The performance was not perfect as there was some lag but the team says that they will continue working to improve CrossOver. CodeWeavers shared a video of Windows-based Team Fortress 2 running on an Apple Silicon Mac. Of course, not everything works perfectly.

Imagine – a 32-bit Windows Intel binary, running in a 32-to-64 bridge in Wine / CrossOver on top of macOS, on an ARM CPU that is emulating x86 – and it works! This is just so cool. I can’t tell you how cool that is there is so much emulation going on under the covers. Videos you watch may be added to the TVs watch history and. That’s incredible when you consider that we’re on literally the cheapest Apple Silicon device you can buy – one that gets thermally throttled and is missing a GPU core. If playback doesnt begin shortly, try restarting your device. This is actual inception right here, which CodeWeavers also acknowledge. This is why x86 in Microsoft's ARM Windows blows goats - it emulators rather than translators the x86 code. It, like WINE, is a translator and translators are far faster then emulators. CrossOver uses Wine for x86 emulation on Mac but with the new ARM-based M1 chips, it is not only able to run 64-bi6 Windows apps, but it can also run 32-bit Windows apps, on an ARM chip which is already emulation x86. Actually Rosetta 2 is no more an emulator then WINE is. Option 3: Emulation software - such as Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac might allow SIMION. Of course, there are multiple layers of emulation going on with the new CrossOver update. See screenshot 1 below of SIMION 8.0.x under CrossOver Mac. We have also learned from their announcement blog post that macOS Big Sur 11.1 beta contains some important fixes for Rosetta, which means that performance and compatibility in the upcoming update will be much better than it is in the current build that is available to all users.

The folks at CodeWeavers shared some screenshots of Windows apps running in CrossOver on an M1 MacBook Air.

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