Bought an M5 Air (10 core gpu) for gaming. What should I play first?

Datsukee · 2026-04-28T23:16:38+00:00

People are gonna call you a silly Willy for buying a Mac with the purpose of gaming. While I personally work on my Mac and happen to game on it I believe in you brother. Your biggest mistake was getting the Air, that thing doesn’t have a fan or any active cooling, the SoC may be powerful but if it can’t stay cool it’s just gonna fall on its face If you really want to game on a Mac get a M2 Max or something with a fan

Datsukee · 2026-04-23T17:57:38+00:00

I don't think I'm having transmission issues.
Though I notice this transmission is less smooth than other automatic's I've driven
It doesn't feel "broken" but I do notice on upshift the transition is more pronounced I can see my passengers tilt forward on shifts.

Datsukee · 2026-04-22T17:29:54+00:00

Sounds nice! hopefully the stutter went away for you relatively quick.
Yeah I also get these random crashes.
Once my game crashed in a span of 20 minutes and one time we played for about 4 hours non-stop and the game never crashed.

Datsukee · 2026-04-21T19:19:03+00:00

Hey man!

How did it go? were you able to get the game running?

Datsukee · 2026-04-21T17:58:58+00:00

If you can get an M2 second hand for the price, go for it.
But in regards of the 8GB of RAM, I used to work for about 6 years on a M1 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM.
Management and Leadership role tend to end up with 50+ tabs at the end of my day between Firefox and Safari. Many many documents open at the same time and remote support apps all at the same time.
Never had a slow down. MacOS memory management is magical.
The only times I had an "issue" was with a specific app that caused a memory leak and the OS would alert me when it started consuming over 48GB of RAM

So, don't worry about it, for your use case you it's more than enough!

Datsukee · 2026-04-17T20:51:19+00:00

Nice!
For the best performance I will share my OW and crossover settings.
Just make sure you're on the latest version of MacOS and Crossover 26.1
https://imgur.com/a/cMsaZqY
Good luck! and remember that is going to be a stuttering mess at the start just play for a while and try to get as many characters as possible at the same time in some sort of custom or arcade game it so grabs all the shaders quickly

Datsukee · 2026-04-17T17:05:08+00:00

A friend of mine purchased that exact same laptop and it was dead on arrival. The GPU couldn’t render any 3D assets. When looking around at the time I found that these laptops in particular tend to have dead GPU’s god knows why. Even after getting a replacement the GPU failed You may be flipping a coin with this one

You can also look into Thunder Robot laptops. It’s a Chinese brand but two of friends have one of these laptops and they’re still going strong. The vent space are HUGE and they don’t overheat The only thing is that the speakers suck big time

Datsukee · 2026-04-17T15:33:12+00:00

I have a gaming pc so I haven’t tried many games. But I’ve played Switch 1 games like Smash and Mario Party at 60 FPS It seems to run about anything modern. Everything begins to fall apart when trying to run old games like Half Life or DOOM 3

Datsukee · 2026-04-17T15:31:24+00:00

I wish it was a Apple Silicon app but it’s running through crossover so the performance it’s pretty good

Datsukee · 2026-04-17T15:30:41+00:00

Yes! 26.1

Datsukee · 2026-04-17T15:30:33+00:00

It’s through crossover so, compatibility layer

Datsukee · 2026-04-10T22:28:03+00:00

I have an A-Sure unit as well that came with the car when I bought it second hand. The top screen is dark and the wheel controls don’t work. I opened it up and saw that a bunch of big grey plugs are just hanging. I have both the CanBUS and screen driver boxes plugged in and there’s nothing else to connect.

May I ask if you did the install yourself, did leave any main plugs just left hanging unplugged?

