Metro Exodus | Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and Winlator 7.1.4 Glibc

Notes: This game needs 2 things to run properly from my testing. Firstly, strongmem is required. Strongmem 1 and weakbarrier 1 is optimal for performance, as weakbarrier 2 crashes. You also need to use box64 0.3.2 or 0.3.3, as 0.3.4 or 0.3.5 also have crashing issues for me. It's inconsistent, sometimes it crashes at startup, sometimes it's fine, but for me, box 0.3.2 was stable.

In my opinion, it's so close to being playable. I'd say about 50% of the time, it's actually playable. Sometimes it can get close to 60FPS (although that is definitely cherry-picking), and a good amount of the time it gets 30FPS. The problem is that the resolution scaling in Exodus is weirdly worse than Last Light and 2033, as it doesn't upscale. 50% res is just 50% res, and it makes the game very blurry, which sucks because most of the time, 50% res scale is needed to achieve 30FPS at 720p. Also, the more demanding scenes can go into the 20s, even at 360p, and it made a certain part damn near unplayable for me. I'd be really hard pressed to call this playable on the Gen 2 (especially because apparently the game gets even more demanding later on). Gen 3 probably could make this work, and Gen Elite should be Steam Deck level (although even the deck can't get 60FPS in this game!). Game was pretty fun tho, but I can't cope with the performance for how good this game is supposed to look lol