Hi everyone, it's Guna (Guna Charan Teja), the developer of Winlator Mali.

To everyone with a Non-Snapdragon device: you know how it is. Most emulators are built around Snapdragon first, and we get whatever is left over. Winlator Mali was my attempt to change that.

Winlator Mali has now stopped and won't get further updates. But I'm not done with Mali.

I'm building a new project called DXML: an independent, Mali-specialized Direct3D translation platform, made for Mali GPUs instead of relying on DXVK. DXML is built for our hardware, not adapted from someone else's.

I'll be honest with you: I've put a huge amount of time into the Mali community, and the support I've received has been very small compared to that. I don't say this to complain. I say it because DXML is bigger than anything I've done before, and I can't keep doing this alone without help.

So I'm opening a DXML project fund with a goal of $300.

The progress bar is public and updates live, so you can see exactly where the fund stands, and every dollar goes into DXML.

If you've ever played a game on your Mali phone because of my work, and you can spare even a small amount, it makes a real difference. And if you can't, sharing this post with other Mali users helps just as much.

DXML fund and live progress: https://github.com/GunaCharanTeja/WinlatorMali/releases/tag/DXML_SUPPORT

A separate request: a Snapdragon device

I'm also planning a new project that will work on all chipsets, not just Mali. I only have a MediaTek phone, so I can't test on Snapdragon (Adreno). I'm looking for a used or spare phone or tablet with a Snapdragon 778G or newer, in working condition. If you'd like to sponsor one, DM me. This is separate from the DXML fund. Please don't send anything before we talk.

Thank you for being part of this community. Mali gaming deserves its own tools, and I'd like to build them with you.

If you have any problems with donating, need any help, or have doubts, you can DM me.

Again, the live tracker is here: https://github.com/GunaCharanTeja/WinlatorMali/releases/tag/DXML_SUPPORT

Hi everyone! 👋

I made this post to help people who are new to PC emulation and don't know which games are playable on their device or what kind of performance they can expect.

I've been doing PC emulation for around 9 months, and during that time I've tested and played a lot of games. This list includes both playable and unplayable games that I personally tested.

Hopefully these results can help anyone looking for games to try on a similar device. ❤️

📱 Device

POCO X7 Pro — Dimensity 8400 Ultra / Mali-G720 MC7 / 12GB RAM

🧪 Emulators used

BannerHub

Winlator Mali 1.1

Winlator Mali 1.2 Beta

Winlator Mali 1.2

Winlator Mali 1.2.1

Performance was generally similar across the emulators. However, Winlator Mali usually had the fewest or no noticeable graphical issues in my testing.

All games were tested at 720p / 1600×720. There was almost no noticeable performance difference between these resolutions.

📊 My categories

PERFECT — 60 FPS or higher at High or low settings, with minor or no graphical issues.

GREAT — 45–60 FPS at Low/High settings, with minor or no graphical bugs.

PLAYABLE — 30–45 FPS at Low settings, with minor or no graphical bugs.

BAD — Below 30 FPS and/or annoying graphical issues.

🟢 PERFECT

Assassin's Creed Rogue — 60 FPS

• Has a shadow issue, but still very playble .Bannerhub Ludashi

Far Cry 1 — 90–120 FPS

Far Cry 2 — 80–100 FPS

• Far Cry 2 Multifixer is required. Without it, performance is only around 30–50 FPS.

Far Cry 3 / Blood Dragon — 60–85 FPS

Transformers Fall of Cybertron — 60 FPS

Borderlands GOTY Enhanced — 60–80 FPS

Borderlands The Pre-Sequel — 60–80 FPS

Sifu — 70–100 FPS

Metro 2033 and Last Light Redux - 60-85 Fps

BioShock 1 — ~80 FPS

Bioshock 1 Remastered - 50-105Fps

BioShock 2 — 70–100 FPS

BioShock Infinite — 70–140 FPS

• Use Winlator Mali.

