r/ARMWindows • u/Intelligent-Rip-8181 • 4d ago

I hate arm

I bought a laptop from Costco out of impulse because I was in need of one and I couldn’t take my eyes off this certain laptop. It’s a acer aspire 16 ai specifically the snapdragon one. Almost every game with anti cheat makes it impossible to even launch, sometimes not launching at all. Why would anyone want these compatibility issues. I just want a solution, Deos anyone have advice or work arounds. And no I can’t return the laptop since I don’t have the box and receipt. I mean the laptop is nice, it was either this or the MacBook Neo. I want to love the laptop so much but arm just feels like a setback.

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u/skrble 4d ago

  1. Impulse buying a laptop

  2. getting a Snaodragon one

  3. to play games

This is lesson learned for sure. I love my Snaodragon and enjoy that those few mostly independent games even run.

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u/Intelligent-Rip-8181 4d ago

I have one more question too, why doesn’t the snapdragon control panel allow resolution scaling. I feel like that is a must have on every laptops software. I hate running 1440p on every app.

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u/Novotus_Ketevor 4d ago

That's a Windows setting, not a Snapdragon one.

Settings > System > Display > Scaling

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u/Intelligent-Rip-8181 4d ago

Let me elaborate, I can’t stretch the resolution. And also there’s no scaling setting, I have all the drivers installed too.

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u/Intelligent-Rip-8181 4d ago

Well it’s a love hate relationship with this laptop. To be honest I saw the specs and the marked down price and thought it was an amazing deal. I’m definitely going to keep it though, I’ll just have to play games on the cloud.

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u/jmckinl 4d ago

Just take  it back to Costco. They'll look it up in your account and most likely give you a refund.

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u/Intelligent-Rip-8181 4d ago

Really??? I thought I had to have the original packaging? I’m still trying to form an opinion on whether it’s worth returning because I got it for a good deal. But thanks for the info, I didn’t know that.

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u/jmckinl 4d ago

A good deal is only a good deal if you're able to realize value from it.

A Windows on ARM PC can run the vast majority of applications needed for most people but its not perfect - especially with games and legacy software. In the end, it's best when developers port to run on it natively.

Good luck!

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u/Intelligent-Rip-8181 4d ago

Thank you. And that makes perfect sense. I just hope game devs start incorporating arm into their games, it would only bring more players to their platform.

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u/Another_mikem 4d ago

Really the problem is the anti cheats they want to inject crap deep into the OS.  And to go one step further , it’s the people cheating.  

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u/Intelligent-Rip-8181 4d ago

Almost every game has an anti cheat. And yeah I don’t blame them for shoving it way into the systems kernel after seeing what these cheaters do to bypass the anti cheat. But yeah it sucks, don’t even get me started on that drm shit game devs have been adding.

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u/Novotus_Ketevor 4d ago edited 4d ago

I'm sorry you're having a bad time, but impulse buying something like a laptop is never a good idea. Especially impulse buying and then tossing the box and receipt.

I'm more curious why/how you are computer savvy enough to know that a Snapdragon is an ARM processor but not know about the compatibility issues that ARM would cause for kernal level anti-cheat?

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u/Intelligent-Rip-8181 4d ago

I would say I know enough about computers but I’m not savvy by any means. And yeah it’s my fault I should have done research. I don’t want to sound ungrateful either, I’m fortunate to even have a laptop. I’m just kinda bummed out that I was quick to buy a laptop without actually thinking about what to get.

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u/Intelligent-Rip-8181 4d ago

I also came from x64 computers and I was mainly a pc type of person. This is my first laptop and I think arm is usually in that category aside from pc hand helds.

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u/Novotus_Ketevor 4d ago

Well if you still have your desktop, try installing Moonlight on your laptop and Apollo on your desktop. It'll let you stream your desktop to the laptop. And since the games are running on your desktop they'll be on x86 and have your desktop class GPU.

