Microsoft has just announced the upcoming marketing of PCs based on an ARM chipset, which benefit from a dedicated AI chip. Labeled “Copilot+PC”, these new computers will run in an architecture different from our usual computers (with the exception of the Surface Pro X). But will you be able to run your games on this type of machine?
By announcing new laptops branded Copilot+PC, Microsoft has thrown a spanner in the works. Artificial intelligence is now present at all levels of Windows 11, so much so that the operating system will now record all the user’s actions to better serve them. Defenders of freedoms and rights to anonymity are already arguing that this is a scandal. Revolution explains Microsoft, since the OS will learn from user habits and offer a more responsive and efficient environment.
Microsoft explains that it will be possible to ensure that the OS does not record certain actions in applications, does not take this or that screenshot, etc. Let’s wait and see what this new feature, available from June 2024, is really worth to judge. At the same time, we already know that the new PCs in question will use an ARM chipset, an architecture that only a few tablets used until now. But apart from AI, will these PCs be powerful enough to be used for other taskslike video games for example?
This site allows you to check the compatibility of games with ARM PCs
Diablo IV, Baldur’s Gate 3, Street Fighter 6… Can the biggest titles of the moment run on the new ARM PCs? While they haven’t been released yet, one site already has the answer. Responding to the sweet name of Worksonwoa, it details compatibility with ARM processors as follows: the processor that was used during the test, the amount of RAM, the version of Windows, the date of the test and above all Super Resolution support and frame rate. As a reminder, the Super Resolution option makes it possible to improve the rendering of video games and their upscaling, precisely by relying on the power of AI.
If the site presents a list sorted in alphabetical order of the games tested, a small search engine allows you to easily find a title. Currently, there are nearly 1,500 PC games listed, but the list continues to grow. The compatibility of each game is specified, and ranges from “unplayable” to “perfect”. And we see that most of the games are perfectly playable. This may reassure future Colipot+PC laptop buyers in their choices. What if ARM processors were the next technological evolution for our PCs?