It seems to me that a large number of the more 'graphically intensive' 3D games often have many visual errors, or simply dont work. For me i cannot play Backbreaker, NFS shift, Speedx 3D or even finish a quadrant test.
Backbreaker and NFS just don't start.
Speedx 3D starts but graphics are messed
Quadrant gets to the 2D test but then just stops and goes back to the menu when it should be doing the 3D benchmarks.
Am I the only one experiencing these issues?
Thanks for any cooperation
bratfink said:
It seems to me that a large number of the more 'graphically intensive' 3D games often have many visual errors, or simply dont work. For me i cannot play Backbreaker, NFS shift, Speedx 3D or even finish a quadrant test.
Backbreaker and NFS just don't start.
Speedx 3D starts but graphics are messed
Quadrant gets to the 2D test but then just stops and goes back to the menu when it should be doing the 3D benchmarks.
Am I the only one experiencing these issues?
Thanks for any cooperation
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Quadrant is a known issue, and it's because it's not written to support Gingerbread yet.
I just played a few minutes of Speedx 3D without any apparent issues.
NFS:Shift took a long time to load, and then it Force Closed, but once I said "report" and sent the report to Google, it reloaded itself and I was able to play the tutorial without any issues.
Both games looked pretty good and ran smoothly.
SpeedX 3D and NFS shift work flawlessly for me. Quadrant hasn't been updated yet to support Gingerbread/Nexus S, but that will happen shortly.
From what you're reporting, and if you're on a stock and unrooted ROM, it seems like a faulty PowerVR SGX 540 GPU. See if you can exchange it.
the issue with NFS is that it doesnt keep the screen awake
Hmm
Im glad to know quadrant isnt just me and i think iv sussed why NFS isnt working, i used the app data from my desire which iv heard causes problems so i have deleted and am re downloading the data through the application. Speedx is still giving me problems unfortunatly. And can anyone please test backbreaker? Thanks
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the issue with NFS is that it doesnt keep the screen awake
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Doesn't seem an issue for me. I played the tutorial track for much longer than the screen timeout on my phone is set for. Am I misunderstanding what you're saying?
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Doesn't seem an issue for me. I played the tutorial track for much longer than the screen timeout on my phone is set for. Am I misunderstanding what you're saying?
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It may be because you are touching the screen ie breaking, and gas.
play a track without breaking or using gas or touching the screen in general
Data problems
My download for NFS is being stupid, it is jumping % ages and then it got to 100% after 40 mins, stayed there and i checked the file size in astro and it said only 38 mb was downloaded. I have now restarted the download and its at 41% but is going EXTREMELY slow. Would anyone be kind enough to put the data folder into a dropbox link or something, thanks alot.
EDIT: Also any update on backbreaker?
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It may be because you are touching the screen ie breaking, and gas.
play a track without breaking or using gas or touching the screen in general
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I'll try again later on, but I wasn't breaking or gassing, or touching the screen for any other reason. I was just cruising along at the default speed in the tutorial. Maybe it's because it's the tutorial.
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I'll try again later on, but I wasn't breaking or gassing, or touching the screen for any other reason. I was just cruising along at the default speed in the tutorial. Maybe it's because it's the tutorial.
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Ya iono, ive heard of other people having this issue,
regarding NFS Shift
I have been playing it since i purchased it on Xmas for 99c
and it has been working fine without any 3D artefacts
I've noticed in the Quadrant benchmarking, the few times it does actually finish the test, it doesn't show any textures during the 3D tests. The small room with steps on the left are just plain blue, and the planet with moon just look like a white ball and and egg floating by it. I noticed it by running the quadrant side by side with a Galaxy tab. Does anybody's actually show the textures?
AllGamer said:
regarding NFS Shift
I have been playing it since i purchased it on Xmas for 99c
and it has been working fine without any 3D artefacts
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you noticed anything like my issue with the screen timing out when not in use
Some good news
Regarding NFS shift it seems the download bar was slowly progressing but wasn't actually downloading anything, had to do the whole 100mb via 3g and its finally working. Speedx is now working after a restart :S. But backbreaker still fails to even get to the splash screen!!
Pocket Legends occasionally hangs to the point where I need to do an ADB reboot - something about "CPU might be pegged" in logcat.
