This Tiny Chip Can Run Steam and Crysis! - Steam PC Gaming on ARM is Awesome

Few thoughts after doing this:
- It's a deeper rabbit hole than this one, but most of what I do in this video can be done on an Android phone.
- The stuff that I had to do to get Box64 to work with Steam is not required anymore, BUT you need a lot of RAM to use the new version that has a working login window. If you have a phone/SBC with less RAM, it might be worth waiting for more improvements or you can just do what I did.
- When translation software improves (and drivers), I believe we will see companies that release ARM gaming handhelds that are made for local PC gaming. Cost, heat, and power consumption being the biggest motivators.

I wonder what the potential could be to have ARM chips, being told that they are more power efficient compared to x86 processors, on a portable devices. Gaming handheld UMPC is slowly becoming a thing in these days, but almost all devices are told that people wish for better battery life. It's not gonna be an easy solution, but one can dream.

bro went deep. make an updated video on Orange Pi 5

"first time compiling kernel" also first time: "fixing compilation errors"
are you sure about that?

I know this is a wild idea, but if its similar to a snapdragon 845, then can my Samsung S9 run Crysis?

I am just a simple PC gamer and if it's a stupid question, let me know lightly please. Could 4 of These CPU''s be used in something like Raid array ?

Did you know that there is an native version of steam in linux

Odin 2, Here we come!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn this has some huge implications. Can't wait to try some of this out. One thing though, looked like Killing Floor1 not 2.

Imagen this in a nintendo switch

X86 is better to play games.

Just imagine the average pc user having to recompile the kernel to be able to run a game. I love linux but come on, the user experience is beyond horrible. Its 2023, it should be better by now.

imagine valve going to arm for the future steamdeck

so if proton is working for you does this not mean you have vulkan also? I just kinda don't believe proton works considering vulkan isn't installable.

Have you used PipeWire or PulseAudio for the tests? PipeWire can change the buffer size on the fly to minimize latency. This can sometimes confuse apps, so you can lock the "quantum" to n samples like this: pw-metadata n settings 0 clock.force-quantum 512 - This can solve all kinds of issues, stutters or crashes (particularly with JACK clients).

You should write up and share some documentation on the different commands and programs you used to a google doc and share it :)

I want a fan-less PC that can run triple a games without issues.

Cant you just use STEAM OS?

$40 caught my attention.
Usually, the reason for software anything is independence.

Example (not saying it is possible)
LLVMpipe = software-pipe [blob-mali/mesa/box86/box64/FEX-Emu/...] unhandled pipe-back-to software

Voice issues (pc-linux) wine(-alsa soundchip -hdmi switching-dropping).?

If all these are possible, that means everything-else native is good to go and there is no-justification for x86 to continue. At $40, one assigned as GPU and another assigned as CPU because many-boards are designed with 2 sockets...

Just a vector for future-shopping possibilities and news reading ...

I loved this video! Well done.

do you think that by any chance a switch with linux and the same Box 64 and wine could possibly run more powerful games?

How many watts is the soc pulling

Building 32bit GPU drivers should be easy enough to get x86_32 applications working with FEX. Btw, Panfork now seems to be deprecated in favor of Panfrost (upstream Mesa!), which should simplify things further. Once Cortex-A77/78 or X cores hit the SBC sector, things will get really interesting, since those architectures really ramped up performance.

Its a damn shame ARM isn't produced in Britain anymore.

This makes me impressed that apple got resident evil village running on their arm processors, i ran the game at 1600p high settings on their base model chip and it ran great

For Minecraft you may gain from using updated lwjgl, and prism launcher for easy mod support for Sodium renderer

They aren't crab GPUs they are very advanced engineering and amazing for how tiny SoCs are.

Yes x86 Linux has more desktop support, but that doesn't mean desktop computers should be called x86 not "desktop/PC". Maybe PC but PC is more generalized now.

Unfortunately most developers don't have the time to support arm native when they won't make money from it, but it could work fine. Mesa is basically what should be used, if you can't use vulkan, which is even better.

Don't hold it by the pins.
Also the RK chip name literally stands for RocKchip

ARM could be the future tbh

This isnr really good. You cant already to that for at least 5 years with x64 on the same form factor.

You should get in touch with @JeffGeerling, he's been loaned a monster ARM desktop with desktop GPU support - it would be incredible to see what games could run on it

How does is emulate switch lmao

Amazing!

I love this so much

What about Apple silicon???

Just out of curiosity, I have an Orange Pi 5 with 8GB ram, it has a rk3588s that runs at slightly higher speeds than your edge2, not by a lot at all, but still more. and it has the same GPU, so I should be able to do exactly what you're doing on that board right? I know there are edge cases where despite hardware being nearly the same, the board itself is what makes the difference. I'd really like to know cause I've considered buying another at 16GB of ram because I really like the cost to performance of the board. I live in Canada so in my crappy money a 16GB board is under 200 where as the edge2 with 8GB ram is literally double the price at 419$ for the 8GB ram which is nuts, and 592$ for the 16GB. Am I missing something about the edge2 that makes it better? I don't quite understand why it's so much more expensive compared to the orange pi when the specs are better for the orange pi 5.

That's a powerhouse within a small chip.

bro how the hell do u get steam to run on the edge 2 iv got the pro one and i cant ge tit to run becasue i am missing arch i386 but i cant isntall them and i doont now why

Just on the off chance ... Do you have a step by step guide of how you installed box + pan + fex on the Edge? I'd like to try it on the OP5. No worries if not.

Steam Deck Lite!

Generally in my exp (software developer) any code that creates a compiled binary will always need to be recompiled to reflect changes. The new instructions do not exist in the old binary. So, no matter how many changes you make to the code base itself they are not reflected in the old binary instruction set. Only upon being re-compiled can the new code / instruction changes be accessed.

This video made me feel a bit cozy on how a small device is able to do so much. Wow.

NO support for Ray Tracing
NO support for VR
No Sale

lol I would ask "Why?" but I already know the answer "Because I can." lol good video.

Compiling a kernel isn't that bad. Good thing you burst that cherry.

Awesome video Taki ❤