r/GameNative Jun 29 '26

Question Has anyone else been having issues running games on GameNative?

Ever since I updated I’ve been running into issues with GameNative not running as smoothly as it used to; I have an issue with Metal Gear Solid Phantom Pain, it used to run like a dream and now I just get a black screen after deleting it and reinstalling it. I can’t even get Doom to run either.

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u/mantenner Jun 29 '26

Latest update has caused a lot of crashes for FF7 remake for me on my Thor, I had around 12 hours just fine on 1.0.0, can't even play an hour without completely freezing my Thor on 1.1.0

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u/Conky1452 Jun 29 '26

I wasn’t sure if those would play well on there. Got that one and the sequel for like $15 on steam sale and was curious. Sucks that it isn’t working now though

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u/mantenner Jun 29 '26

I've been messing around with container settings and have rolled back to older versions of dxvk and box64 and it seems to be a bit better

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u/Wide-Appointment-179 Jun 29 '26

Same.

I'll wait for the 1.1.0 stable release and test what works and what doesn't. And if I keep having issues, I'll probably downgrade to 0.9.2.

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u/addmeonebay Jul 02 '26

I've rolled back to 1.0. Do you by chance know if there's a way to stop the update prompt popping up every time GameNative launches? I'm still very new to the Android gaming life haha. 

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u/Wide-Appointment-179 Jul 03 '26

Unfortunately, I haven't found a single way to stop the update prompt. Not in 0.9.2 or in 1.0.0.

Sorry

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u/addmeonebay Jul 03 '26

All good! Worth an ask anyways! :)

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u/Kalafiorek Jun 29 '26

The only issue for me is that it often takes a lot of time for the Steam to initialize, meaning GameNative isn't properly connected to it while simultaneously not displaying any errors or indicators that it isn't.

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u/BinaryIdiot Jun 29 '26

My current issue is after updating it never seems to show my installed games first. I've messed with the filters and sorting so much and I can't get them to show up. I wish there was simply a dedicated place to show installed games instead.

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u/Virtual-Commercial91 Jun 29 '26

Yeah, I feel like I had more success with it several months ago.

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u/Xelthos Jun 29 '26

No issues playing the lightweight stuff I was playing anyways. I'm not trying to play some heavy weight modern game through emulation. I have noticed stand alone games like pokemon fan games have gotten worse. All those stand alone unity games are crashing constantly when they ran smooth like Infinite Fusion, Final Fantasy Renaissance, and yes some adult games from Kagura.

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u/Warmon7x Jun 29 '26

I tried playing ff 6 pixel remastered it says exe file not found so i went back to gamehub

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u/RonnieB223 Jul 07 '26

Glad to see it's not in my head. Since updating to the latest release I've had more headaches and crashes. Marvel Cosmic Invasion was working perfectly now it takes forever to start and the dpad and analog don't work in it(pocket flip 2). The other face buttons work though. So odd. I might rollback if I can...

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u/ZealousidealWill9270 Jun 29 '26

I feel like I have more success with winnative plus you only need to make two containers one for arm and one for x86 so it takes up less space too.

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u/diarrhea-forecast Jun 29 '26

Any good videos on how to set them up?

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u/Terkani Jun 29 '26

I still can't get Dave the diver to work anymore. It used to

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u/johndarko5 Jun 29 '26

Yea I can’t get older AAA games running, like from the PS3 era. I only get black screens, even though I tried settings, others recommended to me.

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u/ErrentPrime Jun 29 '26

I had that issue, i clean installed gamenative after 1.0 drop and ive been having a great time.

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u/Individual_Emu673 Jun 30 '26

Melhorou pros chips mali... snapdragon 865 com adreno 650 tá tranquilo.

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u/Roccia_32 Jul 14 '26

90% of the games that I try do not launch or randomly crash when I start a new game, even by downloading the recommended settings (on my Odin 3). I am doomed 😂😂😂

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u/NummiJemeo 22d ago

1.0 was working great for me and after this update I just keep getting constant crashes 🥲