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Darren Allan

It took nearly a year, but Microsoft has finally improved Windows 11 to run more PC games on Arm laptops

A Snapdragon X Elite reference laptop running Baldur's Gate 3.
  • Windows 11's latest update packs an important feature for Arm CPUs
  • It introduces support for AVX and AVX2 with Prism emulation
  • Some PC games use these extensions, and previously wouldn't work with the likes of Snapdragon X chips – but they now should

Microsoft just gave Windows 11 laptops with Arm processors better support for games (and software too) courtesy of the latest update for the OS.

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