While some games were okay on the Qualcomm Snapdragonthe upgrade to the Qualcomm Snapdragon lets them run near flawlessly. Apart from that square rectangle up in the top left, the game plays excellently.Įven the touch screen controls are pretty easy to navigate with two hands, even while driving. The music, along with the rest of the audio, comes through clearly most of the time. Still, you can check out footage of the game above. Now, take a look at it on the Xiaomi Mi 9 with the Snapdragon As you can see, the difference in practically all aspects of the game is incredible and it is, more or less, night and day. The frame drops mean that input is also delayed. Take a look at our video of testing it on the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S.Īs you can see from the video, lag is absolutely everywhere and it is extremely annoying to navigate and control. Now, compare that to the Xiaomi Mi 9 with its Snapdragon You can notice the difference specifically while in Ordon Village.Įarlier levels will usually be less taxing computationally, so what may seem like a small amount of lag in the case of the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S may soon become unbearable in later levels. Observe the game below, running on our Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S.
A game that has proven difficult to emulate in recent years is The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess when it comes to Android smartphones. The audio crackles a lot less on the Xiaomi Mi 9, and the map opens a whole lot quicker. Category: Dolphin emulator keeps stopping android The differences in Super Mario Sunshine emulation are subtle, however, they are noticeable. Keep in mind that Super Mario Sunshinefrom our testing, demonstrates the most subtle improvements in emulation performance. Even just trying to go to the map can cause incredible amounts of lag. We just installed the latest version of the app from the Google Play Store, loaded up the games, and recorded videos of the sessions. There are ways and means to go about optimizing the performance of emulation through the modification of settings in the Dolphin Emulator app, but we neglected to change any of that in favor of using the pre-defined settings. Note as well, none of these tests are done with any optimization.
The results and improvements in some instances are incredible. Thanks to Dolphin Emulator, we can play games from both the GameCube and Wii pretty well on the desktop, but only the highest end Android smartphones can handle that. What steps will reproduce the problem?Game consoles released years ago use wildly different processor architectures, which makes emulation of those consoles a difficult task for a number of reasons. Game Name? What's the problem? Describe what went wrong. Games crash when started up on my Pixel 2 XL. Issues View all issues Summary Issue template Template list.
Have you tried using the software renderer? It'll run really slow, but, if it runs then we know it's the GPU drivers. Is the issue present in the latest development version? For future reference, please also write down the version number of the latest development version. After about seconds, the app crashes with the message "Dolphin Emulator has stopped working". Upon opening a game, the screen goes black for a few seconds and displays nothing but the on-screen controls.