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.
I got a Surface Laptop 7 for Christmas and I was very disappointed that I can’t run Roblox Player at all on it and Roblox Studio is incredibly laggy to the point where it will freeze my entire laptop. I’m saddened my new laptop which I got for the purpose of developing can’t develop on Roblox.
It is unacceptable that Roblox doesn’t support the latest generation of laptops, and the ARM laptop market will only grow as more manufacturers join the ARM train. It is only a matter of time before every laptop starts to use ARM instead of x64 like how x64 replaced x32. It is not like ARM is new to Roblox since they support Apple Silicon which is ARM based. In addition, a considerable number of other companies and developer tooling have native support for ARM which begs why Roblox hasn’t done anything so far when competitors are already there.
For now, I haven’t found any ways to play or develop on Roblox. And if someone could reply/message me a workaround I would love that.
There is no such thing as “x32”
The current dominant instruction set is x86 still, 64bit is just an extension to the existing 8086 from the 70s.
ARM won’t gain dominance. People need compatibility and the only thing that ARM provides is vendor lock in socketed ARM chips and repairable ARM devices won’t exist and development nightmare as any 2 arm chips are not the same.
Honestly with how laughably terrible the Copilot+ laptop launch has gone it would be more worth it to support Linux since the Windows 10 EOL is coming up and nobody wants to buy a laptop with a locked bootloader and be forced into windows 11.
If you really want long lasting battery on the go for development just pick up a Mac. Studio doesn’t natively run on Apple Silicon (edit: it does), but it’s way better than whatever poor job Microsoft is doing on ARM.
This still doesn’t account for the amount of people buying ARM laptops whether they are good or not. It is guaranteed that manufacturers will push Copilot+ PCs to everyday consumers and Roblox should account for that market of people.
My reply is not a rant on how good ARM is and how all computers will become ARM. It has a lot of progress to still go and likely won’t make any impact to the desktop market along with any other SoCs. I do believe I over exaggerated ARM in my reply but my point still stands.
Thats the thing, its a tiny fraction of total windows users and most of those computers are aimed towards demographics Roblox has no share in, like business people (ik they are also aimed at college students but do you think a college student has thousands to spend on a laptop)
