Fort Solis - port worse than Crossover emulated version

[loui100]

I know it's been said that Fort Solis on Mac is a terrible port, but just out of curiosity I downloaded both versions and wow... Via Crossover it's actually fairly playable on highest settings at 1440p at around 45-60 fps (on a M3 Max, granted), not great but not terrible. Yet somehow the Mac port not only runs worse than the PC version running through multiple translation layers, but it's basically a slideshow, 30 fps or below. Constant stuttering and glitches and audio pops too. On top of that the cursor runs like molasses. It just amazes me how you can make a native port run significantly worse than Wine emulation. Quite the achievement!

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

And yet there's still those adamantly against the idea of compatibility layers on macOS

 

[JordanNZ]

And yet there's still those adamantly against the idea of compatibility layers on macOS

We HAVE comparability layers on macOS. It’s just not a great idea to have that as the only option… A counter to this example is League of Legends, which I know you personally don’t care about, but it’s an extremely popular game. That’s going to be dead through every compatibility layer. Bye bye Linux. Fort Solis unfortunately uses an extremely early/unoptimised version of Lumen for macOS. The UE5 Mac backend needs some serious polishing with these new features.

 

[Nugat Trailers]

And yet there's still those adamantly against the idea of compatibility layers on macOS

Then why not ask Microsoft to include a PS4 and PS5 compatibility layer for Windows? It would save Sony time developing titles.

 

[jeanlain]

And yet there's still those adamantly against the idea of compatibility layers on macOS

You take one exception to the rule (a case which requires confirmation) to draw a conclusion?
For basically all other games, compatibility layers yield worse performance if the games even run.

 

[diamond.g]

Are there any UE5 games that run well on macOS. It seems like none of them do (heh a lot don't run well on Windows either to be fair).

 

[bousozoku]

And yet there's still those adamantly against the idea of compatibility layers on macOS

Having a game working properly should be the result of the developers' work, no matter the platform.

Feral Interactive doesn't seem to have much of a problem with making Windows games work well on Macs. Can't others?