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XgernoX's avatar
XgernoX
5 years ago

when will Apex be available for windows arm64?

I have windows 10 arm64 installed on my mac m1. I can't wait to play apex but when will it be possible?
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shykuo's avatar
shykuo
4 years ago

Hi Illium,

I try to install apex from steam on my Surface pro x which is windows 11 on ARM platform with x64 emulator.

but i got an info "upsupported host machine architecture. (ARM64)"  and couldn't play at all

Do you guys make a detection to ban user playing game on windows on ARM in advance just to make sure the quality?

or the game just really can't function on Windows on ARM by any chance?

((cause CS:GO can play easily by x64 emulator

Thanks~

domboy's avatar
domboy
4 years ago

I have a Surface Pro X (Qualcomm CPU) and I get the "Launch Error Unsupported host machine architecture. (ARM64)" error on pretty much any game that uses Epic's Unreal game engine. I'm pretty sure it's Epic's fault these games refuse to run, because in theory the x64 emulation in Windows 11 should allow them to run. I can run games that require 64-bit Intel or AMD CPUs that use different game engines without getting this kind of error. I'd say Epic deliberately put an architecture check into their game engine at some point, and I'm fairly certain Apex legends uses the Unreal engine.

  • Zeelmaekers's avatar
    Zeelmaekers
    Hero+
    4 years ago

    Apex Legends uses a modified source engine like CSGO
    It would probably be a combination of EAC and security reasons that they don't support it.

    If I'm honest I don't think they will support arm processers ever directly.

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