If you guys saw my videos
on Parallels recently,
you would know that Windows 10 gaming on Parallels,
which is a virtual machine
on MacBooks, including the new M1 Macs
is actually kind of possible now.
So in this particular video,
I'm going to expand on my previous video on this topic,
show you some game play,
I'm going to show you some "GTA V,"
some "Assassin's Creed," some "Batman"
and also some "Hitman" game play.
Now, just while "GTA" is loading up,
a few quick things.
This is a base model M1 MacBook Air.
No upgrades, just completely stock.
And if you guys do want to download Parallels,
I do have a link in the description of this video.
Now, the other thing is yes, I know,
this is a Mac so you're not going to be getting
crazy good gaming performance.
If you want that, get a PC.
This is just to observe how this is going to run on a Mac.
So as you can see, we have loaded up.
If I switch back to the macOS Desktop,
we can actually see that yes, this is Parallels.
It's running as a VM.
And if we come into the Control Center,
and we go to the option,
you guys can see that I'm only using four cores
of the eight available cores
and four of the eight available gigabytes of RAM,
which is what Parallels recommends.
So again, bear in mind,
what you are about to see in this video
is using only 50%
of the performance of this machine running the VM.
So switching back to "GTA V."
Let's have a little bit of a look.
So as you can see there,
the performance is okay.
I'm getting a couple of dropped frames
but it is actually quite playable.
So I'd say probably about 25 FPS.
Unfortunately, the Steam FPS overlay is not working.
So you're just going to have to take my word for it
but it's looking at this point probably about,
probably almost a solid 25 to 30 FPS.
Again, nowhere near what you're going to be getting
on a even entry-level PC
but again, bear in mind,
this is only running on four cores
and four gigabytes of RAM.
So that is actually kind of playable.
That's really not too bad.
Let's go into the options.
I'll show you the settings.
So I have this actually set to very low settings.
We can see here, we've got full screen,
resolution, 1680 by 1050.
Refresh rate to 60 hertz
and the advanced graphics settings,
so everything is off.
And then I did set the settings before to low
and everything off as well
that could be turned off.
And as you can see there,
it's pretty good performance.
So let's get out of this car, do some more running.
I won't knock her out, so we can, oops, no.
(narrator chuckling) Okay, okay.
Well, we'll just run away from that.
I didn't touch her, I swear.
So yeah, pretty good performance here.
I'm really quite impressed with this.
So if you guys have a 16-gigabyte RAM M1 MacBook,
it doesn't matter if it's an Air or a Pro,
as I said before, this is an Air right now.
You will actually be able
to get a lot more solid performance
'cause you'll be able to bump up the RAM
to at least eight gigabytes.
So I'm only using about four gigabytes right now
but yeah, I'm pretty impressed
with how this particular game is playing.
Okay, so let's move onto the next one,
which is "Assassin's Creed: Black Flag."
Okay, so let's load up a single player game
and we're just going to continue on.
So right off the bat,
again this isn't a very graphically intensive load screen
but it does work, albeit some glitching.
Here we are at the very first level.
So you can see there's quite a lot going on.
So quite a lot of artifacts and vegetation and greenery.
And we are getting a pretty solid 35 FPS.
When I say solid, you know,
you probably ideally would want to get more than this
but guys, just for an older single player game,
this is actually quite decent to play.
I could probably play this if I really wanted to.
I'll quickly show you the settings
of this particular game.
So we'll come to Options
and we'll come to Graphics.
So I have this set to 1440 by 900.
Everything is set to very low and off,
as you can see here already.
I might actually change this resolution.
Let's bump it up to,
I'll set it to the same resolution as "GTA V."
So let's apply those changes.
Okay, a little bit worse performance.
We're only getting around 25 FPS now
but again, it's really not too bad.
We can jump around, we can move the mouse around quickly.
So you can see, when I move the mouse around quickly,
there's not really a whole lot of screen tearing
but it's definitely not a super smooth frame rate.
But if you guys look in the top left-hand corner,
you can see the frames are staying relatively consistent,
which is good.
That's what you kind of want.
This performance is quite decent.
