Indeed, a lot of options! Though, because I am outside of town for long hours, I wanted to make it run natively on my phone, so I could play it even without an internet connection. Emulation is for sure a game changer.
I had 1 Skyrim playthrough on my Android using a controller. I used Steam Link and it performed great because, remote from the PC playing.
My only complaint was the tether to a wifi connection. Where I live is rural, and while it didn't happen all the time, there were enough disconnects and outages to have me changing platforms after that character.
Yes, Steam Link and streaming in general is great and opens up a lot of options!
Although I do have a decent connection, I am not always in town, and streaming from away with cellular connection wasn't the best experience, hence I decided to just emulate it natively and now I can enjoy it everywhere and anytime without using an internet connection.
Mind sharing your experience on how it feels on a switch?
Nintendo Switch was my everywhere anytime experience for a few years. Looked great, performed great. A lot of hours of Skyrim on the go. (a lot of videos posted to reddit back then too)
I bought a switch in early 2022 and hardly touched it for 2 years. Picked up Skyrim on sale over the holidays and I’ve been playing every day since. Fantastic way to enjoy the game
I played it for about an hour, pretty much finished the tutorial and went on exploring. Fps was locked on 60 with some occasional dips to 55ish when a lot of particles were visible.
Played on medium and there was a bug. The dialogue sounds didn't work, everything else did work and I haven't noticed any weird bugs.
I am waiting on newer drivers that are tailored for Adreno 840 which in theory should make the game run better and might fix the dialogue sounds missing.
For GD the on-screen controls feel better than for Skyrim. GD is enjoyable without a dedicated controller. Skyrim on the other hand does feel way better with one.
Steam Remote Play, for one, lets you run the game on a device and stream the screen/controls to another device (ex. Running on your PC at home while you play it on a phone or tablet)
As mentioned above, you got the streaming options which would be the easiest option (Steam Link, Sunshine/Moonlight and the likes).
Although for my case, I wanted it to run natively on my phone, so I use GameHub which can emulate your Steam Library/.exe files on your phone (Of course it depends on your phone and what games it can emulate. We are in a good time though, since along Skyrim, even more demanding games like RDR2, Elden Ring and even Cyberpunk can be emulated on our phones).
GameHub is basically an app that lets you run windows applications (.exe) on your phone.
If you'd like a deeper explanation: GameHub is a fork of GameFusion made by GameSir. It creates a Windows like container inside of your phone and lets you run windows applications inside of it.
It has some neat features that lets you connect to your steam account and directly download and play your steam games on the go. Some of the games work out of the box, some of them require tinkering with settings, and some won't work at all. YMMV.
The two built-in shoulder buttons helped, but you are right! I got myself a telescopic controller a few days ago and it is ten times better than the onscreen controls.
For pure gaming? Absolutely!I do own a steam deck and a switch and they do the gaming job better.
But, having a device that can do everything (Call, text, browse, and game) which goes into your pocket is really convenient!
I do prefer the SD/Switch when traveling or going on a vacation or something, but for work or just a walk outside, where I have occasional times to kill, I'd prefer not going with the SD/Switch and just use my phone for it.
I bet someone will get it to run on a fridge as well just like Doom guys did, it's an arms race now!
What really impressed me is not the fact that smartphone chips can run it, but that they can run a non native game natively while still keeping decent performance.
Lydia: My thane I am still standing in a damn dwarven ruin two rooms back so I won’t Leroy Jenkins your whatever. Heading to Dragonsreach in an hour with a crapton of your loot. Might be there in a couple of days, might be a week idk
It basically simulates a windows environment inside your phone and lets you run .exe games.
It has a neat feature that lets you connect to your steam account and directly download and play the games you own. (Some might work, some might not). You even got cloud saves between your phone and pc!
I don't know the minimum requirements since I haven't tried it on other phones, but it should still work on older snapdragon chips with Adreno GPU (Seems like Mali gpus don't play too nice with it). It's basically a trial and error process.
What device are you using?
About the performance, it runs on 55-60 fps on medium/low settings 720p. I will test how it goes on higher settings and update.
Wow thats actually pretty smooth. Well based on that, considering im currently using samsung A71, im not that confidence to get an enjoyable performance with it :"
Xbox, GeForce now, steam link, ps remote play.
There’s a couple iPhone emulators for it.
I didn’t know any of this before this post, I’m kinda blown away by how many options there are
Indeed, a lot of options! Though, because I am outside of town for long hours, I wanted to make it run natively on my phone, so I could play it even without an internet connection. Emulation is for sure a game changer.
I am both surprised yet not at the same time.
Given that it works on Alexa, I am not surprised either.
Was my first reaction and feeling when I first launched it lol.
I had 1 Skyrim playthrough on my Android using a controller. I used Steam Link and it performed great because, remote from the PC playing.
My only complaint was the tether to a wifi connection. Where I live is rural, and while it didn't happen all the time, there were enough disconnects and outages to have me changing platforms after that character.
