Playing Android Games On Windows 10 With The LDPlayer Emulator On My Ryzen5 2500U Vega8 t-bao MiniPC

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Gamepad and 3D graphics are supported. Android games can be very good – sometimes you would rather play them on the big screen. Of course casting the screen to a TV or even hooking it up to a TV is a possibility or use one of the many Android TV boxes and even dedicated Android handhelds that exist. But if you have a PC hooked up to your TV (like I have in my gaming room) it’s interesting to experiment with Android Emulators to play the games on the big screen.

Here I am testing out LDPlayer which is an Android emulator with gamepad and 3D graphics support and you can actually game pretty well on it.
Gamepads are supported but only to map controls to on screen touch controls. Games can’t take advantage of direct native gamepad support – which renders quite a few decent titles quite less playable. A missed opportunity I’d say.

00:00 – Personal update
03:31 – Windows PC Specs & Booting Up LDPlayer
03:51 – BrightRidge (Action Adventure) – works well
09:15 – Geometry Wars 3 – mapping touch controls to gamepad is meh
10:10 – Ridge Racer Slipstream – mapping controls works well, sadly it’s a typical in app purchase / ad-ridden ghost of a true Ridge Racer game
22:25 – Sega Afterburner – gets stuck in a loading loop (probably hangs)
24:16 – Riptide G2 – mapping touch controls works allright
27:25 – Expendable – great twin stick shooter that has it’s direct native gamepad control hampered by being forced to map touch screen controls rendering this game not so great control-wise
30:12 – Zen Pinball – touch controls map great to the controller and plays well
32:27 – Beach Buggy racing – touch controls map well, but native gamepad is better (not possible with this emulator)
39:36 – Oceanhorn – not sure how it plays, the intro looks fine though
42:04 – PacmanCE – decides to lock up the emulator
42:08 – Booting up the emulator
42:17 – Shadowgun (FPS) – Touch controls map well to the controller, although native gamepad is infinitely better (not possible with this emulator)

Conclusion:
Wonderful emulator, quite compatible and runs even decently on a mobile RyzenCPU with Mobile Vega8 graphics. Gamepad support is great, sadly no native gamepad support, only mapping of touch controls to the gamepad is possible. Works well with many games but not so well if games support a HID Gamepad natively.

Suggestion:
Introduce a second gamepad support mode where the gamepad is natively polled within the Android OS like a HID which allows the games to detect the gamepad natively – many modern titles offer great native HID gamepad support which renders touch screen mapping a little old-fashioned and obsolete.

Verdict: 7.5/10

1080p60 Capture with OBS
R5 2500U 4 core 8 thread CPU
Vega 8 2Gb GPU
16Gb DDR4 RAM

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Windows 10 Home 64 Bit

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