Stormcrow Echegaray

Please. At this point I just want it to run on an x86_64 desktop with decent hardware without EAP massively killing performance. I'd just like to add my 2 cents in. I have a MBP M1 8GB/512GB. I bought it for other things, not games or SL and I knew going in it wouldn't be a great machine for either even though I do play some older games and visual novel type games on it. Some areas like my home, which is a low resource area, I get decent enough performance with advanced lighting enabled, roughly 60 FPS on the built in screen. Other very high resource areas that tax even my desktop AMD 3600/5500XT 8GB/32GB RAM it does poorly, down to single digits. It all depends on where you are, and most importantly, how much system and VRAM SL is trying to eat up. This matters a great deal with 3D applications and high resolution/many unique texture areas because system RAM and VRAM start to demand the same resources. That's the major drawback of Apple's Unified Memory Architecture. There are many areas on SL that will eat up 6+ GB of VRAM on top of whatever the client is using in system RAM. That means you end up swapping. This isn't entirely the engine's fault. It's people using textures and objects that require extreme amounts of VRAM. And despite the extreme performance of the M1 being able to access the storage with low latency compared to other systems, it's still not RAM. Accessing and using swap slows the system down. It's generally not noticeable with Office, web browsers, and other programs, but it will definitely be obvious with any 3D application. This is why my desktop will always run games and 3D programs better than the current generation of M1 Macs. It separates out system RAM and video RAM so there is no resource starvation. Would a 32 GB M1 Mac outperform a typical gaming desktop once it's no longer resource starved? Perhaps. It would naturally depend on the program and what they're compared against. I know VRAM heavy 3D apps have been benchmarked to run better with the 16 GB version of the M1 Macs compared to 8GB. My recommendation is do not buy a Mac M1, even the 16 GB models, believing it will be a great machine for 3D games or SL. Just don't even bother, you will be disappointed. Buy it if you want an ultrabook or mini desktop for your office work, school work, photo editing, or if you need a lower end Mac to test MacOS apps and develop iOS apps on. Right now you can't beat the battery life, but if that's not a feature you care about, wait and see what new generations bring. Am I disappointed in my MBP 8GB performance? Not at all. I didn't get it for its SL or gaming prowess. I bought it because it will beat any Intel ultrabook currently on the market on battery life and performance while running on battery for mobile office work. I have a gaming class desktop for the rest.