So the brand new macbook pro m1 pro and the m1 max inside the 14 inch macbook pro can it be
used for gaming or specifically can you play steam games on the brand new m1 pro m1 max macbook pro
well today i'm going to find out what games you can play on it and if even the steam
kind of client even works on this machine and a couple of games to go along with it
Hi Guys it's Matt here, so that's right i've got myself a brand new macbook pro right here
a 14 inch model and i'm going to test today to see if the steam client can be downloaded onto
this machine and also if we can run some games on it now i must say straight away the purpose
of this video is just to see if we can actually play steam games on this machine it is not the
purpose of can we play you know the new horizon zero dawn on it can we play gta 5 can we play red
dead redemption 2 on it it's to prove that we can actually play steam games on it so in the future
where more developers actually make their games more compatible with apple silicon for the m1
pro and the m1 max in either the 14 inch or the 16 inch macbook pro that they will work in the future
well let's get started so what i'm going to do is install steam first of all and i can
just go into safari or any browser you want to do something put steam in here
and then with steam open i'm going to go to the welcome to steam here and at the very top
we want to click on install steam i'm going to press that the green button at the top
and it should have install steam again so you can see here we've got the apple logo
next to it so i'm going to click on that install steam it's going to download it we can get rid of
safari now we don't need that anymore so close that down i'm going to open up the steam here
move the application into my applications there and then close that down it's all mounted and
ready to go in fact what i'm going to do now is i'm going to open up steam and i'm actually going
to start recording my screen i thought probably the better idea to get a better view of this so
let me just move my window into the middle here and as you can see steam is working absolutely
fine it's loaded up like i said they actually have made steam fully compatible now to work with apple
silicon so if you have an m1 m1 pro m1 max the actual steam application is fully compatible
there are no problems there where the problems are lying to do with are actually to do with the games
themselves a lot of them just don't work as you can see here this one says that you are unable
to run 32-bit games because it's a 64-bit arm processor inside it so you can see here you just
can't install you can try but it just probably just won't work and as you can see it's saying
it's please install this by a bootcamp by using a pc but obviously bootcamp doesn't work again apple
silicon you'd have to use something like parallels or something like that and that's something i will
test out at a later date but i just wanted to show you natively on a mac on mac os basically
some games running now again i will say this there are a lot of great games out there like i want
to test like grand theft auto 5 for example red dead redemption 2 you know i can think of loads
of games but i'm afraid to say they're just not compatible with apple silicon unless you do some
jiggery pokery install parallels or even crossover to make it work and in fact you can go to a
website like this one here and it will actually show you basically all with loads of adverts
it will show you all the kind of apps that will fully work here so you can see it's got m1 support
and that if it's running on uh metal um or rosetta as you can see here or native
there isn't that many and if i keep scrolling down you'll see that it will start to change
a bit later on down here that there's some that just don't work i'm completely unsupported like
call of duty modern warfare 3 now i know that's an older game but it just won't work on here
for example eve online's another grid 2 half-life two we've just seen it's not going to work here
at all but there are some games the witcher i'm looking at there are some games though
that do work fully compatible well right at the top here what a native
as you can see here like world of warcraft has been designed completely fine for it and
there are other ones that are being designed with rosetta so this is basically the kind of converter
from x86 to kind of the arm 64 chip but the apple silicon m1 pro that is inside so there
are apps and these are some of the apps that i'm going to test out today from the game so
what i have already done here as you can see i've already installed a counter strike
so let's just test this one first and i will say i am pretty rubbish with counter strike so
just be warned of this so let's just see if this will load up it looks promising so far
so i'm not going to go online the things that will take forever to find someone to match make me
and to be honest i haven't really played this game in ages so we'll just let it load
there we go cs go that's loading there we go so i'm just going to go to play cs go
and i'm going to do not that i'm going to do some practice with the bots uh
let's just do dust too just to show you guys here but it loads and works and everything
anyone will know this will take a couple of seconds to normally load up
just let us run
and we're in the game so i'm going to counter terrorists here oh dear i've just realized
something guys i'm actually using my touch pad i'm not very good at the touch bad so i'm gonna
change my weapon here oh hello oh i didn't see him but frank killed me straight away i am rubbish
at this i'm not with it i haven't played this game in donkeys updated years of somebody there
oh come on there we go someone help me
there we go that's a bit better but you can see that it works absolutely fine like because i am
rubbish at this game i would care to admit that so you don't put it down the cop is out of rubbish i
literally add rubbish especially with a touch pad to play this game i'm not setting up any of the
keys the way i want it but we get the idea that is fully working there on this m1 pro so i'm just
going to exit this out let's try a different game this time so i'm going to quit that uh you guys is
planet coaster this is one of my other great games i love playing this is more of a kind of a sort
of strategy sort of game makes you can build your own theme parks if you've ever played this before
and again this has completely been built to work with rosetta 2 to work on this
m1 and m1 pro and m1 max chipsets so let's just let this load up and see how good this is
see if we can skip this there we go and we're straight into the game there
so let's just play a game here let's just do a sandbox mode let's do a
tropical sandbox and we'll just load that straight away let's see how long the sandbox takes to load
it's taking a little longer probably it's 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 mask i have no idea what the touchpad 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 i can't remember
where you have to go to now and 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 is from a park in my country actually
called autumn towers as this uh track layout but as you can see it works absolutely fine
let's go from a person's point of view or fight near them that's a better view
that looks works absolutely fine the graphics it's not struggling whatsoever i don't see any lacking
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 let's come out of this
let's quit planet coaster let's move on to the final game what is good old fashion rocket league
so let's just press play on that one and let that one load again this is another game what is
compatible but i think actually the guys at rocket league pulled the plug on support now for rocket
league um they're going to update it and patch it in a way but they're just not going to um you
know fully support it anymore i think that's what they said but let's just let rocket lead load up
there we go and there we go it says that it's not supported anymore but it does work
so we're going to 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 though i think i'll just uh 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 macbook with an m1 and m1 pro and also an m1 max work absolutely fine
i have said this already and that is remember guys that not a lot of games are natively designed
to work on a macbook pro so games like grand theft auto 5 red dead dungeon 2 you know all
these other games you want to see like horizon you know and things like this
all these new games that we have got out there and they just won't work unless you install parallels
and even that will struggle or cross over and again not all the games are fully compatible
with that what you've got to remember is even though apple compared the graphics to a sort of a
rtx 3050 or rtx 3080 this is not meant to be a gaming machine well not the gaming
machines that you would think of that's not apple's intention they like games on them
but they're very selecting how what games can be played actually on their actual machines so
yeah just be aware of that but anyway let's just come out of this game then and let's go back to
the main menu once this closes down so i'm gonna come out go back completely exit the game
and then we're back to the main desktop of with steam there let's move my window around again but
there we go well as you can see steam is working absolutely fine on this 14-inch macbook pro and
like i said to you guys right at the beginning of this video there are clients out there the likes
of say crossover and let's say parallels that can run windows games on the macbook pros the
likes of red dead redemption 2 horizon zero daw possibly you know gta 5 i could go on here on all
the later kind of big games out there but i wanted to show you guys natively or organically whatever
the word is what games are built for the macbook pro and how they work and if they will work and
like i said as time goes on more developers in steam will probably make their actual games
more and more compatible with the likes of the m1 pro and the m1 max and even the original m1
on the 14 and 16 inch macbook pro because they're such a powerhouse inside so i'm sure it's going
to pull the attention of a lot of developers out there well guys it's time to wrap up this video
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