Method and apparatus for improving efficiency without increasing latency in emulation of a legacy application title

A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions for reducing latency in graphics processing of an emulated title over a network on an emulator having an emulated CPU and an emulated GPU, which are configured to operate in parallel, and wherein execution of the program instructions by one or more processors of a computer system causes the one or more processors to carry out a method, the method comprising:

• generating a first set of frames with the emulated CPU by processing one or more first inputs from a client device platform, wherein each frame in the first set of frames is stored in a buffer after the frame has been generated, and wherein the emulated GPU is delayed from starting processing any frames until one or more of the frames in the first set of frames have been stored in the buffer, wherein latency increase resulting from buffering the first set of frames is less than a decrease in overall latency resulting from avoiding thread stalls due to the GPU running out of frames to process;
• delivering the first set of frames from the buffer to the emulated GPU;
• rendering the first set of frames with the emulated GPU to produce a rendered first set of frames.