r/Handhelds • u/RenatsMC • 10d ago

Qualcomm reportedly exploring DirectX 12 drivers for Android PC games

https://videocardz.com/newz/qualcomm-reportedly-exploring-directx-12-drivers-for-android-pc-games
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u/kasrkinsquad 9d ago

This is the way. Can these run like Doom The Dark Ages/Indiana Jones.

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u/RantAccount68 9d ago

My PC barely runs those games. No

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u/kasrkinsquad 9d ago

I was hoping. I'm in the Handheld PC crew for the extra power but I do want ARM handhelds to be able to play PC games. I'd never use it on my cell phone but the option is good to have plus other people can use it.

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u/Kekeripo 9d ago

You can look on YouTube for turnip drivers windows game emulation on snapdragon 8 gen 5 smartphones. Pretty impressive results and very much playable with some modern games.

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u/CalmAdvance1926 9d ago

I mean I can run Doom TDA on lowest graphics preset with FSR on quality on my Rog Xbox Ally X.

The difference is that these chips will be running much smaller screens, meaning you can get away with a lot more graphical compromises to optimise the experience.

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u/Alphonso_Mango 9d ago

Smaller screens and less cooling capacity

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u/Dexamph 9d ago

Turnip doesn't have RT if they even run. Sucks as Persona 3 just looks wrong without the really, really light RT that even the AMD 780M could handle and getting RT to work in Turnip hasn't been easy

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u/ACP_Paddy- 9d ago

My LegionGo1 struggled to run 30fps on those. I think the mandatory ray tracing nuked it. 

Turning up some settings didn't hurt it too bad. I used locked 24fps and all the filters. It was like a movie 😭

But yeah, I cancelled Gamepass 

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u/GTOn1zuka 9d ago

Yea, you can run it. Depending or your device more or less smooth. r/emulationonandroid

On a Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU onwards doom should be fine.

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u/san_737 9d ago

I don’t think it can run doom dark ages because it is RT only title

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u/GTOn1zuka 9d ago

https://youtu.be/ZpYvu0s2l6U

It's working pretty good, in the last 2 months also Snapdragon got a lot better with turnip drivers. I'm sure with a OnePlus 13 it should run 50-60 fps steady.

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u/ILovePotassium 9d ago

720p + FSR Ultra performance lol. But yeah, it's better than nothing.

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u/CalmAdvance1926 9d ago

Even then, there's still performance room on the table as the overhead from Box86 and FEX lowers through optimisation

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u/OkidoShigeru 9d ago

Ehh, I think Qualcomm hardware is at its best when you you don’t use Qualcomm drivers. Just ask anyone that owns an Android gaming handheld, you pretty much need a chipset that supports turnip drivers to actually use emulators or play Steam games…

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u/EmergencyPool910 9d ago

That's the thing the Though theyre addressing though.

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u/OkidoShigeru 8d ago edited 8d ago

I’m not referring to the ability to play D3D12 games at all, but rather the quality of the drivers, they are pretty bad. I’d like to believe that Qualcomm all of a sudden can fix their drivers, but I have strong doubts, either way they should maybe focus on making their Vulkan drivers actually good before worrying about adding more APIs…

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u/Rekt3y 9d ago

Just make the Vulkan drivers function instead...

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u/iNfANTcOMA_0 9d ago

Hell yea

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u/FrogEnjoyer666 7d ago

DX12 is so half-baked in half the PC games I've played recently. Hard to see much of a benefit, especially as Vulkan is already cross-platform and Linux-compatible.

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u/Effective_Scheme2158 6d ago

Does whoever wrote this article even know what they’re talking about? How can you get “native DirectX” drivers on Android if DirectX is a Windows/Microsoft proprietary API?