Native Apple Silicon Support
in progress
Alvi Halderman
I think Second Life for the first time ever has the opportunity of offering excellent performance to the mainstream with the incredible performance advancements of Apple Silicon. SL already works quite well on low-end M1 Macs, so I cannot imagine how much things could improve if it is supported natively.
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Gericke Resident
Given the fact that Apple have now said that macOS 27 will be the last OS to have Rosetta this is starting to become much more important for Mac users. I am personally having to reconsider investing my real life money into a platform which may not be around for me to enjoy much longer.
Frankk Parisi
Gericke Resident I agree with you Cal. Whilst we do have some time to go before MacOS 28, LL's recent silence on this despite repeated requests for some kind of update/reassurance is worrying. Once again Dan Linden and/or Signal Linden or anyone else (if someone else from LL is best to reply), can I ask that you respond to the Mac community here asap please given the 'in progress' status of this has now been four months - and we have seen no progress. Thanks
Earnest Deed
Frankk Parisi 2 days after you posted this comment Geenz Linden gave details on Apple Silicon plans on the SL Forums. Dependencies are sorted and Metal is not a problem, although Havoc is providing a slight road block.
Frankk Parisi
Earnest DeedThanks for the update - very helpful ! Good to hear there is progress - I also reached out to Signal Linden in world and he kindly came back to me and updated me a bit on things which was appreciated
Frankk Parisi
This has been "in progress" for nearly four months now, but i havent seen any updates or progress / test versions etc. Dan Linden Signal Linden, >please< could we have some kind of update on how this is going / whether it's on hold / other - just to set/help our (mac community) expectations. Thanks
Luc Starsider
Count me in. Apple Silicon has been around for a long time. Make it happen, and fast. :) What's the progress on this anyway?
davidventer Resident
Doing this means you could theoretically provide the full viewer experience for iPadOS as well, rather than being limited to the limited mobile viewer on iPad. I’d love to run the full viewer on my iPad Pro!
Frankk Parisi
Could we get an update on progress on this please? I heard that Rye has left LL and he was the one working on this? (that might not be fully accurate, but all the same, please can you let us know if the work is continuing), thanks
Amiren Resident
I very much so would love to see full Apple Silicon support added at first opportunity!
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Antone Andretti
I vote for complete and total official support for Apple Silicon architecture in Second Life as soon as possible.
This is absolutely necessary now that Apple Silicon Macs have been on the market for nearly 5 years as of the time of this post (we're past 4 years, going on 5). It's definitely time to roll out full official support for them.
Please make this a high priority and give it the necessary focus and resources to be successful and to be able to get delivered soon! Our community really WANTS this!
(And there's a significant and legitimate growing technical NEED for it, as Rosetta 2 will only be supported for some time, and Apple will kill it off soon when Intel Macs are no longer supported in the fairly near future. They already no longer sell them, they will be deemed vintage and then obsolete soon).
Jasmine Navarita
I'm strongly in favor of full Apple Silicon support, (done properly please) including full implementation of Metal and all Apple Silicon (aarch64/ARM) libraries and resources, optimized for running natively and with great efficiency and speed on Apple Silicon Macs, and fully able to utilize multiple cores. This would be greatly appreciated by me and by many others. Thank you.
Yikes Lopez
With full multi core and metal 3 instead of opengl/cl and all made for apple silicon, not just the app but everything. This means a hug speed bump :-) Lets blast intel and nvidia away :-) Ohh and not least... 50Mbit support, most of the people in holland have fiberoptic 1 Gbit up and down and soon 8Gbit, so all load quicker.
Bosco Rehula
Yes, please!!!!!!! I have an M1 and it still struggles but Megapahit give me consistency in FPS.
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