Gaming on the Apple SERVER? - XServe 3,1 - Summary

Summary

The summary is:

The speaker tries to turn an old Apple Xserve server into a gaming machine by upgrading its RAM and GPU. He encounters various challenges and bugs along the way, such as memory limitations, driver issues, and a dead hard drive. He manages to run some games on Mac OS, but with poor performance and compatibility. He laments the lack of gaming support from Apple and Nvidia, and hopes for a better future with the new game porting toolkit announced by Apple. He also promotes the sponsor Grammarly Go and its features.

Facts

Here are some key facts extracted from the text:

1. The text is a transcript of a video where the speaker tries to game on an Apple Xserve, the last server that Apple released for their commercial and education customers.
2. The Apple Xserve has eight processing cores, 64 GB of RAM, and a Titan X Black GPU installed via a PCIe riser.
3. The speaker encounters various challenges and bugs while trying to run games on Mac OS 10.11, such as black screens, input lag, memory errors, and unsupported drivers.
4. The speaker mentions that Steam will stop running on Mac OS 10.11 in 76 days, and that Nvidia cards haven't had support in almost 10 years.
5. The speaker also mentions that Apple announced a game porting toolkit at WWDC 2023 that could improve the gaming experience on Macs.
6. The text ends with a sponsor message for Grammarly Go, a generative AI assistant that helps with writing and communication.