Is Steam Apple silicon ready?
Rosetta 2 only
Steam
Valve Corporation
The current state of the Steam app on Apple's M1 Silicon Macs is not meeting users' expectations. Performance issues such as high CPU usage, lag during startup, and a noticeably slow user interface are prevalent. What's more, there's no version of the Steam app specifically built for these devices. To sum it up, while playing games can still be possible, using the Steam app has become quite a challenge due to its slow performance.
Tags: games
- Is Steam compatible with Apple's Silicon Macs?
- Steam can only run on Apple Silicon M1 and M2 Macs through Apple's Rosetta 2 translation technology. It's essential to note that while Rosetta allows the application to run, some performance limitations and inconsistencies might occur compared to running natively.
- Will Apple Silicon native games run through Rosetta?
- Apple Silicon native games do not run through Rosetta. They must be directly supported by the M series chips to run natively.
- Can games on Steam run natively on Apple M series chips?
- Some games optimized for M series chips but installed through Steam may run through Rosetta. An example is Civilization 6 on a MacBook Air M2, which gets emulated.
- How to run native games using Rosetta on Steam?
- For native games to run through Rosetta on Steam, you must manually enable it for each specific app via Finder -> Get Info. This indicates some games can run natively or through emulation based on settings.
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