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I tried out FEX on a modern ARM board with a discrete GPU. Really impressed with the performance.

https://interfacinglinux.com/2025/06/30/fex-emu-gaming-on-th...



FEX is a CPU JIT, so your GPU settings are irrelevant to it, it is translated but not by FEX, and there is no real perf hit for the GPU

The old games don't really matter with regards to FEX perf, so the only relevant bit is the semi newer games at 30/40 fps, which seems very slow to me, given that you are only running at 1080p/Medium, so you likely have a CPU bottleneck there.


Wow decent results.. impressed.


I would keep in mind that the results reported there are likely quite a bit lower (in terms of CPU-side performance) than what you could achieve in practice, because it's running all of x86 Steam+Proton in the emulator. In a pre-configured environment (like SteamOS for ARM), the Steam client and Proton itself would be native ARM code, and emulation would stop at the win32 API boundary (or at certain critical libraries' APIs if you're using Linux apps).


Fancy seeing the Plagman here. Last time I saw you was on Freenode (R.I.P.). So you are still working for Valve? ;-)




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