@mitu thanks for the reply. I turned off my shader preset to see what would happen, and it does improve performance to "mostly" 60fps. The global shader I use is just "sharp-bilinear-2x-prescale" which afaik isn't supposed to be demanding at all, so I'm surprised performance tanks so badly with it on.

Unfortunately I've screwed up the video settings for all the snes cores by attempting to remove the global shader preset from bsnes, while keeping it in place for snes9x. Shaders don't work at all for snes anymore, and different resolutions in the runcommand menu aren't even working... I don't know why that happened.

Bsnes is causing me too much trouble, so i'm just gonna uninstall it once I restore my backup...

Thanks as always for the swift response.

Just to confirm I had email confirmation that the change was merged into master, so post-update I tested again anyway and all works fine.

Thanks for sorting this so quickly.

Cheers

@Darksavior Yes, it's annoying. I know about the FPS bug, I tested the patch and it's ok. There are a few more bugs besides the FPS counter that were fixed after 1.7.8.4, we'll see if the PR will bump to the next release or include the patches.

A decent NUC (non-pentium, celeron, atom) CPU ~should~ be fine for this, or something similar.
Also i found this post while going through that reddit feed. Seems someone linked linux binaries for us to try out a few posts down, but i dont have time to do so at the moment:
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Eh to widescreen support...

@barbudreadmon Thanks for the info. Yeah, I know very little re: Higan, but had just burning questions regarding how cores are implemented. Just get excited every time I see a new RetroArch core go up.