Heya guys!
This is not about a specific game or anything. I'm just curious about something I've observed a lot of times in emulators (at the moment mostly Citra but it was the same with Dolphin in earlier stages):
Some games have costly 3D graphics but are smoothly emulated while simple 2D graphics like menus and stuff are sometimes awfully slow, especially transitions between different menus.
Why is this? The 2D graphics themselves cannot be so taxing, can they? Is it just some kind of idle state that needs to be skipped for it to be faster?
This is not about a specific game or anything. I'm just curious about something I've observed a lot of times in emulators (at the moment mostly Citra but it was the same with Dolphin in earlier stages):
Some games have costly 3D graphics but are smoothly emulated while simple 2D graphics like menus and stuff are sometimes awfully slow, especially transitions between different menus.
Why is this? The 2D graphics themselves cannot be so taxing, can they? Is it just some kind of idle state that needs to be skipped for it to be faster?
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