Are laptops powered by the snapdragon 835 capable of playing DirectX 9 games?

[Hory mory]

Qualcomm and Microsoft say their new x86 emulation is so efficient it can run Windows and x86 programs at near native speed.

But can it actually run any DirectX 9 games or does each game need to be individually rewritten to work on the 835 x86 emulator? Qualcomm said their Adreno GPUs are superior to Nvidia and AMD cause theirs can offload more of the work off of the CPU and onto the GPU. But they fail to ever mention if it can actually run any games.

I mean if it can run directx9 games couldn't they have just come out with an x86 gaming phone instead of a bulky heavy laptop? And if it can't then what exactly is preventing it from doing so? Isn't directx 9 built with lots of overhead for the purpose of coss compatibilty?

 

[cmdrdredd]

I think it'll really come down to the drivers. Unlike DX12, older generations of DirectX required all optimization to happen in the driver. It doesn't matter if they claim they can offload CPU work to the GPU, specific code needs to be written to do that and in some cases the game itself may be designed to hand certain tasks off to the CPU explicitly.

 

[Hory mory]

I think it'll really come down to the drivers. Unlike DX12, older generations of DirectX required all optimization to happen in the driver. It doesn't matter if they claim they can offload CPU work to the GPU, specific code needs to be written to do that and in some cases the game itself may be designed to hand certain tasks off to the CPU explicitly.

So can qualcomm just write some drivers to make DirectX 9 games work? If it's possible then why is nobody talking about it? And why doesn't anyone produce a gaming phone out of it instead of a laptop?

 

[cmdrdredd]

So can qualcomm just write some drivers to make DirectX 9 games work? If it's possible then why is nobody talking about it? And why doesn't anyone produce a gaming phone out of it instead of a laptop?

Cause nobody cares about emulating windows when you can run native windows on something else. Also gaming phones have all failed in the past. Just look at the types of games people play on their phones to see why.

 

[Hory mory]

Cause nobody cares about emulating windows when you can run native windows on something else. Also gaming phones have all failed in the past. Just look at the types of games people play on their phones to see why.

The reason gaming phones failed is cause there's no games. And there's no games cause phones use ARM. If a phone can run DirectX 9 games mobile users will discover what a real game is actually like and they'll realize how the playstore and appstore are complete trash that they've been wasting time on. Right now most mobile "gamers" have no idea that there are games out there that are more sophisticated than match-3 games and clash of clans clones, that's why mobile stores are in this horrid state, cause game publishers have realized mobile users are too clueless to know what a real game is.

Btw there was the Razer gaming phone released not too long ago, I'm typing on it on this forum right now.