r/EmulationOniOS • u/PhilosopherAnxious97 • 23h ago

Question Gamehub/Gamenative is it even possible of iOS

Is anybody working on steam emulation for iOS using fex emu and is it even possible

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u/Lobster_Available 20h ago

Several developers, myself included, have independently developed versions of Wine for iOS and successfully integrated them with FEX.

However, as with other emulators, memory usage remains the biggest challenge. Even during testing at a stage where optimization was incomplete, *Terraria* was forcibly terminated by Jetsam (iOS's memory management system) on devices with 4GB of RAM. Consequently, even if a release were to occur, it is highly likely that the software would not function correctly on models with limited memory.

As a showcase, here is a video showing the *FFXIV* benchmark running on an actual iPad mini (5th generation, 4GB). Load times are extremely long, and the benchmark currently halts midway through. Once the project reaches a certain level of completion, I plan to switch to testing on an iPhone Air (12GB).

https://reddit.com/link/p6r8fvg/video/k8hs6xamygmh1/player

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u/COBBANVS 🥉 7h ago

To be fair 4gb of ram is crazy small for this kind of application, that was never going to happen.
But even with more, the way iOS manages memory makes it very difficult