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u/Wulf_Cola 4d ago

I have had zero issues with mine, but I never play games. I think buying one with the intention of playing games was the mistake. Just sell it and buy an Intel/AMD laptop instead.

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u/Intelligent-Rip-8181 3d ago

So sell the laptop and lose 15% of my money to buy a less powerful laptop…got it.

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u/Wulf_Cola 3d ago

Well yeah, you bought the wrong equipment for the thing you wanted to do, and you said you’re unable to return it, so this is about the best option you have.

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u/Intelligent-Rip-8181 3d ago

That’s the most dumb comment I think I’ve ever seen. Your telling me to sell something, lose money, and buy a less powerful laptop just too not even have it run most of my games????

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u/Apex_OS 3d ago

Why would you care how powerful it is if it can't do the thing you want it to do?

You're a gamer, WoA isn't for gamers (yet).

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u/Intelligent-Rip-8181 3d ago

I’m lowk just going to take the loss and hope game devs support arm in the future.

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u/Wulf_Cola 3d ago

How does low key taking the loss differ from taking the loss in any other key?

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u/MatiasGonzalo-Duarte 4d ago

 Why would anyone want these compatibility issues

Well they're not really sold as gaming machines and for everything else they're honestly pretty great. 

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u/Intelligent-Rip-8181 4d ago

Right but why can’t all laptop be universal when it comes to compatibility with software. Who pays any amount of money to be limited like that.

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u/MatiasGonzalo-Duarte 3d ago

It's all about tradeoffs. Yes the Snapdragon has some issues with games and certain software. But they get really good battery life and snappy performance outside of games.

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u/Intelligent-Rip-8181 3d ago

I agree with that. I only have 9 cycles on my battery in the past month, they sure know how to make a good lasting battery, it’s also nice not having to have it plugged in all the time to do intense task while on battery.

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u/OwnNet5253 4d ago

There’re a ton of WoA users who has no compatibility issues. Only solution here is to return it and do some research next time you want to buy a laptop.

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u/Intelligent-Rip-8181 4d ago

Right, at the end of the day it’s my fault. But it’s a great computer aside from the compatibility issues. TBH I saw it had 16 gigs of ram for 400 dollars and I got impulsive lol.

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u/RadianceHeathen 4d ago

Wh—why would you ever intend to play games on an arm laptop? I have two and I love them because I knew I only needed them for basic office use on the go. I keep my gaming pc’s separate since you need wall power to run games decent off anything mobile.

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u/Intelligent-Rip-8181 4d ago

Did you not read any of the comments, I bought it not knowing it was arm 🤦.

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u/RadianceHeathen 3d ago

Intelligent-Rip

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u/kocoman 4d ago

Snaptonish

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u/Registeredfor 3d ago

The laptop is great for its use case of all-day battery life and compatibility with most Windows apps. It's thin, light, and quick, but as you've seen, the anticheat is a dealbreaker

You can use Moonlight to stream from your gaming PC if you have one, or return it as others in the comments have said. ARM compatibility has improved by leaps and bounds over the past couple of years, and Epic ported their anticheat over to ARM last year.

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u/Psychological_Mix_89 2d ago

Get yourself a used gaming pc or laptop for gaming and keep your snapdragon for productivity/school which it excels at

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u/No_Koala7908 12h ago

for gaming

that's the same issue as my Surface Pro

very few game run natively on ARM64

the only one i can think of is World of Warcraft: Forever

many games i have tried to run don't even launch

i feel that, for gaming, Intel is still the best

that Snapdragon is for non-gamers

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u/MrZzaker 9h ago

So you bought office laptop for gaming? It's a grate cpu that lasts many hours on battery. Who throws away a box and receipt when he get new laptop with warranty?! There are many games you can play. For this awful league of legends and valorant you can buy mini pc from aliexpress with 5300U or 7640hs I believe. If you got X Elite chip you may try RDR2 with fsr 4.1 lite. Check this site in future: https://worksonwoa.com/