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Nvidia RTX Spark chip to enable anti-cheat and DRM on Windows on Arm

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Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip aims to resolve a major obstacle for Windows on Arm by ensuring compatibility with popular anti-cheat and DRM technologies. This collaboration with Microsoft and game developers will allow software like Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye to run natively, enabling games such as Fortnite and Valorant to function. While the games themselves may still be emulated, this native support for security software is crucial for expanding the gaming ecosystem on Arm-based devices. AI

IMPACT Enables broader gaming on Arm devices, potentially increasing adoption of Arm-based Windows laptops.

RANK_REASON This is a significant product announcement from a major hardware vendor that addresses a key ecosystem challenge for a platform. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=2 ai=0.4]

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Nvidia RTX Spark chip to enable anti-cheat and DRM on Windows on Arm

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  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Hassam Nasir ·

    Nvidia says RTX Spark chip will support all major anti-cheat and DRM technologies — Fortnite, Valorant, Denuvo, and more to work natively with Windows on Arm

    Microsoft and Nvidia are working together to bring popular anti-cheat software to the new RTX Spark chip, allowing support for all major multiplayer games. So far, Fortnite is the only game that runs on Windows-on-Arm devices with a native ARM64 port for Easy Anti-Cheat, but the …

  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Nvidia says RTX Spark chip will support all major anti-cheat and DRM technologies — Fortnite, Valorant, D… Microsoft and Nvidia are working together to bring po

    Nvidia says RTX Spark chip will support all major anti-cheat and DRM technologies — Fortnite, Valorant, D… Microsoft and Nvidia are working together to bring popular anti-cheat software to the new RTX Spark chip, allowing support for all major multiplayer games. So far, Fortnite …

    LINKS tomshardware.com/…/nvidia-says-rtx-spark-… tomshardware.com/pc-components

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