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no problem here
but that is maybe because my default sleep time set on system wide was 2 min
the race is usually over in 2 min
i do not brake, or nitro
the game is soooooooooooooo easy compared to PC version
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Tried to run Dungeon Defenders. It will load from the Market so that is good. The intro screen loads. But normally it checks that you are on wifi before loading patches. Unfortunately on the nook it pops up an error message about the network and being unable to reach the host.
I know it isn't the network since it works fine on my droid x. Oh well having that would be kinda cool.
Anyone know a way around that issue?
Where does your problem appear? I get the title screen, unreal screen, game spy screen, intro video, menu, I can play locally, internet gaming I can select a character and then it asks to login into my gamespy account. I don't have one and I really don't want create one. As far as i can tell it works.
I installed the came a couple of weeks ago and then uninstalled it because i did not like it but I never removed the data from my sdcard. After I read your post I reinstalled and it still works. Keep in mind this game wants to download 600 MB. So if your nook goes to sleep and yourwifi turns off you could have issues. What sucks is that it was $6 wasted since the market refund policy is now 15 minutes. Google really needs to change that again. It took 1.5 hours before I could even play the game in order to try it. I have a 40Mb/s internet connection so the problem was the servers that provide the additional contend that needs to be downloaded.
Same exact thing happened to me.
Go here: [wont let me post a link] Go to the Dungeon Defenders main website, go to the forums and then to technical support, there will be a thread at the top that says ANDROID USERS: Solutions for anyone having installation problems of DunDef:FirstWave! and it will have a link to instructions on how to get it to work.
It runs for you? I got all of the data downloaded but then i crash during the loading screen
Well I'm not sure if it was the update to the program today or my reboot but in any event today it downloaded fine. Actually seems to run reasonably well although the interface is different on the NC then it is on the droid x. On the droid you move with a little joypad, with NC you click where you want to move to and the character moves there. Not quite sure how the game works as I didn't really play it much but it is bright and colorful and seems to run pretty good.
If a network error occurs, just click ok and then click on the dungeon defenders icon again, it will start where it left off and most likely fix itself. I've got Dungeon Defenders running perfectly and everything works. I was surprised at how smooth it was on the NC. You can enable the joystick in the options, and it is probably the only way you can do well at the game. I have never had a crash and rate it 9/10 on the NC (not my rating of the game, of how the nook runs it). There are millisecond hang-ups I would expect to see on any platform, but nothing bad.
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I got my NC last night.. was my 10 year anniversary gift to my self.. the 9 day cruise was my gift to my wife =).. i got the NC to play a few games videos books.. web browse NOT on the boat that WAY EXPENSIVE..$.75 a minute anyways..
That being side i dont really know much about the how rooting terminal side if it.. just good at following directions and above average computer knowledge
Heres where i am.. when i got he NC it was at 1 0 0 i played with it last night, and today i downloaded 1 0 1 flashed that it went fine.. played with it.. then when though the autonooter.. youtube broke on me.. so i uninstalled it with appbrain and installed the EVO youtube app and it worked fine..
one of my fav apps on my Captivate is tubemate and i download music videos on it 720p and it plays them great.. having read here that the NC struggles with this i tried it.. could get them to play but VERY slow... also reading here i know that OC the NC can make a big difference so i did a little more research and figured i would flash to Decad3nce 1 1r2 and then install the 1100mhz kernel and those all flashed just fine.. youtube still runs and everything but the touch screen seems VERY sluggish at times.. like it just dosnt want to work for a few seconds then starts working fine for a bit ~10 seconds then back to stalling.. i know some people have had this but no one ever said any kind of solution to it.. so any help would be great
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bought NC
installed 1.0.1
Autonootered
fixed youtube
installed Decad3nce 1.1r2
installed 1100 OC kernel
touchscreen seems to stall now
ALSO i remember seeing a list of manufacture defect but cant seem to find it.. anyone got a link?
Mine seems to not be quite sealed on the left side.. if the screen is on i can see the backlight though the crack in 2,3 places just small pin hole size places... is this halfway normal?
the touchscreen is documented on the OC installs - you just have to press the power switch momentarily as if taking the system to sleep, then press it again - should take care of the sluggishness
Darkomen64 said:
( if you dont wanna read the OMFG wall of text skip down a little ways to the condensed section )
I got my NC last night.. was my 10 year anniversary gift to my self.. the 9 day cruise was my gift to my wife =).. i got the NC to play a few games videos books.. web browse NOT on the boat that WAY EXPENSIVE..$.75 a minute anyways..
