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We’ve tested on Mac and AMD. Given Nvidia”s dominance and the ability to compare benchmark scores, listing one card is a good starting point to work from. We will provide a similar set of info for Mac towards release.
Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) Nvidia’s TurfFX doesn’t run on Mac so that performance barrier is removed. Again if your system runs TANE it will run trs19.
We’ve tested on Mac and AMD. Given Nvidia”s dominance and the ability to compare benchmark scores, listing one card is a good starting point to work from. We will provide a similar set of info for Mac towards release.
Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) Nvidia’s TurfFX doesn’t run on Mac so that performance barrier is removed. Again if your system runs TANE it will run trs19.
Every time I ask you about Metal Tony, you seem to go all quiet...... I take it hasn't panned out as a performance booster as you hoped it would when TANE came out....
Thanks chris, it’s been a longtime finding this out, tony mentioned it way back when TANE first came out.I was interested as my 2010 Mac Pro will support metal , so essentially it’s of no advantage and open gl is the most important aspect. This will help me make a decision as to what to purchase card wise in the future.Hi Dan,
As the resident Mac guy, I thought I'd weigh in on this one.
T:ANE was actually developed prior to the release of Metal for Mac. As such, it was written to support OpenGL, that being the only supported 3D graphics API on the Mac platform at the time. In fact, my own primary development machine did not (and still does not) support Metal. (Note: I have access to other machines which support Metal, but that doesn't change the fact that Trainz will no longer run on my current 'main' machine once we move to Metal.)
In TRS19, we're choosing to focus on features rather than the underlying APIs. This means that we are not moving to Metal just yet. I have in fact dabbled with Metal to review how much effort it will be to move us across, but a lot more time will need to be spent before we can determine whether Metal brings the performance benefits that Apple claims. As with anything, vendors love to show off the best-case scenarios, so while we know that certain cases do benefit substantially from Metal, it's not clear as yet whether Trainz falls into that category. My personal belief is that we will, but that's entirely unproven.
We'll certainly be moving Mac Trainz over to Metal in the future, but I can't put any particular date on it. It depends heavily on other priorities.
chris
What other Train-sim runs on a Mac?
AMD video cards? only bought one for TS12 that was enough for me.
Nvidia is better hands down.
Harold
PC gaming is done on the Windows platform always has been always will be.Nvidia is only better on PC or if they are supported Mac versions., i have a GTX 680 2gb which is about the last Nvidia card that is Mac bootable thst runs TANE well on low settings
. i also have a GTX 970 and that runs TANE like a snail as for some reason its not optimized to use open gl well on the mac, probably its the nvidia drivers. i run the gtx 680 using mac native drivers.
. the current RX580 may well be not as good as the Nvidia cards in theory, but as they are in current iMacs and ( some of them ) that one can buy for PC ,boot out the box. They "should" work well with TANE . However i'm not going to take a punt of $570 to see if one does or not as i've already spent $400 on the GTX 970 which was a complete waste .....
PC gaming is done on the Windows platform always has been always will be.
MAC is just a stepchild.
I remember the old quote "Why would I buy a MAC it can't run DOOM".
My late brother bought a MAC because his wife's coworkers said how great they were. Went back to a Windows system six months later.
Not that there is anything wrong with a MAC.
Harold
I have a rog750,top specs, hardly ever use it, ( and quite honestly it doesn’t run TANE much better then the Mac Pro does ) I just don’t like windows and all my graphics software is Mac. I just need a good graphics card that will work with TANE , should not be too much to ask, but it appears it is !Yes but if you do other things on a Mac then Trainz can be added. Remember many people with a graphics background started on Macs and having to learn something different after twenty years isn't always easy. I'd probably buy a refurbished Dell or HP workstation and drop in the GTX 970.
Talk nicely to Anne she picked one up for $399 somewhere close to Aussy.
Cheerio John