I'm encountering a build failure when trying to install the Game Porting Toolkit via Homebrew. The installation fails during the game-porting-toolkit-compiler dependency build phase with a CMake compatibility error.
Error Message:
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:3 (cmake_minimum_required):
Compatibility with CMake < 3.5 has been removed from CMake.
Update the VERSION argument <min> value. Or, use the <min>...<max> syntax
to tell CMake that the project requires at least <min> but has been updated
to work with policies introduced by <max> or earlier.
Or, add -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 to try configuring anyway.
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
Environment:
macOS: 15.6.1 (Sequoia)
Homebrew: 5.0.1
CMake: 3.20.2
Architecture: x86_64 (via Rosetta)
Formula: apple/apple/game-porting-toolkit-compiler v0.1
Source: crossover-sources-22.1.1.tar.gz
Steps to Reproduce:
Install x86_64 Homebrew for Rosetta compatibility
Run: arch -x86_64 /usr/local/bin/brew install apple/apple/game-porting-toolkit
Build fails during dependency installation
Root Cause:
The LLVM/Clang sources included in crossover-sources-22.1.1.tar.gz contain a CMakeLists.txt file that specifies a minimum CMake version lower than 3.5. Modern CMake versions (3.5+) have removed backward compatibility with these older version requirements.
Potential Solutions:
Update the Homebrew formula to patch the CMakeLists.txt with cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5) or higher
Update to newer CrossOver sources with updated CMake requirements
Add the -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 flag to the CMake build command in the formula
Is this a known issue? Are there plans to update the formula or the source package to resolve this compatibility problem? Any guidance on a workaround would be appreciated.
Full log available at: /Users/kentarovadney/Library/Logs/Homebrew/game-porting-toolkit-compiler/02.cmake.log
Thanks for any assistance!
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Hi
Looking at the documentation for screenSpaceAmbientOcclusionIntensity, I noticed that it says this is supported on visionOS 1.0+: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/scenekit/scncamera/screenspaceambientocclusionintensity
Could someone enlighten me as to how that would work? As far as I know, we don't use an SCNCamera on visionOS. So, what's the idea here? Can we activate SSAO on visionOS?
How can one match the walls and floor of a given CapturedRoom ?
The transform.eulerAngles of a floor z & y are always 0 !
And the polygons seems to have a different orientation than the walls.
So how to figure out the rotation and match the one from the walls ?
Hi,
seems MSL is missing support for a clock() shader instruction available in other graphics APIs like Vulkan or OpenGL for example..
useful for counting cost in number of clock cycles of some code insider shader with much finer granularity than launching a micro kernel with same instructions and measuring cycles cost from CPU..
also useful for MoltenVK to support that extensions..
thanks..
Since macOS 15.3.2, we have observed that when another window is moved near the App Store's install button, the button disappears.
We have attached a related video in the Feedback submission here https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/feedback/20444423
Our application overlays a transparent, watermark-window on top of the system window, which causes the install button in the App Store to be hidden when a user attempts to install an application.Could you advise on how to avoid this issue?
I have run into an issue where I am trying to use atomic_float in a swift package but I cannot get things to compile because it appears that the Swift Package Manager doesn't support Metal 3 (atomic_float is Metal 3 functionality). Is there any way around this? I am using
// swift-tools-version: 6.1
and my Metal code includes:
#include <metal_stdlib>
#include <metal_geometric>
#include <metal_math>
#include <metal_atomic>
using namespace metal;
kernel void test(device atomic_float* imageBuffer [[buffer(1)]],
uint id [[ thread_position_in_grid ]]) {
}
But I get an error on the definition of atomic_float .
Any help, one more importantly, where I could have found this information about this limitation, would be helpful.
-RadBobby
Topic:
Graphics & Games
SubTopic:
Metal
I'm trying to position an Entity with inverse kinematics while dragging the handle only, but use forward kinematics (pose jointTransforms) otherwise.
The System, Components, Gestures and Rig all seem to work individually.
My approach is to add the IKComponent when dragging starts on the handle and removing the IKComponent it is released.
