This is a preview of what will come next on box64 v0.4.6. Because developpement cycle of box64 is quite long, we thought we could preview some of the new or improve feature that come in the version before the release. So here it is: Preview of the Improved Handling of non-4K pagesize. What is non-4K…
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New Box64 v0.4.4 release
Box64 is now at version v0.4.4! There are some some nice Quality of Lfe improvements in this release, more optimisations, and more emulation accuracy to help with protected games. Let’s dig in! Quality of Life A new tool is now part of the box64: box64-configurator. This application, coded in python, will allow simple modification of…
The next release of Box64 is finally out. Many fixes, a new Dynarec backend and Vulkan overlay support… Let’s dig in. Many fixes and improvements to Dynarec A lot of work has been done to fix issues. It can be in the dynarec where many opcodes got their behavior fixed, or many speed regressions introduced…
Happy new year, and happy new release of Box64! The new version brings a ton of new enhancements and fixes to all 3 supported platforms, with Steam running not only on Arm64, but also on RiSC-V and on Loongarch! And this is the Linux version of Steam, not the Windows one (but the Windows one…
And a new release of Box64 is tagged. v0.3.8 has a new DynaCache feature and a ton of fixes and improvements to dynarec & wrappers. Lets dig in. Fixes everywhere There are numerous fixes everywhere in this release. Dynarec opcodes, wrappers, memory tracking and management. All those fixes, along with more wrapped function have improved…
What It Takes to Run The Witcher 3 on RiSC-V
A new version of box64 just released. Note that box86 has not evolved enough and did not get a new release. Next time maybe? So what’s new on Box64? Well, AVX! But not only that, also AVX2, and BMI1, BMI2, ADX, FMA, F16C and RDRAND cpu extensions. While the later one are less well known,…
Let’s try some games using Box64 on the M1, now that there is a first experimental version of the GPU driver. This driver provides OpenGL 2.1 profile, so a few games should already be working. After an update of the Asahi system, and the installation of the “edge” kernel and mesa driver, I also updated…
Discover how box86 & box64 are easy to use and install, and how they can be integrated in the system.
Measuring performances of an emulator is always a bit tricky. For box86 (and box64), I decided to use benchs of opensource softwares, and compare the results between native and i386 version. A few months ago, I did some benchs and wrote the results for the Fosdem. The article can still be found here. The result…