CKIII and my 2017 MacBook Pro

Ive posted once before here, but have since also posted on the Paradox forum.

Basically, the game is unplayable at the moment, it drops frames, is unplayably laggy and choppy, especially after a crusade launched, it just cant handle it. I even tried turning every setting down as low as possible and it was the same result. Even tried uninstalling and reinstalling.

I have what was a fairly high end in 2017 MBP. It has 16GB ram and a dedicated AMD GPU (4GB). (I confess I’m not the most knowledgeable about computers) But my system on paper meets the required minimum specs that Paradox lists for this game, yet its essentially unplayable.

I posted on their forum, and initially a response was asking about my GPU (as the game is clearly not supported on the integrated graphics Macs) but I responded and have yet to get a response when I posted my machine’s specs.

So I’m stuck. Is it my hardware? Or is there actually a glitch that is just making this run poorly on Mac OS?

My question here is 1). Is anyone else having this problem? (Or have any insight to it?)

And 2). Would upgrading my laptop solve this problem?

To the 2nd point, if I went out and dropped an ungodly amount of money on the 2020 MBP with the maxed out GPU and processor, would this be overkill? Would it actually play this game? Would I be insanely overpaying for this one solution and would I just be better served by buying a windows laptop?

I am pretty heavily invested in the Mac ecosphere (iPhone, iPad, Watch...) I generally like the experience and don’t mind paying a premium to have nice gadgets. But I also want to play this game and want it to just work. Its been mentioned that I could try an eGPU, but honestly I feel like it would just be simpler to spend a little extra and just get a machine that can play the damn game. I haven’t tried boot camp yet (like for anything) so I could try that, but I still wonder if I would just be better served by upgrading nevertheless.

I know this is a lot of “what ifs” but if anyone has any insight, I’d love to hear from you.