Following the announcement of Apple’s newnext-generation MacBook Pro with Retina displayyesterday, some of you questioned that games would even be able to run well at its 2880 x 1800 resolution with the included graphics hardware.
Tech siteAnandtechtook the above screencap ofDiablo IIIrunning at 2880 x 1800, so Apple’s fancy new MacBook Pro works at least well enough to do that. Running the game at this max resolution, with high texure quality, high clutter density, high physics quality, anti-aliasing on and medium shadow quality, Anandtech says thatDiablo IIIwas “quite playable.” Note that the above scene was running at 27 frames per second. In the most stressful scene they have unlocked, the machine was still pulling off 20 fps at this res. Obviously things are smoother at lower resolutions.
In related news, Anandtech found that while the OS caps the resolution at 1920 x 1200, games are not set to this limit. They say thatPortal 2was also able to start in 2880 x 1800, though the console text was almost microscopic. This shows that, despite games not having trouble booting in this resoltuion, game makers will still have to update their games to be fully compatible with the Retina display.
