After finding out on another topic about a program today called NoMone Resolution changer I decided to put it to the test on PPSSPP. The results speak for themselves. If in doubt, check out the attached Youtube videos I made of Ridge Racer 2, Kingdom Hearts and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite.Firstly, install the program from the Play store. Open it and select a resolution of 480x272 (this is native PSP resolution so therefore the quickest.Open up PPSSPP, set options as you would normally but have Non Buffered Rendering set and Frameskip at Zero. Ive not messed with other settings yet as I've not had to.
A lot of games I've tested so far have worked at absolute full speed without slowdowns (S7800 @ 1.6ghz).I believe the issue with PPSSPP and still continues to be is that even though it can run PSP games at 1XPSP resolution, its still then upscaling to work natively with your devices screen, which is a massive tax on resources. I'm going to mess around with GTA:VCS again as soon as I can. It ran ok before, and seems to run better this time. But there are still weird speech slowdowns (where it sounds like the characters are drunk or high - which may not be a stretch lol).Edit: GTA:VCS for some reason cannot be ran with non-buffered rendering so I am not sure if this app can make much of a difference. There's actually a lot of slowdown but I am still messing around with settings. Don't think I can do much more though. Probably more of an emulation problem as GTA has a lot going on at one time.I also got the in-game unlockables for Castlevania X, Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night, to actually run although they're pretty slow.
Before this program, I couldn't even get them to load at all. Yeah Ive just tried VCS and whilst it does speed the game up a fair bit its still not enough to be playable (im getting around 15-20fps - its still double what I was getting before. Deffo an emulator issue.) Frameskip 1 however makes it full speed, but its too jumpy to play. I'm sure games like these will come good eventually. I think there is some kind of weird graphical post processing going on with this game, like there was on the PS2 version of Vice City to give it a neon 80s look. You can see it around edges of the environment on lower resolutions. Diablo 3 pc iso sites download.
Id bet thats what is causing the extreme slowdown. Be interesting to try out Liberty City Stories to see if that has the same problem.Thinking about it, that would explain why in non buffered mode all we are seeing is a black screen. I think on the PSP Vice City used to render a frame, apply the post processing and then display the frame in the next one. So on the PSP it was always 1 frame behind I believe. If non buffered mode is trying to display the exact frame at the right time, there is going to be nothing to display, hence the black screen. This might be a game they never manage to fix then in that rate.In buffered mode however I can get the framerate now between 20-30 using the PSPs native resolution of 480x272 on the resolution switcher and then using PSPx1 in the settings.