{"id":150016,"date":"2025-11-20T11:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/150016\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:21:06","slug":"windows-on-arm-is-now-ready-for-gaming-thanks-to-some-big-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/150016\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows on Arm is now ready for gaming thanks to some big changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year Qualcomm promised that games would \u201cjust work\u201d on its Snapdragon X Elite laptops, but in my testing I found that was far from the case<\/a>. Now, a year on, Windows on Arm is a lot more ready for gaming, thanks to emulator improvements, driver updates, a new Snapdragon Control Panel, and Qualcomm\u2019s work on anti-cheat compatibility.<\/p>\n

Qualcomm is releasing its Snapdragon Control Panel<\/a> this week, which automatically detects games you\u2019ve installed on a Snapdragon X Elite laptop and then optimizes them. It\u2019s very similar to the apps that AMD and Nvidia use for their own GPUs, with settings for framerate caps, anti-aliasing, texture filtering, and much more.<\/p>\n

The Snapdragon Control Panel also allows you to install the latest Adreno GPU drivers, which are optimized for the latest games to improve stability and performance. Qualcomm says it has made fixes and improvements for more than 100 games since launch last year, with continued bug fixes for stability and performance.<\/p>\n

Alongside the Snapdragon Control Panel release, both Microsoft and Qualcomm have also made some significant changes to help PC gaming on Windows on Arm. Microsoft\u2019s Prism emulator now supports x86 Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX), which are required by many games and creative apps. Qualcomm\u2019s latest Snapdragon X2 Elite chips also support AVX2 emulation, and existing Snapdragon X series devices \u201cwill also receive the update in coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Microsoft has also updated its Xbox app on Windows on Arm recently to add the ability to download ARM64 compatible games<\/a>. When Copilot Plus PCs launched last year, the Xbox app was simply a portal to Xbox Cloud Gaming. It didn\u2019t have library or store options, so you couldn\u2019t use it to install games from PC Game Pass. That\u2019s all changed now.<\/p>\n

Qualcomm has also been working with Epic Games to get Fortnite running on Windows on Arm<\/a>, with full kernel-level anti-cheat support. You\u2019ll need the latest Adreno GPU driver to get Fortnite running, and Qualcomm says<\/a> it\u2019s also working with other anti-cheat providers like Tencent\u2019s Anti-Cheat Expert, Roblox\u2019s Hyperion, Denuvo, InProtect GameGuard, Uncheater, and BattleEye to enable more multiplayer games on Windows on Arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year Qualcomm promised that games would \u201cjust work\u201d on its Snapdragon X Elite laptops, but in my…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[213,61,60,1071,43,4411,216,80,23130],"class_list":["post-150016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gaming","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-microsoft","tag-news","tag-pc-gaming","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}