So then guys i have here the brand new mac studio m1 ultra variant and inside this i actually have
the 64 core version of this machine and a lot of you guys out there are wondering can you play
steam games on the likes of the new mac studio with an m1 max or an m1 ultra and today i'm going
to find that out for you but just quickly what i do want to mention right beginning of this video
i just want to tell you what this video is about it literally is testing can you play steam games
on a mac studio do they work i'm not going to basically go over frames per second i'm comparing
it to the likes of saying rtx you know 30 90 for example a 3080 ti i'm not going to be doing that
in this video and with that what i do want to show you is this web page here as you can see there are
quite a few games that are compatible on mac but not everything works now there is the likes of
using say parallels and crossover and i'm sure there's lots of youtube videos out there showing
how that works and doing some trickery to make the games work from windows over into mac but that's
what i'm going to be doing today i'm just going to be showing some steam games that are fully
compatible on mac and let's see how well they work on this mac studio so without further ado let's
head over to the mac studio power up steam as you can see right here and let's flick over and start
recording on screen and see what we get so i know i keep repeating myself here but like i said the
purpose of this video is just to see that steam games work on the new mac studio i'm not going to
be showing frames per second or things like this i just want to see the actual game working itself
so we're going to load up some games here going into the library and i'm only going to show you
guys uh four games today we're going to start with counter strike it's always a good game to test out
first of all and this has been working on max for a while i have done a little hack to make it all
work in full screen so we're going to play that first of all and then after this we're going to
move over to planet coaster another game was really good to test out the graphics with
zooming in doing some views of the game and things and after this we're gonna do rise of
the tomb raider a great game to demo an app i've even demoed this working on m1 chipsets and then
finally the last game we're going to test out is going to be rocket league as well to see how well
that works on this mac studio but first of all let's go over to counter strike and let's play
this game as well let's click play let's see it load up it might take a few seconds to load
yep it's going to go full screen this always happens to get a blank screen for a little bit
there we go cs go and there we go we're in the main menu i'm going to just do a practice game
on here i'm rubbish at this as you will see in a second so i'm just going to select this with
practice with bots we'll do the standard dust too let's click go on this oh is it gonna work i think
it's worked there we go yep so the game's just loading up now just wait for this to fully load up
i haven't played this game in such a long time i'll be going to school and played um
counter-strike probably like in about 15 years probably now it's been absolutely ages since
i've played this but it's my favorite level as well so let's see how well we are good at
this uh i'm deciding i'm going to be yeah yes keep guys doing the counter terrorists
let's see how well then oh this is really hard on the touchpad guys i will tell you that
it's really dope see look at that i'm not even concentrating yeah touchpad i hate it
yeah do not play this on a touchpad i don't know even why i've got my touchpad connected
up to this mac studio with the bluetooth one i like using the touchpad backs use it for final
cut pro but yeah for playing games on it it's awful don't use a touch bad whatever
you do yeah look up hey there we go we got him we got him but yeah talk about the game though
it looks like it's working absolutely fine no problems whatsoever switching around weapons
and everything if you just really want to just quickly jump into this game you're not really
give any problems at all i think it's great game but let's just come out of it then and let's go
over then to the next game so i'm just going to quit this let's go down here quick to the desktop
there we go and then let's move on to planet coaster next of all let's press play here
and let's see this game load up now oh another play button why have to play it twice i have no
idea but anyway so we're loading up just give it a bit of a go see how quickly this loads it
should be quite quick this game is one of my old favorites again i used to be a massive fan
of roller coaster tycoon back in the day that was 2d graphics but i think planet coaster is a
fantastic game to actually play so let's just get through this this big guy jumps into the frontier
and everything oh falls over let's just load up the game so first of all we're going to do is
let the world load up there we go look how good that is the graphics with that let's go to play
uh we're going to do a sam box i believe let's do it in tropical as well that'll
be good yeah we'll just do that i'll start now i've just realized the sound's not on oh gosh
sorry guys let me turn on the sound there we go sounds back on again my apologies about that
it's taking a little longer probably because the first time but there we go we're in
oh again using a trap pad a very very bad idea oh gosh i really need the mouse for
this i should have used the mouse straight away but let's go to my blueprints here uh there's a
spindle wizard coaster here i'm gonna park this in here and let's put that in for example voila
i need to uh readjust my mouse i have no idea what the touch pad things are here but as you
can see it's built and let's just do a quick test on that one um it's doing a test run at the moment
i actually want to see what it looks like um i can't remember where you have to go to now i've
played this game in so long um to actually view what everything looks like there we go
right camera there we go this is spinball wizard sort of thing so this level this actually kind of
track layout i think it's from a park in my country actually called autumn towers as this
track layout but as you can see it works absolutely fine let's go
from a person's point of view or by far near them that's the best of you that looks works absolutely
fine the graphics is not struggling whatsoever i don't see any lack in sort of frames per second
or anything i think the game is working perfectly on that one so yeah that is really really really
cool in fact i'm going to come out of it now so over to tomb raider and specifically rise of the
tomb raider and the game i love i haven't played in ages as well so yeah look out for my rubbish
effort here if i remember now i've got to raise the water although she's just said it as well but
yeah oops falling over there let's just get over remember now let's get over here
i can't remember where i have to go now it's gotta remember
um yeah can i shoot it down let's give it a go i don't think get it from might be able to get it
yeah nope that's not really done anything but you can see here guys the game is working superb
here it really really works well look how good the graphics is i know that apple have actually
showed off this game before see look at the wet textures on her as well even it's really really
good for what you're getting with the m1 ultra inside this mac studio so yeah it's definitely
playable i am going to say that whether it's the best i wouldn't actually agree but it's good to
see it all working fine so the last game to look at is rocket league and let's just get
that powered up and all ready to go so we're gonna click play here uh let's do a seasonal
um exhibition let's do that and uh let's just create a match
and see how rubbish i am on this game as well because it's been ages since i've
actually played this one as well so let's just load this one up i'm going to do an auto join
and booster is it a goal oh look at that straight in but you can see that works straight away what
i'll do is um this time now i think i'll just um won't do that i'll show you the game actually
working a bit better this time without me just shooting the ball around even though it is a
one-on-one there we go but you can see everything works okay we can change it to the different view
here so yeah it looks absolutely awesome and i can just hit the ball around i'm just trying to find
where the other player is now if i put one on one i just can't see him anywhere but yeah everything
that's absolutely cool you can see here i'm pressing all the random keys i should be playing
but the game is running awesomely here and yes you can see that basically games are completely native
to work on a m1 or m1 pro m1 max or even now the m1 ultra you can see they work absolutely fine
but like i said there isn't that many variety of games out there and personally i would not
be buying this mac studio just to buy steam games is not for this you are far better off i'm gonna
say in buying yourself a gaming pc instead but it's good to know that the odd couple of games
do work so there we have it there were four games as you can see that worked absolutely perfectly
on this mac studio i didn't have time ready to configure and change graphics settings i bet i
could the likes of cs go for example i bet you i could make the graphics even better on that
um same with like a planet coaster to be honest all the games but overall as you can see the mac
studio can play games but would you buy one to play games on absolutely not i would definitely
not say buy one of these to play games on you're far better off buying yourself a gaming pc instead
mac studios are not designed to be gaming machines so do not buy one for this reason
what i would say is though if you just want to have a few games on your machine
as you are create a bit of time to relax and you just want to quickly power up a game
then yeah that's what this is for it's worth knowing that you can install a few games on
your mac studio well with that guys it's time to wrap up this video so if you have enjoyed
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