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DirectX 9 game unplayable for running slowly on Mac
My old game launches well and seems to have everything working, but the frame time is like 1 or 2 frames per second and the game is impossible to play. What should I do?
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magic-amber•2mo ago
dx9 in general doesnt really run great on macos
you might be able to live with it though
do send a gamelog and i might be able to help
like-goldOP•2mo ago
https://0x0.st/8DVa.log
I don't think I can play it if it runs this slow lol. Goodbye nostalgia
magic-amber•2mo ago
turn on dxvk
like-goldOP•2mo ago
Yeah, I have tried that but it doesn't change anything
magic-amber•2mo ago
you prooobably want advertise avx off as well unless the game requires it
like-goldOP•2mo ago
Weird, should have been off, thanks for noting though, I try that
absent-sapphire•2mo ago
I have tried several DX9 games and they run fine others run slow on both intel and Apple silicon Mac that I tested on, just the luck of the draw. I have only found one game that asked for AVX to be turned on and that was a Yakuza spin off game ( Like a Dragon, Pirate Yakuza in Hawall Demo).
magic-amber•2mo ago
I wonder if d9vk winetricks package might help
it’s been centuries since I even thought of it but
absent-sapphire•2mo ago
I tried Bioshock 1 on a Apple Silicon Macbook Pro 2021 and a Mac Pro 2013 both using Heroic, it ran on the Macbook Pro M1 at something like 15 frames a second with distorted audio and once I got about 1 minute into the game it crash. The Mac Pro 2013 very similar experience. A game I got free on Amazon prime gaming, Styx: Master of Shadows a direct X 9 game, played fine on both computers. Another free Prime game STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II (Classic, 2005) also worked fine on both. Were as 1997's Carmageddon did not work on either, but I used an open source port to play the game on my Macbook Pro 2021. It very much depends on the game.