A major drawback for online gaming on an Arm-based machine has been the lack of Easy Anti-Cheat support, which is necessary to play Fortnite and many other online-based games. Not for much longer, it seems, as Epic Games has just announced it's adding Windows on Snapdragon support to Easy Anti-Cheat later this year.

This means Fortnite will finally be available on Copilot+ PC laptops utilizing the likes of the Snapdragon X family for the first time (which are some of the best laptops we've recently tested). In a press release,

One by one, the barriers to gaming bliss on Snapdragon laptops are falling. Back in November, a new build of Windows brought support for Intel's Advanced Vector Extensions to the Prism emulator that is used to translate x86-64 program code into Armv8 instructions that the Snapdragon CPUs can execute.

Epic Games launched support for anti-cheat for Windows on ARM to bring Fortnite to the platform. Here's more about this move.

Epic Games is working with Qualcomm to bring *Fortnite* to Windows 11 on Arm this year with Easy Anti-Cheat support.

Fortnite will be available on Arm-based Windows machines later this year. In a blog post, developer Epic Games said that it is working with Qualcomm to get the hugely popular game compatible with the new Windows architecture by offering Windows on Snapdragon support for Epic Online Services Anti-Cheat,

Fortnite is coming to Windows devices with Qualcomm’s Arm-based Snapdragon chips later this year. Epic Games announced today that it’s teaming up with Qualcomm to add Windows on Snapdragon support for Easy Anti-Cheat,

Epic Games is working with Qualcomm to enable Easy Anti Cheat on Snapdragon X PCs, and that means you can play Fortnite on them later this year.