However, after exploring the video settings, he discovered enabling SSAO completely destroys the performance of the game. Initially, MrMacRight thought that the game was unplayable on Apple M1 as it was stuck around 10 FPS. The first game that was tested was Alien Isolation. Even though these games are not the most-high end games out there, but it shows that porting your game to M1 is not just limited to big video game development studios. Populus Run and Space land can be played with their highest video settings. With native resolution, 60 FPS is supported. Recently a number of Apple Arcade games have been optimized for Mac with M1. We have covered a few of the games from his YouTube video.
He tried updated games using ARM64 updates, Rosetta 2, Parallels 16, and CrossOver 20. In the new YouTube video, MrMacRight tested various games on his 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro.
