What is macOS game mode?
By ForGeeks Mac computers are not known as gaming machines because most games are not compatible with macOS. If you are determined enough, you can get some games to work, but for the most part it is a huge problem. Macs have generally been best suited for creativity and productivity, and while that’s not changing, Apple is taking a new step toward making games on the Mac more appealing.
The Mac is not known as a gaming machine.
The macOS Sonoma announced yesterday will include a new feature called Game Mode, which is designed to optimize game performance by switching the GPU and CPU to game priority. This will hopefully result in higher and more consistent frame rates when playing games.
Game Mode also reduces the latency between Macs and Bluetooth peripherals such as AirPods and Xbox/PlayStation controllers. The company says Game Mode does this by doubling the sample rate of Bluetooth.
The addition of this new mode makes sense because the latest Mac lineup has plenty of power, and it would be a waste if you couldn’t use it for at least some decent gaming.
Accelerated porting could mean a growing Mac game library
In practice, it will work like the gaming software that already exists on many gaming PCs. According to Apple, it will work with any game you install on your Mac and won’t be tied to any particular title or developer. Whether this addition alone will be enough to develop games on macOS is not yet known, but the changes don’t exist on their own, as the company also announced something for developers.
A new Gaming Porting Toolkit was announced during Apple’s WWDC keynote, which, as the name implies, is designed to make it easier for developers to port games to macOS. The new Metal 3 Toolkit, according to Apple, will allow developers to see how their game functions on the Mac after just «days» work, and will make it easier to port games to the Mac with the ability to «take full advantage of Apple»s silicon performance.
The main upside here is that it will greatly reduce the time teams have to spend porting their games, which could open the door to more games supporting Mac desktops and laptops. With games like «Death Stranding», «Stray» and «No Man’s Sky» by Hideo Kojima coming out on this OS, the future looks pretty bright for Mac-owning gamers.
