Age of Empires II: DE features The Last Khans with 3 new campaigns and 4 new Civilizations. Head online to challenge other players with 35 different civilizations in your quest for world domination throughout the ages.Ĭhoose your path to greatness with this definitive remaster to one of the most beloved strategy games of all time. Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition celebrates the 20th anniversary of one of the most popular strategy games ever, now with stunning 4K Ultra HD graphics, and a fully remastered soundtrack. I didn’t try out multiplayer yet though.Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition celebrates the 20th anniversary of one of the most popular strategy games ever with stunning 4K Ultra HD graphics, a new and fully remastered soundtrack, and brand-new content, “The Last Khans” with 3 new campaigns and 4 new civilizations.Įxplore all the original campaigns like never before as well as the best-selling expansions, spanning over 200 hours of gameplay and 1,000 years of human history. But I think that will be worth it for many people. Main drawback right now is: you have to pay for it. So this game might work a bit better on a Mac mini or a MacBook Pro, which have a fan.Ĭonclusion: very promising, overall experience is already very good. Would be curious to see if 8GB is enough for 4K.Īlso, the MacBook Air became quite warm, and it doesn’t have a fan. However, if you run a few other apps at the same time, memory usage will be yellow. There is also a little bit of stutter, especially when scrolling, which is especially noticeable if you pay attention to it.ĨGB RAM seems to be enough when not running other apps: memory usage remains green in Activity Monitor. Text and the UHD don’t seem as sharp as they should, mainly when you use the MacBook Air screen instead of an external screen, and especially when using a small UHD option. The overall experience is quite smooth, even on big maps like York. Of course, after 14 days you will have to pay for CrossOver, unfortunately. Multiplayer is a bit more complicated, I didn’t try that out yet. Check out the link below for the full list of minimum system requirements. Getting it to work isn’t that hard for single player. Game Information Articles in this section Is Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition available for Mac 1 year ago Updated Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition is only officially supported on Windows 10 or 11. I don’t have a 4K monitor to try that, unfortunately. Ultra settings, with enhanced graphics, so that’s not too bad. I got 1230 benchmark on a MacBook Air, 1130 on an 1080p external monitor. I had the opportunity to try out CrossOver on an 8GB M1 Mac and it works pretty well. AOE2DE is a pretty CPU and memory intensive game after all, and while the M1 Macs are powerful, they do have their limits as well. But then again, performance won’t be great. AOE2HD does work though, so in theory that might be possible in the future. Native ARM performance, albeit after first booting in Windows.Īnother option would be CrossOver, but apparently AOE2DE doesn’t work with that method right now. And if Microsoft allows to use ARM Windows with Boot Camp, this would also solve the problem for us. This would be great for ARM Windows users too - including users of Microsoft’s own Surface Pro X. Of course, Microsoft could also make an ARM version of AOE2DE for ARM Windows. But: that would be with emulation, so decent performance isn’t guaranteed. Once Microsoft has finally added support for Intel 64-bit apps to ARM Windows, you should be able to run AOE2DE on your Mac. More realistically, we can hope Microsoft will eventually make ARM Windows available for M1 Macs via Boot Camp. Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is available now exclusively on the Windows 10 Microsoft Store for 19.99. They never ported AOE2DE to Intel Mac after all, so why would they do that now? I think we might see some kind of solution in the future, but it most likely will not be a macOS app. And it was perfect timing to test out Boot Camp on MacBook and see how. In theory, they could take that code, make it 64-bit, port it from PowerPC to Apple Silicon and then add everything from Definitive Edition. Me and my wife decided to bring back some good old memories with Age of Empire games. First for classic Mac OS, and if I remember correctly also on Mac OS X later on. The original game was also available on macOS, but that’s a long time ago.
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