Baldur’s Gate 3 Borderlands and other games shown on ARM-based Copilot+ PCs
Microsoft kicks off a new season for ARM-based PC gaming, with a demonstration of gaming on Copilot+ PCs with good results.
Microsoft is also making great progress when it comes to gaming on the ARM platform , as emerged during a recent demonstration which showed, among others, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Borderlands running on the new Copilot+ PCs with convincing results.
We remind you that the Copilot+ PCs , presented these days by Microsoft, are a line of ARM-based products that use the Qualcomm Snapdragon very interesting results.
Some specific optimizations implemented by the system allow a notable increase in resolution and performance, thanks also to the use of integrated systems such as “Auto SR” by Microsoft, i.e. an automatic Super Resolution .
Possible future developments
At Build 2024, Microsoft demonstrated for example the functioning of Baldur’s Gate 3, which ran at around 30 fps on the Surface Pro 11 , which represents a good start considering how Windows on ARM is somewhat at the beginning of a real relaunch of the platform, so far rather uncertain in terms of performance.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Borderlands and other games shown on ARM-based Copilot+ PCs
I’m in a Windows on ARM session at Build and Microsoft has just said Baldur’s Gate 3 will run at 25-35fps on these latest Qualcomm Copilot+ PCs pic.twitter.com/WSfYqulyIf
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) May 21, 2024
Borderlands 3 running emulated on Snapdragon X Elite and Windows on ARM pic.twitter.com/oIR493yDC4
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) May 21, 2024
Borderlands was also shown on a Qualcomm Snapdragon devkit with encouraging results, which if nothing else demonstrate a possible interesting prospect for gaming on the ARM platform, as far as Windows is concerned.
Microsoft reported that Auto SR is capable of increasing the frame-rate by up to 60%, taking advantage of the NPU present on the Copilot+ PC and specifically designed for operations related to artificial intelligence.
According to the slides shown at the event, there are already over 1000 games in the testing phase, with the aim of making them playable at least at 1080p and 30 fps on these new platforms, but this is indeed a start. What emerges from all this, however, is the hypothesis of a possible future Xbox console based on ARM , which at this point could also be portable, but these are just rumors at the moment.