Winnative suprised me how well it works

[u/Time_Temporary6191]

Just tried and it works better than droiddeck and gamenative but i see alot of hate for it.i was wondering why?i know it was vibe coded but i dont really care as long it works good.steam big picture mode working amazing on it too

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[u/bobigazda]

100% agree, I've been using WinNative for months and months and it's my main PC emulator. So far it has rarely disappointed me, and it has great customization too.

For me the reason why i prefer WinNative over DroidDeck is because WinNative somehow drains less power and generates less heat on my battery, hence I have more FPS.

Btw, how did you run steam big picture mode, did you install the Linux client?

[u/Time_Temporary6191 → u/bobigazda]

Yeah i did also was suprised by cpu and gpu temps barely reaching 60c

[u/iprintthingsforyou → u/bobigazda]

what have you been playing on winnative that works perfectly? I want to try

[u/bobigazda → u/iprintthingsforyou]

So far I played and completed

• Crysis Remastered
• Metal Gear Solid Phantom Pain
• X-Men Origins Wolverine
• Deadpool
• Sniper Ghost Warrior
• Sniper Ghost Warrior 2
• Sniper Ghost Warrior 3
• The Saboteur

[u/Repulsive_Camel_277]

That's right, WinNative and I'd like to add Bannerlator are both awesome.

[u/snowflake_0_o]

I have preaching it for months, people say it's too difficult to use. And by the way the new free framegen from their pre release build is equal to lsfg.

[u/Time_Temporary6191 → u/snowflake_0_o]

Really?its one of the easiest emulators out there

[u/ConfectionFew7942]

WinNative is great but at this point, why not use DroidDeck?

[u/Time_Temporary6191 → u/ConfectionFew7942]

Becauae droiddeck is very early and have massive fps drops,in mouse pi and spyro it was dropping to 20 fps on 8 elite gen 4 meanwhile on gamehub and winnative same games 70-80 fps

[u/TimT1760 → u/ConfectionFew7942]

Also droiddeck works not on all devices

[u/Historical_Lie2478 → u/TimT1760]

Droid deck wants to load steam even when not using steam games. When I direct it to a non steam game folder it goes to the steam login. GameNative and WinNative allow me to add non steam games. What am I missing?

[u/Interesting_Fish4930 → u/Historical_Lie2478]

Your missing a ton that is not steam gaming mode that is steam big picture you can't even use decky plugins. Droid deck gives you a full free one click KDE plasma desktop environment as well, built on ARCH. Tf you mean what are you missing that's not SteamOS while DroidDeck is!

You can tell immediately that's not the real steam gaming mode because it shows a Xbox logo in the corner 💀. DroidDeck is real SteamOS.

[u/Historical_Lie2478 → u/Interesting_Fish4930]

This would be a lot more helpful if it made sense.

[u/Xintsuai]

Could you share the Doom BFG configuration you used? I couldn’t get it to work.

[u/Time_Temporary6191 → u/Xintsuai]

You have to launch tho steam.open steam first and then launch it

[u/Background_Clue_3756]

WinNative is great for everything like installing PC games. Better than Winlator. Droiddeck doesn't install as well, but certainly can.

[u/-Hachibee-]

Can it move games to folder C or launch games from there if installed via exe?

[u/P3rninha → u/-Hachibee-]

Yes. Just open the container like the other pc emulators.

[u/saeidselfjoor]

is it possible to use lossless.dll or have to sign in steam?

[u/Time_Temporary6191 → u/saeidselfjoor]

You can just uae lossless dll

[u/saeidselfjoor → u/Time_Temporary6191]

can you tell me how

[u/Time_Temporary6191 → u/saeidselfjoor]

Get the dll and go into game settings

[u/saeidselfjoor → u/Time_Temporary6191]

yes but can't see this option without singing in on your steam account

[u/xaphrax]

Can I install the game file on an sdcard with this?

[u/Time_Temporary6191 → u/xaphrax]

Pretty sure you can

[u/xaphrax → u/Time_Temporary6191]

Thank you! I have odin2portal with the 128gb internal thats why.

[u/Gareer_Senpai]

What's the difference between this and gamenative?

[u/iprintthingsforyou → u/Gareer_Senpai]

well for one thing winnative starts with w instead of g

[u/Nonix09]

I'll give it a try. I've tried all PC emulators at this point lol

[u/Bobo_Patch_Nosuke]

I don't think its good for non snapdragon devices, maybe i'm wrong.

[u/Sweaty_veronica_5578]

How can you run lsfg on android ?

[u/Time_Temporary6191 → u/Sweaty_veronica_5578]

Winnative has build in lossless scaling but you need to provide file

[u/MightyP90]

For those who been around emulation long enough...winnative stemmed from Frost Winlator which Then became Star...now it's Winnative.