There's a GitHub project page up that publishes the latest GPU drivers from Qualcomm and and Turnip builds for emulation.
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K11MCH1 GitHub Page - github.com/K11MCH1/AdrenoTool...
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If you've ever tried to emulate a recent game, like something on the Nintendo Switch, then you have likely run into issues with games simply not loading properly.
A popular issue that comes up is textures not loading properly. Another tends to cause the game to just not load at all and simply crash when you attempt to play it. But sometimes these issues can be fixed by using one of these drivers.
So today I wanted to highlight a GitHub page you can visit to download the latest Adreno drivers from Qualcomm.
This page also has the latest Turnip GPU drivers that are built from the Mesa project.
And for those who are not familiar with it, the Mesa project offers what is commonly referred to as the Turnip driver. This is an open source GPU driver project that provides Vulkan support for these Qualcomm chipsets. In some instances, these turnip drivers can give you better performance in a game than the official driver from Qualcomm.
So the first thing you'll want to do is visit the this GitHub project page from a developer known as K11MCH1
I'll be sure to include this link down in the video description below for those who may need a quick way of finding it.
Right off the bat here, you can see they have some of the latest Adreno GPU drivers that have been extracted by newly released or newly updated devices.
With each of the drivers listed, be sure to look through the changelog notes.
Even if you aren't sure about what everything means, this developer tends to include details about which devices are supported.
So in this example here, version 744.8 of the Qualcomm GPU driver is specifically for the Adreno 750 GPU. Which can be found in devices with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 series.
In some instances you'll be told specifically that a driver does not work on specific hardware.
And then there are some drivers that seem to be more universal and are likely to work on a range of devices.
Then we get to the Mesa Turnip drivers. . .and again. . .be sure to read through the change log release notes.
The developer tends to include hardware support details here so that you have an idea as to what devices this driver is said to work on.
Now with that said, installing the latest version may not be the ideal solution for you.
There are going to be some drivers that work best with select devices.
There are also going to be other times with a specific game will only load properly on an older Qualcomm or Turnip driver.
So for testing purposes going forward, I will be keeping all of these drivers on the smartphones that I only use for work.
That way I can cycle through them when testing out new games or updated emulators to see if there's a perfect combination for that particular setup.
Since the emulators that supports custom drivers have things setup differently, I'll be doing a separate video about how to install these drivers for those particular apps.
Naturally, I'll start with Yuzu but will expand this with additional videos for others including Skyline, Strato, Citra, Dolphin, and Vita3K.
So, in the past if you have ever heard of Mesa Turnip drivers and you were not sure what that meant, hopefully this video has explained things in a way that you understand things better now.
The goal is to find a Qualcomm or Turnip driver that works great on your hardware and the use it when you come across compatibility or performance issues in a game you're trying to emulate on Android. There may be a way to install one of these drivers as your default option for native games downloaded from the Google Play Store.
But right now we're just looking at things from an emulation perspective.
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