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Mac owners will soon be able to play one of the biggest games of the last five years or so.will be available in the Mac App Store as well as Steam, GOG.com and the Epic Games Store on Thursday, July 17.
As the name implies, it includes both the base game as well as theand was originally planned to arrive "early" this year, but it took a little longer to get everything squared away. Unsurprisingly, you'll need an M-series Mac to play this game, but Apple and CD Projekt Red confirm that it'll work on computers all the way back to the M1 — but you'll need 16GB of RAM. For years, 8GB was the standard on entry-level Macs, so those computers will be out of luck. And of course, graphics fidelity will vary widely across the various supported chipsets, but CD Projekt Red is including a "for this Mac" graphics preset that is optimized for each Apple Silicon-based Mac. So at the very least, you shouldn't have to fuss around with settings too much to get a decent experience. As for other technical goodies, the game utilizes AMD FSR for upscaling and frame generation, and Apple's MetalFX also provides upscaling as well. Upcoming Metal 4 features announced at WWDC 2025, including Metal FX Frame Interpolation and Metal FX Denoising, are coming to the game via a future update. Metal FX Frame Interpolation generates an intermediate frame for every two input frames and can be combined with existing Metal upscaling to allow the game to hit 120fps on Ultra settings — but again, we're not sure what specific models will support that.features spatial audio with head-tracking features. And the game supports cross-progression regardless of what platform you play on, which should be useful for anyone who started a game elsewhere and wants to pick it back up on a Mac. If you've already purchasedCyberpunk 2077 isn't exactly a new game, it remains one of the more popular and lauded titles of the decade . And it joins a still small but growing number of major games optimized for Apple Silicon and the Mac, including the recently-releasedDeath Stranding, Control, Lies of P,Most big-name games don't come to the Mac at the same time as other platforms still, but the Mac is an option for more than just Apple Arcade games.
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