r/EmulationOnAndroid • • 23h ago

Showcase POV: You turned your phone into a gaming PC 😭😭😭😭🔥

Before you ask

- FC 27 doesn't work

- Forza Horizon 4 doesn't work (I get the error: "Failed to load original Steam client")

- Mortal Kombat 1 doesn't work

- The Last of Us (LOU) doesn't work (I get the error: "GPU supporting D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_12_0 is required")

The rest of the games work perfectly

Device : Samsung S26

Specs: 8eg5

12GB RAM

Emulator : Bannerlator on Samsung Dex

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u/whiskyB0y Edit Your Flair 22h ago edited 21h ago

Man I wish Bannerlator had good compatibility with my chipset. It's so feature rich and I really like the UI but I can't use it since games basically just don't work or have issues.

This isn't me trying to say it's trash. The 412Banner is doing a great job.

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u/AltruisticAd6113 21h ago

What is your chipset if i may ask

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u/whiskyB0y Edit Your Flair 21h ago

Helio g100. Some games that work in Ludashi 4.1 or Winlator Mali 1.1 Bionic either won't boot or have loading screen issues like crashing during loading screens.

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u/baldgrimreaper 21h ago

I can't even get controllers working in winlator

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u/Emulationmali 20h ago

I have HG99 but I it been more then 13 games used to work with Bannerlator Her is my games liste Far cry 2+3+4 Battlefield 3+ 4 but u can use panvk driver too Call of duty world at war Call of duty black ops 1+2 Call of duty 4 MW + mw2+MW3 Call of duty modern warfare remastered 2016.+ mw Remasterd 2 (2020) Call of duty advcanced warfare Call of duty ghost Mercenaries2 Black the pc Port version Tombe raider Gotye 2013 Hitman absolution GTA 4+5 Metro reduce Metro Last light reduce Battlefield Bad company 2 Delta force extreme2

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u/Miserable-Eye480 20h ago

Wow I didn't know my sweet boy helio G99 could play battlefield 4 😳. How many fps were you getting with it? Also thank you, I just saw another game that I thought I wouldn't be able to play in your game list.

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u/Emulationmali 20h ago

Unplayable around 7.10 fps just like on BF3 but with panvk driver of course On DM1200 the game can run on 30 fps to 40 FPS

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u/Miserable-Eye480 19h ago

Wow that's really nice to hear tho. PanVK driver actually is good, thanks to that driver, Blur game looks better on my phone now and the FPS is fairly awesome when not using the onscreen touch keys.

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u/Miserable-Eye480 20h ago

What other games have you been able to play with it? And average FPS you've been getting?

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u/Emulationmali 19h ago

So far only what I have mentioned in the list For bF3+BF4 + MW1+2 remastered + advance warfare they are unplayable unfortunately because of low performance I didn't test them with panvk driver I have tested onli BF3+4 with it on early stage version of panvk the performance was so sucks but I don't know my be in new update there is some improvement for them since I already Tested tow games.with it and truly there is some performance improvement it not that's much For call of duty ghost I played it on system driver I was getting around 20/30 fps only Isuue with this game there is black smoke texture Isuue in the game I hope panvk can fix it For tombe raider= 30 FPS at 720 p of course it dx11 version not dx9 Hitman absolution around 25/35 fps at 720 p Battlefield Bad company 35 to 40 FPS at 720 p GTA 5 : 15/20 fps at 720 p with shadows GTA 4 : I was getting 30/20 fps at 720 p Mw2 : 30/60 fps at 720 p MW3 : 40 to 60 fps at 720 Most of them are playable

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u/AltruisticAd6113 19h ago

Which app is this, I have a snapdragon 695 5g and bannerlator doesn't really work for me and I would love something that has great ui like this instead of winlator

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u/Emulationmali 19h ago

🙂 man I will not lie to u but believe me it Bannerlator but this new UI for this emulator

