Will SC2 ever be adapted to Metal API/Apple Silicon?

Mac Technical Support
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I used to play SC on windows back in the day, and I’ve played most of SC2 initial campaign on an intel Mac a few years ago.
I recently switched to a Macbook Pro M3 Max with 128gb Ram. (with CPU/GPU maxed out upgrades).
I installed SC2 fresh on this machine this week, and I assumed given it’s the top M3 processor with 128GB ram and the top GPU/CPU apple offers, that I would be able to run SC2 on the absolute max settings, and still get a good performance.
I setup everything setting to Ultra/Extreme, and I was running it at 2880x1620 resolution.
while playing a Kerrigan campaign mission, I was getting around 25 FPS.

my hypothesis here is that Apple Silicon will never shine until the game is adapted to Metal/Apple Silicon. (going over rosetta is clearly killing performance here)
Given how blizzard is supporting this game still, any ideas why that is not happening?

2

you likely just need to get it to run only on the p cores. the e cores is less effective. it should be possible to turn off the e cores, though i do not know enough about the apple cpu to know how and i have not used mac os for very long.

3

from what I understand from Mac, there is ZERO ways for an user to do that.
and why would the OS use Efficiency cored for a Game? If it did, I assume it’s a major flaw in Mac OS.
right?

4

it is not a flaw in the operating system. it is a flaw in starcraft 2. it was never built for that kind of arcitecture. the same problem is on pc, as that too uses p cores and e cores. though only on newer intel cpus(12th gen and newer).