• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      18·
      2 months ago

      4k high framerate! But the compression algorithm and settings optimize that down to something between 720p and 1080p. With a half second of input latency when factors line up well.

      But don’t worry, soon there will be AI input prediction so that the game can predict what you’ll do and render that before you even do it.

      Fast forward 10 years and there’s a generation of kids who think that the difference between a video game and a movie/tv show is that video games let you push buttons to look at other things if you get curious while watching. Or that would be the difference, but it’s actually that you can look around accurately in VGs while it’s more of a “let’s see what the AI spits out if I look this way during this scene… Bahahaha, another dickbutt!”

  • 4am@lemmy.zip
    33·
    2 months ago

    Friendly reminder that Halo was a Mac game first, before Microsoft bought Bungie to prevent Apple from ever having the appearance of competence.

      • Honytawk@feddit.nl
        8·
        2 months ago

        Even aside from the objectively bad charging port, the shape is also awful and unergonomic. And next to a touch-based scrollwheel, it also has no right-click.

        • Cort@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          It has right click, you just have to take your index finger off the mouse. Also the original version has replaceable AA batteries which I strongly prefer to rechargeable

        • forkDestroyer@infosec.pubEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          the shape is also awful and unergonomic.

          I agree. I basically got carpal tunnel from this model. Had to learn to hover a part of my hand over it whenever I was using it, instead of cupping my palm down like the design would imply.

        • achille225@jlai.lu
          291·
          2 months ago

          The Apple mouse, charging

          The charging port is under the mouse, which makes it so that you can’t use while it is charging

          Great design !

  • Snowcano@startrek.website
    163·
    2 months ago

    I swear to fucking god, I must be the only person alive who’s never had any issues playing any game I wanted to on a Mac. You know there’s fucking ways to accomplish this shit right??

    • atro_city@fedia.io
      12·
      2 months ago

      Sure you haven’t. Now put down the 5k VR headset and get back to reality.

  • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    12·
    2 months ago

    In all fairness macs have a better laptop chip with their m series. Intel just caught up but only somewhat. And amds market in laptop might as well not exist.

    The downside is macOS lol

    • BorgDrone@feddit.nl
      8·
      2 months ago

      The downside is macOS lol

      I’m a Mac / Linux user and I was forced to use Windows 10 for a couple of hours today. What an absolute ridiculous piece of shit OS that is. I had forgotten how bad it was. Those few hours reawakened my burning hate for Windows. Everything feels convoluted, you are constantly fighting against the OS instead of working with it. Optical drive having read issues? Better freeze the entire GUI. Want to kill a process? haha, fuck you. At one point the frikkin’ task manager froze on me.

      • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yea windows is such dogshit it’s honestly impressive

        The only reason why windows is still alive imo is because of stupid game companies using anticheat which is almost always some invasive crap that only works on windows

      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        tbf, I’m pretty sure that Microsoft is intentionally crippling Windows 10 for the past half year or so

        at least, that’s been my experience with it on multiple sets of hardware

        also, if you think Windows 10 is bad… Windows 11 is so much worse. they even broke file explorer

    • possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      81·
      2 months ago

      Fwiw, I’ve got a laptop with an AMD 7945HX and a 4080 mobile, and uh, it doesn’t give a shit, it’ll run anything on high/ultra. Their market share may not be large, but that’s not for lack of putting out a good product.

    • Billegh@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 months ago

      For all of its failings, macos is still a very unixy os. If you want to use linux but need to do creative work, macos is a mostly ok compromise. Linux based alternatives are fine for the tech savvy, but aren’t a good fit for everyone.

  • Hond@piefed.socialEnglish
    123·
    2 months ago

    Connect controller via bluetooth - Done. You dont want to use a mouse anyway because of the latency. The latency is alright for most games with a controller though. Atleast if the servers arent too far away and your connection is somewhat good. I had a free trial month for one of the services and it was pretty useable tbh.

    Dont get me wrong i dont like Apple, Geforce Now or cloud anything either. But if a nongamer is able to subscribe to a service for a month or two to play that one game on his macbook thats not a bad thing? Like good for him.

  • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Latency is why i don’t want to play multiplayer online game, but i can tolerate it since my input is immediate. Cloud gaming gonna be jank as heck in most part of the world, not to mention i don’t really have much time in my hand(like basically most working adult) so the subscription model gonna be more expensive in the long run.

  • harmbugler@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    When the first cloud-only AAA release drops and the gaming rig gets the same FPS as the kid’s school Chromebook, there will be gnashing of teeth.

    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      I won’t gnash my teeth - If they release the game cloud-only, they officially don’t want my money, which only buys games i can archive (Clean Steam Files are fine, the copy protection is more of a formality than a hurdle); same as Denuvo-protected games. A publisher that does this is dead to me.

    • Honytawk@feddit.nl
      1·
      2 months ago

      Good, then all those little kids can move and stay off the other gaming communities.

    • Regular Water@lemmy.eco.br
      1·
      2 months ago

      That could definitely happen with FPS games, and the only advantage you can have is having less than 100 ms to play. While they install anticheat/spyware on the computer with the cloud client.

  • kolya@social.cologne
    3·
    2 months ago

    @capcool there’s gonna be a lot more of those considering the price development of memory and graphics cards. and I think some will be quite happy to push users to thin clients