Apple Silicon M1 initial testing

[Barwara]

Another update:
As of today (Dec 24 2020) the latest updates haven't broken any compatibility with the M1 chip. Still playing the game just fine. I play with my wife who is running an intel windows system and we have the same experience in terms of dungeons, events, quests, etc. I haven't found any bugs other than what I mentioned previously, and I haven't had that issue since I last posted about it.

Hi! This is a super interesting thread. I have two questions!

Would you be able to disclose the average fps you get based on the graphic settings (max, high, medium, etc)?
I'm also wondering if you've encountered the weird terrain glitch that is common to the Mac client while playing on the M1 (the terrain will warp and obscure things depending on your camera angle. It's quite inconvenient in dungeons...) Unless you play with the windows client on emulated windows?

Thank you!

[Avenger]

So let me get this straight – you are running the existing intel macOS FFXIV client (which uses the crossover middleware to run the Windows client) and it runs just fine using the Rosetta2 translation on an M1 Mac?

That's great news for anyone who has an M1 Mac.

Personally I've found the macOS FFXIV client (which is basically the Windows client running on WINE/crossover) to be about 50% of the FPS of the Windows client running in Boot Camp on the same hardware (MacBook Pro with discrete GPU) with the same graphics settings, but it's definitely playable at lower settings and I like not having to reboot into Windows.