Well, here's a case that's pathological af: at the start of D2ICO MAP03, I get a higher frame rate from the #UZDoom software renderer (~135fps) than I do from the Vulkan or OpenGL hardware renderer (~60fps)!
…But only if I set resolution to 320×200. At 3840×2160, the software renderer gets about the same frame rate as the hardware renderer (~50fps).
On maps that are not so big and wide open (MAP30), the hardware renderer is much faster, as you'd expect.
How odd!
#Doom #gaming #retrogaming
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