Okay, let's move to the next game,
which is going to be Batman.
Now, like I said before, guys,
these games are not super graphically intensive.
They're at least a couple of years old.
A lot of games just don't work,
such as "Valorant,"
which I mentioned in my previous video
and that's because it has an anti-cheat system,
which is not yet compatible.
So we're still waiting on Microsoft
to increase the compatibility of its x64 emulation
on Windows 10, on the ARM version of Windows 10.
So hopefully in a couple months
or maybe even up to say 6 to 12 months,
this might be improved
but at the moment, it's really up to Microsoft
for these things.
All right, so let's quickly go back into a saved game.
So we'll go back to the story and we shall continue.
Okay, so now we're past all the cut scenes.
We're getting a relatively consistent 45 to 55 FPS.
But again, like I said,
there's a little bit of screen tearing.
It's not quite as nice to play as the previous one.
So let's do some fighting here
and we'll see how the FPS holds up.
Okay, so the fight scenes are really quite impressive.
We're getting almost 60 FPS here
and guys, just in a more of a quality sense,
it's not too bad.
The actual quality of the game does not seem too bad at all.
I could definitely play this
if I was just wanting to do some light gaming
at school or university.
So yeah, it's really not too shabby at all.
So just during this cut scene,
we will go into the graphics options
and I'll quickly show you what I'm running.
So I do have a lower resolution.
So what we'll do is we'll bump that up
to what we were doing before.
I'll actually leave everything else.
So we're going to apply this.
Okay, so now that we've bumped the resolution up,
I'm noticing a significant increase in quality.
But really not much change to the FPS.
So again, this is probably potentially even smoother
than the previous games I was playing.
Okay, now the fight scenes now.
We've dipped slightly to about 55 FPS,
back up at 60 now.
But yeah, again totally playable, guys.
I'm actually playing on a wireless keyboard and mouse here,
just Logitech ones,
so they're not gaming-oriented at all
and it's quite responsive,
it's quite smooth.
So yeah, really quite a good experience.
So let's move on to the final game,
which is "Hitman: Absolution."
Now, while "Hitman" loads,
one thing I just wanted to quickly talk about
is again, guys, I'm not trying to say
that the Mac is a gaming beast,
especially the M1 Macs, it definitely isn't,
but this is still very, very early days.
And the way it's going at the moment,
if this continues in the direction it's heading,
you may very well see Macs actually being able
to play almost all of these PC games
because when the new M1X chips, for example,
come out, if they are going to be released,
you're going to have a minimum of 12 cores
and eight of those cores are going to be performance cores.
So you can set all eight cores of your machine to Parallels.
You can also add eight gigabytes of RAM
if you have the 16-gigabyte RAM version
and that's going to give you a very, very powerful machine
and by then, hopefully,
we will also see some updates from Microsoft
to its ARM architecture
and very potentially, you may be able
to game normally using a MacBook,
at least with Apple Silicon.
So very, very exciting stuff.
Okay, wow, we're getting almost 100 FPS.
And guys, it definitely does feel like 100 FPS.
I know this is only a 60-hertz monitor
but this is really not too bad at all.
So do some shooting.
Absolutely no issues, nice and smooth.
I can even aim at the bird
and get a relatively good lock-on.
Let's jump into the settings.
Go Display.
So 1440 by 900.
Let's set it to the same as the other ones.
Refresh rate.
Yes, we'll leave all of that as is.
Graphics, everything is set to low.
So this is now the same resolution as all the other games.
And we are still getting about 100 FPS.
Let's take this ax.
Still about 100 FPS.
Okay, that's very cool.
Let's exit out of this.
So just to show you guys as well.
Here's my hand.
I'm going to swipe on the trackpad.
You can see we are literally running macOS
on the side here concurrently
with Windows 10 playing a game,
so yeah, really, really impressive stuff.
Anyway guys, hopefully you enjoyed this video.
It definitely was a cool little introduction to Parallels
and some Windows 10 gaming.
I you want me to try anymore games
or you want me to do a separate video on this topic,
let me know down below.
But apart from that, I'll catch you in the next one.