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swandy

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Like the title asks - I have been trying out various Windows games on Windows 11 on ARM (mostly Steam and Battlenet - some successfully and loads not so much) and checked out the Windows Store and saw the introductory offer for Xbox Game Pass. And curious if any of the games will actually run on Windows 11 on ARM. Also, whether purchasing games will run.
Thanks for any advice or experiences you have had.
 

cdames00

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Like the title asks - I have been trying out various Windows games on Windows 11 on ARM (mostly Steam and Battlenet - some successfully and loads not so much) and checked out the Windows Store and saw the introductory offer for Xbox Game Pass. And curious if any of the games will actually run on Windows 11 on ARM. Also, whether purchasing games will run.
Thanks for any advice or experiences you have had.
How’s performance been on the games you could get to run? I just installed parallels yesterday but haven’t played much yet.
 

swandy

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Got original Doom running - but the save function doesn't seem to work after you quit a game.
Original Half Life ran fine. Doom 3 BFG and Doom (2016) would not start. Also Black Mesa wouldn't run.
Torchlight III installed and ran, but too choppy for me to deal with.
Have mainly been trying to get an old Windows program (Lotus Approach) to work properly. It installs and starts fine. But within the program it will stall and shut down. Been playing with the various settings in Windows 11 for emulation to see if I can get it working, but so far I have had the same results through Crossover on MacOS.
Diablo 3 ran perfectly, but I have that installed on the Mac side, so I deleted it from Windows. The beta test for Diablo II - remastered would not start, but the error seems to refer to a video issue, that hopefully Parallels will work on.
Trying to install Hydro Thunder Hurricane (which I had previously purchased), but the installation starts but nothing gets downloaded. It keeps saying "preparing" but for quite a while. Never tried installing through the Windows Xbox app before - but the app did recognize I had an ARM processor, so don't know what gives. But just checked the xbox status page and there are issues, so perhaps that's the problem.
 
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