You bought a Copilot+ PC and you like video games ? Good luck…

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It was last May that Microsoft unveiled the new generation of computers that should come to equip our living rooms and other offices in the coming months. They are called the “Copilot+ PC”, machines that natively integrate many features with the American giant's in-house artificial intelligence. To be labeled “Copilot+ PC”, the computers in question must meet a certain technical requirement, namely an ARM Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm, 16 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage, not to mention an NPU, or Neural Processing Unit.

Copilot+ ARM PCs in (great) difficulty with video games

For some video game fans, gaming only involves one single tool: the PC, and the famous “PC Master Race“. With the Copilot+ PCs, we are obviously very far from this philosophy, even if the first buyers could quite easily be tempted by the video game practice.

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Like Apple with Rosetta on Mac, and in order to overcome potential compatibility issues when games designed for x86 are used via an ARM processor, Microsoft has set up a dedicated emulator, Prism. But according to various tests conducted by American magazines, the latter would have a hard time running many video games, without them suffering from a bug or some other problem.

For the Wall Street Journal, it is a fact: “the ARM chips of current models are incompatible with many top video games.” Of the 1,300 games tested, about half are able to run without too much trouble. On the side of The Verge, it is indicated that Shadow of the Tomb Raider is unplayable due to very frequent crashes, and that, even worse, titles like Starfield, Halo Infinite or even Fall Guys would simply refuse to launch.

Microsoft wanted to point out that despite their configuration, the Copilot+ PCs under ARM are primarily developed for the American giant's AI, and not for gaming. Now it remains to be seen whether the situation will be different with the Copilot+ PCs, which will be powered by an Intel Lunar Lake chip. So watch this space.

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