Dolphin 5.0-6199 for Sony Xperia XZ2 Transferable Shader Cache

[donkeyhigh]

Hi, first time posting. Just a quick question. I've seen a few tests on YouTube, and apparently the Xperia XZ2 is the best phone on the market for emulating NGC/Wii games (and all other emulators as well, but that's besides the point). And Dolphin 5.0-6199 is apparently the best version for this phone model. The only problem is the small lags/stuttering when Dolphin is writing cache.

So my question is this: since Dolphin most likely will be popular on the XZ2, and it's stated that version 5.0-6199 does the best job. Would it be possible to copy cache between different XZ2s running the same version of Dolphin? Like, could I start a thread specifically for this model and version, and people could share cache?

Thanks for any response.

Edit : also, since cache is hardware specific, could it also be transferred between different versions of Dolphin, if in fact any of this is possible?

- donkeyhigh

[mstreurman]

(05-06-2018, 02:35 AM)donkeyhigh Wrote: Hi, first time posting. Just a quick question. I've seen a few tests on YouTube, and apparently the Xperia XZ2 is the best phone on the market for emulating NGC/Wii games (and all other emulators as well, but that's besides the point). And Dolphin 5.0-6199 is apparently the best version for this phone model. The only problem is the small lags/stuttering when Dolphin is writing cache.

So my question is this: since Dolphin most likely will be popular on the XZ2, and it's stated that version 5.0-6199 does the best job. Would it be possible to copy cache between different XZ2s running the same version of Dolphin? Like, could I start a thread specifically for this model and version, and people could share cache?

Thanks for any response.

Edit : also, since cache is hardware specific, could it also be transferred between different versions of Dolphin, if in fact any of this is possible?

- donkeyhigh

If I'm not mistaken the devs are working on making shaders more platform agnostic thus allowing for certain types of shader cache to be moved from system to system. I do not know how far and long they are with that though.

[JosJuice]

(05-07-2018, 04:34 PM)mstreurman Wrote: If I'm not mistaken the devs are working on making shaders more platform agnostic thus allowing for certain types of shader cache to be moved from system to system. I do not know how far and long they are with that though.

We have a platform-agnostic shader UID cache now, but 5.0-6199 is too old to include it. I'm not sure why 5.0-6199 in particular would be recommended over later versions...

[donkeyhigh]

(05-07-2018, 05:20 PM)JosJuice Wrote: We have a platform-agnostic shader UID cache now, but 5.0-6199 is too old to include it. I'm not sure why 5.0-6199 in particular would be recommended over later versions...

Idk, it's just what the guy in the video I watched said, and he seemed to know his stuff  so I just blindly trusted him :-P

Thanks for the info though  I remember when cemu implemented transferable cache in v. 1.4.1 or something. The community went bananas and started cooperating with creating cachefiles..