alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 10 months agoSnapdragon X Elite spotted running Baldur's Gate 3 at around 30fps, supporting claims that Windows games 'just work' on ARM chipwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down14
arrow-up138arrow-down1external-linkSnapdragon X Elite spotted running Baldur's Gate 3 at around 30fps, supporting claims that Windows games 'just work' on ARM chipwww.pcgamer.comalessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 10 months agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squareHubertManne@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoyeah I get that. im curious why this chip says its runs windows x86 right off the bat. at least that is what it sounds like to me from the article but maybe im misunderstanding. so it sounds to me like it has some sort of hardware emulation to x86.
minus-squaresmoothbrain coldtakes@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoIt does. Apple has Rosetta and Microsoft has Prism. They are effectively the same thing, being a translation layer for x86 to ARM.
yeah I get that. im curious why this chip says its runs windows x86 right off the bat. at least that is what it sounds like to me from the article but maybe im misunderstanding. so it sounds to me like it has some sort of hardware emulation to x86.
It does. Apple has Rosetta and Microsoft has Prism. They are effectively the same thing, being a translation layer for x86 to ARM.