asunderbulkierm Reviews

Works only with cracked version of the game. Plays a little better than native/rosetta 2 version, still limited by translation, so altering graphics settings makes little difference to performance. It's possible to inject TAA (Alias Isolation mod) to immensely improve image quality, as well as other mods, just put the mod files in the main game directory and add the .dll name in Wine Configuration > Libraries (native, builtin) inside your bottle.

Good, with vanilla Crossover it would crash at start, could only run with CXPatcher, and did without any perceivable graphical glitches and with reasonable performance most of the time with controller and k/m support. If using external displays, these need to be set as main Display, otherwise the game may crash for some reason. Turned on D3DMetal, MSync and High Resolution Mode.
I have not tested with latest versions of Crossover.

No MetalFX, could probably increase resolution a bit but this is a good balance for performance / image quality. Runs smooth on most M-Series and has HDR.

Good, vanilla Crossover 24.0.3 would crash at start or after first cutscene, could only run with CXPatcher and did it without any perceivable graphical glitches and with reasonable performance most of the time, supports controller and k/m. Turned on D3DMetal, MSync. When exiting a fullscreen playthrough, it can stay at black screen, so play with Borderless Fullscreen or CMD+option+ESC to force quit if the game freezes.
Have not tested with latest versions of Crossover.

Good, vanilla Crossover 24.0.3 would crash at start or after first cutscene, could only run with CXPatcher and did it without any perceivable graphical glitches and with reasonable performance most of the time, supports controller and k/m. Turned on D3DMetal, MSync. When exiting a fullscreen playthrough, it can stay at black screen, so play with Borderless Fullscreen or CMD+option+ESC to force quit if the game freezes.
Have not tested with latest versions of Crossover.

No MetalFX, could probably increase resolution a bit but this is a good balance for performance / image quality. Runs smooth on most M-Series and has HDR.

Steam version freezes during start with black screen. Tested with all available graphics
methods.

Boots normally into the main menu but crashes when starting a new game or continuing a save game . Same occurs with VMware Fusion.

No MetalFX as I find the spacial upscaling underwhelming. UE5 is not particularly well optimized for Mac, so don't expect to enable features like Lumen or Nanite and have good performance, but with some fiddling it's playable and it's a great game.

Good optimization, 1080p60 High 99% of the time without the need for MetalFX as I find the upscaling quality underwhelming.

Maybe because it's a somewhat old x86 OpenGL game, it seems to demand a lot from the CPU and/or there's a lot of unoptimized code as it's translated through Rosetta 2. Can't get a stable 60 fps on M1 Pro no matter the resolution and graphics settings.
Anti-aliasing is broken, options have not much effect in image quality and it looks awfully distracting. On the PC version you can inject TAA to make it better but not sure about the Mac port.
SSAO can cause performance dips, so consider disabling it. Considering the already dark environments, there's not much difference in image fidelity.