PPSSPP Symbian Port

[tenshitsuki]

(04-11-2013 11:04 PM)xsacha Wrote:  Yeah right now it reports 60 VPS as long as the hack is used by the game at all. I am trying to fix it so it only reports 60 VPS if the internal game timer uses the hack.

It is a bit annoying. I think some people have unrealistic expectations and are comparing against iPad 4 (best GPU available) or some of the latest Android phones .
I actually have about 12 phones and tablets here and the Symbian ones perform up the top.

The N8 performs way better than my Nokia N9 (Single-core 1GHz + SGX 530) in pretty much all games.
The N8 and 808 perform better than my Blackberry Playbook (Dual-core 1GHz + SGX 540) in most games, for example.
The 808 performs just a little bit worse than my Transformer Prime (Quad-core 1.6GHz + Tegra 3) in a lot of games as well which is pretty incredible.

Then you must remember that Symbian devices are using an old CPU architecture (ARM11) which means the N8 is ~400MHz single-core equivalence and the 808 is ~780MHz single-core equivalence. The only thing pulling them up is the VideoCore GPU.

I do understand a bit about this kind of unrealistic expectations, because i'm doing for some time, mods for games ( re-texturing, i do not work programing), and people always think that you can do more than you really can, ignoring the limitations that you are working on ( in my case like just doing baked effects, fixing some errors from the original texture, using art to replace shaders that i can't use, things like that and a lot more), hehe.

But in your case that's greater "burden", because you are the last hope of many (including myself hehe), to see good games on Symbian =O.

But interesting that "gpu" that 808 has, comparing with others mobile gpus, with what it will be closer ( curious how it can get closer to your Transformer Prime o.O, i expected a lot worse )?