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I’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?

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charizardcharz@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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- Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That same video says that “Valve has heavily contributed to FEX”
  
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  - charizardcharz@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Well, that shows how well I was paying attention to the video
    
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Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Yup, FEX to translate x86 to ARM.

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baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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- tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
  
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  - baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Hm, guess I missed that part, my bad.
    
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