So, FFXIV will be released on a Mac

[Random0]

Been playing XI/XIV on various Apple desktop/laptop hardware for years through Boot Camp. Most systems with discrete graphics cards shouldn't have any trouble playing. Comparing to videos that I've seen I'd say my system performance is somewhere above that of a PS4 and somewhere below a nice custom rig.

My current machine is a late 2013 27" iMac with an Nvidia GTX 780M. I've done S-rank hunts, Odin, and Behemoth without lagging out and eating dirt due to not being able to see stuff coming at me.

So the hardware is undoubtedly capable of running the game. The question is how are they handling the graphics system on the OS X side since it's not going to be based on DirectX. Could be OpenGL, Mantle, Metal... We just don't know at this time.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2609945

All we do know is that progress is continuing and they're aiming for March/April release.

[Brianmj]

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So the hardware is undoubtedly capable of running the game. The question is how are they handling the graphics system on the OS X side since it's not going to be based on DirectX. Could be OpenGL, Mantle, Metal... We just don't know at this time.

It'll be OpenGL. Mantle is still in closed beta and Windows only. Metal is IOS only.

To the OP. I have a early 2013 MBP with a GTX 650m. The game runs decent via bootcamp. There were some problems doing fights like Titan, though. Escaping Wotl was a bit of a problem due to graphical lag. But any other fight, the game ran fine.