PoE 2 on Mac with Apple Silicon proc (M1 - M4 max)

I used windows but the laptop had a quadro GPU.. it played but to be honest the M1 max is in a league of its own compared to windows.. at least for what I do.

I just don't want to pay a subscription for crossover just to play poe2. No loot filters, etc. would be nice to have native support though. I don't care what the reason is.. can't delay it forever

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diablolike#9277 wrote:

I used windows but the laptop had a quadro GPU.. it played but to be honest the M1 max is in a league of its own compared to windows.. at least for what I do.

I just don't want to pay a subscription for crossover just to play poe2. No loot filters, etc. would be nice to have native support though. I don't care what the reason is.. can't delay it forever

the m1 processor is in a different league than windows os?

i would tend to agree, one is hardware and the other is software lol.

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Alivkos#3986 wrote:

Poe2 isn't made for mac users this was announced before game's release..
Also why complain when you spent x5 cost of good pc on something useless, weird virtual signaling there buddy

This is such a weak point to make, yet people still cling to it.

Desktop PCs are always cheaper than laptops because they have much less constraints to contend with: Part size, thermal envelope and power efficiency, to name the most restrictive ones.

Just take a Desktop PC, look up an equivalently specced out laptop, then compare that to the price of a MacBook. You'd be surprised how little difference there actually is.

Bonus points if you manage to avoid the obvious but flawed "but more gaming performance" fallacy.

Returning to the point of the thread: I do hope the macOS client will come as promised and be more optimized than the PoE1 one. I'd like to have the option to play the game on my work or personal MacBook on occasion, and not having to boot up the old power-guzzler for some quick rounds ;)

I play with Geforce Now on my M3 macbook air and it goes very well !

Latency is barely noticable, but you need a good internet speed.

Also looking forward to playing on macOS. Happy to use Crossover/WINE, but want to see it somewhat supported as a first-class citizen. Will want to run on M1 Max and an M4 Max.

Thanks for the great work devs! This game looks great and excited to play it soon! Will be happy to contribute to the higher tiers of early access support if we can get this to come forward.

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dreamstate42#3955 wrote:

This is such a weak point to make, yet people still cling to it.

Desktop PCs are always cheaper than laptops because they have much less constraints to contend with: Part size, thermal envelope and power efficiency, to name the most restrictive ones.

Just take a Desktop PC, look up an equivalently specced out laptop, then compare that to the price of a MacBook. You'd be surprised how little difference there actually is.

just help me transport my desktop computer every time I need to change my place of live for job.

also, help me not to use Windows 11 with monthly system crashes.

I have macbook 14 and razer blade 14, and I know what I'm talking about

Tired of your stupid advice that you give from your point of view

Hope GGG release macos client of poe2

any macos > win11

I have a M4 pro and It work perfectly here via Crossover !

Just tune your Video setting correctly.

sure your graphic will not be As good as Nvidia graphic , but still good enough.

And its playable all content.

I play minions

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oneCleave#6636 wrote:

just help me transport my desktop computer every time I need to change my place of live for job.

also, help me not to use Windows 11 with monthly system crashes.

I have macbook 14 and razer blade 14, and I know what I'm talking about

Tired of your stupid advice that you give from your point of view

Hope GGG release macos client of poe2

any macos > win11

I have no idea what your reply has to do with what I wrote, but judging by your incoherent rambling, I have to assume you don't know what you're talking about.

It's not the software it's the hardware. Macintosh have been built badly for over a decade at this point. Some of these mac book air doesn't even have a heat pipe connecting their processor to the fan to transfer heat.

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Zalkortis#7661 wrote:

The Mac client is not yet finished, but they said it will come. That you can't play the game right now, is because of Apple.

They dropped libraries from MacOS that are required for Proton. I play the game on Arch Linux, its running like a charm with Proton and DXVK.

But steam stopped Proton development for Mac because of the above. Apple is the problem here. On Linux the game is playable already. Proton would work on MacOS as well, as its not that different from Linux.

And it will be playable for Mac sooner or later.

See it from a business point of view. The reality is, Mac gamers are rare, steam statistics from Dec 2024: OSX 1.61% +0.20%

And for PoE its most probably even lower. Nobody in the world would prioritize workng hours for less than 1% of the player base. Same is for Linux.

I mean you're not wrong but you're not right either. This is a common issue in product research... There are few players with Mac because the user base really do not game that much, or because the catalogue is not that great?

It's a chicken and egg type of situation. If you fix the catalogue maybe more players would jump in and play on Mac.

My particular situation as example. I've two devices:
- MacBook Pro (M4, 32Gb RAM)
- Windows gaming PC (R7 5800x, 32Gb RAM, RTX3080ti)

I use the MBP for working and gaming as much as I can, but if I want to play PoE (or a handful of other games to be fair) I'm obliged to switch to my windows gaming PC, not because I prefer it but because some games simply do not have an apple silicon build...

To be honest I much rather group the economic effort into a much better MBP (e.g. 16" M4 Max MBP) if I could play the games I love there!