Add back Timer Hack setting?

[Arashvscode]

What should happen

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Who would this benefit

Some games such as God of War and Dante's Inferno need Timer Hacker because they are very heavy and difficult to run. They were running well in version 8.7.5. I suggest you call Timer Hacker.

Platform (if relevant)

Android

Games this would be useful in

God of war

Other emulators or software with a similar feature

Some games such as God of War and Dante's Inferno need Timer Hacker because they are very heavy and difficult to run. They were running well in version 8.7.5. I suggest you call Timer Hacker.

Checklist

• Check the latest git build in case it's already implemented.
• Search for other requests of the same feature.

[hrydgard]

That old feature was called "Timer Hack" because it aligned the emulated PSP's timer with the host system. This does work for many games but others fail in various interesting ways or go out of sync.

That said, we could reintroduce it with a list of known-compatible games. Just don't want another bug-report-generator...

For reference, here's the PR that removed the old version of the setting: #11666

[Arashvscode]

Well, prepare a list that these kinds of games need Timer Hacker, such as 2 versions of God of War, which are difficult to run without Timer Hacker, with Dante's Hell, most heavy games above 1 GB are difficult to run without Timer Hacker

Tested games without a hacker timer that are extremely slow, God of War, both versions of Dante's Hell, Persian Shahzadeh, need for speed Mast wanted

[ghost]

What's your phone specifications?
God of War can be smooth if you use 30fps cheat code same with Dante's Inferno.

[hrydgard]

We should probably do something nicer about that 30fps cheat code trick too...

[Arashvscode]

It's not a matter of cheating code, it's a matter of cpu power, accept my suggestion and add time hacker, let this feature be the one who wants to use the program, make sure that he is wise enough to turn it off or on if there is a problem with his game. And firstly, it will make ppsspp UI better like ps4

[unknownbrackets]

The timer hack made things very unpredictable between systems, I don't think it's a good idea to bring it back. The game patch that makes the game run at 60 FPS or 30 FPS internally was already tested to perform better.

I'm really against PPSSPP shipping with game patches (I know other emulators do this, but I think hooking is much better than just modifying code, especially when people make romhacks), but I'd probably prefer a variant of that before bringing back the Just Worse timer hack.

-[Unknown]

[hrydgard]

Fair, the 30fps limiter is far more predictable and probably a better idea to bring "back" in a new form, and ideally/hopefully would be good enough to not even need to consider the timer hack.

[Arashvscode]

If it is as you say, it is great, thank you

[ghost]

We should close this in favor of #14315??