MacBook Air M1 just got a 100 price drop Tom s Guide. More M1 gaming Visit our M1 Supported Games list for 100+ Mac games we have tested and confirmed as M1-compatible. If your answer is yes and if you are looking for some serious city run, we are happy to let you. Still, since the next pro Macs are expected to have 2x/4x M1 Max chips (or possibly M2) in iMac Pro and/or Mac Pro configurations with 20/40 CPU cores and 64/128 GPU cores respectively, hopefully that'd get the game over the hump even if it's stuck on Rosetta. Cities: Skylines is truly an excellent strategy game and the best city simulation ever released on PC or Mac. I wonder if a native port will come in the future or if the game/engine is just too old. On a base M1 system, you can crank the visuals up and get a steady 30fps at high resolution or hit 60fps at medium-high settings. Considering the game is running under Rosetta on the M1 this is level of performance is quite impressive. FPS are acceptable on the larger cities, but still not very good, like in the 20 range. Once I get above about 50K the simulation speed kind of hits a ceiling, but it's never felt excessively slow. I also get the 'scratching sound' problem, which seems to be a generic MacBook Pro issue for lots of applications. I do get the 'double click' problem, but it goes away after restarting the game. I have a couple with populations of 700-800K. Cities: Skylines runs very well on my 2021 M1 MacBook Pro with most of the DLCs and lots of assets and mods. From what I understand that's probably below average for a serious player, but my average city size is in the 300-400K range.

I have about two dozen mods and roughly a thousand custom assets. Looks similar to what I see on my base model iMac Pro (8-core 3.2 GHz Xeon, Radeon Vega 56, 32GB) with a city of a similar size. City Skylines on Apple Silicon MacBook Air M1 Gaming Benchmark TonyisToking 20.2K subscribers Subscribe 68K views 2 years ago More Apple Silicon Benchmarks.

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