That being side i dont really know much about the how rooting terminal side if it.. just good at following directions and above average computer knowledge
Heres where i am.. when i got he NC it was at 1 0 0 i played with it last night, and today i downloaded 1 0 1 flashed that it went fine.. played with it.. then when though the autonooter.. youtube broke on me.. so i uninstalled it with appbrain and installed the EVO youtube app and it worked fine..
one of my fav apps on my Captivate is tubemate and i download music videos on it 720p and it plays them great.. having read here that the NC struggles with this i tried it.. could get them to play but VERY slow... also reading here i know that OC the NC can make a big difference so i did a little more research and figured i would flash to Decad3nce 1 1r2 and then install the 1100mhz kernel and those all flashed just fine.. youtube still runs and everything but the touch screen seems VERY sluggish at times.. like it just dosnt want to work for a few seconds then starts working fine for a bit ~10 seconds then back to stalling.. i know some people have had this but no one ever said any kind of solution to it.. so any help would be great
ALSO i remember seeing a list of manufacture defect but cant seem to find it.. anyone got a link?
Mine seems to not be quite sealed on the left side.. if the screen is on i can see the backlight though the crack in 2,3 places just small pin hole size places... is this halfway normal?
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Its free from the amazon app store.
Dont even know it it works, ill update once i find out.
get it while its still free
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So after downloading a playing there seems to be a few issues.
Should be noted Im Running Vegan-G
Game works.
Looks very low res
The background does not render only active areas are rendered.
i.e. first level, the only thing i can see is a strip of grass and the rest of the UI. everything else is black
Game freezes after a few levels...
Pretty much on par with what everyone else is saying...
Game runs fine on my Nexus S, including the background...
i was honestly expecting more from a known dev like Popcap
After it crashed my tablet the first time I tried to play it, the game runs perfectly. I'm running Vegan 5.1.1 if anyone is curious. Now just if Popcap would bring tablet support to chuzzle.
Amazan dont supply my region where i live. maybe someone can post apk for Plants vs Zombies.
Thanks.
Been waiting for this one to hit android. Awesome that it is free for today.
I think because it is really a paid app, you are out of luck getting it posted here for download. Usually the mods frown on that sort of thing.
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Amazan dont supply my region where i live. maybe someone can post apk for Plants vs Zombies.
Thanks.
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That would be against XDA's rules.
My whole family is addicted to this game. I have it on Mac and I installed Wine on my Ubuntu laptop just for this game. I was really looking forwards to it on my android devices.
Unfortunately, like some other thinks, actually getting it is not as good as the desire.
The app the make you download for the Android store is a pain. It's slow and clunky. Looks like they are using an internal flash or Java or something. The actual download was pretty slow too.
It runs on the G-Tablet, but it is not tablet optimized. It's just larger. Some effects are a little slow. Definitely not optimized for the G-Tablet's hardware.
Update: I'm running CM 7.03.
Worse than that, it seems to crash (freeze) after about 2 levels. I need to play more to see if it is just time, or a certain game event or action.
Edit: Since flash works, you can play the on-line version as long as you have 'net access, but it's only the first few levels. Just go to pop cap games.
It seems to just freeze a lot for me too. Sorta sad. Seems like popcap can do better.
Doesn't work for me
Unplayable for me--opens sometimes, but freezes or crashes before the actual game ever loads. I'm running Vegan 5.1 with Pershoot's kernel. So disappointed!
A good reason to play with different mods/kernels.
Force Closes and reboots tablet. Is anyone running CM7 playing this?
I'm running a cm7 nightly build from a few days ago. The game plays a bit for me but randomly freezes all the time (the music keeps playing), requiring a force close.
I pulled the .apk from my phone with the intent of copying it to my Dell Streak without having to infect the Streak with the Amazon Store.
Plants vs. Zombies checks for the Amazon App, and that the Amazon app has your Amazon user ID and password. If this check fails, it freezes with a black screen, and may be continuing to use battery. It also seems to need an internet connection to authenticate, at least initially.
If you do not want the Amazon app, or for some reason it becomes inoperable, apparently, all purchased Amazon apps will stop working.
I find this totally unacceptable, and IANAL, but this seems to me like at least pretty close to illegal "Tying".
Besides, at least so far, neither of the 2 tied apps seem to work very well. I recommend against installing either app at this time.
This is the worst (OK, not as bad as the Sony rootkit fiasco, but close) kind of DRM/Defective by Design
I hope somebody that can un-dex fixes this, but until then, as far as I am concerned, we don't really have PvZ for Android.
