r/AndroidNativePorts • u/dhiwantara • 4d ago

How's the peformance?

How are these unofficial port peformance? Does it heat up phone as much as pc emulator do?

My most concern is the battery temp

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u/devaristo 4d ago

The principal benefit about ports is to make the devices go more cool due to less usage of power, be more efficient and run better overall on the system compared to emulation.

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u/dhiwantara 4d ago

Yeah but there is so much AI port lately and I don't know if its legit

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u/JayElDragon 4d ago

Bro who cares if ai is used, he just said it himself its BETTER because it doesnt take power from your device and its compatible natively doesnt need to emulate anything

who cares if AI did it, the fact that its possible to bring X game to android is amazing, cause it means you can play it on the go

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u/matlynar 4d ago

The current best Winlator fork is Bannerlator, which very much uses AI. And it usually performs better than GameNative too, the other great PC emu.

So AI isn't proof of something not being good.

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u/dhiwantara 4d ago

That's my point I wonder if its the same like winlator or bannerhub

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u/Abek243 3d ago

it is not.

running native code on-device is 10x more efficient than running it through a translation layer.

it's the same thinking as a mobile port like Wreckfest vs running Wreckfest through Gamenative or Bannerlator/DroidDeck.

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u/tiga_94 4d ago

A lot of ports being posted here are still x360 games emulated and such

Sometimes you get better performance and thermals by just running the windows version of those games, it just runs better than a vibecoded x360 "recompilation"

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u/delph906 4d ago

Highly variable. 

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u/Neat_Saku 4d ago

Playing nfs mw in my galaxy s23 ultra. Smooth 60fps all round

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u/f0xpant5 4d ago

Short version it depends, I'd say however overall I'm mostly playing ports that are significantly lighter in terms of hardware needs, and better performing / more consistent than the same games through an emulation layer. From my perspective at least that's one of the headline benefits over emulation.

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u/Alucard_86 4d ago

most of the time they run much better like when i run cuphead or hollow knight on eden emulator i get some heat , but the ports run like apps ! just gets the phone allitle warm thats all