Asahi Lina (朝日リナ) // nullptr::live (@lina@vt.social)
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Attached: 1 image ✨ We got a bunch of Steam games to run on Asahi Linux!!! ✨ Most of them run at a solid 60FPS and all of them are playable on my M2 Pro~ 🚀 All running on a krun microVM with FEX and full TSO support 💪 I was not expecting Party Animals to run! That's a DX11 game, running with the classic WineD3D on our OpenGL 4.6 driver! 🤯 Watch the stream: ▶️ https://youtube.com/live/JT9a_MrFV18
  • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nlEnglish
    381·
    1 month ago

    So how does that work given that most Steam games are x86/x64 and the M2 is an ARM processor? Does it emulate an x86 CPU? Isn’t that slow, given that it’s an entirely different architecture, or is there some kind of secret sauce?

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      39·
      1 month ago

      Emulation.

      Definitely going to incur a performance hit relative to native code, but in principle it could be perfectly good. It’s not like the GPU is running x86 code in the first place. On macOS, Apple provides Rosetta to run x86 Mac apps, and it’s very, very good. Not sure how FEX compares.

    • dsemy@lemm.eeEnglish
      630·
      1 month ago

      Why not click the link and find out? It’s literally a Mastodon post, you don’t even have to read much.

      • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nlEnglish
        352·
        1 month ago

        The post doesn’t answer the questions, it’s why I asked.

        It says:

        All running on a krun microVM with FEX and full TSO support 💪

        I was not expecting Party Animals to run! That’s a DX11 game, running with the classic WineD3D on our OpenGL 4.6 driver!

        Now I know some of these words, but it does not answer my question.

        • nxdefiant
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          1 month ago

          Man ,idk why everyone is being a dick to you. A MicroVM is a virtual machine that only emulates a small subset of an entire OS (a container basically). FEX is an x86 emulator. So yes, this is emulation.

          • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
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            1 month ago

            Thanks.

            FEX is an x86 emulator

            So my real question is really about this: common wisdom is that emulating a whole CPU architecture is a performance killer. Does that apply here, and are they just running games that can take the hit? Or phrased differently: given that it’s emulated, could this ever have near-native (CPU) performance, or nah?

            • nxdefiant
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              1 month ago

              Probably not, but it might be good enough. I’m not an expert in architecture emulation by any stretch, but it might work best for older games where modern performance is a non issue either way.

        • dsemy@lemm.eeEnglish
          630·
          1 month ago

          You asked how it works, the post states how it works. You also asked if it’s slow, which is clearly answered in the post (though you didn’t quote that part). You also asked if there’s some “secret sauce” allowing it to be fast, which is also a weird question since everything used is listed in the post.

          If something wasn’t clear to you, why not specifically ask about it? Even in this comment, you still don’t specify what you don’t understand. What kind of answer are you expecting to get?

        • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
          237·
          1 month ago

          You can Google the words you don’t know, and find out that it does in fact answer your question.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    8·
    1 month ago

    The Asahi team never fails to impress. You can support the project at their Patreon. You don’t need to care about Apple hardware to see the value in the work they’re doing getting ported over to ARM PCs. Who knows? You might be donating to the health of your preferred distro on a device you will own down the road.