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Windows on ARM Gets Major Gaming Boost with Prism Update

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Nice!

Even though I'm not a heavy windows user, I was really excited to see a site that nerds out on Windows-on-ARM news. Been considering getting one of the new surfaces since they were announced, and it'd be a nice community to have.

I ended up writing it off after reading, it was really disappointing to see a smooshing together of multiple LLM responses*

I love LLMs and believe people should use them for writing, but if you can't notice and edit out multiple concluding paragraphs...I certainly can't trust the instructions sets that were added, or the selection of games listed, or really anything at all.

* inter alia: two unambiguously concluding paragraphs, same # of items in bulleted lists, unnecessary 3 item bullet lists of proper nouns, that'd usually just be a phrase with commas

Better links:

- https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/06/announc...

- https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/6/24289844/microsoft-window...

Note that Microsoft didn't actually promise support for Starfield or Helldivers 2. It's speculated by some outside sources based on the presence of AVX2 support, but the LLM slop at windowsonarm.org seems to have lost that nuance. (Required anti-cheat software is likely to still prevent Helldivers from running.)

Those are way better links. Just knowing that the wallpaper on my 2nd screen is going to be fixed solves a pretty big bugbear for me.

Adding support for AVX2 is nice, but the priority really needs to be nailing down x86-64 emulation that works for existing Windows software first.

Existing Windows software is abandoned even in x86 Windows. There's even a new notepad now. Try to get the old one working; see how far you get!

To me it only makes strategic sense for Microsoft to enable its OS on more than just Intel

I assume you mean x86 since windows runs on AMD just fine.

I did. Thanks for the clarification.

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