macOS: washed-out or degraded in-game lighting on Apple Silicon

[Hannez23]

Hallo Together,

thank you very much for the progress you pushed further.

I tried both versions: metal and OpenGL. (both looks the same)
the game menu itself looks "normal"

Mac OS 26.6
MacBookPro M4 Max.
openq4 0.10.0

(I also tried set r_renderApi vulkan on both versions, than the game crashes on startup...)

I think that's a renderer issue, but I don't know what to change in the settings to fix this...

Has anyone a "normal" picture on a silicon Mac? Could you please put your [openQ4Config.cfg] file here.

[themuffinator]

hello again! good to see it's moving in the right direction for macos. a macos developer has reached out and seems eager to help develop the remaining support, watch this space!

[themuffinator]

This is now the canonical macOS visual-parity issue; the original startup-crash report #73 has been closed into it.

The attached image is byte-for-byte the same file previously posted from v0.9, so it is not fresh v0.10 evidence. v0.10 included 8632851a, which fixed an unnormalized half-angle that saturated stock specular and an over-broad deformed-surface test that sent CPU-skinned characters/viewmodels down the diffuse-only fallback. If current v0.10 still looks identical, the remaining cause is not established.

The “OpenGL” and “Metal bridge” packages looking the same is expected: gameplay in both still uses the OpenGL renderer. The Vulkan startup aside belongs to #95/#96.

Please attach:

1. a new image made with openQ4's registered screenshot command (not a macOS screen capture);
2. the current collect_macos_support_info.sh archive and full log;
3. the values/lines for r_appleARB2Interactions, r_forceAmbient, Quality profile, framebuffer attributes, and Apple GL 2.1 interaction routes.

Also try seta r_appleARB2Interactions 0 followed by vid_restart, then capture gfxInfo and the route counters. Those counters will distinguish a remaining interaction-shader problem from excessive simple-ARB fallback.

[Hannez23]

The ganeplay Look on v0.9 and v0.10 is more or less the Same.
I will put here the things you requested above in about 3 weeks. (Right now I am not at Home...).
Thank you very much!