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Optimizations

JELOS provides a variety of settings that allow you to optimize for battery life or performance globally, on a per system and per game basis. For emulating 6th generation and later systems, we recommend installing JELOS on internal storage if available to reduce IO bottlenecks reading and writing shader cache.

Optimizing For Performance

Optimizing for performance will have significant impact on battery life, however it will also provide the best experience for more demanding emulators.

AMD / Intel based devices

Enabled CPU Threads CPU Scheduler Energy Performance Preference GPU Performance Profile Enhanced Power Saving Cooling Profile WIFI Power Saving
All Schedutil Balanced Performance Balanced Off Moderate1 or Auto Off

Note: The JELOS team DOES NOT recommend the "BEST PERFORMANCE" GPU profile on AMD devices as it sets the profile_peak GPU profile which can lead to poor performance and kernel panics, use "BALANCED" instead.

GLMark
DEVICE @ TDP 4w 6w 9w 15w 18w 24w 28w
Loki Zero 515 1303 1943 3195 3466 3615 3618
Loki Max 2082 3068 4910 7266 8600 9990 10319
AYANEO Air Plus 854 2051 4192 5946 7340 9325 9674
Atari VCS 534 565 1055 1342 1376 1378 1376
7z
DEVICE @ TDP 4w 6w 9w 15w 18w 24w 28w
Loki Zero 3370 5304 7397 8441 8514 8493 8441
Loki Max 12129 19530 28391 42809 46432 51183 53276
AYANEO Air Plus 6323 11394 22519 39682 43529 47904 47562
Atari VCS 5015 6172 9027 9726 9239 9233 9257

ARM based devices

Enabled CPU Threads CPU Scheduler GPU Performance Profile Enhanced Power Saving Cooling Profile WIFI Power Saving
All Performance Best Performance Off Moderate1 or Auto Off

Note: It's recommended to reboot the device after disabling Enhanced Power Saving.

Optimizing For Battery Life

JELOS includes an Enhanced Power Saving mode which is available in the System Settings menu. This option provides a variety of sub options that when enabled tune your device for optimal battery life without immediately sacrificing performance.

Feature Function May Affect Stability
CPU Power Saving Tunes the CPU/SoC to preference battery life over performance. No
Audio Power Saving Enables the audio device to operate in a low power mode. No
PCIE Active State Power Management Forces a low power state for PCI and PCIe connections. Yes
Enable Wake Events Enables PCI wakeup signalling to allow devices to enter low power states. Yes
Runtime Power Management Enables USB idle power management, and configures usb devices to autosuspend. Yes

Enable Enhanced Power Saving, and enable all options. If the device has undesired behavior, disable the options that may effect stability and reboot the device.

AMD / Intel based devices

Enabled CPU Threads CPU Scheduler Energy Performance Preference GPU Performance Profile Enhanced Power Saving Cooling Profile WIFI Power Saving
4 Powersave Power Saving Battery Focus On Quiet1 On

JELOS recommends setting the minimum TDP that offers full performance for your game or system.

GLMark
DEVICE @ TDP 4w 6w 9w 15w 18w 24w 28w
Loki Zero 544 1130 1313 1385 1378 1392 1397
Loki Max 1968 2869 4660 7042 8243 9442 9804
AYANEO Air Plus 744 2103 3971 6086 7193 8908 9377
Atari VCS 305 332 332 332 333 333 332
7z
DEVICE @ TDP 4w 6w 9w 15w 18w 24w 28w
Loki Zero 2980 2986 3006 2992 2992 2993 2978
Loki Max 6931 11247 14003 15941 16114 16758 16792
AYANEO Air Plus 5731 8291 13139 15638 16205 16065 16001
Atari VCS 2464 4513 4530 4524 4531 4529 4549

ARM based devices

Enabled CPU Threads CPU Scheduler GPU Performance Profile Enhanced Power Saving Cooling Profile WIFI Power Saving
4 Powersave Battery Focus On Quiet1 On

AMD / Intel

As performance varies across supported devices, there are no specific recommendations. Explore various settings to find the best configuration per system/game for your device.

ARM Devices

Manufacturer System Enabled CPU Threads Cooling Profile Scaling Governor Enhanced Power Saving WIFI Power Saving
Nintendo 64 All Moderate1 Performance On On
Nintendo GameCube, Wii All Moderate1 Performance On On
Sega Saturn, Dreamcast All Moderate1 Performance On On
Sony PSP All Moderate1 Performance On On

1 Only available if the feature is supported on your device.