Pushing the envelope for Arm gaming, Qualcomm is speaking out at the 2024 Game Developers Conference about how prepared its hardware is for x86 emulation and gaming— their session is titled "Windows on Snapdragon, a Platform Ready for your PC Games" [h/t The Verge]. Based on statements made during the full presentation and previously revealed benchmarking of the Snapdragon X Elite chips running x86 software, it seems Qualcomm is in a place to truly disrupt the Windows Gaming PC market.
Of the caveats listed in the full presentation, the most severe problem seems to be the lack of compatibility with anti-cheat software. This problem is also shared with certain PC games that have yet to come to Steam Deck's native SteamOS, despite being fully capable of running on its hardware in Windows. Other coding exceptions simply won't run on Arm without some degree of manual porting work, though fortunately most titles seem to work without any extra tweaking needed at all.
