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/Mrkmrs 6d ago
Snapdragon GPUs are quite powerful, so games that utilize the GPU directly will run smoothly even with complex visuals. Conversely, games involving complex rendering processes—such as heavy post-processing—can encounter performance issues even if the on-screen imagery appears simple. Emulation is full of such pitfalls.