For reference , Fex is a translation framework for x86 to ARM much like Apple’s Rosetta2 and Microsoft’s Prism.
Valve sponsor development as it’s also the way the new Steam Frame supports x86 games. It’s also being used (as a fork) in Crossover Beta to replace the use of Rosetta2.
It's more than thousands, and not only it's not reasonable, it's not possible.
Plenty of games run on some critical optimizations that exploit native code quirks that may or may not hold up only because Windows papers over them by special-casing the game process at OS level. The source of such games may be stuck in IP limbo, with five different studios/companies claiming ownership (three of them dead or bankrupt), and even then, the only person who knows what and how needs to be reimplemented is on a remote tropical island, working for a competitor / happily retired / stuck collecting trash for a living, depending on how their career went.
Takes only a few such cases to turn out to be some well-known games with substantial legacy fanbase hoping to relive some childhood memories, to risk seriously damaging the "supporting everything" marketing angle.
Emulating underlying runtime is safer and more practical choice.
dagmx · · focus · HN ↗
Valve sponsor development as it’s also the way the new Steam Frame supports x86 games. It’s also being used (as a fork) in Crossover Beta to replace the use of Rosetta2.
MiroslavPokorny · · focus · HN ↗
THen they wouldnt require any emulator for any new compiles.
swiftcoder · · focus · HN ↗
They still have to support the entire back-catalog. It's not reasonable to expect thousands of existing games to port to ARM
TeMPOraL · · focus · HN ↗
Plenty of games run on some critical optimizations that exploit native code quirks that may or may not hold up only because Windows papers over them by special-casing the game process at OS level. The source of such games may be stuck in IP limbo, with five different studios/companies claiming ownership (three of them dead or bankrupt), and even then, the only person who knows what and how needs to be reimplemented is on a remote tropical island, working for a competitor / happily retired / stuck collecting trash for a living, depending on how their career went.
Takes only a few such cases to turn out to be some well-known games with substantial legacy fanbase hoping to relive some childhood memories, to risk seriously damaging the "supporting everything" marketing angle.
Emulating underlying runtime is safer and more practical choice.