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Snapdragon X Elite spotted running Baldur's Gate 3 at around 30fps, supporting claims that Windows games 'just work' on ARM chip(www.pcgamer.com)

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HubertManne@kbin.social
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I don’t get it. does the Snapdragon X Elite have some sort of hardware emulation built in then?

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Hydroel@lemmy.world
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I’m pretty sure Microsoft will be developing software emulation layer for Windows ARM, so it can support backwards compatibility on as many kinds of ARM processors as possible. But since Snapdragon is only claiming that this works on the X Elite, it’s either a matter of performance, or hardware restrictions?

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smoothbrain coldtakes@lemmy.ca
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Microsoft has a translation layer like Rosetta. It’s called Prism.

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HubertManne@kbin.social
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I dont’ see how it can run at all without some sort of emulation. the architecture is completely different.

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Roldyclark@literature.cafe
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The mac chips do this with rosetta

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