dLive Director Native Apple Silicon Support

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dLive Director currently runs exclusively as an Intel binary under Rosetta 2 emulation on Apple Silicon. While it functions correctly, the Rosetta translation layer generates significantly more CPU heat than a native Apple Silicon app would.

On an M4 MacBook Pro, dLive Director alone accounts for ~70% of a single core and — more critically — causes kernel_task (macOS’s thermal throttling mechanism) to inflate to ~40%.

With a native Apple Silicon build, the same workload would run cooler and more efficiently.
Would it be possible to add a Universal Binary (Intel + Apple Silicon) build to the roadmap for dLive Director? Even a beta would be greatly appreciated by the community.

Thank you for considering this.

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Rosetta is going away with MacOS 28 next year, so it’s time to port to native silicon anyway.

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If A&H is going to be digging into the underlying code of the Director software to include ARM support for Apple silicon, it would be great if they included ARM processor support for Windows too. There are a lot of Windows laptops out there with ARM processors (like the Qualcomm Snapdragon processors), that A&H doesn’t support either.

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