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Asahi Linux: AAA Gaming Emulation on Apple Silicon

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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Dasnap@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://asahilinux.org/2024/10/aaa-gaming-on-asahi-linux/

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  • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Impressive! I thought emulation would be embarrassingly slow - my attempts to get Windows VMs running on macOS on Apple Silicon resulted in single-digit FPS just rendering the desktop. What dark arts are they conducting?

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    • stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      FEX redirects graphics library calls to their native equivalents. This substantially reduces the amount of translated code you need to execute.

      slp did a nice demo at KVM Forum last month. …qemu.org/…/The_many_faces_of_virtio-gpu_F4XtKDi.… andhttps://youtu.be/10Ztv0UI5I0?si=19KPcA6wGbXM3I…

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      • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s ridiculously cool. Really appreciate you sharing that.

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  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What a legendary team. Will the graphic performance take advantage of the powerful mac GPU?

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  • slug@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    so is there a way to try asahi on my m1 macbook without overwriting my macos install?

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    • smud@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, asahi always installs to a separate partition so your base os shouldn’t be affected

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      • slug@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        and it’s easily reversible from macOS’s perspective? i’m familiar enough with partition OS installs (remember boot camp?) but there’s so many new security “features” these days

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