Comment on Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games “to expand PC gaming” and release “ultraportables” in the future

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• fonix232@fedia.io ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You do realise that the same runtime that makes x86 games work on ARM, will also work for... drumroll please... regular software too?

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Uh no.

    Not the kinds of things I need to be able to do. There simply isn’t the support.

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    • ASoftGlow@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’ve made me most curious. What kinds of things? Low level?

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    • fonix232@fedia.io ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Tell me you haven't even tried Fex without telling me.

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The whole point of FEX is running x86 applications on ARM. Much like WINE, it won’t be limited to games.

  Valve phone? Nah. I’ll be surprised if you’re not able to run x86 Windows games using the Steam Android app though. You already can with GameNative and GameHub anyway.

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  • tea@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m completely a novice at understanding this, but is ARM battery efficient because of how it’s executables are compiled or is it battery efficient because of ARM chip architecture? I guess my question is if you run a comparability layer like this will the ARM chips still be as efficient running x86 programs and games?

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ARM is generally notorious for being power efficient but not necessarily. Won’t mean shit if your software isn’t properly optimized.

      Linux on ARM is generally much more efficient than x86, yes. But also often much less powerful. Apple seems to be the only one who has cracked this code thus far to unlock high power and also incredible efficiency.

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