Vulkan or open go

[Lidell]

For a low spec Phone I should use vulkan or open Gl for the ppsspp emulador?

 

[Clippy]

Your best bet is to just try both and see how it goes but my understanding is that the older and weaker your phone is the more likely it is OpenGL will be the better choice.

 

[DunkeyKong]

What's your specs btw? We can find out easier with those

 

[kyujin]

I used a Samsung galaxy core 2 to play DBZ Shin Budokai and Shin Budokai 2 doesn't had lag or bugs and working in 60fps, without 60fps could and put in 4xpsp continued working very well I was very impressed, the only graphic driver for this phone is Open GL.

I think it depends the game are you playing, for example: I have played 7th dragon 2020 and the game had better performance with Vulkan, but playing GTA Liberty City he got better with Open GL than Vulkan, of course one is over view and other is 3rd person and also have CPU and GPU gets better than others. (mine is a snapdragon) But many games I played with Vulkan was better than with Open GL. But the emulator is so optimized I can't talk if really have a difference of performance in some cases. I'm not specialized with graphic drivers codes or hardware just basic knowledge about these topics and many tests.

 

[DunkeyKong]

That's quite powerful! Maybe try lowering the resolution to 3x if it starts fe unstable. If you wanted smoother experience though, try checking the VSync for stable framerate and the "Render Duplicate Frames to 60hz" to fix cutscenes, FMVs and basically any visual issues like the flickering

Hope that helps

 

[Rocket2049]

on a phone i have no idea, on PC vulkan is the way, much faster than openGL, but check because the graphics can be different, more/less glitchy, and etc, really depends on the game

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

On my phone I use Vulkan in the PPSSPP emulation to decrease graphical errors (most games) but not all and also it has a more considerable performance than the default API (OpenGL). Because on my PC I use Direct3D 11 in that same emulator but PC Version because it's the Default API.

 

[CheesyExplosive]

why not use both?

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

why not use both?

Due to the limitations of the PPSSPP emulator only 1 API can be used and even if you try to create a separate configuration per game it is not possible to use another API per game because automatically the selected API will be used in All Games.

 

[CheesyExplosive]

Due to the limitations of the PPSSPP emulator only 1 API can be used and even if you try to create a separate configuration per game it is not possible to use another API per game because automatically the selected API will be used in All Games.

well that sucks

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

well that sucks

Well, we can only wait if the PPSSPP Development Team can choose a different API per game, although it is not known in which version it will have that possibility in the future.

 

[CheesyExplosive]

Well, we can only wait if the PPSSPP Development Team can choose a different API per game, although it is not known in which version it will have that possibility in the future.

 

[thecrow2313]

Vulkan is supported for both iOS & Android

 

[CheesyExplosive]

Vulkan is supported for both iOS & Android

Can you use both open gl and vulkan on android?

 

[thecrow2313]

Can you use both open gl and vulkan on android?

Yes. Vulkan is more preferred.

 

[Coon]

I use Open GL and it works well. I think you need a powerful device for Vulkan.

 

[vulonkaaz's iconvulonkaaz]

I use Open GL and it works well. I think you need a powerful device for Vulkan.

have you tried vulkan or do you *assume* you'd need a powerful device for it ?

 

[RetroSTG]

Yes. Vulkan is more preferred.

Vulkan was the best api for the yuzu emulator. And I agree it runs really good. Open GL is good for older graphics cards with some emulators. The only problems I've ran into using the ppsspp emulator was on a raspberry pi 4 with an arm processor. I'm surprised it didn't catch on fire trying to play God of war on it, lol.