[Feature Request] MacOS Support about ryujinx

[darkuser89]

https://github.com/openglonmetal/MGL

[komawoyo]

Horrible OpenGL performance on new macbook (Nvidia to Radeon)
ie. get windows

[iMonZ]

What’s with switching to Vulkan?
Better support for Linux and macOS would work again with MoltenVK!

[edisionnano]

And again if OpenGL is still your target couldn't be possible to use Angle? https://github.com/kakashidinho/metalangle

Ryujinx uses opengl not opengl es

[mailwl]

macos has very bad support for opengl, so, i don't think emu can be run in current state (yuzu the same)

[TuxSH]

IIRC when I tried, Ryujinx works in a VMWare virtual machine (yuzu doesn't).

[oscarbg]

ok but then why ship macOS binaries confusing users that support is there?

[ReinUsesLisp]

macOS is supported. Blame your vendor for shipping trash-tier drivers. Apple devices with AMD or NVidia GPUs should be fine.

[oscarbg]

@ReinUsesLisp Ok sorry made it not clear I was running on AMD Vega GPU so "Apple devices with AMD or NVidia GPUs should be fine." doesn't apply..
altough I tested on 10.14 beta, that maybe the issue, will do a test on 10.13 and close issue if it's working..
tested on 10.13.6 on AMD Vega GPU same error..
also game the log is from the binding of Isaac afterbirth plus..

[jamesst20]

Unsure if it really runs. I ran just fine Ryujinx with Zelda Link's Awakening on Windows 10 (bootcamp) at 23FPS average on a Radeo Pro 5500M (Macbook Pro 16 2019 with Intel Core i9) which should be able to provide more power than that..

I though maybe the slowliness was caused by the drivers so I tested on the native drivers (Mac OS obviously) and I couldn't get the game to run. It gets stuck there

[B3astTech]

No.. mac os doesn't do what it should because it doesn't support opengl 4.3 and above. Windows does on certain hardware.

In short only 2d games usually work. Nothing more

[jamesst20]

@B3astTech

Thanks for the explanation :) It's my mistake I thought it was using Vulkan behind the scene. That explains why when I tried Yuzu I was able to play Link's Awakening at 48FPS.

[italomandara]

I believe there's still MoltenGL if you want to stick with OPENGL but unfortunately is for OpenGL ES 2.0.
So Vulkan via MoltenVK seems the way to go. Being a web dev don't know if I could do this myself but the author of Duckstation did a quite nice port for MacOS using that framework.

[italomandara]

And again if OpenGL is still your target couldn't be possible to use Angle? https://github.com/kakashidinho/metalangle

[EmulationFanatic]

Builds for macOS are now available to download from the main Ryujinx website.