With the Surface Laptop 7 and the Surface Pro 11 iteration (and many more models with the Snapdragon chips), task noting, communication and even development with full-stack applications is possible with long lasting battery. Making ARM Windows a viable option for development away from Desktop workstations.
Roblox Studio, currently, runs on the Microsoft Prism emulation layer with partial support. The battery consumption is on par with ARM software. However, Roblox Studio has issues with certain tabs locking studio around 30 FPS. These tabs include the new Explorer, the Toolbox, and any third party plugin window.
ARM is starting to become the leading architecture for Laptops and 2-in-1 Tablets and software ports are happening rapidly from community-supported open source software up to industry-leading software.
I hope to see a consideration to this, I personally wouldn’t need a Roblox port itself as it works fine via the emulation layer, but a Roblox Studio port is thoroughly needed.
Why is this not yet implemented into any Roblox ecosystem? Many Robloxians use the Meta Quest VR headsets to enjoy their experiences, which uses a powerful Snapdragon chip to render games.
I apologize for the confusion in advance, I specifically meant the Snapdragon X Elite/Plus Oryon processors that released during Q2 2024 haha
The Snapdragon XR (& it’s 8 Gen) processors work seamlessly with Roblox as they ship ARM APKs for the relevant devices.
Since ARM is becoming a possibility on Windows, we’re missing an ARM build of Roblox Studio. That’s the main grasp of the post. I’m certain the Meta Quest has an ARM build of Roblox running though.
IIRC Roblox Studio already has a native Arm version on Mac, so it is definitely achievable. The better question is if it’s worth the engineering effort to the Studio team when only so many developers are on Arm-based Windows and when Studio still runs, even if not amazingly.
Yeah, one can pray… The most reasonable benchmark is the amount of onboarding ARM Windows users which I don’t expect to be necessarily high since we’re not even past a full year with the new Snapdragon chips. I expect the relevancy to take off in a year or two though but hopefully the engineering isn’t too much of an effort to get a Windows ARM build out.