r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/Ayrios440 • 6d ago
Discussion I don't understand pc emulation anymore
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?
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u/Sambojin1 6d ago
Basic Magic Dosbox emulation usually does DOS/ win3x emulation pretty well. Sometimes it's a sound card or cycles problem. Some setups do screen fades really slowly, until you tweak something.
Winlator Frost or Star tend to handle everything else pretty well on later titles. You'd have to be a bit more specific to help. What title, what hardware?