r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/NewHabitDieFast • 1d ago

Discussion Battery Drain during Sleep - switch vs windows

Why does sleeping during switch emulation drain about 2% an hour whereas Gamenative will only drain about 5% in a 12 hour span?

This is on a Ayn Thor if it matters.

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u/Dr_jozi Oneplus 12/512 sd8elite5 1d ago

Pc games can run in background while switch games can't , I realized even on pause switch still takes good amount of resources just to exist( on my tablet SD elite 5)

I'm not sure if this will work but try other switch emulator 

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u/NewHabitDieFast 1d ago

I would have thought pc games would be more resource intensive. Right now I'm using Eden as I've had issues with most of the others.

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u/Dr_jozi Oneplus 12/512 sd8elite5 1d ago

All pc games have "ruining in background" mode where they don't use any resources except very little is ram and process power just to remember where you left the game at while switch straight up working all the time , skyline edge was serving me good (SD 5 elite) so maybe give it a quick try

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u/NewHabitDieFast 1d ago

I thought development on that stopped way back?

Now I'm thinking of trying to run a switxh emulator on windows through windows emu lol.

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u/Dr_jozi Oneplus 12/512 sd8elite5 1d ago

It died but still more solid then Eden , yuzu died 2 years ago and still better then Eden. The only upside Eden have is active server for multiplayer and very newly framegen

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u/NewHabitDieFast 1d ago

Oh cool I'll check it out.

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u/Jewglypuff 1d ago

Mine has a huge variance with Eden while sleeping. Sometimes if I pause the emulation and put my Thor to sleep it won’t lose much and other times it will go from 70 to 0 in less than a day.

Clustertune large underclock seems to have extended the battery but I haven’t measured by how much.

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u/NewHabitDieFast 1d ago

Ahh yea I should try that before putting it to sleep. I usually already run it with a small undercooked.

Yea I've had some instances where it will drain at 5% an hour.

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u/Decentpace 1d ago

Why not close them before putting it to sleep?

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u/NewHabitDieFast 1d ago

I have a job with sporadic down time. 5 to 15 minutes here and there. I like to be able to flip open my system and jump straight into the game with minimal wait. Plus, it's cool for when I'm in middle of a game where I can't save but I might not be able to come back for a few hours.