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Qualcomm says most Windows games should ‘just work’ on its unannounced Arm laptops

How well will they run, though?

Here’s one incredibly promising sign it might: Qualcomm is telling game developers their titles should already work on a wave of upcoming Snapdragon-powered Windows laptops — no porting required. As you can see in the slide above, there are a few caveats: games that rely on kernel-level anti-cheat drivers ( which have been growing in popularity, though some players now fear hacks) won’t work under emulation. It’s important for Qualcomm to be able to offer existing games, senior director of product management Micah Knapp told me in a recent interview: “In the immediate, near, and not so near future, you have to provide a platform for what people already have.”

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