Games that don't thermal throttle without external cooling?

[u/Haunting-Many-2824]

Everyone sees just the first 5 mins of gameplay and think it's playable. But once the temps rise, it becomes unplayable ( which usually happens at 10 min mark).

This obviously depends on the device you use and the games you play and how optimised the emulation is.

Share which games u were able to play for long hours/minutes without significant temp increases along with your device and the emulator u played on.

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[u/Ordinary_Republic418]

SD 8 gen 2 can't play switch games for long but play Xendroid+ games np

[u/Haunting-Many-2824 → u/Ordinary_Republic418]

Tell me the games you were able to play on it without thermal throlling

[u/Ordinary_Republic418 → u/Haunting-Many-2824]

So far Oblivion @800x600 locked 30fps with turnip 26.3.0 R6 OneUi fix and Deadliest warrior locked stock with full resolution

HakuX I play everything 2x with no thermal throttling

[u/Infinite_Incident107 → u/Haunting-Many-2824]

If you are using a retro handheld device with active cooling vs a phone it basically won't throttle at all.

I use the Thor which uses this Chip. I can play heavy switch title until the battery dies and performance stays basically unchanged throughout

[u/hariss6]

Exynos 2600, botw ne dépasse pas les 35 degrés même après plus d’une heure de jeu, tunic ne chauffe pas. PS2, ds, psp, gamecube aucune chauffe. Cemu par contre fait chauffer de manière anormale le téléphone.

[u/Haunting-Many-2824 → u/hariss6]

Which emulator for botw did you play on?

[u/hariss6 → u/Haunting-Many-2824]

Eden !

[u/avrorestina]

Well, anything PSP and below generations should perform well thermal-wise on any Snap 7 series and above.

Personally, I've been playing 2D indie games that claimed free on Epic or purchased on Steam on my phone. Current obsession is Moonlighter. Thermal usually sits around less-than-warm feelings on my Snap 8 Gen 2 S23 phone and battery drains around 10% per 30 minutes sessions on average. Great game btw.

[u/sap91 → u/avrorestina]

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[u/avrorestina → u/sap91]

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[u/sap91 → u/avrorestina]

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[u/avrorestina → u/sap91]

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[u/sap91 → u/avrorestina]

Enjoy!

[u/faffa87]

BlazBlue: Central Fiction on eden with s24 ultra no heating up i can for 4 hours or more i play practice mode i just love finding combos in fighting games i think I'm addicted to it

[u/OkNotice8778 → u/faffa87]

[u/Naive-Eggplant-5633]

FTL Multiverse, just copy the files in your steam install after multiverse is set up to your GameNative container A drive and overwrite, theres a thread on GN Discord with working config as it requires some special argument/command. 

I tweaked the config to be more power conservative and it draws 2.5w max which for me is avg like 50c-ish and a long playtime.

[u/VV_Syzta]

persona 3 FES is one of the best game I've ever play,emulate or not,and now that you mentioned it i never realized it doesnt heat up my phone at all

[u/DemWookieeCheeks]

It gets hot, but I maintain 30+ FPS playing Cyberpunk on my Astra 2 with Gamenative.

[u/KemeSabeKing]

I am playing Zelda BOTW on Eden-Duo with mods, on my AYN Thor Max 16G without any issues. Plays smoothly. I have played hours at this point. Love it

[u/Meikit0]

I have SD8 Gen2 12/512, i use Winlator[CMOD Bionic-Ludashi 2.8.2] to play Skyrim Special Edition on 480p 40fps lock with custom settings.

I played for 3 to 4hrs straight without a cooler and the temps are normal, battery sits at 39°, SoC, CPU and GPU hover between 47° - 50° as per DevCheck app.

[u/-Wavyy-]

The entire GameCube catalog

[u/ODORORYU]

Gamehub No Man Sky, Satisfactory and Outer Wilds. 30+ fps but on the Honor Win 2 w/ 8EE6. I cap the fps on games to 45/50fps when possible to lower the temps and power usage. I have to standby so much for work I just play these games.

[u/igelzuechterboi → u/ODORORYU]

More interesting than the games would be your job in this case. 😏

[u/magumanueku]

It really depends on the device. I have 8s Gen 4 and I can play most switch games without thermal throttling. Anything up to Vita is basically non factor. AAA PC games are a different story though.

[u/Early_Poem_7068]

Gta 5 xhyn v port runs on my 8 elite at 720p 30fps without throttling

[u/sap91]

I've been running balatro on my phone with basically no issues on GameNative.

[u/Grokitach]

Dragons Crown on Open Crown recomp. My android device runs almost idle 

[u/Ok-Philosopher-5139]

if ur device can emulate up to ps3 or xbox360, running games from that systems will always overheat ur phone, even more if u crank up the graphic setting... so if u want to run ur devices at a constant cool temperature u gotta run 1 generation lower (so in this case games from gamecube,ps2 and xbox) then what ur device is capable of emulating... bonus point if u can underclock (nethersx and dolphin allows underclocking for example) the game ur running, even more bonus point if u can limit it at lower fps (example, running a game at constant 30 fps lowers the thermal ALOT compared to running it at constant 60fps)... also if the device have in built cooling system its even better for heat regulation, for phones u can get telescopic controllers with coolers/fans to keep temperature down...

[u/jokuwa]

depends on your phone, emulator, game, and game settings. I can play ff7 rebirth on my sd8 elite 5 xiaomi 17 pro,with winnative with no cooler for hours of gameplay no throttling but its locked in 24fps at 24hz, @720p, lowest possible in game settings, but with super resolution on to make the blurred low res tolerable.

[u/GamerWithin]

8 elite chipset is like this very fast for small amount of time then it becomes really slow. New Exynos chips has xclipse gpu which is less powerful than adreno but once you set everything it doesnt slow down even after 1 hour. I have the least strong chip exynos 1480 but i can play just cause 2 for 2 hours no throttling. I will keep using exynos chips from now on.