Video games have always been present in the Mac environment and, in one way or another, the bone editors they always had the platform in mind have important news. Especially in the case of American studios which, at companies like Blizzard and LucasArts, always put their latest releases on sale. shots so that they could be played, in those 90s and early 2000s, by professional users.
And it is that the Mac, until a few years ago, their main focus was the working environment, for editing audiovisual, journalistic or marketing content, so few remembered it to play. Also, the decision to implement Apple Silicon processors didn’t help much because much of the compatibility of older Intel SoCs had been lost, so we hardly had the Apple Arcade catalog as an alternative.
Game Mode is coming to Sonoma
Apple presented yesterday afternoon all the novelties of its new operating system for Mac and, among all the novelties of which it took advantage to announce, there was one who particularly liked playersamong other things because Hideo Kojima himself was in charge of putting a face to him and announcing that his Death Stranding Director’s Cut will come to Apple computers. It’s a game mode that goes a little beyond the simple hub where to store all the titles we have, but it has specific functions.
And what will macOS Sonoma do when it discovers that we want to run a video game installed in its guts? well basically give it as much priority as possible so that it works without interference typical of other programs or services we have active. It must be said that such ideas are not new. Microsoft was already considering something similar with Windows Vista, where the computer would be able to disable all background processes and give full control of the game… but that never happened.
on paper, macOS Sonoma Game Mode looks perfectas this will result in a prioritization of these video game processes when using both CPU and GPU, higher graphics performance with smoother movements and much higher frame rates per second.
More game mode perks
If enjoying the full processing power of the CPU and GPU isn’t enough for you, this macOS Sonoma game mode will add several additional elements that will help you get a more immersive experience, like reduce response time between computer and AirPods, so that we can listen in real time to everything that is happening on the screen. It may seem like an insignificant detail, but the Bluetooth connection still works with a little lag (although we don’t notice it) and that’s what Apple has taken on to tackle.
Also, finally, this game mode incorporates something fundamental, like the possibility of pairing a remote control up to the game experience we want to achieve, so that macOS Sonoma will gain compatibility with the official PlayStation 5 controller, which is none other than its famous DualSense (it was already possible on PC) . So honey on flakes, right?