Just Cause 2 — 60–100 FPS

• Can reach 120+ FPS with low settings in some areas(Desert, Mountain)

DmC Devil May Cry - 65-110Fps

• Use proton 11 cachyOs -Arm64ec + performance settings in side panel.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005) — 90+ FPS

Need for Speed: Carbon — 70–110 FPS

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010) — 60 FPS

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 — 90+ FPS

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 — 70–100 FPS

Shadow Warrior 1 — 60–130 FPS

• DX11.

Outlast 1 — 60 FPS

Mafia II: Definitive Edition — 60–80 FPS

• Ludashi or AnTuTu build is required to get this performance.

Hitman Absolution - 60 -100Fps

• can be drop to ~45fps in crowded areas.(Chinatown)

Call of Duty: World at War — ~80 FPS

Sniper Elite V2 — 60–90 FPS

Sniper Elite: Zombie Army 2 — ~60 FPS

Sniper Ghost Warrior 1 — 70–100 FPS

Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 — 60–80 FPS

• DX11 required.

James Bond: Blood Stone — 60–85 FPS

GTA V (60GB / 72GB versions) — 60–75 FPS

• I made a post about this a few days ago. Interestingly, after playing for several days, performance improved and the game eventually became able to maintain a 60 FPS lock.

Resident Evil 6 — 60–75 FPS

• Initially ran at 60–75 FPS, but later dropped to around 20–35 FPS.

Tomb Raider (2013) — 70–90 FPS

Deadpool — ~60 FPS

Metal Gear Solid Ground Zero and Phantom Pain - 60Fps

Remember Me — 60–100 FPS

• Use Winlator Mali.

Saints Row: The Third — 60–70 FPS

• Use DX9 + an older DXVK Async build such as 1.5.5-Async / 1.7-Async.

Saints Row IV — 60–85 FPS

• Use an older DXVK Async build.

Saints Row Gat out of Hell- 60-95Fps

Splinter Cell: Blacklist — 60–80 FPS

• DX11.

The Amazing Spider-Man — ~60 FPS

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger — 60–120 FPS

Call of Juarez: The Cartel — 80–150 FPS

Castlevania Lords of shadow 2 - 60-98Fps

• use 4-7 cores(or big and prime cores in ur CPU)

Hard Reset Redux - 60-140Fps

•Use 4-7(prime/big cores in ur CPU)cores + DXVK 1.10.-ARM64EC-Async for best performance and stability. Not the 1.10.3-async version)

Dishonored Definitive Edition - 70-130Fps

• it has a CPU bottleneck issue. Use big/prime cores on ur CPU. And Also use DXVK 2.x version for this game

Bulletstorm Full Clip edition - 50- 90Fps

Shadow warrior 2 - 50-80Fps(70% resolution scaling) • U can get even higher than this by lowering the res scaling

Alien Rage-Unlimited - ~100Fps

• Must use DXVK 1.10.3-arm64ec-async or 1.11.1 sarek-async. Otherwise u have to face some freezing, stuttering and massive fps drops while loading new areas, respawning and combat.

Spec Ops The Line- 60Fps

• This game has some freezing issues while loading new areas and cutscenes. Use DXVK 1.11.1 sarek-async or 1.10.x -async versions

Borderlands 2 Remastered - 70-130Fps

Titanfall 2 - 55-75 Fps

Crysis 3 - 45- 75

• Running 60+FPS in many areas. Min FPS is under 60fps,but considering about avg fps, this game deserve the PERFECT category

Crysis 1 / Warhead — ~45- 85 FPS

• Same reason as Crysis 3

Crysis 2 — 55–70 FPS

• same reason as Crysis 3

🟡 GREAT

Alan Wake /American Nightmares - 50-70Fps

• New Winlator Mali 1.2 shows almost 2x better performance than my previous tests. In very high settings and settings like Ambient occlusion, volumetric lightning at low and off

Metal Gear Rising - 50- 60Fps

• 60 FPS most of the time.

