It could be Arm64, but the games aren't. Not many devs or studios are compiling for both x86 and Arm, so unless you want to emulate the instructions, x86 is the preferred platform.
I'll reply to my own comment since so many people decided to give me shit and not understand what I was saying:
Valve is primarily a software distribution company, not a hardware company
they went with x86 because it makes sense since not many studios are distributing arm64 compiled versions of games
Distributing multiple versions of games in different architectures is HARD
instruction emulation is SLOW
there is no reason why Valve would go with a custom Arm hardware platform when literally 99% of all gamers are running x86
running an emulation layer to translate removes all power savings benefit for the most part, especially since in gaming it's almost all GPU instruction taking the brunt of the power draw
shipping multiple architectures on Steam is equally HARD, as you're not just debugging one architecture, you're debugging multiple, and then variants of Arm versions.
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nix@merv.news · 4 pts · 3y
Hopefully valve dedicates resources to this so a future Steamdeck can be ARM based so it’s much cooler and doesn’t need a fan as much
Secret300@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
I'd love to see a RISC-V chip used one day
nix@merv.news · 1 pts · 3y
yeah that would be great! although I'm not sure of any current work being done to emulate x64 games on RISC-V yet
Secret300@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I think box64 works for RISC-V as well but I'd have to go double check
Edit: box64 and RISC-V shows stardew valley working. Didn't really read it
https://box86.org/2023/05/box64-and-risc-v/
nix@merv.news · 2 pts · 3y
Sweet!
just_another_person@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 3y
It could be Arm64, but the games aren't. Not many devs or studios are compiling for both x86 and Arm, so unless you want to emulate the instructions, x86 is the preferred platform.
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
I'll reply to my own comment since so many people decided to give me shit and not understand what I was saying:
x86 makes sense, and will into the near future.
ryapric@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
Just making sure you know that you are indeed commenting on a post about an x86 emulator.
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
He's talking about Valve making a decision to stick with x86 hardware, which I reinforced. What am I missing here?
dinckelman@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
He's talking about Valve going with x86. I just reinforced Valves point to do so and the reason behind it.