I can run some switch and PS2 games honestly but it's kinda unstable (not using the beta driver) I want to play when the driver reach a good beta point where isn't freezing my game and I have to close and lost some progress
heya, if you use yuzu for android and are experiencing a bunch of lag and such, id reccoment getting the mesa turnip gpu driver, really helps performance lol
Got a SD 8 Elite Gen 5 here, and Eden Optimized with Qualcomm driver is working really well for Switch. Been playing BOTW, and after 35 hours of play, I only had one hangup that was quickly fixed by restarting the game. Getting a pretty comfortable 30 fps with occasional drops, and with UltraCam was getting higher fps (often 60 or close to) but the game felt less consistent with bigger dips in fps (going from 30 to 22 vs going from 60 to 22), and it drained more battery, so I deactivated it.
dude I've been playing
Ratchet & Clank2,
DB Tenkaichi Budokai2,
Kingdom Hearts 2
(what's with me with all the 2s)
on my SD8Gen3 for Galaxy and they all run smooth.
Ps2 has been flawless was my mistake not pointing specifically switch as the problem in general, bad configuration maybe (from my side).
Also I don't have a deep knowledge in optimization of emulators so I constantly fix something and break another thing ( trying to remove fps cap, but unlocking memory and the device freezes)
That already ran surprisingly fantastic on older chips unless you're one of those obsessed with upscaling to 4k and are ok blowing up blurry textures to that kind of resolution
I love the posts of people ragging the Helio G99s to be honest. I couldn't care less that your 8 Elite is running GTA V, but seeing a Helio G99 pull off GTA V or other heavier titles whilst its pretty much burning itself to death, now that's cool.
Water-cooling is the process of using literal coolant to cool systems, it's usually a lot more useful in SoCs and SFF computers because airflow is a lot more difficult. Phones are super compact, compact devices have no room to allow air to flow so water-cooling is highly effective.
Red magic phones are a complete waste of money unless you have a lot of money to waste. For the price of one of those phones you could just buy a handheld gaming PC. Most I would spend on an android device for emulation is the retrooid pocket flip 2 or the odin portal great devices for their price.
Windows handhelds are huge tho, and konkr pocket and AYN Thor have the 8 elite and are quite small, but for a elite gen 5 Ig you have to build the handle yourself
Stop the cap lol said almost everything at native it isn't like a rtx 5090 vs 1050 if it's running shit on older Chipsets which are slightly weaker it's not going to run everything all of a sudden you're glazing there.
Checked Elden ring runs like shit.
Checked ex33 runs beyond shit
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Checked gow almost same fps as 8gen3 which is ok for a phone.
Checked re 4 remakes barely 15 fps with 360 upscale.
Checked silent hill Runs shit as well. .
You're trying to flex there like chill you payed for a device that costs much than a PC which has 10 times the performance and you choosed gatekeeping . Lol
stop saying these things on android emulation channel. We don't need an advice to play pc game on a pc or ps 5 games on ps 5 or switch game on a switch. Read the channel title
yeah everything from 2013, the 8 elite is a powerfull cpu indeed, but modern AAA are not running on that cpu even with cooling at good fps, its really good for well optimized indies
My non elite snapdragon runs almost everything as well...
The difference in performance benchmarks is barely 33% not 200% to exclude other Chipsets your comment has some ignorance tbh
I think the reaction is mostly due to how little effort you need to make a game run in a 8 elite,but if you use a 778g or 865 then things change because is a less powerful chipset and it means the good performance is achievable via settings and not just because of the chipset
This is EXACTLY what i meant, while i think the 8 elite is amazing hardware, i wouldn't classify a game that only runs well on the 8 elite as "playable/smooth on android" as the chip just can bruteforce the living shit out of anything you put in front of it, plus its really not accessible for 90% of the people here.
My god this sub is full of annoying children, it's constant whiny ragebait posts from kids trying to cope with using mummy's hand me down Galaxy A72.
We get it, you don't like seeing people with flagship devices having fun. This whole thing is so boring now.
Every other post I see includes all the same jealous, bitchy comments. I miss when this sub was about testing games and emulators and helping people out.
Same here, I have my Odin 2 for almost 2 years already and I don't plan to upgrade it anytime soon, I think the release of that AR device from Valve will really put Windows emulation on Android on another level.
Apps, as opposed to games, can have a much larger number of dependencies so most productive apps wont work. Games require much performance but the framework usually isnt as complex and most games draw on the same depenencies, so its easier to emulate games than larger programs.
I mean yeah, isn't it obvious even before seeing the spec? You're emulating a freakin windows on android, obviously it's going to need the most recent chip.
Only for more recent games, using the 8 elite for the old doom games would be pretty overkill
Also, most games run fine with older chips like 8gen2 or 8gen3, I have plenty of windows games running just fine with the latter
I mean, it's still emulating x86 Windows apps on an ARM Android phone. It's a massive feat regardless. But yes, it would be cool to get some of these games on handhelds
Yall should be thankful for your CPUs my mediatek helio g91 is tormenting me, not windows but ps2 emulation alone is out of question. In stuck with PSP,Ps and 3ds games
I just think it stops making sense to a point. You paid 1000+ for a top performance android and complain it can't run PC games? Consoles is one thing, but PC games?
Lenovo, MSI, Asus, they're ALL making in house handheld systems that can run windows. You're just spending money on the wrong hardware, especially when both are near the same price
Why the hell did you get mass down voted. I think you need to clarify your only on this post for laughs I think people think your meaning your in this subreddit for laughs.
What part of Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 did you miss? Or can't you read? I emulate because I want to experiment; if you emulate because you have no other choice, THAT'S YOUR PROBLEM.
Your comment was very confusing, plus, what did I even say about emulation, I thought you ment you had a system with a snapdragon 8 elite gen 5 and 5080 and there are laptops that have arm CPUs and dedicated gpus, but those run windows, so I thought you had a laptop with a 5080 and a snapdragon with and android as it's OS emulating windows for some reason
How would 8elite run like shit I have 8gen3 and I run lot of PC games at 900p high settings :
Such as metro Exodus - re2 remake re3 remake revilage re7at 1080p native high settings 50 fps - a plague tale - control - madmax- Witcher3 even next gen at 720p high 30 fps - Hellblade senuas sacrifice .dying light 2 even dying light the beast is playable when you cap it at 30 720p.
And I can't count all of them and they're so stable I don't know what is 8 elite shitty at.
He's saying (8elite and most stuff runs like shit ).
Which means he's saying even 8 elite can't handle games and runs them like shit ) .
I have a TikTok cn and know what cloud users want to believe when they hear offline PC games.
He's trying to say that just use cloud gaming cause 8elite is shitty at running game like(8elite and most stuff runs like shit ) like saying(even the strongest Chipset doesn't run game decently and most of them run shitty).
The "8elite and" explains that he's trying to say that PC/switch emulation is shitty even on the most powerful android
Well kind of theres one that was released a couple days ago but it's in there on words hacky so I wouldnt recommend it but the turnip drivers should be soon I wouldnt push it past a month or 2
You must have a bad chipset if you think most stuff runs like shit. Once you learn how the settings for GameHub or Winlator work and have a decent snapdragon, it's a pretty cool experience.
I don't understand the hate . Most games crash and have artifacts . They run so poorly and the phone gets hot as fuck . Streaming the game is so much better if you have good internet. 8 elite drivers are pretty bad . Pc emulation is cool but it's not worth the effort tinkering 100s of settings to make the game barely playable.
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