As part of the 2023 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC),
In 2020, the company’s introduced a new line of
Game Mode will be a function that boosts the performance of any game running on the operating system, making sure the computer’s GPU and CPU are prioritising the application in question, while reducing the demands of any other application running in the background. The ideal result is that any game running will have the capacity to run at higher fidelity, with higher framerates, resulting in a smoother experience.
The mode sounds similar to functions shared on dedicated gaming PCs and laptops, usually termed as a ‘Turbo’ or ‘Performance’ mode. However, it sounds like this will become a natural part of the Mac operating system, and all Mac computers.
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Game Mode on Mac will also reportedly work to lower the latency in Bluetooth connections, including reduced audio latency for
Apple also announced the Metal Game Porting Toolkit for game developers designed to help them port their existing games on other platforms to the macOS ecosystem, with a ‘quicker evaluation’ to determine how much work needs to be done, as well as simpler conversion processes for shaders and graphics code.
Elsewhere in the presentation, Hideo Kojima took the virtual stage to acknowledge
Other games featured as part of
- The Medium
- Snowrunner
- Layers of Fear (2023)
- Elex II
- Fort Solis
- No Man’s Sky
- Stray
- Disney Dreamlight Valley
- DragonHeir: Silent Gods
- Firmament
- Humankind
- World of Warcraft Dragonflight
- Resident Evil Village
Elsewhere at WWDC 2023,
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