Have I had any app compatibility issues? To quote Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3, Line 87: "No."

The Prism binary emulation for x86 apps that don't have an ARM equivalent has been stellar with near-native performance (better than Rosetta in macOS). And I've tried some really obscure stuff!

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GeekyBear 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's certainly not what the reviews say.

Adobe apps that ran fine on Rosetta didn't work at all on Prism.

https://www.pcmag.com/articles/how-well-does-windows-on-arms...

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Derbasti 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same here. I've not had any issues with my Surface Pro 11.

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tobias3 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For me it is too slow to run Age of Empires 2: DE multiplayer. More than ten year old Laptops with Intel chips are faster there.

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nulld3v 13 hours ago | parent [-]

I suspect that's due to the GPU and not due to Prism, because they basically just took a mobile GPU and stuffed it into a laptop chip. Generally performance seems to be on par with whatever a typical flagship Android devices can do.

Desktop games that have mobile ports generally seem to run well, emulation is pretty solid too (e.g. Dolphin). Warcraft III runs OK-ish.

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zamadatix 12 hours ago | parent [-]

The GPUs don't go toe-to-toe with current gen desktop GPUs but they should be significantly better than the GTX 650, a mid range desktop GPU from 2012, the game (2019) lists as recommended. It does sound like something odd is going on than just lack of hardware.

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Snapdragon+X+...

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeForce+GTX+6...

	▲	nulld3v 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There are also some architectural differences between mobile & desktop GPUs which may impact games that are not optimized for the platform: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/the-snapdragon-x-elites-adreno-...
	▲	TiredOfLife 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That something odd is called GPU drivers. Even Intel struggled (they recently announced that they are dropping all gpu driver older than Alchemist development) to get games running on their iGpus