(that platform change was to Nintendo Switch)
Yes, Steam Link and streaming in general is great and opens up a lot of options!
Although I do have a decent connection, I am not always in town, and streaming from away with cellular connection wasn't the best experience, hence I decided to just emulate it natively and now I can enjoy it everywhere and anytime without using an internet connection.
Mind sharing your experience on how it feels on a switch?
Nintendo Switch was my everywhere anytime experience for a few years. Looked great, performed great. A lot of hours of Skyrim on the go. (a lot of videos posted to reddit back then too)
Glad it serves you well!
I do have a switch but haven't played it for a long time now.
Skyrim might draw me back to it!
I bought a switch in early 2022 and hardly touched it for 2 years. Picked up Skyrim on sale over the holidays and I’ve been playing every day since. Fantastic way to enjoy the game
Now do it with a calculator and pregnancy test
Will update with the results!
I saw 60 fps there, is it stable all the way?
Have you experience bugs with gamehub (for Skyrim)
I've heard that Skyrim on emulator is still kinda unstable for some.
And what about the setting? Low or medium?
I played it for about an hour, pretty much finished the tutorial and went on exploring. Fps was locked on 60 with some occasional dips to 55ish when a lot of particles were visible.
Played on medium and there was a bug. The dialogue sounds didn't work, everything else did work and I haven't noticed any weird bugs.
I am waiting on newer drivers that are tailored for Adreno 840 which in theory should make the game run better and might fix the dialogue sounds missing.
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lol just saw your Grim Dawn post! How are the controls for grim dawn btw?
Might see me on other games soon as well! Haha
For GD the on-screen controls feel better than for Skyrim. GD is enjoyable without a dedicated controller. Skyrim on the other hand does feel way better with one.
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Maybe we'll get an official release for Android/iOS before TES 6 lol
Please tell me how...
Steam Remote Play, for one, lets you run the game on a device and stream the screen/controls to another device (ex. Running on your PC at home while you play it on a phone or tablet)
As mentioned above, you got the streaming options which would be the easiest option (Steam Link, Sunshine/Moonlight and the likes).
Although for my case, I wanted it to run natively on my phone, so I use GameHub which can emulate your Steam Library/.exe files on your phone (Of course it depends on your phone and what games it can emulate. We are in a good time though, since along Skyrim, even more demanding games like RDR2, Elden Ring and even Cyberpunk can be emulated on our phones).
What’s GameHub?
GameHub is basically an app that lets you run windows applications (.exe) on your phone.
If you'd like a deeper explanation: GameHub is a fork of GameFusion made by GameSir. It creates a Windows like container inside of your phone and lets you run windows applications inside of it.
It has some neat features that lets you connect to your steam account and directly download and play your steam games on the go. Some of the games work out of the box, some of them require tinkering with settings, and some won't work at all. YMMV.
Something like Winlator or any of its forks perhaps?
Haven't tried it on Winlator or its forks yet since gamehub just did everything perfectly ootb.
I might try it on Ludashi just to see if there are performance differences.
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Seems awful though, what kind of spider grip would you need.
The two built-in shoulder buttons helped, but you are right! I got myself a telescopic controller a few days ago and it is ten times better than the onscreen controls.
Would a steamdeck or switch not be a better solution? Even outside of skyrim.
For pure gaming? Absolutely!I do own a steam deck and a switch and they do the gaming job better.
But, having a device that can do everything (Call, text, browse, and game) which goes into your pocket is really convenient!
I do prefer the SD/Switch when traveling or going on a vacation or something, but for work or just a walk outside, where I have occasional times to kill, I'd prefer not going with the SD/Switch and just use my phone for it.
You think that’s impressive? Skyrim can run on the switch
I bet someone will get it to run on a fridge as well just like Doom guys did, it's an arms race now!
What really impressed me is not the fact that smartphone chips can run it, but that they can run a non native game natively while still keeping decent performance.
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How do you do this?
Using an app called GameHub.
It basically simulates a windows environment inside your phone and lets you run .exe games.
It has a neat feature that lets you connect to your steam account and directly download and play the games you own. (Some might work, some might not). You even got cloud saves between your phone and pc!
What is the minimum phone specification to run skyrim? And hows the performance with redmagic 11?
I don't know the minimum requirements since I haven't tried it on other phones, but it should still work on older snapdragon chips with Adreno GPU (Seems like Mali gpus don't play too nice with it). It's basically a trial and error process.
What device are you using?
About the performance, it runs on 55-60 fps on medium/low settings 720p. I will test how it goes on higher settings and update.
Wow thats actually pretty smooth. Well based on that, considering im currently using samsung A71, im not that confidence to get an enjoyable performance with it :"
A71 got a Snapdragon 730 with Adreno 618 gpu.
I am not sure about the translation compatibility of it, but you could always try it since GameHub is free on the play store.
In the worst case scenario, you'd still be able to emulate other less demanding titles.
Alright, ill give it a try nonetheless. Thank you so much for the info buddy!
No problems at all and best of luck!
If you will need any assistance, feel free to reach out.