A Mac does loads of issues effectively, but gaming could be generally a bit finicky, as a consequence of developer help. One instance is the video games on Steam that do not natively help Retina. They begin up, and the pixels are simply doubled. I’m grateful it makes use of nearest neighbor, somewhat than linear interpolation or different such strategies.
Nonetheless, this isn’t fairly what I would prefer to see. Video games both scale the UI mechanically or have UI scale settings, so doubling the decision wouldn’t be any problem visibility-wise. What is a matter is altering the show decision each time, be it from the settings, or through some third-party app. The cursor turns into smaller and strikes at a special velocity and UI components exterior the app develop into smaller as effectively, which is to be anticipated, however not desired.
What I’m searching for is that if there’s a solution to make particular person apps work unscaled, principally present them as in the event that they have been Retina-ready, equal to turning scaling off on Home windows by checking that “let the app do the scaling” field on right-click. I hope that there’s possibly a .plist or a terminal command I can run to make any arbitrary .app behave like that. Or possibly a Steam launch argument, which I doubt. And even some third-party app that may trick functions into believing the show has a special decision.
Video games that come to thoughts are Terraria, Besiege and Historic Aliens (the bizarre Historical past Channel recreation), however I’m certain extra of them undergo from this problem.