AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux

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Post by 6a74 » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 2:16 PM UTC

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Post by psanford » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 2:46 PM UTC

I'm a little sad that this has seemingly taken precedence over all other hardware support. M3 support, dp-alt mode, making the microphone work are all things that I was hoping were going to land in the past year.

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 3:55 PM UTC

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Post by anotherhue » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 4:03 PM UTC

Incredible work. May I also interest you in retrowin32 https://github.com/evmar/retrowin32/blob/main/README.md

Which is an attempt to collapse the stack so that fewer translation and virtualisation stages are needed.

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Post by bee_rider » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 4:05 PM UTC

The M-series chips from Apple have some special hardware to help emulate x86 with near-native performance, right? I wonder if they take advantage of those features (actually I forget exactly what the features were).

I mean this is an incredible achievement either way. Everything is emulated, but they are still running AAA games. Wow.

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Post by captn3m0 » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 4:23 PM UTC

bee_rider wrote: post #5

The M-series chips from Apple have some special hardware to help emulate x86 with near-native performance, right? I wonder if they take advantage of those features (actually I forget exactly what the features were). I mean this is an incredible achievement either way. Everything is emulated, but they are still running AAA games. Wow.

Rosetta 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)#Rosetta_2

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Post by spease » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 4:29 PM UTC

This is super cool.

So, wait, does this mean that gaming is better on Linux, on a Mac?

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Post by vyskocilm » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 4:29 PM UTC

bee_rider wrote: post #5

The M-series chips from Apple have some special hardware to help emulate x86 with near-native performance, right? I wonder if they take advantage of those features (actually I forget exactly what the features were). I mean this is an incredible achievement either way. Everything is emulated, but they are still running AAA games. Wow.

I believe libkrun is the tech behind.

https://fosstodon.org/@slp/113283657607783321

Sergio Lópéz has more info in his blog

https://sinrega.org/2024-03-06-enabling-containers-gpu-macos...

https://sinrega.org/2023-10-06-using-microvms-for-gaming-on-...

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Post by saagarjha » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 4:32 PM UTC

bee_rider wrote: post #5

The M-series chips from Apple have some special hardware to help emulate x86 with near-native performance, right? I wonder if they take advantage of those features (actually I forget exactly what the features were). I mean this is an incredible achievement either way. Everything is emulated, but they are still running AAA games. Wow.

No reason they can’t.

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Post by mikhael28 » Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 4:38 PM UTC

Fantastic! A great proof of concept on Linux - lots of AAA gaming is already possible on Mac with Crossover and/or Parallels or VMWare Personal, which is free! While I have a Steam Deck, gaming on Mac works for me - I refuse to play Baldurs Gate 3 on a controller.