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Modder Runs Nvidia RTX 4060 on Windows 11 Arm Using Hacked RTX Spark Driver

The demonstration shows native Arm64 NVIDIA drivers can enable DirectX, Vulkan and CUDA on Arm Windows and points to limits that keep the setup far from consumer-ready.

Overview

  • A developer known as VoidTech published a Bilibili video showing a modified RTX Spark Arm64 driver making a GeForce RTX 4060 usable on a Huawei Qingyun W510 running Windows 11 Arm, with DirectX 12, Vulkan and CUDA reported working.
  • The GPU was detected and Windows flagged the driver as WHQL-style, but VoidTech could not get the card to produce a direct video signal so he used Sunshine and Moonlight game streaming to view the system headlessly.
  • Gaming ran poorly because the workstation used a Kunpeng 920 server CPU with weak single-thread performance and because x86 games must run under translation on Arm Windows, producing low frame rates such as roughly 20–25 FPS in tested titles.
  • The experiment exposed system gaps unrelated to the GPU driver: broken ACPI tables and missing Windows drivers for the Linux-targeted workstation, missing encoder/display support in the Spark driver, and failures with kernel-level anti-cheat in some games.
  • Reporters say the demo is a technical proof of concept that confirms NVIDIA has Arm client drivers and that more polished Spark-based consumer devices and official drivers later in 2026 could enable discrete GPU support on Windows on Arm, but significant software and platform work remains.