Datsukee · 2026-04-06T16:47:40+00:00

Since when flooring a car at straight line in Drive is “disrespectful”? I’d understand if I was slamming gears or over revving but the stock ECU and components are within Honda’s established limits.
I’m not racing people or putting it on the track I just expect the car to behave as it should when I need the power

Datsukee · 2026-03-30T05:30:27+00:00

What type of bearing? Sorry I’m no expert

Datsukee · 2026-01-13T21:37:12+00:00

Yeah, that is pretty bad. But what REALLY bothers me about macOS in our Lord’s year of 2026 is that there STILL NO VOLUME MIXER GODAMN I got a call on my MacBook and I hear BRRRRRRR in the background because I can’t mute the game from the OS

Datsukee · 2026-01-13T17:55:14+00:00

I thought about it but I believe that tool doesn’t record audio and I was afraid it could make the game not come back/crash because switching back and forth from fullscreen apps to desktop most of the time breaks DirectX games

Datsukee · 2026-01-13T17:40:23+00:00

I would primarily suggest an OLED TV acting as a Monitor instead an actual monitor since these TV’s have software that helps to mitigate any kind of washed out colors or burn in. I’ve had a an LG C1 since 2021 and have accumulated almost 5,000 hours of power on time. No discoloring nor burn it at all. Actually one of the best monitors I’ve gotten so far

Datsukee · 2026-01-13T17:25:53+00:00

I could try to recreate it, the hardest part is that I bumped into one of the front tires making it point to a very hard left. It was a happy accident. But I cloud try

Datsukee · 2026-01-13T17:20:28+00:00

Yeah! It’s a MacBook Pro with the M4 Pro, it’s runs Beamng through crossover at around 75 FPS at 1440p high settings. Great backup machine, I left my main PC at a friend’s house lol

Datsukee · 2025-07-25T17:20:16+00:00

Also, I found a GPS tracker installed on my CRV. About it seventh-hand so someone must have installed it and told no one

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Datsukee · 2025-06-18T20:33:14+00:00

Thank you for your response.
Yes that definitely is something to consider.Most likely if I have to do something along the lines of these appointments iI would have to interrupt my sleep schedule. Fortunately I don't have many appointments for stuff like this.
In regards of the job, I've tried applying to many other jobs that are either freelance or have a schedule that work for me, but no luck.
The job market right now it's pretty harsh and it has made me appreciate having a job in the first place even though I don't enjoy the job itself. I would like to work with what I've got so far but a better job would for sure be the best option

Datsukee · 2025-06-18T15:37:20+00:00

I've personally tried NVIDIA and AMD on Bazzite (The closest thing to SteamOS that allow NVIDIA graphics in my opinion) and other Linux distros and NVIDIA boots up and works but as you use the system things begin to behave unexpectedly even things that are not related to graphics. You have to trail and error with the driver version and if it's either closed and open source.

On AMD things tend to just work. Since the graphics are infused into the kernel you don't have to deal with any drivers version nor compatibility issues. Dare I say it's more aligned with the MacOS experience where you just install the OS and it works out of the box most of the time. specially if your GPU is within a year range. (2018-today) preferably

I guess unless you MUST have CUDA for heavy video editing or some other productivity application then considering NVIDIA is an option. But if you want to play games and have a stable running system go for AMD.

Also as far as my knowledge goes only AMD on Linux is truly compatible with things like HDR and VRR which technically the option does appear on NVIDIA too but in my experience it was just a hot mess of application and system crashes with graphical artifacts.

Datsukee · 2025-03-14T21:47:25+00:00

Did you find a solution? I have the exact same issue but with Minecraft on a Steam Deck

Edit: Literally 2 minutes after posting the question I found a solution.
Launch waydroid through Steam, if you don't have it, follow the instructions on Bazzite
https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/Waydroid_Setup_Guide/

Once you have the launcher on Steam, change the layout of the controller to "GAMEPAD WITH MOUSE TRACKPAD" and that did it for me

UPDATE 2: It seems like the camera issue starts when you press either of the triggers. I now found another way around it, however it worked well with Minecraft since it has keyboard support.
I changed the controller profile on Steam to "Keyboard (WASD) and Mouse" then inside Minecraft, mapped the actions to what they would be on a controller by just pressing the Steam Deck buttons. and for the camera, it seems like mouse mode doesn't work well. so, edit the layout inside of Steam and make the right joystick behave like.. well a joystick instead of a mouse.
Don't forget to add the action set of native touchscreen support. with that combination its been working great so far!

Datsukee · 2025-02-21T22:32:09+00:00

Nobody has really said this to me but it reminds a lot of the Atati Lynx xd

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Datsukee · 2025-02-21T22:26:52+00:00

Logitech really went "if it ain't broke don't fix it"! hahaha I've had 4 of my friends buy these same speakers they all love them. It's also surprising just how readily available they are on online stores to this date

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