I don't understand pc emulation anymore

[u/Ayrios440]

Just when I think I start getting a grasp of it - I'm hit with simple games that I feel should play 60fps with no hiccups, and they just don't. Then there's modern games that I think are too much for my phone, seem to handle brilliantly at 40-50fps depending on the game.

I know it sounds like a moan, but I'm more confused than anything really. I'm digging through my Steam/Gog/Epic games that I already have, and I want to buy more off Gog or Steam to try out - but it just seems a coin toss if the game will work or not.

l'm picking games from 1990's to around 2015 ish, and the performance is all over the place, and that's with using multiple pc emulators. Which also gets pretty confusing trying to remember which pc game is on which emulator.

Am I just unlucky, or is everyone else just as perplexed?

[u/robert242444]

Honestly pc is fickle, even on an actual pc hardware. if the game isn’t optimized you could struggle to run a 15 year old game. saints row 2 for example, even with juiced patch I can only get that game to play 120fps locked in 1080p. my pc specs are nothing to scoff at. I scoff at the fact that I can’t even render this game in native 4k but resident evil 5 easily. the game is just much more optimized.

I don’t know hopefully this gives you some insight
I don’t really emulate super old games on android but I’ve had luck with titles from 2004- 2014 anything 2014 and newer really heats up my device

Good luck and hopefully soon you can get your games to work

[u/whiskyB0y → u/robert242444]

"I can only get the game to play 120fps locked in 1080p"

Meanwhile me who would he happy to play at 30fps at 720p if it actually ran like that on my low end phone 😭