Asahi Lina (朝日リナ) // nullptr::live (@lina@vt.social)
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Attached: 1 image ✨ We got a bunch of Steam games to run on Asahi Linux!!! ✨ Most of them run at a solid 60FPS and all of them are playable on my M2 Pro~ 🚀 All running on a krun microVM with FEX and full TSO support 💪 I was not expecting Party Animals to run! That's a DX11 game, running with the classic WineD3D on our OpenGL 4.6 driver! 🤯 Watch the stream: ▶️ https://youtube.com/live/JT9a_MrFV18
  • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    So how does that work given that most Steam games are x86/x64 and the M2 is an ARM processor? Does it emulate an x86 CPU? Isn’t that slow, given that it’s an entirely different architecture, or is there some kind of secret sauce?

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      39·
      2 months ago

      Emulation.

      Definitely going to incur a performance hit relative to native code, but in principle it could be perfectly good. It’s not like the GPU is running x86 code in the first place. On macOS, Apple provides Rosetta to run x86 Mac apps, and it’s very, very good. Not sure how FEX compares.

      • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nlEnglish
        342·
        2 months ago

        The post doesn’t answer the questions, it’s why I asked.

        It says:

        All running on a krun microVM with FEX and full TSO support 💪

        I was not expecting Party Animals to run! That’s a DX11 game, running with the classic WineD3D on our OpenGL 4.6 driver!

        Now I know some of these words, but it does not answer my question.