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Re: AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux

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How well do soulsbornes run on windows anyway? My strong conviction is that From is pretty much technically inept when it comes to Windows ports so I just play their titles on console... An emulated title that is in itself a not so great port will have trouble ofc...

it works on asahi without issue. that is with x86 to arm translation, directx to vulkan translation, windows to linux translation and 4k page to 16k page translation running in a virtual machine. as for how well fromsoft games run on windows you might have been right 12 years ago when dark souls 1 came out initially. it was a mess at the time, but souls games have been running just fine on windows(and linux for that…

> you might have been right 12 years ago when dark souls 1 came out initially

When it came out initially for windows I had already done two playthroughs so just did ... not ... care. I just read it's a crap port in the news.

> souls games have been running just fine on windows(and linux for that matter) for years

Maybe. For like 4 years I ran my PCs without a dedicated video card because crypto and chip crisis. The whole PS5 with an extra controller cost less than an equivalent PC video card at the time :)

[I do have a video card now, but only because someone paid me to write neural network code.]

Re: AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux

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What's the status of the game porting kit? The last time I used it to get a game running, it proved to be a bit of a miserable slog (to be fair, I was trying to run UnityModManager for a CRPG).

I just tried it the other day with Counter-Strike 2. Worked with no bugs using Whisky: https://getwhisky.app/

thank you, I'll check this out!
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