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Tweet by Larian Studios, developer of the BG3 game....
Great news for D&D gamers who are on Macs.
Pathfinder is pretty much D&D 3.5 so I consider Kingmaker a D&D RPG.
If you like this type of game, I highly recommend Kingmaker.
While I greatly prefer D&D over Pathfinder (I grew up on D&D in my teen years, back when TSR still existed!), Pathfinder Kingmaker is still on my to-buy list. It looks promising.
After all, Pathfinder the RPG was founded and created when a ******** of former D&D designers left WotC in the D&D 3E era. It was, in essence, a "D&D spinoff". So there will always be very close similarities.
I'm wondering tho, if I can DL (buy) Kingmaker on other Mac venues outside of Steam?
I'm an occasional Mac gamer, so I never bothered with Steam. I will, on occasion, buy quality MacOSX ports done by the legendary Feral or Aspyr, etc.
After all, Pathfinder the RPG was founded and created when a ******** of former D&D designers left WotC in the D&D 3E era. It was, in essence, a "D&D spinoff". So there will always be very close similarities.
I'm wondering tho, if I can DL (buy) Kingmaker on other Mac venues outside of Steam?
I'm an occasional Mac gamer, so I never bothered with Steam. I will, on occasion, buy quality MacOSX ports done by the legendary Feral or Aspyr, etc.
I played this for about an hour tweaking graphics settings and such ahead of time from my group's planned session. First impressions are that there are numerous graphics bugs, just turning on V-sync causes the game to crash to the desktop. It is still early access though, hopefully with some polish this will all work out.
Gameplay wise, it feels like Divinity II and D&D 5e had a baby. It's a very good system for single player, we'll see about multiplayer.
Gameplay wise, it feels like Divinity II and D&D 5e had a baby. It's a very good system for single player, we'll see about multiplayer.
It wouldn't be hard. They would just have to recompile for ASi. That said, the game currently taxes my eGPU's Radeon 5700 XT SE, and I can only play on Medium settings for a semi-smooth experience. ASi macs will likely not match this GPU performance until desktop ASi machines are ready some time next year.
The game runs nicely on my 16" MBP w/ i9 & 5500m. But it chokes on my classic Mac Pro, mewling about not running on Mojave. What is this garbage?
Sigh. I've seen this before. Why do all newly issued Mac Games, even if they're a PC port from 200 years ago, always insist on the latest version of MacOS at the time of release??
Sigh. I've seen this before. Why do all newly issued Mac Games, even if they're a PC port from 200 years ago, always insist on the latest version of MacOS at the time of release??
Here ya go: https://www.gog.com/game/pathfinder_kingmaker_royal_edition
If for some reason you want a "Steam-ified" experience you can download the GOG Galaxy client. Otherwise I believe you can download the game straight from the website.
Yeah, the instruction set is key. Your machine has to work harder to do the same thing. This is what happens when your machine is 8 years old, regardless of it's performance. Your raw processor power and probably upgraded GPU could handle it, but you are limited by your aging architecture.
Thanks! That's what I'd look for, a straight buy/download without the need for a Steam client or internet connection.
@SecuritySteve @Ritsuka Well what chaps my hide is that if I reboot into Boot Camp, Windows 10 runs it fine on the exact same hardware. Not at blazing framerates for sure (1080p High @ 30 fps), but at least it friggin' well runs. I like performance as well as the next guy, but if I have to choose between high fps or not running the game at all, guess which I'm going for?
Will be getting a new iMac 27 w/ i7, 16gb ram & 5700xt gpu... should be able to run this smoothly with good settings?
gracias!
gracias!
@rareohspdx Considering that it runs "pretty good" on my MacBook Pro's Radeon Pro 5500M, your 5700xt should run it like a champ.
Great news! Unfortunately BG3 will probably cripple my Radeon Vega 56 
Yeah it seems to run fine on my 2016 MacBook Pro with R460. I had to turn on VSync because of screen tearing. It defaulted to Ultra settings...
It ran just fine on Medium-High on my wife's Vega 56. 60 FPS.Great news! Unfortunately BG3 will probably cripple my Radeon Vega 56
It's also worth noting for everyone else, that the game seems to run better on macOS than Windows for the same hardware.
Thank you!
One question I had is Stadia vs direct Mac purchase... is 4K available on the Mac version? Only way to get 4K with Stadia is the Pro level and questionable if that (stadia 4K) even will work on Mac OS