When Will Mac support be added

[Pthigrivi]

2 hours ago, Spicat said:

A workaround is to put clouds on Low.

Or wait for the science update lol.

Ooh I’ll have to try that. Thanks!

[Chilkoot]

On 11/14/2023 at 2:04 PM, Pthigrivi said:

This advantage was probably more pronounced in decades past.

Definitely true, and Windows' instability in the bad old days was in no small part due to users installing every manner of weird UI and integrated nonsense - just because it was out there.

Both platforms are mature and stable now.  I haven't seen a BSOD on my Win 10 box in >5 years.  It's more reliable than the dial tone.

Native Mac support for games is a tall order, just like native Linux support.  Building it isn't so hard, but maintaining the support structure for a whole "official" platform is expensive, and the payoff is almost never there unless you're a millions-of-sales title, and KSP 2 may never hit those numbers.

Side note for those holding on to Mac mainly for the command line: Linux subsystem for Windows is worth checking out.   It lets me have most of my Linux/GNU cake while still eating Windows for gaming, audio/video editing, etc., without a dual boot.  Pretty decent tool.

 

[Davidian1024]

For what it's worth, I was able to get KSP2 running on my mom's MacBook Pro (M2 Apple Silicon).
It depends on something Apple recently released called Game Porting Toolkit.
I installed the Windows edition of Steam by followed the instructions in this GitHub repo: https://github.com/domschl/WinSteamOnMac
I've been running KSP2 on my own Ubuntu Linux machine since day one of early access, and the experience is nearly identical.  This method is in fact using wine under the hood.
One additional thing I had to do for KSP2 was to set the launch options to bypass the little launcher app, which would just crash.
I actually have to skip the launcher on Linux for the same reason.
Counterintuitively, on the Mac, I had to specify a the Windows style path to the KSP2 executable.
The line must also end with # %command%
Here is what I ended up putting in the game's launch options:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Kerbal Space Program 2\KSP2_x64.exe" # %command%

Just skimmed through the little Mac vs PC argument in this thread.

Obviously PC is better.  As long as you run Linux on it. 

[Davidian1024]

Well, shucks, wish I had come across this YouTube video sooner.  Sounds like it's getting even easier to run games on Macs.