PPSSPP 1.0

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Well, buffered rendering involves the game using buffers for various purposes. It has to copy between and texture from these buffers, all of which is disabled and skipped in non-buffered rendering.

It's hard to make something that does more things as fast as something that doesn't do them. It's like if we both left for the same destination at the same time, but you had to pick up groceries, dry cleaning, and cash on the way and I didn't. Good luck beating me.

Higher resolutions multiply the cost of these errands buffered rendering does along the way, exponentially. 3x PSP takes nine times as much work as 1x PSP. So, try 1x and it may be close to non-buffered rendering (really, "buffers ignored rendering".) But it will probably still not be as good, because buffered-rendering will still have to do the extra trips.

Note that these extra errands are why you don't get graphical glitches when using buffered rendering though. If no one picks up the groceries, dry cleaning, or cash, you've gotta live without them for the night. But sure, it's faster not to bother getting them.

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