• effward@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    In 2023, the most talked-about game of the year was a CRPG with turn-based combat

    What game are they referring to? I like turn-based games, and would always love to find another good one.

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    11 months ago

    Fingers crossed for some ARM devices running PC games through user-space shenanigans. Basically emulating the stuff Proton doesn’t handle - or hand off to the GPU. They won’t play the newest games any time soon, but a $60 gizmo might run Hades for two hours.

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      11 months ago

      Box86 has been in the works for this. They emulate x86 instructions for the program itself, but use native ARM versions of major Linux libraries like the C standard library, SDL, OpenGL, etc. That way a lot of overhead is eliminated, especially for programs that aren’t CPU intensive

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        11 months ago

        Box86, FEX-Emu, and qemu-user are vying for that user-space emulation… space. It’s gonna be fascinating watching the winner shake out.

        Though for gaming, all of them seem to share Dolphin/ARM’s primary obstacle, which is that SOC drivers blow.