It never will, sorry. It's not about whether or not Frontier decide to make it Mac compatable, it's about the fact that it is physically impossible to run Horizons on a Mac. The key component of Horizons is Planet landings and the planet terrain generation involves Compute Shaders. Mac systems are not capable of running compute shaders because Apple's proprietary outdated hardware and driver systems can't handle them. Until Apple stops being Apple and actually makes computers with modern components and stops using garbage proprietary drivers for everything, Horizons will never come to mac. Seriously people I can't stress this enough: do not get a mac for gaming.

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Apple makes good handheld devices but their computers are garbage, outdated, poorly made, and over-priced. For the price you spent on a mac that can barely run base Elite and has no chance of ever being Horizons compatible, you could have a 4k VR-ready PC and be landing on planets all day long. If it was a gift and is your only option? Fine, macs can do some games, but don't expect everything to get very far. Originally posted by:It never will, sorry. It's not about whether or not Frontier decide to make it Mac compatable, it's about the fact that it is physically impossible to run Horizons on a Mac. The key component of Horizons is Planet landings and the planet terrain generation involves Compute Shaders.

Mac systems are not capable of running compute shaders because Apple's proprietary outdated hardware and driver systems can't handle them. Until Apple stops being Apple and actually makes computers with modern components and stops using garbage proprietary drivers for everything, Horizons will never come to mac. Seriously people I can't stress this enough: do not get a mac for gaming. Apple makes good handheld devices but their computers are garbage, outdated, poorly made, and over-priced. For the price you spent on a mac that can barely run base Elite and has no chance of ever being Horizons compatible, you could have a 4k VR-ready PC and be landing on planets all day long.

If it was a gift and is your only option? Fine, macs can do some games, but don't expect everything to get very far. How can it be the hardware when you can install Windows and it will run Horizons? The problem is Apple not supporting the later versions of Open GL so it will handle compute shaders. The funny thing is, you could probably install a later version of Open GL yourself, but as Applie don't support it, FD can't really go ahead and compile a Mac build based on that. 'Hey Apple, we've released a game that encourages your users to do stuff you don't support to their installations'. AFAIK, Metal does support compute shaders, but not sure how well, and it would require FD reworking the graphics subsystem to work with Metal.

Not sure how much work that would be for FD and how worth it it would be in terms of sales. Originally posted by:It never will, sorry. It's not about whether or not Frontier decide to make it Mac compatable, it's about the fact that it is physically impossible to run Horizons on a Mac. The key component of Horizons is Planet landings and the planet terrain generation involves Compute Shaders. Mac systems are not capable of running compute shaders because Apple's proprietary outdated hardware and driver systems can't handle them. Until Apple stops being Apple and actually makes computers with modern components and stops using garbage proprietary drivers for everything, Horizons will never come to mac. Seriously people I can't stress this enough: do not get a mac for gaming.

Apple makes good handheld devices but their computers are garbage, outdated, poorly made, and over-priced. For the price you spent on a mac that can barely run base Elite and has no chance of ever being Horizons compatible, you could have a 4k VR-ready PC and be landing on planets all day long. If it was a gift and is your only option? Cnet wireless g usb dongle cwd 854 driver for macbook pro. Fine, macs can do some games, but don't expect everything to get very far. Your reply made me Bootcamp again!

Hey people, I need help. I bought ED on sale on Steam (obviously). I installed the game, then hit play. After waiting for a bit, I was told I had to download the most recent version Monoframe.

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It was super easy, so whatever. I launched it up again. After waiting for a bit, the launcher came up again. I saw that I had to sign up for a Frontier account.

Did that, then pressed sign in on the launcher. Signed in, did the code thing, and clicked play or launch or whatever it said.

After 15 minutes of waiting and nothing happening, I forced quit. Waited 20 minutes, tried again. Same thing This has happened 6-7 times now. I’ve searched the internet and nothing has come up.

Please, I need help, I really want to play this game. Originally posted by:You're not somehow trying to play Horizons are you? I don't know if the installation would even go through, or if Steam would even allow you to purchase it, but Horizons is 'not' Mac compatible. Mac is simply too oudated with software to really compete with most AAA games done today.or this decade, really. I mean I have the newest Mac, and it runs pretty much every game I’ve checked (I haven’t bought a lot cuz I’m waiting on sales lol). Idk if I’m trying get to play Horizons, I just have installed the game and clicked play. I assume that doesn’t have a lot to do with this done this is mainly just the launcher not even loading.

Originally posted by:You're not somehow trying to play Horizons are you? I don't know if the installation would even go through, or if Steam would even allow you to purchase it, but Horizons is 'not' Mac compatible. Mac is simply too oudated with software to really compete with most AAA games done today.or this decade, really. I mean I have the newest Mac, and it runs pretty much every game I’ve checked (I haven’t bought a lot cuz I’m waiting on sales lol).

Idk if I’m trying get to play Horizons, I just have installed the game and clicked play. I assume that doesn’t have a lot to do with this done this is mainly just the launcher not even loading Is the launcher Orange, or Blue? Orange is base game, which can be played on a Mac, and Horizons is blue, which cannot.

You having the latest Mac doesn't make a difference. They all use the same operating system, MacOS, and it's shader software, what everyone around here says, is what's oudated. It's why you never see video card developers developing for Mac, because it doens't have software to make it work, and Apple themselves had said gaming is not their focus. Being 10+ or so years behind and their greatest achievement is usually another $800+ iPhone every year, it shows. If you go around the Steam store to see what is Mac compaitble, you'll only see about 200 games compared to Steams 41,000. Originally posted by: I mean I have the newest Mac, and it runs pretty much every game I’ve checked (I haven’t bought a lot cuz I’m waiting on sales lol). Idk if I’m trying get to play Horizons, I just have installed the game and clicked play.

I assume that doesn’t have a lot to do with this done this is mainly just the launcher not even loading Is the launcher Orange, or Blue? Orange is base game, which can be played on a Mac, and Horizons is blue, which cannot. You having the latest Mac doesn't make a difference. They all use the same operating system, MacOS, and it's shader software, what everyone around here says, is what's oudated.

It's why you never see video card developers developing for Mac, because it doens't have software to make it work, and Apple themselves had said gaming is not their focus. Being 10+ or so years behind and their greatest achievement is usually another $800+ iPhone every year, it shows. If you go around the Steam store to see what is Mac compaitble, you'll only see about 200 games compared to Steams 41,000. I don’t remember the launcher color, since I wasn’t really paying attention as I just wanted to jump in and play. Any suggestions on getting to see the launcher would be great. Originally posted by:I don’t remember the launcher color, since I wasn’t really paying attention as I just wanted to jump in and play.

Any suggestions on getting to see the launcher would be great. The easiest thing to look at is if you own Horizons and the base game or just the base game. If you own horizons it will autolaunch to the Horizons launcher.

If you don't own Horizons then the discussion is moot. Found out I do not have Horizons, so it's not that. Only thing I can think of doing now is downloading the launcher from Frontier's website, but if you any suggestions that would be welcome to.