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You might see a few games like Diablo 2 or DOOM running, but modern games are almost totally out of the question. The biggest roadblock is getting a complete Vulkan driver, which is at least a few years off. That would allow for DXVK to run, which enables the majority of Proton titles.

And then there's the issue of the stack itself. It's hard enough getting Wine and DXVK to run on hardware designed to run Windows/DirectX respectively, but running it through Rosetta/Box86, on Asahi, using half-finished video drivers, is probably not great for stability. Just my $0.02.

Edit: I thought you were talking about Asahi gaming. The state of Proton on MacOS is hopeless (Valve devs abandoned it after the Catalina announcement), but you can definitely run it in a VM if you're so-inclined. Wouldn't necessarily be any faster than using Windows in a VM, but it's still an option.



Box86, Box64, or FEX-Emu. The latter is quite promising.




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