Dermot Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 I am not aware of any specific feature differences between the M1 Mac and other Mac's. You may see performance differences though. One of the biggest differences between Mac's and PC's is that you will not be able to take advantage of the new Real Time Raytracing that is currently only supported on some high end video cards (GPU) that are only available for PC's. Some more information about the differences between using PC and Mac can be found in the system requirements here: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/products/sysreq.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottharris Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 2 hours ago, SNestor said: Please elaborate. What feature(s) do we have to live without if using an M1 Mac? Steve, you can see the differences from Mac and PC on the system requirements page. The M1 Mac v. Intel Mac - the M1 is an integrated chip which are typically less powerful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HayleyM Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Hey folks! Great news! I was working away on my 13" MBP M1 and wasn't even thinking about it and changed my camera view to Physically Based and... IT WORKED! Apple must have tweaked something in one of the Big Sur updates and now it works!!!! Very exciting news, for me at least! Also, in case anyone missed it, apparently X13 is supposed to run on M1 now...? I have yet to try it but I plan to install it soon to test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benriver Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Sure enough, updating to OS X 11.4 lets PB rendering just...work. Thanks for the heads up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridge_Runner Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 @HayleyMHayley, you may want to redact your serial number from your attached pic. Just a FYI. Most of us, if not all, are honest, but you never know who is lurking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HayleyM Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 @Ridge_Runner Yikes! Good call. I was half asleep when I posted that. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzSurferAl Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 I am looking forward to Chief Architect running natively on Apple M1 for the performance improvement and then….. Running on an iPad Pro! Tada! Now that would be something. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avstudio Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 I just purchased an MacBook Pro with the M1Max chip. I just downloaded X13 and it runs fine. I've been using Chief for less than a year and haven't had any issues. I am just stating to experiment with PBR. The PBR seems to work but it does not support all the features on the PC version that are shown in the Preferences for the Video Card That's a little disappointing, although for my purposes I don't absolutely need "super realistic" renders. I hope that CA will provide more support for bettering PBR for Mac users. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve-C Posted May 4, 2022 Author Share Posted May 4, 2022 On 5/2/2022 at 1:03 PM, avstudio said: I just purchased an MacBook Pro with the M1Max chip. I just downloaded X13 and it runs fine. I've been using Chief for less than a year and haven't had any issues. I am just stating to experiment with PBR. The PBR seems to work but it does not support all the features on the PC version that are shown in the Preferences for the Video Card That's a little disappointing, although for my purposes I don't absolutely need "super realistic" renders. I hope that CA will provide more support for bettering PBR for Mac users. You need to download X14 beta, it's specifically designed to run on Apple silicon and it's the most stable beta CA has ever released in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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