Rosetta needed for a MacBook Air M2?

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Rosetta needed for a MacBook Air M2?

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I'm asked to install rosetta in order to open Factorio on a MacBook Air M2 - is this correct?

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Yes. Factorio is an x64 application - M2 chips are ARM based. Rosetta is needed to emulate x64.

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Silari wrote:
Mon Sep 19, 2022 12:41 am
Yes. Factorio is an x64 application - M2 chips are ARM based. Rosetta is needed to emulate x64.
Thanks - does Factorio run well under rosetta?
A bought a MacBook Air M2 only bcs my old MacBook Pro 2016 couldn't run Factorio anymore efficiently :D
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If you search there are posts from other people on the M1 chips where it ran fine - pretty equivalent to comparable Intel-based macs IIRC. Don't think I've seen anyone post about results with an M2, but I doubt it'll be bad.

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