The Mac OS X Client's absymal performance is a joke.

[JamieLee]

Metal wont save the osx client. Granted if they really wanted they could in theory use metal for open gl to dx calls bypassing opengl. In theory. But sense the metal api uses different contexts to do the same functions while its possible to do a metal to dx to metal translation there really is like 0 room for error. Not everything may be supported. May not even work. Problem with that way is the shear amount of development time to write Metal to dx translation layer could more expensive then just writing the native client.

[JamieLee]

Even if it was fast and cheep There going to be sitting on the same level of performance as they calmed with the Open Gl version native... While metal is efficient its not going to magically make things faster Your going to just take that overhead and make the system more efficient at dealing with it.
TLDR They did a shit lazy port. OSx users suffer.... Couldn't even call it a port they could have just took the wine directions released a wrapper and not charged for it and still got the same level of performance lol.

[sarahnight]

Yeah, really in what ways can Square enhance performance in the current release? do they have any options? Or are they wholly dependent on Trans Gaming somehow doing a better job? As others have pointed out not all Wine wrappers are this bad.

[JamieLee]

Yeah, really in what ways can Square enhance performance in the current release? do they have any options? Or are they wholly dependent on Trans Gaming somehow doing a better job? As others have pointed out not all Wine wrappers are this bad.

Its really up to Transmog to try and fix it.... Good luck.. Sense the wrapper only supports dx 9c and not dx 11 because its not supported in transmog and wine or any windows wrapper. They could use valves dx9c which takes straight Dx calls and does them in open gl there is less of a hit because its just done once.. Littery its a pointer table that tells the application this is called in dx this is what it is in gl.. Now granted not all functions of dx 9c are supported but it sould speed alot of it up.

[Galadrium]

I was hoping to see some more Updates to the Mac client yesterday in 3.05 release, but it doesn't look like we got any more fixes in the release notes.

[Crayge]

Yeah I was hoping for another update on the client as well... in part just to see continued progress but also because i've had even more graphical "glitches" since the last update, especially when running full-screen. =/

[sarahnight]

It was odd, when I launched the client, the login window didn't show that it was updating but just sat there for a very long time... I was about to force quit it, when it changed to Play. Windowed play is about the same, you get used to it after awhile... lol.

[Blayde]

I guess, as usual, there won't be any comment on the progress of the mac client. Way to keep everyone waiting in the dark who was excited for this.

[JamieLee]

You might as just well boot camp and then windows because its going to run alot better sad theyreally was actually looking forward to a mac client to not have windows around to bad they took the cheep way out.

[sarahnight]

I wish they would let us know when it will be on sale again... even in its current state its mostly playable.