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TL;DR
- DroidDeck, a PC games emulator for Android, now supports a wider range of devices.
- After originally being restricted to flagship Snapdragon chips, DroidDeck now also supports MediaTek, Google Tensor, and Samsung Exynos chips.
- The team also added a dual-screen interface where one screen runs a regular Linux desktop or shows performance stats.
The growing power of mobile devices and the ease of running or emulating x86 software directly on Arm64 hardware have made PC emulation popular in recent years. Among the chief PC emulation tools for Android, DroidDeck has quickly become one of our favorites because it lets you play titles from your Steam library and recently added support for both Xbox Cloud Gaming as well as running Game Pass titles locally. And with all of that, it adopts a Steam OS-style interface. However, the app only worked on high-end Snapdragon chips until now, but that’s changing as it adds support for more APUs.
The team behind DroidDeck has rolled out another major update with version 0.70, introducing support for non-Qualcomm GPUs. According to the release notes on GitHub, the PC emulation tool now supports Mali, PowerVR, and Xclipse GPUs, essentially enabling support for MediaTek Dimensity and Helio series, Google Tensor, and Samsung Exynos lineups. When you launch DroidDeck on Android hardware, it will automatically search for the relevant drivers based on the chipset.
