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What It Takes to Run The Witcher 3 on RiSC-V

So this became a hard barrier for us to test more x86 programs in the wider world, until both ptitSeb and I received the Milk-V Pioneer from Sophgo, which is a 64-core RISC-V PC, and of course, it also has a PCIe slot for a graphics card. In addition, another core contributor xctan also found a way to “plug” an AMD graphics card into VisionFive 2 via the M.2 interface. In the end, and despite all those short-comming, The Witcher 3 actually runs, at up to 15 fps in-game and full speed on the main menu!

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