Asahi Linux: AAA Gaming Emulation on Apple Silicon (asahilinux.org)
from Dasnap@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world on 11 Oct 08:42
https://lemmy.world/post/20732007

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fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works on 11 Oct 10:05 next collapse

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?

stsquad@lemmy.ml on 11 Oct 11:23 collapse

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. …qemu.org/…/The_many_faces_of_virtio-gpu_F4XtKDi.… and youtu.be/10Ztv0UI5I0?si=19KPcA6wGbXM3IsS

fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works on 11 Oct 12:50 collapse

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

Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works on 11 Oct 14:25 next collapse

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.

slug@lemmy.world on 11 Oct 18:25 collapse

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

smud@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 05:23 next collapse

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

slug@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 16:59 collapse

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

smud@lemmy.world on 14 Oct 03:46 collapse

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

[deleted] on 12 Oct 06:38 collapse

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