Unistalled the App and the Amazon Store App.
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I'm running CM 7.03.
Worse than that, it seems to crash (freeze) after about 2 levels. I need to play more to see if it is just time, or a certain game event or action.
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Same here. I can play one level fine. I go to the next level and it freezes before I beat that level.
Is there a fix? I was playing with my processor speed, but so far, I haven't found one that will play the game well. I don't know if processor speed matters that much, but I will keep messing with it.
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Processor speeds between 600mHz and 1200mHz don't help. The game crashes for me every time on level 1-9.
It's locking up for me too after a couple of levels in.
I'm running Vegan.
Running TNTLite 4.4.0. Game keeps randomly freezing, sometimes even before getting to the intro screen. Can't really play it.
Vegan 5.1.1 here, and same issues.
Freezes partway through a level, or right after finishing a level.
Works perfect on my Samsung GalaxyS though.
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I pulled the .apk from my phone with the intent of copying it to my Dell Streak without having to infect the Streak with the Amazon Store.
Plants vs. Zombies checks for the Amazon App, and that the Amazon app has your Amazon user ID and password. If this check fails, it freezes with a black screen, and may be continuing to use battery. It also seems to need an internet connection to authenticate, at least initially.
If you do not want the Amazon app, or for some reason it becomes inoperable, apparently, all purchased Amazon apps will stop working.
I find this totally unacceptable, and IANAL, but this seems to me like at least pretty close to illegal "Tying".
Besides, at least so far, neither of the 2 tied apps seem to work very well. I recommend against installing either app at this time.
This is the worst (OK, not as bad as the Sony rootkit fiasco, but close) kind of DRM/Defective by Design
I hope somebody that can un-dex fixes this, but until then, as far as I am concerned, we don't really have PvZ for Android.
Unistalled the App and the Amazon Store App.
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Wow. I just did the same thing. I re-installed the Amazon app store to get PvZ and it told me I had updates to the 3 angry birds I had previously installed through Amazon market in the first week it released. I installed pvz and updated the angry birds apps. Pvz crashes as soon as you try to click on options and after 5 tries to play I made it ababout 30 seconds into the second lvl it locks up. Uninstalled pvz and the Amazon market app. Then I went to check out the updates to my angry birds and it tells me I need to install the Amazon app.
This was not an issue before, the update that was done only made it so I can't play my games without having the Amazon app installed, which by the way always is running in the background.
F~ those guys dude. This skates on the border of illegal and is completely annoying. Way to ruin a good thing Amazon.
Thankfully I have my angry birds backed up with titanium.
works for me using bos 3.3.I will try to play more levels so far I have played 6 levels with no problem. First time i tried it frooze my tablet. had to turn it off then try again. works fine for now.
if only I could get around the bos 3.3 wifi error...
still having troubles with this game. everything else works so well on aosp.
Running Vegan Ginger and a couple freezes and FC's later, it seems to have smoothed out. Works just fine on G2x.
I have no issue with the Amazon AppStore being on here
No dice on BoS/HC 2.4. Installs fine, starts up fine, then freezes.
Popcap officially released Plants vs Zombies for Android through the Amazon App Store. It's free today, but it is a huge download at 73mb, so it has to be over WiFi.
Now, it says that it won't work for our Aria, but I've managed to play through the first 11 levels with relative ease. My phone's OCed to 806, running CM7 nightly, with GO! Launcher Ex. The game looks great, and loads fine. I play through one level, and then go to the homescreen for a minute or so to let the phone cool down (yeah, it gets hot). Then I bring the app back up, and play through the next level.
If it ever gets choppy, I just hit the home button and wait for a few seconds, before resuming. I tried to play through multiple levels back-to-back, but it caused the OS to restart. Taking a break between levels seems to do the trick though.
Also, if you play while charging the phone, you might want to remove the battery cover to help cool it down, if you don't mind losing cell signal.
Yea I got it too, same setup as you w/ CM7 nightly & OC'd to 806. Runs nice and smooth.
Heat hasn't been the issue so much as memory. Every time I exit I have a Tasker low memory warning, and I've had the phone reboot while playing.
I'll try your suggestion of going back to the home screen between levels- also hitting the task killer right before playing to clear all the memory I can.
I got my Aria at the AT&T release last year, so the heat could just be because of the age.
I go into the task manager built into GO! and make sure there's at least 60mb free, and it does fine.
Made it through 21 levels so far without a hitch.
