Merge pull request #10714 from OatmealDome/macos-mojave-bump

BuildMacOSUniversalBinary: Bump minimum macOS to 10.14

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/Source/Core/VideoCommon/VideoBackendBase.cpp b/Source/Core/VideoCommon/VideoBackendBase.cpp
index 7136545c25..3a2eafd025 100644
--- a/Source/Core/VideoCommon/VideoBackendBase.cpp
+++ b/Source/Core/VideoCommon/VideoBackendBase.cpp
@@ -215,10 +215,7 @@ const std::vector<std::unique_ptr<VideoBackendBase>>& VideoBackendBase::GetAvail
     std::vector<std::unique_ptr<VideoBackendBase>> backends;
 
     // OGL > D3D11 > D3D12 > Vulkan > SW > Null
-    //
-    // On macOS Mojave and newer, we prefer Vulkan over OGL due to outdated drivers.
-    // However, on macOS High Sierra and older, we still prefer OGL due to its older Metal version
-    // missing several features required by the Vulkan backend.
+    // On macOS, we prefer Vulkan over OpenGL due to OpenGL support being deprecated by Apple.
 #ifdef HAS_OPENGL
     backends.push_back(std::make_unique<OGL::VideoBackend>());
 #endif
@@ -228,17 +225,11 @@ const std::vector<std::unique_ptr<VideoBackendBase>>& VideoBackendBase::GetAvail
 #endif
 #ifdef HAS_VULKAN
 #ifdef __APPLE__
-    // If we can run the Vulkan backend, emplace it at the beginning of the vector so
-    // it takes precedence over OpenGL.
-    if (__builtin_available(macOS 10.14, *))
-    {
-      backends.emplace(backends.begin(), std::make_unique<Vulkan::VideoBackend>());
-    }
-    else
+    // Emplace the Vulkan backend at the beginning so it takes precedence over OpenGL.
+    backends.emplace(backends.begin(), std::make_unique<Vulkan::VideoBackend>());
+#else
+    backends.push_back(std::make_unique<Vulkan::VideoBackend>());
 #endif
-    {
-      backends.push_back(std::make_unique<Vulkan::VideoBackend>());
-    }
 #endif
 #ifdef HAS_OPENGL
     backends.push_back(std::make_unique<SW::VideoSoftware>());