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Am 14.11.15 um 06:01 schrieb Rin Stowleigh:
> On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 03:21:27 -0000, "Trimble Bracegirdle"
> <no-spam@never.spam> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Rin.
>> Yes I see that the hardware differences will make
>> direct game performance comparisons near impossible.
>> I guess that also holds true for Windows v/s Linux comparisons.
>
> In some cases you'll see benchmarks on the exact same hardware -- a
> Mac running OSX versus same Mac running Windows.
>
> However, there's no DirectX on OSX so the best hope for optimization
> in to optimize for OpenGL, and that almost never turns out as well as
> DirectX.
>
Actually that had been true until August of this year the current 
release from OSX has Mantle as low level API integrated which is similar 
to DirectX12 and Vulcan.

However the vertict is still open how good Mantle in reality really is 
on OSX. But Apple in itself never really got gaming. Their first 
approach at a console miserably failed and since then they never cared 
about gaming anymore. IOS accidentally became a gaming platform and when 
Apple realized that people needed a controller it was years to late. 
Their controller approach came 5 years to late. Apple TV again shows 
that attitude. Apple enforces the game devs to support their stupid 
remote by every game released on that platform, which is utterly 
pointless, given that there is a controller api and controllers are 
buyable. So in reality Apple TV will again be limited to casual bottom 
end games due to the remote control enforcement.
The situation is on OSX also as miserable as Apple wants it to be. You 
basically have to thank Valve that there are games on OSX. There still 
is no standard controller or controller interface and most games have to 
rely on a beta grade opensource driver to support the xbox controller as 
defacto standard.

My biggest hope regarding this situation again here is Valve they seem 
to be dedicated to bring support for their own controller to OSX.