Hi all, I would like to buy Elite Dangerous for my MAC and use my Occulas quest to play it. Is this possible? All I ask when you answer is dont blind me with technical jargon as I just won't understand. Easy answers only please.
Elite Dangerous for VR and MAC
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I do not believe that it is. A friend of mine wants to get into VR and is a Mac only player. I've looked into this before, and found it would not work out well for him for multiple reasons. The biggest reason is that only the Mac Pro will have a graphics card strong enough to run ED in VR; the video cards for macs just aren't built for gaming like that.
But beyond that, I don't know much about the Oculus Quest so I'm not even sure it can interface with the Mac. It could, but I haven't heard of many people even using it with the PC so I can't say whether the right drivers would be available for the mac.
tl;dr- I'd put money on the answer be "no" on this one, but I'd certainly be curious to hear the results of someone actually trying!
But beyond that, I don't know much about the Oculus Quest so I'm not even sure it can interface with the Mac. It could, but I haven't heard of many people even using it with the PC so I can't say whether the right drivers would be available for the mac.
tl;dr- I'd put money on the answer be "no" on this one, but I'd certainly be curious to hear the results of someone actually trying!
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Elite Dangerous Mac support was pulled long ago.
No. Mac bad game console.
Macs are fine for games. It's just they're fashionable rather than powerful so you don't get much for your money, and fewer games going forward are supporting it. There was quite a rush a few years ago.
But when it works it's fine, just like on windows. Open steam, click play. Same from there.
Apple's been playing catchup on hardware for too long now. Years ago when the other guy was running it they used to pick better parts.
But when it works it's fine, just like on windows. Open steam, click play. Same from there.
Apple's been playing catchup on hardware for too long now. Years ago when the other guy was running it they used to pick better parts.
What WinterWinds said "what Mac?"
If your Mac is capable (it really depends on what video card and cpu you run) you really have to boot camp your system (in other words configure your Mac to run windows).
If you are not familiar with partitoning drives and installing windows operating systems (I do windows sysadmin stuff for a living) I wouldn't recommend it for the neophyte.
Your best bet is to get an inexpensive Windows gaming tower to run Elite or one of the console machines in pinch although there are pitfalls running those too.
Why did they scuttle the Mac Elite? It's a long story.
Apple was in the midst of pushing away from the industry standard OpenGL (which Elite uses) in favor of a graphics system (Metal) that would allow for vastly increased
battery life on their cell phone products and the MacOS used the same system. Sort of collateral damage. Frontier made the decision the audience of Mac Elite users
was so small it wasn't worth it to totally redevelop Elite's graphics engine on the Mac from scratch.
So Boot camp it is. If you have a higher end Mac you can get decent performance out of it, just don't expect triple digit framerates 100% of the time.
The Mac rig I have is a 4 ghz i7 4790 with a Radeon M290X. If you're buying a new computer today you can do a lot better but this setup runs Elite fine in Windows 10.
If your Mac is capable (it really depends on what video card and cpu you run) you really have to boot camp your system (in other words configure your Mac to run windows).
If you are not familiar with partitoning drives and installing windows operating systems (I do windows sysadmin stuff for a living) I wouldn't recommend it for the neophyte.
Your best bet is to get an inexpensive Windows gaming tower to run Elite or one of the console machines in pinch although there are pitfalls running those too.
Why did they scuttle the Mac Elite? It's a long story.
Apple was in the midst of pushing away from the industry standard OpenGL (which Elite uses) in favor of a graphics system (Metal) that would allow for vastly increased
battery life on their cell phone products and the MacOS used the same system. Sort of collateral damage. Frontier made the decision the audience of Mac Elite users
was so small it wasn't worth it to totally redevelop Elite's graphics engine on the Mac from scratch.
So Boot camp it is. If you have a higher end Mac you can get decent performance out of it, just don't expect triple digit framerates 100% of the time.
The Mac rig I have is a 4 ghz i7 4790 with a Radeon M290X. If you're buying a new computer today you can do a lot better but this setup runs Elite fine in Windows 10.
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