
During the Sonoma beta, updates to the Game Porting Toolkit brought support for 32-bit games and around 20% better performance.
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Ī DigitalFoundry review of the first beta of Game Porting Toolkit found it "impressive", with few graphical glitches and full support for console controllers, though they found that frame rates were around half of what they would be on Windows, and that many games weren't supported. Apple also released a Metal Shader Converter that converts shaders to Apple's Metal graphics API. Mac users have been able to use the Game Porting Toolkit to run a number of DirectX 12 games tech news outlets have compared the tool to Valve's Proton compatibility layer for Linux. The Game Porting Toolkit, released in beta, translates Windows application programming interface (API) calls to equivalent macOS APIs on the fly, allowing developers to run unmodified versions of their x86 Windows DirectX games on macOS. When logged in, they transform into the desktop wallpaper.Īlongside macOS Sonoma, Apple announced developer tools for porting Windows games to macOS. New slow-motion screen savers of different locations worldwide.Game mode, to optimize gaming performance by prioritizing gaming tasks and allocating more GPU and CPU capacity to the game.iMessage stickers have a new picker interface.

Catch-up lets the user quickly jump to the first unread message in a conversation.More precise search filters: for example, the contact name can be combined with a search term to look for the term within the specific conversation.This feature is somewhat different from progressive web apps since it doesn't require additional work of website developers. “Web apps” lets the user add any website to the Dock and open it in a simplified Safari interface.
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MacOS Sonoma (version 14) is the upcoming major release of macOS, Apple's operating system for Mac computers.
