Thoughts on Apple's M1 Max?

[russellanas]

Hey! I ordered the M1 Max 16" Macbook too and am looking forward to playing FF14 on it. But my order is going to arrive late November.

Did anyone here get to play it on the M1 Max chip yet? How is it running?

[Pell_Helix]

So I was previously playing on a 13" MacBook Pro - which was okay, FPS in towns and raids was iffy.

I got the 14 inch base model MacBook Pro with the M1 Max chip and its honestly pretty great.

Im sitting in Tamamizu on high settings pulling 70fps. It does dip down into the 40s depending on what's going on, but on the M1 I had to run on low - on the M1 Pro I can crank it to medium/high and still great great fps.

I don't know that the M1 Max is going to offer significantly more performance mostly due to optimization, since the game is running through Rosetta (but if someone has a max let me know and we can compare FPS and see what the real world numbers are!)

The nicest thing is honestly the display - the new XDR displays are amazing.

I would highly recommend one of the new MBP's.

Oh one thing to note though, I haven't been able to get an Xbox Elite 2 controller to work, MacOS picks it up fine but FF14 won't let it work, so I'm stuck using a Switch Pro controller (Which is good enough).

If you have any other questions lemme know.