Apple M1 Big Sur

[YamHam 111]

Since Apple is releasing their new M1 Macs with Big Sur.

 

Will there be any issues with War Thunder or will it actually improve the experience with Macs? 
From my understanding, War Thunder should run with M1 since it used Metal or am I wrong? 

Also because of the Limitation of the first gen Apple M1 series they only come with Max 16gb RAM but Apple states that its not a „regular RAM“ but a „unified RAM“. 
Do you think it will be sufficient? 
Did Gaijin actually have their hands on the Dev Kit and can assure potential M1 Mac Buyers like myself future support? 
 

And if you guys receive your M1 Macs starting next week, can you post your experience with Performance with War Thunder? 
 

thanks a lot 

[teemokim 12]

OMG. Big Sur shows equal performance windows did. Holy god Apple. 

[Pony51 6,572]

On 11/11/2020 at 21:30, YamHam said:

Also because of the Limitation of the first gen Apple M1 series they only come with Max 16gb RAM but Apple states that its not a „regular RAM“ but a „unified RAM“. 
Do you think it will be sufficient?

 

I run WT on 16GB with other apps in background, 0 issue.

 

As to rest, too early.

[RealMajorHavok 208]

1 hour ago, Pony51 said:

 

I run WT on 16GB with other apps in background, 0 issue.

With integrated graphics? Or a GPU with it's own memory?

[Pony51 6,572]

2 hours ago, RealMajorHavok said:

With integrated graphics? Or a GPU with it's own memory?

Radeon HD 5750 with 1GB VRAM.

 

And yes, it will not run Metal.  Just saying 16gb should not be limitation.

[RealMajorHavok 208]

1 hour ago, Pony51 said:

Radeon HD 5750 with 1GB VRAM.

 

And yes, it will not run Metal.  Just saying 16gb should not be limitation.

So... how are you running the latest version?

[Pony51 6,572]

3 hours ago, RealMajorHavok said:

So... how are you running the latest version?

Nope.

 

End of line for me, until I get a new Mac

But I had no issue running WT on my iMac, late 2010, 16GB

 

(might get M1 myself, will see)

[PPCmgb 29]

Gaijin should definitely take note of the details in this video. The thumbnail looks like clickbait, but Max was able to dig deep and find really vital info:

 

The unified memory is accessible to the entire SoC (both CPU and GPU). There's quite a bit of RAM that the integrated GPU should be able to utilize as if it was VRAM. War Thunder used up to 10GB of RAM on my 16" MBP with 64GB of RAM.

 

Also, the Apple M1 was even shown in GPU benchmarks to outperform the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, which is already a very capable card that meets the recommended specs for War Thunder. For reference, the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Radeon Pro Vega 20 could run WT at Movie settings at 50-60fps at 1920x1200 resolution in Boot Camp. The 16-inch MacBook Pro with Radeon Pro 5600M runs War Thunder at 1920x1200 Movie settings flawlessly (except for very infrequent microstutters). Apple M1's GPU has 75-80% the performance of the Radeon Pro 5300M in the base model 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro, which is a GPU slightly or somewhat better than GTX 1650 Max-Q.

Edited November 19, 2020 by PPCmgb

[YamHam 111]

It also seems like public beta 11.1 of Big Sur actually fixed an issue with Rosetta.

Some games like CS:Go now actually run with M1.

 

the only issue is that War Thunder isn’t getting any dedicated M1 user who is willing to communicate with the Devs here.

 

my Mbp Pro is coming in December :/

[PPCmgb 29]

I wish I could, but it's just not worth it when my 16-inch MacBook Pro with 5600M still gives better GPU performance and gives me a good War Thunder experience in Boot Camp as well as being able to run any of the best flight sims from IL-2 to FS2020, which are Windows exclusives. And one of the iOS flight sims I'm planning to play isn't supporting ARM Macs yet.

 

Hopefully War Thunder will have good Mac support and optimization when the 2nd or 3rd generation of the 16-inch MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon is released.

 

Supporting Apple Silicon also paves the way to bringing the game to iOS and Apple TV. War Thunder could even be a good marketing point for mouse and keyboard support in iPad games. I'm gonna get an iPad Pro instead when they release the next model with A14X chip, and I'll sign up for an iOS/iPadOS CBT if it happens.

[YamHam 111]

8 minutes ago, PPCmgb said:

I wish I could, but it's just not worth it when my 16-inch MacBook Pro with 5600M still gives better GPU performance and gives me a good War Thunder experience in Boot Camp as well as being able to run any of the best flight sims from IL-2 to FS2020, which are Windows exclusives. And one of the iOS flight sims I'm planning to play isn't supporting ARM Macs yet.

 

Hopefully War Thunder will have good Mac support and optimization when the 2nd or 3rd generation of the 16-inch MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon is released.

 

Supporting Apple Silicon also paves the way to bringing the game to iOS and Apple TV. War Thunder could even be a good marketing point for mouse and keyboard support in iPad games. I'm gonna get an iPad Pro instead when they release the next model with A14X chip, and I'll sign up for an iOS/iPadOS CBT if it happens.

I was thinking that,

imagine a good port for iPad Pro’s and Apple TV, that would kill world of tanks

[Pony51 6,572]

Post M1 results here.

 

Consolidating the topic.