[Retr0id]

What makes you think Windows is dropping support for x86 binaries?

[blueflow]

Because instruction set emulation is generally pretty slow.

[drvdevd]

I haven’t done any objective tests but I frequently run Windows 11 on ARM via Parallels on macOS and - it’s kinda insane (subjectively) how fast it is. Emulated x86 code is pretty fast there as well - I can easily get a solid 60 FPS on some x86 steam games as well.

[blueflow]

60 FPS for some steam games, very nice. Now lets see how fast an x86 electron app runs.

[Retr0id]

I used Discord in Rosetta 2 for a while before there was a proper aarch64 build, it was fine.

[gedy]

Isn't the point of electron to be cross platform? (I get a company may have not released an ARM build or wherever, but seems an odd choice for emulated performance comparison)

[bboygravity]

Yes, the idea is that it runs equally slow with massive RAM useage independent of platform.

[meepmorp]

It works surprisingly well for x86 electron apps. It's kind of amazing how fast and bug free it is, in general.

[Ekaros]

Some steam games? What steam games? Cyberpunk 2077? Starfield?

[Retr0id]

GTA V (admittedly not a very modern title anymore) is very playable on Apple Silicon systems, you can find plenty of demo footage on youtube.

[drvdevd]

I don’t have a good list of which games I validated in parallels and which I didn’t (since I’ve stopped gaming for the last 6 months or so).

And I do heavily play boomer shooters so it’s likely I was impressed by performance of less demanding games.

Doom Eternal is one AAA game I definitely would want to play in Parallels but can’t because the Vulkan version is not new enough. I’m confident though that Microsoft could bring these APIs up-to-date on an “ARM PC” though, if it has capable 3D hardware.

[Retr0id]

It's slower than native, but that hardly seems like a reason for Windows to remove their emulation features entirely.

[flohofwoe]

It works really well on macOS though.