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Ben Wilson

"Another example of Game Pass disparity": Kingdom Come Deliverance II runs natively on ARM with Steam, but not the Xbox app

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II on PC with Windows 11 Task Manager highlighting x64 process among Arm64 equivalents.

Early last year, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II was named "the perfect RPG sequel" in our review and praised for its "near-flawless" performance on PC. Already available for traditional gaming PCs running x86-64 processors from AMD and Intel, the game has since received an ARM64 build via Steam that's compatible with Windows on ARM devices.

Qualcomm's recent Snapdragon X2 Elite and Elite Extreme processors are part of the latest expansion in the relatively niche device category, delivering a boost to power efficiency alongside a general performance leap in brand-new PCs like the "practically perfect" ASUS Zenbook A16. However, PC gaming on Snapdragon X is still marred by platform distribution problems.

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