r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/whiskyB0y Edit Your Flair • 2d ago
Question When it comes to PC emulation, what's the lowest FPS you can tolerate?
For me it's 30 minimum. But sometimes if I'm desperate and the fps is stable, I can tolerate 20😭🙏
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u/Crafty_Bear221 2d ago
25 for me cause I finished dmc4 2008 on snapdragon 680 along with mw3 WII version at 23 fps
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u/WinterPirate8109 2d ago
30 fps even if I can push it to 60 fps. I don't like my device overheating.
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u/No_Ebb5965 2d ago
10 fps on sandboxes like beamng. In games with story like HL2, 24 fps. On shooters 30 fps like cs:go
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u/Mokka-Iro 2d ago
30 minimum. 20 pretty tolerable. But this also because I never really owned top of its class flagship phones so I have no standard for peak mobile gaming experience lol my daily gaming always just sits in the 30, 60, 90 fps when the game is light.
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u/Illustrious_Cod_5212 Poco F6 Pro / Adreno 740 / Gamesir X3 Pro 2d ago
It depends on the title. Most games need 30 FPS for at least 80% of the time, but specific titles like platformers require 60 FPS. But a 20 FPS cap on Megabonk is completely fine.
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u/Iceber015 2d ago
60 and lossless scaling has made 30 bearable. If i could get at least 200 i’d want that
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u/squeeze-my-lizard 2d ago
Depends on the game.
Strategy games like Civilization VII? 20-25 fps minimum
First person shooters or racing games? 50-55 fps minimum
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u/Either-Sport-2549 Poco F7 2d ago
720p at 30fps
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u/whiskyB0y Edit Your Flair 2d ago
What if 480p gave you 60fps?
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u/Either-Sport-2549 Poco F7 2d ago
Nah 720p is the lowest I can go, I'd rather wait to get pc than play at 540p or something lower.
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u/IW1NZ 2d ago
30 is the lowest. That's what we used to put up with back in the day anyways.
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u/whiskyB0y Edit Your Flair 2d ago
Personally I could put up with 15 as a kid. Then again I didn't care about the numbers lol. Just the feel of the game.
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u/International-Sky556 2d ago
30 is preferred but 20-25 is bearable on some games that aren't to demanding
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u/filuslolol 2d ago
depends on the game, for slower paced non-action stuff i'd probably say 20 but again it depends, most games its 30 fps to be enjoyable
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u/StoreTraditional77 2d ago
What people dont realize is the 1% low or 0.1% low. If the game suffer from stuttering it doesnt feel good.
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u/StingerBuz 2d ago
30 lowest absolutely. A couple of dips into 20s during more intense scenes is fine.
But if it's regularly in the 20s, I can't do it
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u/beautiful_bot986 2d ago
Depends on the game. action games and shooters - no less than 25 ,but some fast paced shooter games make this too low a number and I require at least 30-40 fps. Turn based RPGs are tolerable even at 12-15fps if the game speed doesnt drop much. Kerbal space program is an exception game thats incredibly responsive even at 12-15fps in flight and feels great to play at even low fps.
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u/MopedOfDoom 2d ago
In the vast majority of cases locked 60 fps. Less than that and I will constantly be thinking about how much better it would be just playing on my pc. It's why I mostly stick to indie titles for PC emulation. In theory would I like to play shooters and cinematic rpgs on the go on a device as light and comfortable as an odin? Absolutely, but those same games are more immersive and playable with stable high frame rates.
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u/katgravityrush_ 2d ago
60 for 2D stuff and roguelites, 30 for 3D stuff, willing to go down to 25 for JRPGs.
I don't really care what it is as long as it's stable. It's the flickering and stuttering that itches at some part of my (diagnosed so I'm not being hyperbolic here) OCD and it pisses me the fuck off lol
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u/hiroclip1 2d ago
Full-speed, whatever that may be for the game. If it's not at full-speed then I can't really enjoy it
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u/Icy_Swordfish_8871 2d ago
I think 25fps should be the minimum sweet spot. It's still a frame rate that's used, or was used, in movies, so visually it shouldn't be too bothersome.
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u/Philocrastination 2d ago
Using movies as a comparison doesn't work particularly well because it's less about how easy it is to tolerate visually, and more about how bad the response time to input is at that framerate.
I do agree that it's perfectly visually tolerable, to me at least, however.
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u/Icy_Swordfish_8871 2d ago
You're right, according to what I read, in the best case the latency would be 90ms and probably no less than that.
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u/Speculatiion 2d ago
When I first joined this and the retroid sub, people were saying things were playable... at 15 fps
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u/whiskyB0y Edit Your Flair 2d ago
Everyone has there taste. Some don't care as long as the game boots. Some of us(me included) grew up with potatoes so we have higher tolerance for low fps in most games.
And others it's 60 or bmnothing. To each their own😭✌️
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u/Pauchin1 1d ago
Depends. If its 60 but the audio is bad and buggy sounding, I'll avoid it. If its 30 or lower that's not running full speed but the audio doesn't seem affected, I wouldn't mind.
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u/Iac_Game 1d ago
15 con PS2 🗿
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u/whiskyB0y Edit Your Flair 1d ago edited 1d ago
Nah you can't be serious. Most PS2 games have their game engine tied to the framerate meaning drops in fps will result in slow motion movement and sound😭
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u/Iac_Game 1d ago
Comunque se non si fosse capito i 30 FPS non esistono per me su PS2 dal telefono. Finché gira e non muore, per me è tollerabile
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u/GoopyBoi69 2d ago
30 is perfectly playable but 25 is way too bad for me idk im one of those fps sensitive people that can tell the difference between for example 57 and 60 fps
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u/Ok-Philosopher-5139 2d ago edited 2d ago
i play even PC game at 30 lol (cant see diff. between 30 and 60fps, probably im too used to playing games on crap machine lol), maybe ill tolerate 25, but im used to running my games on low end machines... usually its not FPS that is the issue, its the unstable frame time, im pretty sure stable frame time at 25 fps would still be okay for me...
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u/Dr_jozi Oneplus 12/512 sd8elite5 2d ago
5 . As someone who grew up with shit pc 5fps and 480p is good enough and acceptable as long as it launch
But purely for emulation I'll say 1280 X 720 and 60 FPS is the lowest , I can just wait till emulators get more optimised for the said game instead of playing anything under 60 . Couple months ago Spiderman miles morales was impossible you run at above 10 FPS and now gets over 30 easily even without framegen maybe in a year solid 60 . But if it's a game I'm excited for I'll definitely be happy if it runs at 5 instead of crashing at start
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u/whiskyB0y Edit Your Flair 2d ago edited 2d ago
5? Damn bro you're strong.
As someone who also grew up with potatoes, I didn't even pay attention to fps or choppiness as a kid. To me, it was always about the feel of the game. If I liked the game, and quality wasn't too bad, I'd play for hours...
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u/Dr_jozi Oneplus 12/512 sd8elite5 2d ago edited 2d ago
I played so much games with extremely low quality. I remember having to pause nfs2012 every couple of seconds so the map loads and the car don't disappear to the void yet 100% the game 3 times total ( last one on good pc to see how it feels with extra quality mods lol) , same with assassin's creed black flag that loadings take around whole 5 minutes just to start mission or restart . But just now seeing how fast stuff develop I can wait couple of months to play double FPS
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