• Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 hours ago

    It’s a Zen 2 APU. It could run any other x86_64 OS in theory. There’s no need to emulate the whole system if you’re running it on an x86_64 machine. It shouldn’t be wholly impossible to just run it as a VM and save the overheard of translating instructions to the same instructions.

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      My reply to your comment would be the same one you replied to. That’s not how it works. The translation layer is required. Having the same clue architecture is not good enough to just run the games natively. If it were, Proton wouldn’t exist and Linux and Mac gaming would have been solved a decade ago.

      You already don’t need to emulate the entire hardware system like you would with a PS3, but you still require a complex translation layer.