Apple’s latest macOS Sonoma introduces the Game Porting Toolkit, which helps developers port Windows games to the Mac. Although the tool is still in beta, it has received an important update, version 1.0.2, which improves performance.
The latest version of the Game Porting Toolkit, Beta 1.0.2, is a huge improvement over the previous version, and while Apple hasn’t released official notes on what’s changed, Mac developers have noted some notable improvements.
One of them is the Rosetta font label in the stats panel during gameplay, which now shows “v0.2”, a change from the previous version.
The latest version of the tools has a smaller file size of 27.9MB, which is an improvement over the original version’s 53.4MB.
Nat Brown, Apple’s tool manager, announced updates to 32-bit support, fixes to display and general stability, as well as some performance improvements.
Although the team originally intended to introduce changes, there was not enough time until the end of the week.
According to YouTuber Andrew Tsai, “Elden Ring” running on the M1 Max saw a 20% improvement between releases, while “Arkham Knight” showed similar performance before and after the update, although this may vary depending on the game and the chip used. .
The new tools allowed Cyberpunk 2077 to run at almost twice the frame rate on the high-end M2 Urtla.
In the past, some games would sometimes crash when playing videos with certain codecs, but after an update, those issues have been fixed and games should run fine most of the time.
YouTube user had some issues with Game Porting tool on Apple M1 Urtla and M2 Urtla chipsets, some games run smoothly on less powerful chips, because Urtla chipset uses UrtlaFusion technology, which combines at most two chips into one chip, which is impossible tool even fully supported now.