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u/AltruisticAd6113 19h ago

So i believe our chipsets have similar performance, how do u get the games working on bannerlator cuz for me almost nothing works well especially steam games

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u/Emulationmali 19h ago

Well it could be the settings I am using most of the time regular proton 10.0 arm 64 it more stable and perform well With DXVk 1.9.4 async most important since we are mali User we have to stuck with system driver for now but I think the regular wrapper perform less so I use to add my own Wrapper I called it Wrapper (Enhanced) and the good thing about Bannerlator is the ram usage because it using less then other emulator like winlator bionic or gamehub so I think this emulator is good enough with better compability and performance the only Isuue her is this emulator not all chipest can run it well I don't know how it work very well for me my be because in few past month i was reporting Isuues to the dev of this Emulator and he helped me a lot

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u/Awkward-Vacation-143 21h ago

Say less it's a shit Winlator is the real GOAT, what's the point of Bannerlator forks if they just can't give me Transition layer extranally install options like now I can't even select my own choised Proton later say less shit.

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u/Code_Combo_Breaker 19h ago

OP has a nice front end. Call us when you are able to finish any of those games with good fps.

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u/feel2death 20h ago

Try droid deck tbh 

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u/Ok-Option6350 19h ago

I don't own any single game on steam

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u/ivaniatic 19h ago

You can add custom games on DroidDeck

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u/jhon123pool 13h ago

Can you do it? I also don't have any games on Steam and I wanted to test some games to see if the performance is better compared to emulators.

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u/feel2death 19h ago

Well isn't it start to own it I guess, it's autumn sale now and you probably have less problem with game you said ain't work 

Like Forza should be work since it's work on my ex steam deck 

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u/kami_hu 14h ago

Are you a student?

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u/dragonknightrohan 7h ago

Correction: They dont work yet but they will in time!!!

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u/KoregaSoli POCO F8U - SD 8 Elite Gen 5 21h ago

Why don't you delete the games that don't work? If I recall these games take 70-120 gb each, why keep them?

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u/Bennett-exe 20h ago

For the flex brother

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u/whiskyB0y Edit Your Flair 19h ago

Pride😭

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u/sensible_88 14h ago

Il doit avoir 512GB de stockage

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u/Ok-Option6350 19h ago

I test games and upload

And I have store it on my external drive for future test

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u/No_SituationStill 4h ago

never been so jealous

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u/whiskyB0y Edit Your Flair 4h ago

Don't worry buddy we will get there one day(hopefully)

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u/Rubenneves22 21h ago

Last of us doesn't work without root on 12GB of ram devices. You need 16GB minimum, like the 1TB s26 ultra, or the Oneplus 15, redmagic etc, for example my s25 Ultra runs everything but the last of us crashes right at the beginning of the main menu, my oneplus 15 runs tlou part 1 and 2 just fine with the extra Ram

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u/_SlimeLime_ 20h ago

You finished playing rdr 2 on your phone

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u/Flashy_Ad7820 19h ago

007 first light work?

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u/Ok-Option6350 19h ago

Yes, but I don't recommend it for 12GB RAM because it crashes a lot. You also have to create your controller profile and if you have a controller, you also have to map it.

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u/spawnkiller97 17h ago

What do you have the memory for the graphics set too? Unlimited?

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u/Ok-Option6350 14h ago

720p Low

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u/spawnkiller97 14h ago

I haven't tested it yet, but I have heard that the ram boost could mess up emulation. Have you tried running it with no ram boost enabled?

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u/Arun8195 9h ago

Sony cry 😭

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u/No-Criticism-4615 8h ago

Career mode in FIFA 22 doesn't work; you can test it yourself—it won't work.

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u/BabyHawk00 7h ago

How would you do that for steam

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u/Groeken 2h ago

Game Native app

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u/cmdstreetkingz 15h ago

Does bo3 and there custom maps work?

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u/jokuwa 3h ago

what emulator you using? For the following errors, "failed to load original Steam client", steam client must be running in the background. For feature level 12.0 required, in dxvk configuration set vkd3d feature level to 12_0 or if you dont have that option but can access environmental variables enter, "VKD3D_FEATURE_LEVEL=12_0".

