Emulator

Something I didn't want to mention in the main issue here because it's mentioned elsewhere is the need for async presentation. There's another dedicated issue for that which I think is well written.

Fixing all of the issues more or less means implementing async present and triple buffering, along with some other options to maybe increase latency to improve framepacing, like running the game at monitor refresh rate instead of the game's native refreshrate.

TellowKrinkle: PCSX2 sends vsyncs to its GPU emulation right after sleeping to the end of the frame, rather than right before, which is what improves frame pacing at the expense of latency

On Android I've noticed something peculiar. I get video stutter every 3 seconds, particularly noticeable in paper Mario. When I go into dolphins full screen menu that pauses gameplay then exit and go back into the game, the video stuttering disappears. For some reason you can only do this using opengl. Vulcan can't be fixed using this method however.

Magichost wrote in #note-13:

On Android I've noticed something peculiar. I get video stutter every 3 seconds, particularly noticeable in paper Mario. When I go into dolphins full screen menu that pauses gameplay then exit and go back into the game, the video stuttering disappears and you get absolutely perfect frame pacing. For some reason you can only do this using opengl. Vulcan can't be fixed using this method however.