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Latest Asahi Linux brings AAA gaming to Apple's M1 with respectable frame rates


Asahi requires four translation layers to get x86 Windows games to work on Apple Silicon.

Asahi Linux's playing toolkit now supports x86 emulation and Windows compatibility with its Vulkan 1.3 drivers. As a result, the Asahi devs virtualize a secondary ARM Linux kernel with a different page size to get around this restriction. Some blockers include incompatibility with sparse texturing on Ashai's Vulkan 1.3-based Honeykrisp driver, which is required to unlock more DX12 game support.

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