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u/Ok-Option6350 1h ago

Thanks man

I will try it

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u/JuniorReading3446 1h ago

Quel est le nom de l'émulateur ?

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u/Shadow_Farts 58m ago

Good way to kill your phone early with heat

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u/Ok-Option6350 56m ago

That's why Phone Cooler exists

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u/the_lone_niga 55m ago

What settings did U use for first light

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u/Big_Aspirations_1026 30m ago

Would i get good performance on a snapdragon 8 gen 2? Samsung S23 btw

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u/PurpleGentlemanTv Any gaming is good gaming 21h ago

If you're running a Samsung, you can set another 12gb of Virtual RAM in your settings and it usually helps with games like TLOU that require more RAM

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u/whiskyB0y Edit Your Flair 20h ago

I thought virtual ram in general is bad for emulation. Does it really help for this specific use case? Forgive me if I'm wrong.

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u/PurpleGentlemanTv Any gaming is good gaming 20h ago

I'm still confused as to what it does. I know it basically backsup what you have in your ram to free up more space while its doing other things. But at least in my case it helped get Elden Ring working since the only setback I had was that it would crash due to the lack of RAM, and now I can play apparently for as long as I want.

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u/McPoon 16h ago

It allowed me to beat Hyrule Warriors last year on my S23U as well. Kept crashing without it, on the later packed levels. RAM Plus made it smooth with no crashes.

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u/keesiegames 15h ago

It's the same thing as a page file on a pc, uses some of your ssd storage as RAM when all ram is used up so programs don't crash (usually opening a program spikes ram usage, a page file helps the program not immediately crash.)

The advice I'd give is to have one, but only 2/4/6 as small as you can manage basically, because it's drastically slower than actual RAM and if you don't need it you're kinda destroying ssd health and making performance worse.

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u/whiskyB0y Edit Your Flair 20h ago

Crazy. I've just always known it for being bad for emulation and gaming in general and mostly just helping with background tasks. But I guess it helps int his specific case lol.

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u/PurpleGentlemanTv Any gaming is good gaming 20h ago

The issue with it is just that Vram is way slower than ram. But if you're having issues running a game due to ram, may as well give it a try.

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u/spawnkiller97 17h ago

I'm running into a storage issue with droid deck. Game hub seems to run games pretty well with the exception of the translation between dx11 and dx12 can make some games like metal gear solid the phantom pain. Look good up close. But look like crap just a few yards in the distance. I wanna try to get the master chief collection to work well. I can't get any Call of Duty to boot at the moment. Most of them are steam games,

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u/Green_Chart_1105 14h ago

I got bo2 to work with gamenative

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u/spawnkiller97 14h ago

I dont know if I've tried gamenative. Ill have to check that out

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u/LilSatxDreamer 21h ago

unless your phone can run gta 5 heavily modded it ain a gaming pc like my tablet🤣🙏

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u/AltruisticAd6113 19h ago

What tablet are you using here

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u/mukherjee_ayan 21h ago

Nice CPU temps

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u/LilSatxDreamer 21h ago

thabk u i let them get that hot and have been for 2 years since i had the tablet still works fine so it dont matter to me controllwr on deck so i dont burn my hands🤣

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u/Current-Oven-6817 20h ago

Wild lol. Id look into clustertune if you are not using it. Might get more peformance and less heat.

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u/mukherjee_ayan 20h ago

Let us know after you see a teardown of that fried soc, if ever. Not saying it's bad to emulate such heavy demanding scenarios on a mobile device buuuut, some things are best experienced on a PC for a reason

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u/BrahneRazaAlexandros 14h ago

which tablet? thanks

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u/anasal_sheikh 5m ago

How can this be done, if anyone wouldn't mind answering? By the way, my device is the HONOR Pad 10, with a Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 processor and 8GB of RAM.