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Cutscene test on Low-End tier in mobile, with some lags/frame-skips

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Warning! These cutscenes contains spoiler of the story in Genshin Impact. Please keep away on watching this for new players who want to continue playing the game.

Significance:

When playing the Story Quests and various events of the game, it will trigger cutscenes, but in some cases it will play the cutscenes as a Video. Some mobile phones, especially low-end tier device may experience lags/frame-skips the Cinematic Cutscenes when the decoder cannot handle the game or when recording using Screen Recorder or using Screen Mirroring (e.g: scrcpy) connected into a PC.

To reduce Lags/Frame-skips in Cutscenes, here is the ways to consider:

- Close all your Background Apps or Sync, then restart the game.

- Try not to use Screen Recording or Screen Mirroring.

- Keep your device cool in case that the processor is getting hot or throttled in long period of time.

These cutscenes uses CRIWARE Video as a integration for Unity (game engine), with VP9 decoding support. These cutscenes can be found on the game assets stored on the device. These cutscenes is specifed with a max resolution of 1080p at 30 FPS.

Here is the name of the cutscenes from the game assets:

- Ambor_Readings.usm

- Cs_Inazuma_LQ1203105_YaeMiko_Boy.usm

(Keep in mind that all video containers is encrypted by the game developer to avoid leaking the content and being distributed to anyone)

Apologies:

This video has a small issues while recording the game, so I lowered screen resolution of the mirrored device to maintain stability of the cutscene, and some crackling sound of the game. If you feel unconfortable these, please do not continue watching this video.

Here is my device I've used to record the gameplay performance.

Brand and Model: Cherry_Mobile Omega X

Chipset Model: MediaTek Helio P23 (MT6763V/V)

- CPU: ARM Cortex-A53 (4x 2.0GHz + 4x 1.5GHz)

- GPU: Mali-G71 *MP2 (2x *770MHz)

- Memory Cache: 32 KB L1 + 512 KB L2

- RAM: 3GB LPDDR3

Android Version: 9 (API 28) Treble Supported (A/B)

Bluetooth Audio is being used for screen mirroring.

System ABI: arm64-v8a (64-bit ARMv8-A) (as a minimum requirement for playing Genshin)

Display Resolution: 1520x720; 19:9 LTPS LCD

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