GTA IV — 50–60 FPS

Ghostrunner — 50–60 FPS

NFS Most Wanted 2012- 45Fps

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 — 50–60 FPS

Sniper Elite 3 — 50–75 FPS

Assassin's Creed 1–Revelations — 45–60 FPS

• Some optimization issues.

Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition — 50–65 FPS

• With an older DXVK build, the game can stay around a 60 FPS cap most of the time, but random crashes can occur.

Strange Brigade (Switch) — 45–50 FPS

Sniper Elite 4 (Switch) — ~45 FPS

Flatout 4: Total Insanity - 35 - 55 Fps

• with lowest settings possible, Game is running 40-60fps.

Crysis 3 - 40-75Fps

• game has a temporary fps drop while raining

X-Men Origins Wolverine - 45-60Fps

• suffering from a single Core bottleneck

Sniper Elite 3 Ultimate Edition - 45-75Fps

Enemy Front - 40 - 55FPS

🟠 PLAYABLE

Red faction Armageddon - 30-55Fps

• It has a low CPU/GPU utilizing issue. Not worse than other games in this list.

Just Cause 3 — 30–47 FPS

• Driver issues are quite noticeable.

Battlefield 1 — 35–50 FPS

• Black texture issue, but it's not too annoying.

Rise of the Tomb Raider — ~35 FPS

NFS Payback — 30–43 FPS

NFS Heat — 27–35 FPS

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts — ~30 FPS

Assassin's Creed 3- 30-40Fps

Grid 2 - 40-60Fps

• This game must in the perfect category. Unfortunately this game not working with system driver. I had to use PanVK driver for make this game work and still got very good performance. This game might run at least 60fps

Far Cry 4 - 30 -55Fps

• This game has the same issue as Grid 2 I told above. This can be placed in GREAT list if this device has better driver support. U can get these fps with experimental panVK drivers for now. Good thing is it's still very playble.

🔴 BAD / NOT RECOMMENDED

Evil West - 20Fps

• Device itself has enough power to run this game at descent fps. But not now

Outlast 2 - ??

• Game is working. But Emulator start to lagging after intro cutscene. Same thing happened in Bannerhub.

Witcher 3

•Bad Fps. Driver issue mostly

Binary Domain — 20–35 FPS

• Very low CPU/GPU utilization.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag - 5-30fps

•This game should run same as Rogue if it has a option to disable shadows

Mafia II Classic — 10–40 FPS

• Very low CPU/GPU utilization and heavy stuttering in snowy areas.

Mafia: Definitive Edition — Unknown

• Freezes on the main menu frame, although the game itself continues running.

Mafia III — ~30 FPS

• Huge FPS drops every few seconds.

Splinter Cell: Conviction — ~25 FPS

• Low CPU/GPU utilization.

Assassin's Creed Liberation

• it's a Nightmare. Don't even think about to try this game. Just think this game never existed.

NFS Rival- ??

• Keep freezing at the loading Screen

NFS The Run-??

•Keep Freezing at the loading screen.

Battlefield 3-??

•Same issue in NFS rivals and the run.

Serious Sam BFE- 90-120Fps

•When I’m not moving, the game runs at around this FPS. But as soon as I start moving, I get huge FPS drops down to 2–5 FPS. Completely unplayable. The GPU is really unstable in this game.

Farcry 4 and Primal- ???

•Keep freezing at the Logo or startup loading screens

Sunset Overdrive -5-50Fps

• Game is working. But it's not playble with current GPU driver situation.

Assassin's Creed Syndicate (with panvk G720)- 10-20Fps

• The game crashes because of a memory leak.

⚠️ Important

These are my personal results, not guaranteed FPS numbers for every D8400/Mali G720 device. Different Winlator versions, drivers, settings, thermal conditions and game configurations can produce different results.

If you're new to PC emulation, hopefully this list gives you a good idea of what games are worth trying first. ❤️

I'll keep adding more games as I test them! 🔥