So I set VM heap to 48, and it seems to be helping. Not getting the low memory warning so much anymore. Still murder on the battery though.
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Nice games, takes a long big chunk to load but doesnt heats up my phone. But yes, it's a battery sucker. And phone just restarts with RobotekHD
I played through plenty of levels with CM7, phone OCD to 806, and it didn't restart, lag or anything. Smooth play
VM Heap is on 24.
Works perfectly on Gratia with CM nightly. There is only one bug: the game doesn't save volume settings.
i need zombie farm on android
hi, guys. Can anybody tell me the user save file location of this game? I want to flash my phone and I want to retain my game profile. Please help. Thanks in advance.
Use titanium backup
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So I paid the whole .99 for captain America. It would run ok but almost all graphics were gray except captain. Tried uninstall/reinstall many times and it didn't help so I figured it wouldn't work. A week later i tried it and the graphics were fine. It baffled me why it worked?? Now its back to gray graphics again. Any clues anyone? I'm running brilliant corners.
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So I paid the whole .99 for captain America. It would run ok but almost all graphics were gray except captain. Tried uninstall/reinstall many times and it didn't help so I figured it wouldn't work. A week later i tried it and the graphics were fine. It baffled me why it worked?? Now its back to gray graphics again. Any clues anyone? I'm running brilliant corners.
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Just a thought, but did you change your overclock settings?
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Just a thought, but did you change your overclock settings?
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Yeah I took it down to 1ghz on min and Max, killed a couple tasks and it worked normally once. I restarted it 2 mins later and back to gray graphics! It crashes the tablet sometimes when I exit the game. I read its working fine on transformer and xoom but of course that's HC platform. Has anyone else had luck with this game?
I get black boxes wherever graphics should be and haven't gotten past the first mission screen before it crashes.
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My buddy has a gtab also running on brilliant corners (same as me). And he got CA and it works perfect for him. Also that gansta game works fine for him but black blocks for me in parts of the Game. What is different about his tab then mine? We both have 1.2 bootloader running brilliant corners. His games work 100% and mine don't. We need the experts to look at this.
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My buddy has a gtab also running on brilliant corners (same as me). And he got CA and it works perfect for him. Also that gansta game works fine for him but black blocks for me in parts of the Game. What is different about his tab then mine? We both have 1.2 bootloader running brilliant corners. His games work 100% and mine don't. We need the experts to look at this.
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If by gangster game, you are referring to Contract Killer, then I too have the black boxes...the card are solid black. I'm also running 1.2 Brilliant corners, using Clemsyn's OC kernel at 1500. I treid CA when on Calk/Clem and it wouldn't even load...it would cloase to home screen.
Heck with it, I'm trying CA again, wish me luck, I'll get back with what happens...
Edit - Well, I'm back, I first downloadedthe game content to SD card, tried to play and got REALLY choppy graphics and all black boxes. The entire bottom of the screen was black. Figured I'd see what happened if I downloaded the content to internal memory. The game played much smoother, but the entire ground is gray. I run, then stop, only to find out that there is an invisible "something" I need to jump over. I rebooted, tried again, still have all gray ground. So, it's not working...
Edit 2 for above quote...what kernel is your buddy running?
edit 3 - attempted wiht Pershoot kernel, no go there either, black parts, VERY choppy again...
edt 4 - went back to calk/clem, still not working
'Contract Killers' looks fine on Vegan 5.1.1, but I only played it a couple of times. By 'Gangster Game' He might mean 'Big Time Gangster'; That game works fine for me 90% of the time, but sometimes I get black boxes or during a gun fight I can't see the enemy's side of the screen.
Both of those games are published by Glu Mobile; they also publish 'Gun Bros' (doesn't work on my gTab, crashes at splash screen); 'Super KO Boxing 2' (I played for a couple of minutes, it worked fine)
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'Contract Killers' looks fine on Vegan 5.1.1, but I only played it a couple of times. By 'Gangster Game' He might mean 'Big Time Gangster'; That game works fine for me 90% of the time, but sometimes I get black boxes or during a gun fight I can't see the enemy's side of the screen.
Both of those games are published by Glu Mobile; they also publish 'Gun Bros' (doesn't work on my gTab, crashes at splash screen); 'Super KO Boxing 2' (I played for a couple of minutes, it worked fine)
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Yeah bt gangsta is black blocks on mine. My friends gtab runs it perfectly on the same rom. I don't know what could be different between mine and his.