Yup, FEX to translate x86 to ARM.
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Katana314@lemmy.world 18 hours agoI’m still a little curious how that will work for games. Are they going to somehow emulate Win32 amd64 games? Do devs have to recompile them in some new way? Will engines support it beyond Unity and Unreal?
Natanael@slrpnk.net 18 hours ago
baronvonj@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The Frame isn’t playing the games natively on its ARM chip. It’s just streaming audio/visual data from the PC and relaying the controller inputs back to the PC.
tal@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
That’s the normal mode of operation, but it can apparently also run games locally on thr Frame itself, which I guess gives people a portable — if less powerful — gaming option that they can haul around easily if they want.
baronvonj@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Hm, guess I missed that part, my bad.
charizardcharz@piefed.world 18 hours ago
It was mentioned in the LTT coverage. Aside from native ARM games they have a translation layer(FEX) to play x86 games on ARM. They'll have a "Verified" tag like the Steam Deck for compatibility. I assume you'll still be able to force trying to run unverified games.
Harvey656@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
That same video says that “Valve has heavily contributed to FEX”
charizardcharz@piefed.world 14 hours ago
Well, that shows how well I was paying attention to the video