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Metal 3 API for Minecraft Java

With the recent WWDC event from Apple (June 6th 2022) Apple announced Metal 3 and two new APIs for gaming. Metal 3 allows faster and better performance games on Apple Silicon (A Series & M Series Chips). Metal 3 allows better performance in games while using less of the GPU’s power, making Metal 3 essential for performance in Minecraft. A new API called “MetalFX Upscaling” does the following: “Render complex scenes in less time per frame with high-performance upscaling and anti-aliasing. Choose a combination of temporal or spatial algorithms to help boost performance.” Another API introduced is “Fast Resource Loading API” which allows game loading to be faster. Allowing faster world creations for Minecraft. Some other features of Metal 3 from Apple are; Improved Raytracing Support and Efficiency, Offline Shade Compilation (The compiler can generate GPU binaries at project build time to eliminate in-app shader compilation, helping games improve performance and reduce load times) and Metal Backend for PyTorch (The new Metal backend in PyTorch version 1.12 enables high-performance, GPU-accelerated training using MPS Graph and the Metal Performance Shaders primitives) Overall, I think if Mojang were to make Minecraft run a lot better on Mac while increasing performance and also introducing new features to the Game, Metal 3 and it’s new APIs are the way to go. Look forward for Metal 3 to added to Minecraft Java Edition.
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    It will take so much time to migrate the graphics engine to Metal 3 (no cost-benefits from my POV), besides it will drag many bugs on the process and newer content will be delayed. Apple its the principal culprit here to deprecate the newer versions of OpenGL for MacOS & iOS ecosystems. I'd suggest to try this type of migration with the Bedrock Edition cause they've change the render engine to Render Dragon, who knows maybe it will be available for MacOS and Linux systems coming soon.

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    While Mojang/Microsoft is more likely to use Metal APIs in Bedrock if they ever bring that to Mac (or at least implement it for iOS & iPadOS), the improvements in Metal 3 might make translation layers like MoltenVK or MoltenGL more functional, and thus useful, for Java edition. This would be more likely to be implemented by things like shader mods and alternative launchers than Mojang itself though, I would expect.

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    It would be hard, but they just need a dedicated team for optimisations. And it's good to support it for Mac as more people are switching to Apple Silicon Macs even from Windows because the performance per watt. They also don't need to rush this and slowly do it.

    Also with the latest version of LWJGL they should be able to do it.

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    good idea!

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    I don't think Microsoft is interested in updating the metal version of minecraft. how he doesn't care to port minecraft legends and dungeons to mac.

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    I want this to happen so that  I can have better performance on my Mac.