Full PC Emulation on Android: Resident Evil Requiem (Red Magic 11 Pro)

In this video, we're going to be taking a look at Resident Evil Reququum running on Android. And this is pretty amazing. So, the game's only been out for like two days at the time of recording this video. And before we really get into it, this is not streaming. This is not cloud gaming. We're emulating the Steam game on this Android device. There's several applications out there that'll allow you to do this. I'm using GameHub. You could also go with game native, but the device that I have here is powered by the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. So, I've been having some issues with newer games in game native. So, I went over to GameHub here, and the game booted up automatically. There was really nothing I needed to do here, and it's definitely not perfect, but I'm really impressed by what I'm seeing here. So, getting right in here, I'm at 720p low settings with FSR 3.1 set to performance. no frame generation and frame gen can help out, but it's been a bit screwy with this game. Swipe it over from the right hand side. I do have super resolution enabled from GameHub set to three, but that's about it. I'm not in exclusive full screen mode with the game. Sometimes that can help out, but with this one, it really didn't. When it comes to the settings for the Red Magic, I'm in Rise mode, which is going to give us almost the best performance we can get out of this device. It'll bring the clocks up on the CPU and GPU. There is one more setting here known as Diablo mode, which basically takes the clocks way up on the CPU and GPU. But while emulating PC games, even though this has an active cooler and a liquid cooler built in, it can still thermal throttle because PC emulation here is not optimized for Android. And that's one thing I'm really hoping for in the future. But I'd say one of the biggest issues is going to be fragmentation across the board with Android. Just so many different CPUs and things like that. And again, emulation here is not perfect. One thing that I've noticed, at least in this first section, are some missing textures, but in later levels, it does seem to be cleaned up. And I didn't notice a bunch of missing stuff going on. But it's still really early. Again, while I'm recording this, the game's only been on Steam for 2 days. So, it's pretty impressive that you can already emulate this game on Android. Moving into like an indoor section, which is going to be a majority of gameplay with Resident Evil Reququum. You can see the frame rate does jump way up and there are some outdoor sections where the frame rate will drop down to around 40 fps and I did play through quite a bit of the game here. I've got some footage and I tried a few different frame rate methods like locking it at 60 and even at 30 indoors locked at 60. You can see we've got a pretty steady frame rate there. I've got the uh performance overlay in the top lefthand corner, but it doesn't seem to help with thermal throttling, and it really comes down to PC emulation not being optimized. Basically, this chipset really doesn't know what to do with this, so it's trying to get the highest clocks on the CPU and GPU just pulling a ton of power. >> With the frame rate unlocked, you can see we're up in the 70s with it. In some cases, smaller enclosed areas, it'll go over 100 FPS, which was pretty crazy to see. But I'd say, you know, locking this down at 60 would probably be the way to go. I just wanted to show you what it would do with that frame rate unlocked. But overall, it's actually been a pretty smooth experience, except for the in that first section where the textures were missing. There were some areas where the wall was completely missing, and I actually just didn't know where to go because I thought I could walk right through that section. But yeah, indoors in a section like this, you can see we're getting a pretty phenomenal frame rate for this being emulated in Android. Moving outdoors, it does drop down quite a bit from uh indoor sections. So, you can see we're right there at like 42 44 FPS. Not the best frame rate, but it's also not horrible. It's doing way better than I thought it would in an area like this. And if you take a look at that performance overlay, you can see we're at 90% utilization on the RAM. And of course, this isn't just calculating the RAM being used by the game. We've got 16 gigs here in total with the Red Magic 11 Pro. So that's the operating system and the game running. I just don't think something like this is going to perform well with a device that only has 8 gigs of RAM. 12 might get you by, but when it comes to PC emulation on Android right now, I'd say 16 gigs is definitely a sweet spot. If you could go more, it'd be really nice, but those devices definitely get on up there in price. And if you're interested in checking it out, I did a video running a bunch of games on this device, like The Witcher 3. Even Cyberpunk 2077 can run over 60fps with grain generation on. And by no means is this a replacement for your Steam Deck or your ROG Ally, at least right now. I do believe in the future we're going to see some really amazing performance with x86 emulation on ARM, especially after Valve releases the Steam frame. That device is powered by ARM and it runs PC games. So, as soon as some developers can get their hands on that, they can take some of the stuff that Valve has learned and implement it into something like Game Native. And I do think that's going to give us a big boost in performance. But I still don't see something like this running on a low-end ARM device. I still think we'll need a little more power, something like the uh Snapdragon 3 or even the 8 Elite because right now, what you're looking at is this running on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. This is the same chip that we're going to see in the Galaxy S26 Ultra when it's released. So, it's Qualcomm's flagship CPU right now for phones. And on the CPU side of things, this has two larger cores that'll clock up to 4.6 GHz when it's not thermal throttling. If I could get this device to stay under that limit, I could keep the clocks up on the CPU and GPU and get even better performance out of this for sure. But, there's one last thing that I want to show you here. So far with the game, we've been running at either 60 fps or an unlocked frame rate. I know there's people out there that just don't want to play at 30 fps. But if we lock it down from within GameHub, we can now take the settings up to medium or normal in this case. I think there's low, normal, and high with this one. We're still at 720p. FSR is now at balance instead of performance. And one thing I've noticed with GameHub across the board with all games is if I lock it at 30 from within GameHub, it's actually like 29 FPS. So, we've got a couple dips down to 27 up to 29 at these normal settings here, but it's really smooth. I mean, it does feel a lot better. Our CPU isn't getting as hot, but it's still going to hit thermal throttle. And on my performance overlay, I've added the power, which is going to be the TDP for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. Even though this phone has a liquid cooler and an active fan, if you take a look at the power right there, it's anywhere from 24 up to like 28 watts right now and I've been running for a little while. So, that wattage has come down a bit because when you boot this game up or basically any other 3D game in game hub with the settings we're using here, you'll see it jump up to like 38 watts. And again, this is a super thin phone. Even though we've got a high-tech cooling system with this unit here, it's still going to hit thermal throttle. And I've tried using rear cooler systems like a Peltier cooler, otherwise known as a thermmoelect electric cooler. And unfortunately with the glass back here, it just isn't really making contact with where the CPU is. So it really doesn't help out with those thermals at all. The only way around this is to kind of pull the back off and place something directly on the CPU heat sink that's in there. And I really thought about doing that to see exactly what kind of performance we could get out of this thing. But either way, I'm still really impressed by seeing this thing emulate PC games so well, especially something so new. And I will be doing a lot more testing. So, if there's a game you want to see running on this device, let me know in the comments below. But that's going to wrap it up for this one. 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