Black Myth: Wukong, Mac M4 and M4 Pro, CrossOver: Benchmark

Описание: Black Myth: Wukong

This is an Unreal Engine 5 game, which is notorious for running poorly via CrossOver on Macs.

For benchmarking, "Black Myth: Wukong Benchmark Tool“ on Steam has been used.


M4 Setup: Mac Mini M4 base model, macOS 26.2 Tahoe, CrossOver 26 Preview 20251216, DLSS, D3DMetal, Msync.

M4 settings: 1080p resolution, Low graphics preset, DLSS Set to Quality (65).

M4 benchmark results without screen recording:

Frame gen off : 32 to 45 FPS, average 38 FPS

Frame gen on : 54 to 74 FPS, average 63 FPS.



M4 Pro Setup: MacBook M4 Pro (24GB 14CPU/16GPU), macOS 15.7.1 Sequoia, CrossOver 26 Preview 20251216, D3DMetal, Msync.

M4 Pro settings: 1440p resolution, Low graphics preset, FSR Set to Quality (65).

M4 Pro benchmark results without screen recording:

Frame gen off : 38 to 59 FPS, average 50 FPS

Frame gen on : 57 to 65 FPS, average 59 FPS.



Notes:

1. Using FSR instead of DLSS yields slightly better performance when frame gen is off.

2. The game has two launch options: normal mode and compatibility mode. Using normal or compatibility did not have a notable difference in performance when using Low graphics preset on macOS Tahoe. On macOS Sequoia, the benchmark tool did not run in normal mode and compatibility mode has been used instead.

3. I tried running the benchmark tool in DX11 mode using DXMT (v0.72). It runs and DLSS can be enabled without frame gen. On the M4, the benchmark average with DXMT was 20% higher (47 FPS, DLSS set to quality). But there were some shadow flickering and late rendering of some objects.



Timeline:
00:00 Test setup (M4)
00:13 Graphics settings (M4)
00:39 Benchmark stars (M4)
03:21 Bechmark result 1 (M4)
03:31 Bechmark result 2 (M4)
03:41 Test setup (M4 Pro)
03:55 Graphics settings (M4 Pro)
04:20 Benchmark stars (M4 Pro)
07:00 Bechmark result 1 (M4 Pro)
07:10 Bechmark result 2 (M4 Pro)
07:20 Results summary