Microsoft’s new Copilot+ PCs: to gamers this came as a challenge
While MX150 is capable, the Microsoft’s new Copilot+ laptops lack what video game aficionados are looking for. These computers, as may be noted in a recent Wall Street Journal report, have the problem of the fact that the three core components of this type of computers are PC gaming.
The compatibility problem
This is really more of an issue on the compatibility of the people. Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus processors which power these computers are not compatible with most of the games including Fortnite. These games are developed based on Intel’s x86 architecture which has been in use from the past several years. The Wall Street Journal has found out that 15% of laptop owners are gamers.
Currently, there is an application developed by Microsoft named as Prism, which makes it possible to run x86-based programs on computers that use Arm-based Windows. Nevertheless, the newspaper quoted the outcome in the following parlance “the result did not live up to expectations.”
Inconclusive tests
A survey carried out by the Wall Street Journal involved over 1300 PCs with Copilot+ and majority of these PCs were struggling to run x86-based PC games. The problem could not only originate in the game itself but also from the anti-cheating tools, which many modern multiplayer games come along with and which is incompatible with Arm and thus rendering the game completely unplayable.
Solutions on the horizon?
Microsoft and Qualcomm have noted that they are trying to improve the situation on this; however, the two entities have not indicated when this would occur. If one is eager to indulge in gaming on a Copilot+ PC then the good news is that wait may not be very long anymore. AMD released the Ryzen 300 AI processors in July and is expecting to release an update for them in November to be able to support Copilot. On its side, Intel released its new Lunar Lake chipsets in September boasting that the latter will deliver “unmatched AI computing might.”