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On 27/11/2021 09:52, Jamie Getty wrote:
> Hello Gentoo users. I've recently been encountering some issues running 
> games on my PC. Here's video evidence of the issues I've seen: 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hNwwOOikGQ 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hNwwOOikGQ>

That video shows your PC is not fast enough to run the emulator. It only 
runs at about half speed.

What is your CPU? You can also use sys-process/htop to see how 
overloaded the primary CPU core gets. If it's at 100%, then that means 
you just need a CPU with faster single-core performance.