How does it work? You install a windows game via steam and then tell it to port?

It’s basically Wine with a custom D12 translation to Metal calls. Right now it’s not really intended for end-users so the experience involves a lot of steps that aren’t consumer-friendly, but some folks are publishing wrappers that simplify the process.

I imagine that in the future, something like Steam will wrap this functionality to provide the ability to run the whole library under the toolkit. And individually-published games will do the same so they install and run with a more consumer-friendly experience.

Curious about settings for an idea of the ceiling, that game is insanely unoptimized

What is really well? Can me have a metric? What resolution and what frame rate?

Something like: M1 MBA, around 12 FPS Ultra settings or high 30s on Medium at 1440p ( max res. apparently )

So can my old 14" RTX 2060 laptop, on a 4K TV.

I have seen the demos, but I am skeptical of the actual practicality or value proposition until a 3rd party publishes some frametime benchmarks, and games out in the wild get battle tested.

Yep, but an avg. RTX 2060 laptop consumes 3x - 4x the wattage of an M2, no?