VI is excited for Dawn Trail and has gone all in on FFXIV on his M1 Mac Book Pro.
VI’s Laptop
– Mack Book Pro Apple M1 Max / 64 GB of Ram
VIs Wifes Laptiop
Mack Book Pro Apple M2 / 16 GB of Ram
FFXIV FREE TRIAL –
https://freetrial.finalfantasyxiv.com/na/
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I can't drop any solidarity for Apple, but dope video!
Great video I never tried playing on Mac before thx!!!
Dope vid bro!
Oh thank the algorithm I found your channel! Finally a ffxiv content creator that I can watch!
i play FFXIV on my macbook pro m1 max @ 120 fps on my 4k tv, you just need to update ur hdmi cable, and let me tell you is a day a night diference!
Using XIVonMac on my M3 Max MBP. Runs smooth as butter, with stunning visuals on a monster ultrawide monitor. Love it!
While I primarily play XIV on PC, I've got it working on my M3 MacBook Air for when traveling. I 100% agree with you that a MacBook Pro would be better, not only for the higher performance but also the cooling solution.
Having said that, I've not had any issues running it on the Air at a slightly lower graphics setting and capped at 60fps to not over tax the hardware for wastes frames. System load generally sits between 80-90% on the GPU. Machine does get warm but far so good with no issues.
Honey, wake up new vsauce vid just dropped. It said something about running FFXIV in 30 – 60 fps lmaoo
just another reason to not have kids lol
Video is great, just the turn down or turn off the background music. It's a bit too loud and detracts from the rest of the video.
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Just built my first pc for dawntrail as my old 1050 laptop wouldn’t be able to run the new graphics update. I was so happy the moment I set everything to max 😂 its like night and day, an entirely different game, no slowdowns, no fps drops, and finally frontline and pvp doesn’t look like a stop motion movie 😂. Goodluck in dawntrail.
Love seeing the Apple love, coupled with FFXIV! Can't believe we are about a week away from Dawntrail!
Excited for any fellow gamer of color, hopefully the fps doesn't drop too much after the graphics update.
Such a cool video! Love hearing your families experience with XIV and differece systems to play on.
I have been a PC FFXIV player for about 5 years now and I do play FFXIV on my M2 Macbook air for evernything outside of battle content. I have leveled my island, worked on housing, done crafting and gathering. Its great for working on quests and non intensive content. Personally I still prefer to do my raiding on my PC but that is just a comfort preference. Hope you and your wife have a great time in DT!
I mean, but people could spend much less on a PC for similar fps on lower specs. i suppose it's nice if you play games on a laptop.
Do I need another key for the Mac or can I just use the key from my PC? I have a Mac Studio M2 Max 32gb can it play this?
30-60 FPS. Lol
I randomly got this video recommended. Here's some constructive feedback. The background music is way too loud and it's distracting, especially since it has lyrics.
Worth mentioning in the video is that a Mac is a poor substitute for the console experience. You get an objectively worse experience than playing the game on a PS5/XBSX and you're also missing out on all the modding and addons you can get playing the game on PC.
The benefits are portability and ease of use but it is probably one of the worst ways to experience the game.
I'v been playing FF XIV since ARR in PC,and really can't think another way to play it. I tried with controller on ps4 and ps5 and played on steam deck,but the confort of the keyboard+all the support software that is only on windows that makes the life at the game soo much easy.
with controller I've managed to do only dungeons and gathering content
oh and if you want it in a laptop,there's much better optons in pc. for example I have a rog flow x13 that can run perfectly fine the game at 1080p more than 60 fps. is lighter than a macbook air,performs better and has a simmilar price.
onestly,apple can do a great job in a lot of things,but gaming is not one of them
Hey man, could you run the Dawntrail Benchmark and post results for us? I'm considering in switching from Windows/Intel to Mac. All my daily programs works flawlesly in Apple OS, and the only game I play is FFXIV.
0:37 if you got money for MacBooks then you got money to dust your shit
Hey brother great video! I’d recommend checking out how to set up cross hot bar properly with controller (im a controller player too) you can double tap each triggers for two top bars and hold both triggers down for two more (I usually merge the double hold down for a single bar and have mount, tank stance and sprint plus L On it so i dont have to figure out which I need to hold down first) gaming FFXIV with a controller is great when you can actually use the Cross Bar effectively.