Xiaomi's new WinPlay system will let you play Windows games on its Android tablets

21 January 2025
Currently, testing is being done on the Xiaomi Pad 6S Pro 12.4. 

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astolfo, 21 Jan 2025Good, but I'll wait on it with a pinch of salt. NFS... moreTomb Raider was released in 2013 and it is demanding game to run. Considering it runs 45 FPS on 8 gen 2 that looks promising. 8 Elite should run more complex games from 2015 or 2016 without issues. Like GTA 5 on high settings

    papajon, 23 Jan 2025Now it makes sense, why they're blocking winlator.still not yet, moreover winlator is still being developed by the developer. winlator/ still supports costs from patreon. unless they don't support patreon anymore maybe winlator's fate will be lost

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      • 23 Jan 2025

      Now it makes sense, why they're blocking winlator.

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        • 23 Jan 2025

        Anonymous, 23 Jan 2025You missed a big part there, Micro SD is much, much slower ... moreNo game will load in "mOrE thAn An HoUr" from an SD card wtf are you even talking about. Have you ever heard of the Steam Deck? ROG Ally? Do you think games take "aN hOuR" to load there? Roomtemp IQ moment...

          Zero, 22 Jan 2025Xiaomi must pull it, in order to make the rest react, speci... morethe question is whether it is capable of playing more greedy windows games. black myth wukong alone eats 130GB+ of memory not including the content in the game. just downloaded 1 game, not yet 10 games, is the internal storage of the android smartphone still capable / especially real native windows games vs emulated games from windows when playing there is a difference. really playing windows games already has a handheld pc gaming. especially given storage usually directly 2TB

            Anonymous, 23 Jan 2025You missed a big part there, Micro SD is much, much slower ... morethe problem of playing PC Windows games, greedy memory. solution for Android OS, Android now no longer supports micro SD. while Android OS is very dependent on internal memory that can no longer be upgraded. different PC, there is access to increase memory capacity

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              • 23 Jan 2025

              Ahmad faisal berry, 22 Jan 2025take for example the pc game, myth black wukong. the heavie... moreYou missed a big part there, Micro SD is much, much slower than even eMMC, or UFS, let alone NVMe. There is no point in having 1TB more storage if your games load in a hour.

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                YUKI93, 22 Jan 2025Samsung's Galaxy Tab S9 series also uses Snapdragon 8 ... moreXiaomi must pull it, in order to make the rest react, specially Samsung.

                  Samsung's Galaxy Tab S9 series also uses Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, so I'd love to see a similar feature over there.

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                    don't care for the android port as it's not a desktop system, a proper linux one where there is no longer a need to have windows to play games will be a big plus.

                      vik457, 22 Jan 2025Yeah it's been great. Speakers are great and so is scr... moreI also forgot to mention that denoiser is way less aggressive now

                        astolfo, 21 Jan 2025Good, but I'll wait on it with a pinch of salt. NFS... moreAnd consider that the mobile version is dead.

                          Invetor, 22 Jan 2025bro nfs mw came out in 2005 😒THE OTHER most wanted that turned into a Burnout Paradise reskin with more stuff.

                            Anonymous, 22 Jan 2025>big company I hope that day will not happen. Winlator ... moretake for example the pc game, myth black wukong. the heaviest pc game alone eats 130GB+ of memory not including the game content. isn't it all used up just for 1 game on an android os device. while on an android os device, upgraded micro sd 1TB is rare. they rely heavily on internal storage, while the internal storage of an android os device cannot be upgraded. except for micro sd slot storage

                              Anonymous, 22 Jan 2025>big company I hope that day will not happen. Winlator ... morefor example winlator there is a big company that acquired them. still smartphone internal storage constraints are only available 128GB or 256GB. for 512GB and 1TB sold only rare for the market. moreover pc games on average eat 100GB system more not including content in the game. for freedom of upgrading storage it is still good to build a pc

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                                Ahmad faisal berry, 22 Jan 2025winlator, still does not have its own official application.... more>big company
                                I hope that day will not happen. Winlator is just a bundle of multiple FOSS programs, it being more popular than its backbone; Box86 and Box64 is already bad enough and now you want "big company" to acquire it, potentially jeopardizing the already shaky FOSS space?
                                Besides, if any "big company" really want their own Winlator they can just fork it since it uses MIT license, which probably what Xiaomi did with this.

                                  Windows on arm native application 46.09% is still far from being able to compete with x86 architecture

                                    MontyTech, 22 Jan 2025Unless you are a generic npc who only plays AAA games or ra... moreOn average, smartphones sell the fastest internal memory of around 128GB or 256GB, which cannot be upgraded anymore. The 512GB and 1TB internal variants are rare on the market. Except for tablets, they may support micro SD up to 1TB

                                      Daik, 22 Jan 2025Now this tablet is the most powerful from the creators of X... moreCurrently, there are no Xiaomi tablets using SD 8 elite. Xiaomi Tab 7 uses SD 7+ Gen 3 while Xiaomi Tab 7 Pro uses SD 8s Gen 3.

                                        Anonymous, 22 Jan 2025Yes Winlator still does not work with Steam or Epic Store o... morewinlator, still does not have its own official application. unless someday there is a big company that wants to acquire winlator.

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