P.S. The Apple Silicon Studio’s performance is honestly very noticeable!
Then, all you got to do is open it, let it install, and enjoy!
Q/A
Q: Is this officially from Roblox?
A: Yes, Roblox owns rbxcdn.com, so you don’t need to worry if this is real or not. The
Q: Why is Roblox doing a slow rollout?
A: They want to make sure that there are no issues with the Apple Silicon version of Roblox.
Q: Will there be a Universal 2 version?
A: It is hard to say for sure, I would assume Roblox would do a Universal 2 version of Roblox, and they likely only compiled this version for Apple Silicon. Im sure there is a Universal version somewhere.
For future reference, here’s a quite simple process for manually fetching the latest from this new channel, yourself. (This only applies for MacPlayer/MacStudio; for Windows, you can use something simple like https://github.com/regginator/version-downloader, for downloading a specific deployment on a specific channel at any time)
Fetch the latest MacPlayer/MacStudio version hash for this channel (files on the setup S3 meant for legacy bootstappers, but they’re decent for quick demonstration) at /mac/arm64/version (Player) or /mac/arm64/versionStudio - https://setup.rbxcdn.com/channel/zmacarm64/mac/arm64/versionStudio
Simple as that! Do note, this is only the case for this channel, on Mac.
We’re also tracking each known channel for WindowsPlayer, WindowsStudio, MacPlayer, and MacStudio @ Latte Softworks
We’ve fairly well documented the rest of the important bg info w/ the setup S3 Bucket, but /mac/arm64/* being a sub-path hasn’t ever been a thing before this, lol.
I apologize, the previous link I provided for the complete RobloxStudio.zip file on S3 returned incorrect, due to the fact that I was using MacPlayer’s hash, and hadn’t replaced my example with MacStudio’s! This has been corrected. I had written that reply quite quickly…
The corrected link I’ve provided is the correct version hash, however, this is an A/B test for a reason; it may or may not have some issues here or there… I’m sure general issues will be fixed in following deployments! : )
And again, for future reference on new deployments, you can follow these basic steps for fetching latest.
I’ve been messing around with this build of Roblox Studio and I discovered that it contains the experimental DynamicMesh feature.
So I decided to benchmark my Marching Cubes Terrain System (which uses DynamicMesh) on this native apple silicon build in case anyone is interested.
The Test
I generates the same 5 x 5 x 5 grid of chunks 10 times and records the time it took to generate. 1271940 triangles and 621776 vertices are generated each iteration of the test. It should be noted that in this test each chunk is generated one after another.
local MarchedTerrain = require(game:GetService("ServerScriptService").MarchedTerrain)
local size, iterations = 5, 10
local function FindAvg(results: table)
local total = 0
for _,num in results do total += num end
return total / #results
end
local function RunTest()
local x = tick()
for x = 1, size do
for y = 0, -size, -1 do
for z = 1, size do
MarchedTerrain(x,y,z)
end
end
end
return tick() - x
end
local function Clean()
for _,child in workspace.Terrain:GetChildren() do
child:Destroy()
end
end
task.wait(10)
print("starting")
local results = table.create(iterations)
for i = 1, iterations do
print(`starting iteration {i}`)
local result = RunTest()
table.insert(results, result)
Clean()
print(`ended iteration {i}`)
task.wait(4)
end
print(`Average: {FindAvg(results)}`)
print("All Results: ", results)
My Specs
Apple M2 Max - 12 core CPU, 30 core GPU - 32GB RAM
Then to use the ARM-based version of Roblox, you would have to open the RobloxPlayer app instead of the Roblox App or join a game from the website.
(Every time you open the RobloxPlayer app, it would also update the Roblox app and gives you the Apple Silicon version of Roblox, but then it will kick you back with the Intel version)
Use RobloxPlayer if you want to have early access to ARM-based Roblox, if you also encounter the same problem as me.
This is because the dmg will give you the Roblox bootstrapper, which has a fixed channel that it is set to watch. As to my knowledge, it will only check the “LIVE” channel and nothing more, so its probably best if you ran the downloaded RobloxPlayer instead of the dmg bootstrapper…
System informations shows “iOS” instead of “Universal” or “Apple Silicon”. Does this mean I have the correct version? Just got my first Mac, and wanted to make sure I make use of the M2.