The switch into IK works, but when removing the IKComponent the App crashes
* thread #1, queue = 'com.apple.main-thread', stop reason = EXC_BAD_ACCESS (code=1, address=0x8)
* frame #0: 0x00000001aa5bb188 CoreRE`(anonymous namespace)::IKComponentSolverWrapper::getSolver() + 60
frame #1: 0x00000001aa5bafb0 CoreRE`re::internal::ikParametersNodeCallback(re::Slice<re::StringID>, re::Slice<re::RigDataValue>, re::Slice<re::StringID>, re::MutableSlice<re::RigDataValue>, void*) + 48
frame #2: 0x00000001aa52d090 CoreRE`re::(anonymous namespace)::resolveEvaluationContextCallback(re::EvaluationContext&, void*) + 152
frame #3: 0x00000001aa68c024 CoreRE`re::(anonymous namespace)::$_76::__invoke(re::Slice<unsigned long>, re::(anonymous namespace)::RegisterTable&) + 1080
frame #4: 0x00000001aa678c94 CoreRE`re::EvaluationModelSingleThread::evaluate(re::EvaluationContextSlices&) + 1188
frame #5: 0x00000001aa866984 CoreRE`re::SkeletalPoseRuntimeData::executeEvaluationTree() + 136
frame #6: 0x00000001aadf37ec CoreRE`re::ecs2::SkeletalPoseComponent::calculateSkeletalPoseBufferWithRig(re::ecs2::MeshComponent*, re::ecs2::RigComponent*, re::ecs2::SkeletalPoseBufferComponent*) + 492
frame #7: 0x00000001aadf4a84 CoreRE`re::ecs2::SkeletalPoseComponentStateImpl::processPreparingComponents(re::ecs2::System::UpdateContext const&, re::ecs2::BasicComponentStateSceneData<re::ecs2::SkeletalPoseComponent>*, re::ecs2::ComponentBuckets<re::ecs2::SkeletalPoseComponent>::BucketIteration, void*) + 268
frame #8: 0x00000001aadf54b0 CoreRE`re::ecs2::SkeletalPoseSystem::update(re::ecs2::System::UpdateContext) const + 732
frame #9: 0x00000001aaed3e54 CoreRE`re::internal::Callable<re::ecs2::ECSManager::configurePhaseECSSystems(re::Scheduler::ScheduleDescriptor&, re::ecs2::ECSSystemGroup, unsigned long)::$_1, void (float)>::operator()(float&&) const + 168
frame #10: 0x00000001ab40eda4 CoreRE`re::Scheduler::executePhase(unsigned long) + 440
frame #11: 0x00000001aa6a3b74 CoreRE`re::Engine::executePhase(re::FramePhase) + 144
frame #12: 0x000000023173de9c RealitySystemSupport`RCPSharedSimulationExecuteUpdate + 64
frame #13: 0x00000002276c9820 MRUIKit`__65-[MRUISharedSimulation _doJoinWithConnectionConfiguration:error:]_block_invoke.35 + 168
frame #14: 0x00000002276c8530 MRUIKit`__addCAPreFenceHandler_block_invoke + 32
frame #15: 0x000000018af22058 QuartzCore`CA::Transaction::run_commit_handlers(CATransactionPhase) + 112
frame #16: 0x000000018aef2ad4 QuartzCore`CA::Context::commit_transaction(CA::Transaction*, double, double*) + 592
frame #17: 0x000000018af21898 QuartzCore`CA::Transaction::commit() + 652
frame #18: 0x000000018af22dac QuartzCore`CA::Transaction::flush_as_runloop_observer(bool) + 68
frame #19: 0x0000000185a26820 UIKitCore`_UIApplicationFlushCATransaction + 48
frame #20: 0x0000000184f97af0 UIKitCore`_UIUpdateSequenceRun + 76
frame #21: 0x0000000185954290 UIKitCore`schedulerStepScheduledMainSection + 168
frame #22: 0x00000001859536d8 UIKitCore`runloopSourceCallback + 80
frame #23: 0x00000001804157fc CoreFoundation`__CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 24
frame #24: 0x0000000180415744 CoreFoundation`__CFRunLoopDoSource0 + 172
frame #25: 0x0000000180414eb0 CoreFoundation`__CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 232
frame #26: 0x000000018040f454 CoreFoundation`__CFRunLoopRun + 788
frame #27: 0x000000018040ecd4 CoreFoundation`CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 552
frame #28: 0x0000000190104b70 GraphicsServices`GSEventRunModal + 160
frame #29: 0x0000000185a27e30 UIKitCore`-[UIApplication _run] + 796
frame #30: 0x0000000185a2c058 UIKitCore`UIApplicationMain + 124
frame #31: 0x00000001d29558b4 SwiftUI`closure #1 (Swift.UnsafeMutablePointer<Swift.Optional<Swift.UnsafeMutablePointer<Swift.Int8>>>) -> Swift.Never in SwiftUI.KitRendererCommon(Swift.AnyObject.Type) -> Swift.Never + 164
frame #32: 0x00000001d29555dc SwiftUI`SwiftUI.runApp<τ_0_0 where τ_0_0: SwiftUI.App>(τ_0_0) -> Swift.Never + 84
frame #33: 0x00000001d265ecdc SwiftUI`static SwiftUI.App.main() -> () + 164
frame #34: 0x000000010303f1c4 Playground.debug.dylib`static PlaygroundApp.$main() at <compiler-generated>:0
frame #35: 0x000000010303f290 Playground.debug.dylib`main at PlaygroundApp.swift:7:8
frame #36: 0x0000000102f6d410 dyld_sim`start_sim + 20
frame #37: 0x000000010312e274 dyld`start + 2840
Is there a workaround or another way to switch between IK and FK?
