Apple‘s latest macOS Sonoma offers a Game Porting toolkit that helps developers port their Windows games to Mac. Although still in beta, the tool received a significant update, version 1.0.2, which boosts performance.
The latest version of the Game Porting Toolkit, Beta 1.0.2, is a significant improvement from the previous one. While Apple has not released any official notes on what has changed, Mac developers have noticed several notable enhancements. One of these is the labelling of the Rosetta line in the statistics panel during gameplay, which now shows “v0.2”, a change from the previous release. The latest version of the toolkit has a smaller file size of only 27.9 MB, which is an improvement from the original 53.4 MB.
Nat Brown, a manager for Apple’s toolkit, has posted updates mentioning fixes for 32-bit support, rendering, and overall stability, as well as some performance improvements. Although the team initially intended to include change logs, they did not have enough time before the holiday weekend.
According to YouTuber Andrew Tsai, “Elden Ring” running on an M1 Max saw a 20% improvement between versions, while “Arkham Knight” showed similar performance levels before and after the update, but this may vary depending on the game and chip being used. The new toolkit allowed “Cyberpunk 2077” to run at almost double the frame rate on the high-end M2 Ultra.
Previously, certain games would sometimes crash when playing video cutscenes with certain codecs. However, after the update, these issues have been resolved and the games should now function properly in most cases.
However, the YouTuber faced some issues with the Game Porting Tool on the Apple’s M1 Ultra and M2 Ultra chips, as some games run more smoothly on less powerful chips. This could be because the Ultra chips use UltraFusion technology to combine two Max chips into one, and the tool may not have complete support for it yet.
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