Can surface pro x sq2 run Minecraft Java and install recent versions of OpenGL ?

Try with F1 (without rendering GUI). U can also test with shift+F3 and you'll see pie chart and details how many percentages is used. GameRenderer is probably most time-consuming. If it has prefix [1] you can press 1 and you will see time spent for GUI and for level (GUI should be most too - chat rendering is not optimized). It's also without optifine, with optifine I think it could be better. On GTX 1050Ti & i7-8700k without Optifine I've about 230 fps, with about 460 fps (on the same PC, the same world and Minecraft settings, with F3 enabled and with GUI enabled).

PS. Latest optifine (pre25) for 1.17 crashes on SPX: https://github.com/sp614x/optifine/issues/5739

Thanks for the addition tips. I got side-tracked replicating your json file for 1.17.1 so hadn't played with the settings much yet. It does seem faster without the GUI, but also seems a bit faster just without having all the F3 details up.

I am curious why you recommend ditching most of the java arguments... have you found them to impact performance?

I've read for some the pre-release OptiFine for 1.17 isn't always faster, so I guess we'll see how the final release turns out.

Did u try playing it with Minecraft’s lowest graphics render distancing 2 chunks graphics fast entity distancing 50 biome blend off and other settings

Graphics is on fast, and the others I've played with some, but not lowering it quite as much as you say. I'll try your suggestions. I think it's playable for building or survival type games; not sure I'd do any serious pvp type games, at least not yet. It's probably not very well optimized yet, and the Java for ARM64 is still in pre-release anyway. But hey, it runs!

Did u try playing it with Minecraft’s lowest graphics render distancing 2 chunks graphics fast entity distancing 50 biome blend off and other settings

Try with F1 (without rendering GUI). U can also test with shift+F3 and you'll see pie chart and details how many percentages is used. GameRenderer is probably most time-consuming. If it has prefix [1] you can press 1 and you will see time spent for GUI and for level (GUI should be most too - chat rendering is not optimized). It's also without optifine, with optifine I think it could be better. On GTX 1050Ti & i7-8700k without Optifine I've about 230 fps, with about 460 fps (on the same PC, the same world and Minecraft settings, with F3 enabled and with GUI enabled).

PS. Latest optifine (pre25) for 1.17 crashes on SPX: https://github.com/sp614x/optifine/issues/5739

They used legacy OpenGL API (like glRotatef, glLine, glBegin from GL11/GL20). Now you should calculate viewport on your CPU (the best way is using any library like mat4 in JS and make operations on matrix). On snapshot 21w10a they published "Using OpenGL 3.2 core now!" or sth like that. MS also asked lwjgl to port it to ARM64: https://github.com/LWJGL/lwjgl3/issues/601

In version 3.3.0, build 8 there was some bugs and build 8, 9, 10 doesn't work on arm64, since build 11 it's possible to use it on arm64.

Thank you for the additional details! I'm not 100% sure what you mean by calculating the viewport, but I did find your other posts on the subject so I can see you've put some effort into figuring this out! You got a lot farther than I did with MultiMC, which is where I was trying to figure out how to setup the native lwjgl nightly build urls. Your solution with the official launcher is definitely simpler :)

I also follow some of the settings you did (resolution, render distance) to try to match the FPS you're getting. Interestingly I get much better FPS on a single-player world (20-25 at least) than I do on a server hosted world (4-9), and I'm not sure why yet.

I gotta say though, kudos to Microsoft for getting involved in the port of Java to ARM64 and asking for lwjgl to be ported as well. Even if it doesn't run perfectly yet, just the fact that it runs on a WoA device is a big step.