Posted by3 years ago
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I got sick of playing Overwatch in about 2 months. I've tried playing pubg on beta of NVIDIA Now for macOS and it works okay, but there is a bit. Overwatch not coming to Mac OS X. Discussion in 'Mac and PC Games' started by cycledance. I installed the Overwatch beta on my windows bootcamp partition.
Beta Mac Version
So i have a Mac (yes i know it isn't great) but since i have a mac I'm pretty certain i won't get into the closed Beta for at least another 6 months after the closed beta comes out (for heroes of the storm i got in the closed beta 2 months prior to open beta) So just i was wondering if i am correct in thinking this will happen and if i am correct then i should at least be part of the first people to get into the Mac version closed beta because i mean who else has a mac and wants too play this game.
TL:DR Should i not expect to get into the closed beta right away because i have a mac?
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Posted byHanzo
3 years ago[Theory] Why Overwatch is not available for Mac yet.
During Apple's 2015 WWDC; they announced Metal for the Mac. A graphics rendering API for OS X 10.11 to improve performance of gaming and graphics intensive applications.
https://youtu.be/_p8AsQhaVKI?t=16m3s + http://www.imore.com/metal-os-x-so-huge-i-no-longer-need-mac-pro
Blizzard was one of the developers on board to experiment with the framework. PROOF
- The recent beta announcement for Overwatch was Windows-only.
This is Blizzard's first new game since that announcement. The Overwatch team must be working hard to bring this new technology to the BlizzMac gamers. Hype! I'm completely willing to wait longer in order to experience better performance. I installed Windows to try the beta, but I don't want to switch to Windows every time I want to play Overwatch.
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