[Android] PCSX Rearmed not as smooth as previous versions

Libretro Cores
#1

Hi all. I may have mentioned this before here, but on Android it seems the PCSX Rearmed core isn’t as smooth now as it was on previous builds. I’m finding some slowdown, not a tremendous amount but noticeable, especially on the fighter intro animations on Tekken 3 and just generally on other games. I don’t see this on the Pi3 with Retroarch and I’m sure my device should be up to it (MOJO with Cyanogenmod) as it was fine some time ago.

I had a play with a couple of options in case I’d missed something but nothing I change seems to improve it. Any ideas? Thanks all. :slight_smile:

#2

Make sure you don’t have rewind turned on.

#3

I’ll check that and report back. I’m pretty sure I haven’t as it messes about with other emus doesn’t it?

I realise it is a bit of a vague sounding report, sorry, but there is a noticeable slowness that I’m only seeing on the core. Thanks for responding anyway. :slight_smile:

#4

No, there hasn’t been anything done to PCSX-ReARMed any time recently, and I don’t know of anything done to RetroArch that would cause it.

Unfortunately, performance on Android is always a crapshoot, even on the same device. You might try rebooting your machine, though it could be any number of behind-the-scenes things causing issues.

#5

I regularly reboot my console and it doesn’t help it sadly. I suppose I’ll have a play around some more in the settings and see what I come up with. I don’t want to go too nuts as it is largely very good, just once or twice I’m seeing the slowdowns that I don’t see on the Pi 3/Retropie.

Never mind! Thanks again for replying. :slight_smile:

#6

That’s an awesome tip ! I had it enabled and now that I disabled it, the core is smoother and I can fast-forward way faster. Thanks !

#7

Maybe it’s related: https://github.com/libretro/pcsx_rearmed/issues/78

Update the core and see how it goes.

#8

Thank you very much for your response Sergio. It does indeed seem like this may be the issue. :slight_smile:

I do keep a keen eye on the nightly page to see if this core has been updated. I haven’t seen it updated for about two weeks to be honest. Hopefully this will be updated shortly and I’ll post back if the issue is resolved.

My thanks again. :slight_smile:

#9

My thanks to the posters in this thread for replying, and especially thanks and much love to the Retroarch/emulator developers and community. This issue has now been resolved with the latest core updates on Android. :slight_smile: