lightmarer Reviews

starting the game you have to wait 5min to see the capcop logo because the game is trying to run in dx11. so go to settings and set dx12 & from next time it will load immediately
runs at high graphics, locked 30fps
or low graphics, 50-60fps

running in 50-60fps in my 8gb macbook air with medium to mostly high settings.

in 8gb M3 air

dont use cxpatcher. it will make the game laggy. turn on dxvk and msync. after opening the game for first time go to settings and set to borderless window. if you dont do it and cmd+tab or swipe workspace your mac will be zoomed out and will become unresponsive. at this point you will have to force shutdown by pressing on in power button.

in 8gb m3 air.
works very well.

in 8gb M3 air,

getting 60+ fps in medium settings. if you turn on DXVK you can get more fps but snowfall will be invisible. so turn on D3DMetal

dont play it if you have less than 48gb ram

in 8gb m3 air.

working in high settings at 60fps. can be played using mild ray tracing but frame drops to 45.

running in my M3 8gb air. with lots of graphical mods and shaders and 2k texture replacers. and it is surprisingly runs in 50-60 fps with all these graphical mods. game looks next gen with all these mods. though i couldn't managed to work enb

game works fine in my 8gb M3 air. no issues.
note that there will be huge stutterings at the starting point of the game. once you go to city there will be no stutter at all.

in 8gb m3 air
only the drm free copy works fine in parallels. if you download from steam then rockstar launcher will make it unplayable. the steam version stutters so much

it works fine in a 16gb M3 macbook pro.

there is no way that one can play a fps game in 45-50 fps. also it stutters like hell.
in D3DMetal there will be less fps and more stutters but textures will load properly.
in DXVK performance is good but textures of leaf and bushes will not load
in DXMT game will open and shows a grey screen only but sound will work fine.

in 8GB M3 air.

everything is working fine in parallels. no graphical or performance issue

in 8gb M3 air
works perfectly without any lag or stuttering. there are some crackling sounds in some serious heavy situations but otherwise everything is fine.

in 8gb M3 air
works perfectly in ultra settings 2k without a single lag or stutter

running in 8gb M3 Air
game works fine in ultra settings. no stuttering. just dont turn on vsync.

running in a base M3 air


you can hear crackling sounds sometimes. it is because of the high resolution. set the res to HD and the crackling sound will be gone. i played it an year ago. so i wasn't concerned about settings. later i understood the main reason

running in a base 8gb m3 air

if you want to squeeze maximum performance from this hear my advice. i tried soo many combinations
crossover 25.0 + cxpatcher v0.6.3.5
before patching select latest moltenvk and ue4 hack
turn dxvk and esync on in crossover. in this way you squeeze the maximum performance

running in a base 8gb M3 Air.

i ran it in lowest graphics and set the frame limit to 30. just dont turn on fsr. fsr will increase the fps to 60-70 though but it will worsen the image quality too much. so just dont scale resolution. let it in 100%. the game will not look bad you will get a stutter free 30 fps.

also there is a known bug of white dots in character models in low light conditions. turning of fsr helps it but not too much

runnning in a base 8gb m3 air.

running in a win10 ARM insider preview. running in win11 gives less performance. so run in win10 if you want to get a better performance

running in my base 8gb macbook air with graphics in 2k res. i am getting 50ish fps. if you want 60 you can lower up the setting. mine are in high settings as you can see in the screenshot

>finished the game and spent 120+ hours in it in my 8gb base M3 MacBook Air.

>settings=in crossover D3DMetal and ESync is turned on. In game VSYNC half, FXAA on, TAA medium, Texture medium, TAA sharpening 27 notch (to look game less blurry) and every others set to low

>by far only problem is in act 1 shadows will not render correctly.