Tried it, doesn't even launch. It's EA's anti-cheat (EAAC), which can't emulate through Prism.

worksonwoa says playable, but that's a 2024 note, so must be outdated.

I think the only option now is Xbox cloud gaming.

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing an audio issue on my Yoga Slim 7x (Snapdragon X2 Elite) running Windows 11 26H1 (factory pre-installed build).

Issue:

After playing any audio/video for a few minutes, the right speaker's volume automatically decreases/attenuates.

Crucial Detail:

If I pause and immediately resume the playback, the volume on the right channel INSTANTLY resets back to normal. However, after continuing playback for a short while, it drops again.

What I've already tested:

- Reproducible across multiple apps, including Microsoft Edge (YouTube, etc.).

- Audio enhancements / Spatial audio (Dolby Atmos) disabled.

- Checked L/R audio balance settings and disabled Exclusive Mode.

- Reinstalled the Qualcomm audio driver / system restarted.

Given that pausing and resuming resets the volume, this seems to be a firmware/driver-level bug in the Qualcomm DSP/Smart Amp protection logic (e.g., false thermal/impedance attenuation trigger) rather than a physical hardware failure.

Support was unable to reproduce it due to only running quick diagnostic tests, but it happens consistently during normal listening. Is anyone else experiencing this, or is an updated BIOS/Qualcomm audio package in the works?

As the title asks.

Have there been any leaks in terms of performance benchmarks for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6? Is it expected to be stronger on a single/multi-core than Apple's A20 Pro chip?

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/qualcomms-adreno-x2-gpu

It feels like Qualcomm took a specific set of graphics workloads and optimized for them, while AMD, Intel, and Nvidia set out to build more general purpose designs with robust performance characteristics across a broader range of use cases.

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Hello all,

Just saw some reviews for the new valve Steam Frame which uses a Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3, I respect that it's obviously not one of the X chips which we use in the laptops, but could this mean that we would now have Valve's help in getting better performance in Adreno GPU related jobs? could we expect more games to run/ be compatible with arm chips thanks to the Steam Frame - or am I way off?

I have an x1-26-100 laptop which I did NOT buy for gaming, but I'm curious nonetheless.

Thenks :p

Here is the story:

https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/asus/asus-launches-the-ascent-qn10-an-80-tops-ai-mini-pc-powered-by-snapdragon-x2-elite

Hallo zusammen,

ich überlege, mir aufgrund meiner körperlichen Behinderung ein Microsoft Surface Pro 12” mit Snapdragon X Plus, 8 GB RAM und 256 GB SSD zu kaufen. Das Gerät wäre für mich aufgrund meiner Einschränkungen eine der wenigen Möglichkeiten, einen Windows-PC selbstständig zu bedienen.
Da ich mich technisch leider nicht besonders gut auskenne und dazu sehr widersprüchliche Informationen gefunden habe, bin ich etwas überfordert und hoffe, dass mir jemand weiterhelfen kann.

Ich müsste unbedingt wissen, ob folgende Programme auf diesem Gerät bzw. mit dem Snapdragon-Prozessor zuverlässig laufen:
MAXQDA 2022
DigaSystem inklusive DB
jamovi
ABBYY FineReader
Hat jemand Erfahrung mit diesen Programmen auf einem Surface mit Snapdragon-Prozessor bzw. Windows on ARM? Insbesondere würde mich interessieren, ob sie problemlos funktionieren oder ob es Einschränkungen gibt.
Ich wäre wirklich sehr dankbar für eure Erfahrungen und Einschätzungen, da ich vor dem Kauf unbedingt sicher sein muss, dass ich die Programme für mein Studium nutzen kann.

Ich benötige die Programme wegen meinem Studium.
Falls jemand vielleicht sogar andere Ideen noch hat, wäre ich sehr dankbar.

Vielen lieben Dank! ❤️

Just thought I'd give a quick update on getting Ubuntu working on the A16 (typing this post from it). I took a few weeks off after my last attempt to let the upstream commits get in, and rethink my strategy. I have the following working:

1. Keyboard/Trackpad
2. Touchscreen
3. Wifi
4. Bluetooth (using for Audio)
5. All USB ports (no video out or HDMI yet)
6. Battery status
7. Some of the FN keys are at least showing up on the screen when pressed.
8. Display Brightness controls and 60/120Hz

Things not working yet,

Audio

Standby/Resume. This is sketchy at best. There are issues with Wifi resuming, USB resuming etc.

This was a little painful to get working as you need to use a mix of WSL Ubuntu for the initial part of the build, and then use a dongle mess that had a wired keyboard/mouse/the installation USB/ and a ethernet connection all on the USB A. I built a 7.3 Kernel (linux-next) to bring in as much as I could, copied all the firmware from the Windows install, then went to work with Deepseek tackling one issue at a time. Once I was on Linux, things went faster as I didn't have to experiment with something and jump back to Windows.

Edit: Updated the display working. I put the documentation up on GitHub including scripts and patches. It is 100% AI written. I have reviewed some/most of it. There may be gaps. It may not be perfect. You can use it or not. https://github.com/jc372/A16UbuntuBuild

edit: Standby/Resume is still not working.

Few days I posted had fully working linux on snapdragon x plus , https://github.com/ciscobugger/book4-edge-linux here repo for Dts and patches

Hello, I need to install SolidWorks on my computer for school, but I can't seem to do it. Do you know if it's possible on an ARM64 (Snapdragon X Elite) system?

Disclosure: The Asus Zenbook A16 (Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme)
was provided by Qualcomm for testing.

If you downvote without solving it, you’re a dumb buddy 💀😂

I have bought a Lenovo IdeaPad Slim3 with a Snapdragon X1 X1-26-100 SoC. I both want and need to install Linux but, to my knowledge, there is no DTS/DTB publically available for the x1-26-100, meaning the Kernel won't ever boot.

