{"id":40769,"date":"2023-10-10T16:23:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T20:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40769"},"modified":"2023-10-10T16:23:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T20:23:37","slug":"no-counter-strike-2-for-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/10\/no-counter-strike-2-for-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"No Counter-Strike 2 for Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Hardwick<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Valve on Monday said it has no plans for a macOS version of the recently released game Counter-Strike 2, the follow-up title replacing the hugely popular FPS Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

Last month’s release of Counter-Strike 2<\/em> forced a 26GB update for everyone with CS:GO<\/em>, including Mac users, but after installation those on macOS soon discovered that the update makes the original game as well as the update unplayable<\/a> because of the lack of support and no rollback option.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

Though CS:GO launched all the way back in 2012, it’s still one of the most popular FPS games available today, with tens of millions of players logging in each month. So even if less than 1 percent of the user base is on Mac, that could still account for hundreds of thousands of players.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

Vulkan was designed to succeed OpenGL and address some of the latter’s shortcomings, and while there is an open-source library called MoltenVK that provides a Vulkan implementation on top of Apple’s Metal graphics API, it still lacks some of Vulkan’s advanced features.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n