I sometimes got better framerates in linux than windows on the same hardware for certain FPS games