DroidDeck PC game emulator for Android now supports your Pixel and Exynos-powered Galaxy phones too

The growing power of mobile devices and the ease of running or emulating x86 software directly on Arm64 hardware have made PC emulation popular in recent years. Among the chief PC emulation tools for Android, DroidDeck has quickly become one of our favorites because it lets you play titles from your Steam library and recently added support for both Xbox Cloud Gaming as well as running Game Pass titles locally. And with all of that, it adopts a Steam OS-style interface. However, the app only worked on high-end Snapdragon chips until now, but that’s changing as it adds support for more APUs.

The team behind DroidDeck has rolled out another major update with version 0.70, introducing support for non-Qualcomm GPUs. According to the release notes on GitHub, the PC emulation tool now supports Mali, PowerVR, and Xclipse GPUs, essentially enabling support for MediaTek Dimensity and Helio series, Google Tensor, and Samsung Exynos lineups. When you launch DroidDeck on Android hardware, it will automatically search for the relevant drivers based on the chipset.

Along with this, DroidDeck extends features in dual-screen mode, especially favoring devices such as AYANEO Pocket DS or AYN Thor. In this mode, the screen not being used to display the game gets a desktop-like graphical interface. This section of the screen can be controlled separately using a trackpad and keyboard or the keys on a handheld. Users can also swap the positioning of the screens. The bottom screen can also serve as a dashboard or HUD for the device’s performance stats.

Beyond these changes, DroidDeck can now find Steam game libraries created and used by other PC emulators, so you can install the same game once and use it across multiple apps.

Along with these additions, the update brings a host of updates to existing features, including faster loading of the Steam library, smoother performance on low-memory devices, and auto-updating of the Proton compatibility layer.