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Dasnap@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

Asahi Linux: AAA Gaming Emulation on Apple Silicon

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Asahi Linux: AAA Gaming Emulation on Apple Silicon

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  • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works
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    Impressive! I thought emulation would be embarrassingly slow - my attempts to get Windows VMs running on macOS on Apple Silicon resulted in single-digit FPS just rendering the desktop. What dark arts are they conducting?

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      FEX redirects graphics library calls to their native equivalents. This substantially reduces the amount of translated code you need to execute.

      slp did a nice demo at KVM Forum last month. https://kvm-forum.qemu.org/2024/The_many_faces_of_virtio-gpu_F4XtKDi.pdf and https://youtu.be/10Ztv0UI5I0?si=19KPcA6wGbXM3IsS

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        That’s ridiculously cool. Really appreciate you sharing that.

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    What a legendary team. What can we expect in term of graphic performance? Will it take advantage of the powerful mac GPU if you have one? I ain’t no programmer but I admire what these people are doing with reverse engineering.

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    so is there a way to try asahi on my m1 macbook without overwriting my macos install?

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      Yes, asahi always installs to a separate partition so your base os shouldn’t be affected

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        and it’s easily reversible from macOS’s perspective? i’m familiar enough with partition OS installs (remember boot camp?) but there’s so many new security “features” these days

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          Yup it’s stupid simple. All you have to do is delete the linux partition and expand back the macos partition.

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