BeamNG on M1 Mac (AS) (Look Inside (Windows on ARM) Huge Update ! v0.21

BeamNG on M1 (AS Mac Mini (16/512GB)

Original post was with crossover

EDIT 12/17/2020

Parallels released a M1 tech preview today ! heres the results of that !

Original crossover post BELOW

This is fallback version (0.14.05) last version with directx 10 support. (newer versions crash on launch)

Crossover is being translated by rosetta from x86-64 to arm ----> Crossover translates Windows APIs to MacOS.

Crossover is the commercial version of wine and steam proton.

Benchmarks

GBs are my 3600X (Gaming Rig) and my 4700U (8c/8t) laptop

EDIT 12/15/20

Uploaded a complete (AS) M1 BB last image

 

BeamNG.Drive runs smoother on the M1 Mac Mini than on my 4700U (8c/8t) Ryzen laptop.. and its running through 3 different emulation layers !

(Cross Posted)

just got my M1 mini 16/512 I’m impressed to say the least.

I’m a tinker and like to screw around with different things.

(that’s actually the reason I bought an M1 Mac.)

installed crossover > installed steam

Updated 12/11/20 3:20 PM CST

Games I got to work

Assetto Corsa (Crossover Steam) 1920x1080 (Smooth Gameplay)

Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 (Crossover Steam) (1920x1080) Medium (Smooth)

Fallout 4 (Crossover Steam) (Smooth gameplay)

My Summer Car (Crossover Steam) Golden Eye (No vsync) (Smooth gameplay)

Wreck Fest (Crossover Steam) (Smooth Gameplay)

BeamNG.Drive (Crossover Steam) 0.14.5 (DX10)

Spintires MudRunner (1920x1080) Medium


Games that don’t work

Automation (Crossover Steam) (Launches but has graphical glitches in engine designer)

Spintires Original (Launches then crashes at intro)

Space Engineers (Launches then crashes)

Scrap Mechanic (Launches then crashes)


Feel free to post games you got to work on M1

Through

the Mac App Store

Native MacOS steam

Crossover steam

Side loaded

I have no way of tracking FPS as of yet, (maybe someone knows how?) all games that have worked so far resulted in smooth gameplay.

 

Try fraps?

 

If it's a Steam game, you can enable the built-in fps counter

 

@estama

I really wish the newest 0.20.2 DX11 release worked to give an up to date comparison.

I submitted a bug report and log to the crossover team well see what they say.

Even 0.14.5 being severely out of date, it runs super dupper smooth.

smoother than my ryzen7 4700U laptop ever could.
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overlay doesn’t work on most games since Steam is running through crossover.

 

Uploaded a complete BB

 

@estama @tdev maybe you guys could possibly point me in the right direction for this for why the latest DX11 only versions don't work.

(I emailed the crossover team and are waiting for a reply.)

Logs attached

It would be cool to see 0.20 running on apple silicon.
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Update to this, I got the v0.21 BB to run so that tells me that engine core is running somewhat atleast? I believe the issue maybe lying within Wine/Crossovers reporting directx version..

Its reporting dx9 to beam..

Trying to find a way to force Wine/Crossover to report DX11.

Launching the x86 exe it atleast launches but, crashes due to not having a DX11 "GPU"

 

Big update !

Windows on ARM via Parallels runs the latest version of BeamNG.Drive (v0.21)

Latest Windows on ARM dev channel.

@estama @tdev !
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GPU support !

The included x86-64--> arm64 emulator isn't as fast as apples Rosetta but atleast it works !

 

So the W10 parallels VM combined with Microsoft's slow x64 emulator is eating up all the performance.

Attached below is (v0.21 through crossover which is running on apples x64--> ARM64 translator.)

vs WoA and microsofts x64 emulator.

 

how did you get it working on parallels on windows on arm via a x64 to arm64 emulator? i cant get it working at all and the game keeps crashing upon startup

 

what magic did you use to make it work? please help i cant game absolutely ANYTHING on my m1

only my least played game which is minecraft
i wanna game on my mac please atleast let me get beam working

im doing everything correctly but it wont work

 

I am gonna stick myself in here mostly because I am interested if any improvements end up being made on this (via emulation or otherwise)

Judging by the numbers your getting here your nipping on the heals of my Mac Pro 5,1 and your even running it in an emulation layer with an older physics build than I am. (talking about the one you did via CrossOver) That's mad impressive. With the new Windows 11 just around the corner and the prospect of x86 to ARM emulation layers becoming ever more important with the push for ARM helped along by the M1, I can see massive potential improvements just around the corner. Perhaps if Windows does end up possibly being able to be run on the M1 (or next iteration) I may finally end up bumping off this 11 year old rig.

Keep it up... I am definitely interested in this as being someone who has exclusively only ever played BeamNG on Macs (possibly the only idiot on here to do so) the state of this may determine my next step especially as seeing as this is the least powerful version they will ever make.

 

I don't know if this is still relevant or not, but I just found (for myself) a solution - run BeamNG from the bin32 folder (x86 version), on my MacBook Air M1 game works.

 

Latest MacOS Monterey DB4 with the latest Windows 11 WoA Dev Ring build.

I had to limit, the vehicle count because the normal retail version of Paralles doesn't allow for more than four cores.. Thats only aval in the "Pro" version (The Tech Preview allowed all 8 cores to be used)

That's def, killing the performance.

I can't test crossover because crossover doesn't work on Monterey right now.

 

Recent parallels update (17.0) finally recognizes M1s full speed !

 

Hey how well is the parallel version 17 working with the m1 and beamng