(02-19-2018, 10:09 PM)FrangoST Wrote: It seems like part of the decrease in performance is due to the games INIs finally being used in Dolphin Android..
Basically, on these newer versions, Dolphin comes with a ini library that overrides default emulator settings... This is intended to natively fix bugs on somesgames that requires specific settings... The thing is, many games, like SMS and ZWW, for instance, require EFBtoRAM for correct emulation, and these settings have been enabled by default on the games' Inis...
These settings really impact performance, though, and in order to disable them now, you need to create a custom game INI and put it in the GameSettings folder inside dolphin-emu...
Doing this seems to have recovered my performance completely in ZWW, but in SMS, even though it increased the performance drastically, it still doesn't reach the former performance I had, so perhaps there's something else into it....
Keep in mind that by reverting some of the flags are actually needed to have a working game... for example: in SMS you need perfqueries, if those are turned off you cannot clear the Goop. Having these on will still give a (huge) performance impact.
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