Why can most computers run games like RDR2, Cyberpunk, etc. Really fast but when emulating ps3/Xbox360 games it lags and can barely run it?
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Emulators on a basic level make the game think it’s running on different hardware. Emulators can be made to take advantage of modern hardware but that’s more complex and often unecessary. Older games, especially console games, cannot be easily optimised or updated so what’s left is that you have a game that thinks it’s running on a system that is far weaker than the actual system it’s on. It can’t even take advantage of extra ram or more processing cores because it doesn’t know they’re there, it’s not programmed to use those resources.
That can mean a wide variety of things depending on the emulator and game from the game not taking advantage of all the processor has to offer to even running exclusively on part of the processor despite the system having a graphics card. This again is owed due to the differences in architecture between consoles and computers.
This can also be seen on old computer games that may not require an emulator at all, but they still are not optimised to take advantage of newer hardware. However with pc games it’s often the case that this can be modded into the game through community made patches.
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