Topic:
Graphics & Games
SubTopic:
RealityKit
Hello!
I'm a developer working on a plugin for the Elgato Stream Deck, called GPU Metrics. The plugin currently only works on Windows but I'd like to bring it to macOS. However, based on forum posts I've read (and StackOverflow) there isn't a very clear path to query GPU metrics like usage, temperature, used GPU memory, and power consumption. There are some tools out there that do similar things, but I wanted to see what would be the recommendation from Apple's engineering team to get this data via a public API.
Requirements:
Access GPU utilization, temperature, memory usage, power usage
C/C++ based API for querying the metrics so I can expose the data to JavaScript via Node Addon
No need to compatibile with Intel-based Macs, as Apple silicon will be fine for now
Plugin GitHub
Thank you!
Noah
I am puzzled by the setAddress(_:attributeStride:index:) of MTL4ArgumentTable. Can anyone please explain what the attributeStride parameter is for? The doc says that it is "The stride between attributes in the buffer." but why?
Who uses this for what? On the C++ side in the shaders the stride is determined by the C++ type, as far as I know. What am I missing here?
Thanks!
When running on my iPhone SE3 under IOS 18.4.1, achievement banners show as expected. The same code running on my iPad Air2 under IOS 15.8.4, achievement banners do not show, but they are accepted (as shown in the GameCenterViewController). The banners also don't show when running the simulator under iPhone 16 Pro Max under IOS 18.2 or simulator under iPhone SE3 under IOS 18.3. I haven't tried others. [Note that I clear the achievements each run during test so that I can duplicate this]
Topic:
Graphics & Games
SubTopic:
GameKit
Context
I’m deploying large language models on iPhone using llama.cpp. A new iPhone Air (12 GB RAM) reports a Metal MTLDevice.recommendedMaxWorkingSetSize of 8,192 MB, and my attempt to load Llama-2-13B Q4_K (~7.32 GB weights) fails during model initialization.
Environment
Device: iPhone Air (12 GB RAM)
iOS: 26
Xcode: 26.0.1
Build: Metal backend enabled llama.cpp
App runs on device (not Simulator)
What I’m seeing
MTLCreateSystemDefaultDevice().recommendedMaxWorkingSetSize == 8192 MiB
Loading Llama-2-13B Q4_K (7.32 GB) fails to complete. Logs indicate memory pressure / allocation issues consistent with the 8 GB working-set guidance.
Smaller models (e.g., 7B/8B with similar quantization) load and run (8B Q4_K provide around 9 tokens/second decoding speed).
Questions
Is 8,192 MB an expected recommendedMaxWorkingSetSize on a 12 GB iPhone?
What values should I expect on other 2025 devices including iPhone 17 (8 GB RAM) and iPhone 17 Pro (12 GB RAM)
Is it strictly enforced by Metal allocations (heaps/buffers), or advisory for best performance/eviction behavior?
Can a process practically exceed this for long-lived buffers without immediate Jetsam risk?
Any guidance for LLM scenarios near the limit?
I’ve been trying to run Jurassic World Evolution 2 using the Game Porting Toolkit on macOS, but the game doesn’t launch and crashes immediately. Based on the error and research, it seems the issue is related to missing support for D3D12_TILED_RESOURCES_TIER_2 in the Metal API.
If this is the case, does anyone know if support for tiled resources is planned for future updates of the toolkit? Or are there any potential workarounds for bypassing this limitation?
I have a question I guess more for the Apple team.
But why are there no totally 3D experiences for the Vision Pro lineup?
I know they have given us tools to implement unity 3D games into iPhone and I guess you can also build it in RealityKit. But why at this moment are 3D games limited to just iPad and iPhone and can't you bring that into Vision Pro?
Just to explain. When I say a totally 3D game, I mean games like Gorn. I mean the Vision Pro is definitely powerful enough, but it just feels limited to tabletop games and AR games.
Is this something Apple is thinking about implementing?