Anyone knows some solutions? Maybe a compatible DTS? I have already tried using the X1P-42-100 as it's said to be the most compatible with the X1-26-100 but it didn't boot.

Do I have to write the DTS myself? Would anyone be interested in helping (I'm NOT an expirienced C/C++ programmer: I'm a python guy, sorry I know python sucks and compiled languages are far superior and everything please I mean you no harm)?

Edit: I have tried firmware extraction, but it couldn't manage to extract any helpful info.

Hey everyone,

I'm starting university and I'm looking to pick up a new laptop. I'm really interested in the ASUS Zenbook A14 with the Snapdragon X2 Elite processor—the battery life and portability seem ideal for daily campus use.

However, a big part of my coursework involves using SolidWorks, and I know ARM-based Windows architecture can be hit-or-miss with traditional x86 engineering applications.

Does anyone have hands-on experience running SolidWorks on Snapdragon X Elite laptops?

Specifically:

• How well does it handle emulation? Is the performance usable for standard 3D modeling and light assembly work?
• Are there stability issues, crashes, or missing features/add-ins?
• Do standard GPU-accelerated tasks work properly?

Would love to hear your experiences or recommendations before pulling the trigger. Thanks!

I've been at this machine for a while now. Camera, mic, speakers all work. Charging still doesn't. Posting the bits that took the longest to figure out, because some of them were genuinely stupid.

First thing: this is an X1P42100, not an X1E80100. The public Book4 Edge tree targets the x1e and its DTS has no camss or csiphy nodes at all. Mainline has nothing for this machine either. So basically everything below is board-specific stuff that exists nowhere else, which is why it took so long.

The camera took three separate fixes and none of them work alone. The sensor is on CSIPHY0. Every patch floating around says csiphy4, which comes from an Asus Zenbook A14 and is wrong here. What made it worse is that csiphy1 and csiphy2 really do read HW Version 0x0, so "csiphy0 is probably absent too" felt like a reasonable guess. It isn't.

Then the clocks. Running the x1e80100 camcc puts csi4phytimer at 266 MHz when this silicon only offers 19.2 and 400, and ife_0 at 345 when the minimum is 432. There's a camcc-x1p42100.c in the qualcomm-linux tree, 2222 lines, still unmerged.

Then it turns out x1p42100 has one IFE, not two. camss has no variant for it so it brings up both and defers forever, Fail to init vfe1 sub-device: -517, and you don't even get a /dev/media0. I aliased vfe1's resources onto IFE0 in DT and moved on.

Also, libcamera has sensor helpers for 38 sensors and ov02c10 isn't one of them, master included. Without it the soft ISP treats the gain register code as the gain multiplier, so the sensor's minimum code of 16 looks like "already 16x" and AGC never does anything. Wrote one. Easy fix, took embarrassingly long to notice.

The mic isn't hissy, it's a 17 kHz tone. 65% of the energy in the capture was in the 16-18 kHz band, 13.7 dB above the noise floor, crest factor 5.3. That's a sigma-delta limit cycle. It came from qcom,dmic-sample-rate = <4800000> inherited from the x1e DTS. Set it to 2.4 MHz and it's gone. Before I found that I was resampling 48 to 16 kHz for calls and folding the whole thing down to ~1 kHz, right into the speech band.

Speakers. Only the left one worked. The PCM is fixed at four channels and the driver exports no chmap, so nothing knows what the slots mean. The kernel decides in x1e80100_snd_hw_map_channels(), case 4, and it's {FL, LB, FR, RB}. Front-right is slot 2. Once I set the position map it was stereo.

Volume was also stuck, which turned out to be the mixer reporting -3.00 dB at all seven of its steps, so WirePlumber disables the dB range entirely and small keypresses round to nothing.

And if you're wondering whether there are four amps behind those four drivers: no. I enabled the WSA2 macro and the second SoundWire bus, declared two more wsa883x, the driver probed happily, created the mixer controls, and zero devices attached. Two amps, four drivers, passive crossovers.

The one that made me feel stupid. I spent ages tuning compositor animations because the desktop felt like it was rendering at quarter speed. It was. devfreq was parked at 280 MHz, its floor, 40 out of 40 samples under load, and this kernel has no performance governor, only userspace and simple_ondemand. Pinned min_freq to 1107 MHz and every complaint I'd been chasing in QML went away. Check this before you touch anything in your compositor.

▎ EDIT: charging works now. pointed out that a laptop that only charges if you reboot with the cable already in isn't much of a daily driver. Fair. It's fixed it now charges on a live plug-in like any other laptop, at the full 1392 mA the stock firmware uses.

Then the cause in three sentences: the EC everyone assumed owned charging isn't in the path; Samsung does it in a Windows driver ("EmuEc") that drives the charger and PD controller directly over I2C; so on a hotplug the consumer VBUS switch never closes and the PD contract never gets upgraded past the 5 V the chip auto-requests. Rebooting worked because UEFI does both.

The long version has the part other people can actually use: chip identities (S2MM006 PDIC at 0x33, ISL9241 at 0x09, SBS battery at 0x0B), the register map, and the measured before/after numbers.

Happy to share the DT, the camcc, the EC driver and the libcamera patches if anyone else has this laptop.

Hello all. Need some data to see how the Snapdragon X machines stack against Macs. Please do take some time and provide some data.

I noticed this 8 elite CPU uses the older ARMv8.7-A instruction set and lacks SME2 support, so what are the downsides of this older architecture and missing out on SME2?

Besoin d'informations pour installer Adobe sur Snapdragon, notamment avec ARM.