[STEAM] Microsoft’s new emulator could bring more games to Windows on Arm

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is testing a big Windows on Arm update to let more x64 software and games run under Prism emulation on

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or X Plus processors. The capability comes as part of the

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, rolling out to testers in the Canary Channel.

This way, Qualcomm’s new chips can run more kinds of apps that don’t have native ARM64 versions and, until now, weren’t usable with emulation. It could even enable

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and Helldivers 2, to work on Windows on Arm.

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’s emulator will open up support for 64-bit x86 software to use processor extensions like AVX, AVX2, BMI, FMA, and F16C. However, it says 32-bit software still won’t...

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