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High-end Android phones are now powerful enough to emulate the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 — YouTuber gets 2020's hottest PC game running at playable frame rates [30fps] on Red Magic 11 Pro (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 50 points 8 months ago (17 children)

Got it running at playable frame rate, just by lowering the definition of 'playable'!

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Is 30 fps not playable?

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  • [+] -19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

    Any FPS is playable if you lower your standards enough. But most PC gamers would consider 60 FPS the minimum low bar.

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  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    most PC gamers

    many vocal PC gamers

    FTFY.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Ever since the Steam Deck got released and local streaming services like Parsec or Sunshine/Moonlight have been created, I've noticed you can comfortably play games on lower frame rates, when your screen takes less of your view.

    On PC I need to have at least 90 FPS to say a game runs smoothly, but I can play the same game on my phone/laptop via streaming at much lower frame rate and still not complain about the smoothness.

    Playing Cyberpunk on a 6.7" smartphone display at 30 FPS will most definitely feel much less responsive than running it on PC at +60 FPS, but it may not be a bad experience.

    I still find it impressive it's possible to play a (somewhat) modern x86 Windows game on an Android smartphone. Imagine telling this to someone 10-15 years ago

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    It really depends though. I can accept 30 FPS for stuff like a platformer, a third person brawler or a strategy game, especially so when I'm on my Deck. It's not ideal and it makes it a bit harder to time things but it's still playable. A first person game like Cyberpunk? You're really stretching the limits of what "playable" means. And I've tried playing Battlefield 3 at 11 FPS on a MacBook back in 2010. Sure I was able to "play" it but "struggle" may have been a better word than "playable".

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  • [–] 46 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

    Yeah but CP2077 is a stupid game to emulate as a reference. If that mess of a game can run at 30fps, then like 80% of the steam catalogue can run at 60+

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Wouldn't that make it a great benchmark? It sits right at that sweet spot where if it's barely playable then 80% of the other games are playable.

    Usually the rule in software is that if it works for 80% of the cases then it's a good product.

    (This is also why software is shit 20% of the time)

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Is that still true? IIRC it got a lot better post-release. It runs fine for me on what is now modest hardware.

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