Hi everyone,
I've been playing VAM since 3 years and loved the community, so much great content and talented modders!
As everyone here I've been using my PC system to run VAM.
But as a nerd I wanted to experiment and with some curiosity I managed to run VAM on Macbook M2 PRO with 16GB!
The key is the new translation layer between DX12 and MacOs Metal available in a Windows emulator called Cr*oss*over (remove asterisks).
There are tons of guides to setup Crossover for gaming (which honestly it's easy as pie).
You just run an external command pointing to the game .bat to run within the emulator.
Thanks to the latest updates to libraries the performance left me speechless.
I was getting 200fps on a scene with a single person in it and not too much lighting.
To be honest I'm already impressed it ran at all!
I'll be playing a little bit more with this as the power and portability of MacBooks is insane.
Not to mention they're almost dead silent and barely heating up.
Although after 10 mins the raw power of the GPUs start the fans to spin, but nothing comparable to my gaming laptop with which is basically a jet and consuming 200W.
Here we're talking about 54W!
I have attached a screenshot of VAM running on MacOS with Rosetta emulation. The hair multiplier and density seems to kill most of the performance, but keeping them at lower values you can easily achieve 60-120fps!
So happy about this discovery, asit runs basically similarly to my RTX2070 equipped laptop!
Please let me know if you have any questions and feel free to share your thoughts!
I've been playing VAM since 3 years and loved the community, so much great content and talented modders!
As everyone here I've been using my PC system to run VAM.
But as a nerd I wanted to experiment and with some curiosity I managed to run VAM on Macbook M2 PRO with 16GB!
The key is the new translation layer between DX12 and MacOs Metal available in a Windows emulator called Cr*oss*over (remove asterisks).
There are tons of guides to setup Crossover for gaming (which honestly it's easy as pie).
You just run an external command pointing to the game .bat to run within the emulator.
Thanks to the latest updates to libraries the performance left me speechless.
I was getting 200fps on a scene with a single person in it and not too much lighting.
To be honest I'm already impressed it ran at all!
I'll be playing a little bit more with this as the power and portability of MacBooks is insane.
Not to mention they're almost dead silent and barely heating up.
Although after 10 mins the raw power of the GPUs start the fans to spin, but nothing comparable to my gaming laptop with which is basically a jet and consuming 200W.
Here we're talking about 54W!
I have attached a screenshot of VAM running on MacOS with Rosetta emulation. The hair multiplier and density seems to kill most of the performance, but keeping them at lower values you can easily achieve 60-120fps!
So happy about this discovery, asit runs basically similarly to my RTX2070 equipped laptop!
Please let me know if you have any questions and feel free to share your thoughts!
