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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Christopher Harper

Windows translator makes PC games run on Android — Fallout 4 demoed at 30 fps using Winlator app

ETA PRIME running his GOG copy of Fallout 4: GOTY Edition on his Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 (also tested on Android handhelds).

As spectacular as PC is as a gaming platform, few can argue the sheer market penetration and hardware power of current-generation Android devices— but their Arm architecture and non-Windows OS mostly lock them into their own ecosystem outside of PC. Fortunately, this is starting to change, as highlighted by a Fallout 4 testing run and setup tutorial by the ever-intrepid ETA PRIME on YouTube. It seems that an existing open source solution called Winlator (a la 'Windows translator') already pushes us most of the way toward viable Windows gaming on Android devices.

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