Topic:
Graphics & Games
SubTopic:
RealityKit
Tags:
ARKit
Reality Composer
RealityKit
Reality Composer Pro
GKAccessPoint triggerAccessPointWithState handler not invoked on iOS 26.0 and iOS 15.8.4
Incorrect/Unexpected Behaviour:
When calling [GKAccessPoint.shared triggerAccessPointWithState:GKGameCenterViewControllerStateAchievements handler:^{}] on a real device running iOS 26 beta (iOS 26), the overlay appears as expected, but the handler block is never called. This behavior also not working correctly on previous iOS versions(tested on iOS 15.8.4)
Steps to Reproduce:
Authenticate GKLocalPlayer
Call triggerAccessPointWithState:handler: with a block that logs or performs logic
Observe that overlay appears, but block is not executed
Behavior:
UI appears correctly
Handler is not invoked at all
Expected Result:
The handler should fire immediately after the dashboard is shown.
Actual Result:
The handler is never called.
Usecase:
As GKGameCenterViewController is deprecated we are moving to GKAccesspoint but due to above functionality issue we are unable to.
Environment:
Device: iPhone 16, iPhone 7
iOS: 26.0 and iOS 15.8.4
Xcode: 26.0 beta and Xcode 16.4
我们想在游戏类 App 内接入 Game Center。用户可以在游戏内创建多个角色,若用户在游戏内创建了2个角色:角色1、角色2,请问:
当用户将角色1与 Game Center 绑定后,数据将上报至 Game Center。此时玩家想要将角色1与 Game Center 解除绑定,解绑后,再将角色2与 Game Center 绑定。那么这时角色1的数据是留存在 Game Center 中,还是将被移除?
We have a macOS app (not yet released, but in use by ourselves), that provides scoreboards for streaming sport events.
Today it is expected, that there are nice animations for goals, etc. We are streaming using NDI, which requires a CVPixelBuffer for each frame.
We currently create these animations using CABasicAnimation, CAAnimation and CAKeyframeAnimation. In addition we use ScreenCaptureKit to generate the frames.
This works fine with 25/30 fps, as long as the window where our animations are performed in is visible. But this is not what it should be. We have a smaller window as main app window and control display performing the animations in reduced size, while the streaming animations need to be in HD format and later maybe in 4K.
When using an offscreen window, the animations are not calculated. We get 1 frame per second or so. So we actually have to connect an external display to the MacBook and open the large windows there. Ugly solution.
Do we use a completely wrong approach? Or is there a way to tell the macOS to perform the animations although it is an offscreen window?
If it cannot work that way, what is an alternative?
After watching WWDC 2025 session "Combine Metal 4 machine learning and graphics", I have decided to give it a shot to integrate the latest MTL4MachineLearningCommandEncoder to my existing render pipeline. After a lot of trial and errors, I managed to set up the pipeline and have the app compiled.
However, I am now stuck on creating a MTLLibrary with .mtlpackage.
Here is the code I have to create a MTLLibrary according the WWDC session https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/262/?time=550:
let coreMLFilePath = bundle.path(forResource: "my_model", ofType: "mtlpackage")!
let coreMLURL = URL(string: coreMLFilePath)!
do {
metalDevice.makeLibrary(URL: coreMLURL)
} catch {
print("error: \(error)")
}
With the above code, I am getting error:
Error Domain=MTLLibraryErrorDomain Code=1 "Invalid metal package" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Invalid metal package}
What is the correct way to create a MTLLibrary with .mtlpackage? Do I see this error because the .mtlpackage I am using is incorrect? How should I go with debugging this?
I'd really appreciate if I could get some help on this as I have been stuck with it for some time now. Thanks in advance!
Hello Apple team,
I'm working on an iOS AR app using SwiftUI and RealityKit,
and I was wondering if the Cinematic API can be used with a RealityKit scene. I’d like to achieve a shallow depth of field while keeping the 3D asset in focus, and vice versa.
Thanks!
Hello everyone and thank you for you're time!
I got an issue with uploading several icons to testflight. I'm using Game Maker Studio as my engine for the game.
This is the error that I'm getting, even when I try to use the old icons for the game, that worked in the past. I tried to transform the icons, using this site "https://makeappicon.com/", but I still got the same validation error. Can you help me fixing the issue - thank you so much!
Hello,
I found an issue with the Games app on macOS 26 (Tahoe) when viewing achievements:
In App Store Connect, each achievement has different values set for the pre-earned description and the post-earned description.
When testing with GameKit directly (GKAchievementDescription), both values are returned correctly.
However, in the macOS Games app, the post-earned description is shown even before the achievement is earned.
This seems to be a display issue specific to the Games app on macOS.
Could you confirm if this is a known bug in the Games app, or if there is a reason why pre-earned descriptions are not being shown?
Thank you.