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Thought it might be useful for us mobile gamers to post the sort of performance we get on the Nexus 4. Might even make a few of you eager beavers even more excited about getting a Nexus 4 if you haven't already.
Don't know the difference between 30fps and 60fps? Lucky.. try and keep it that way if you can help it.
In short - 60fps is the most ideal framerate; the most lacking in "lag". 30fps is also an ideal framerate, but it isn't as smooth as the former (alot of people don't notice the difference). Most console games run at 30fps, for reference.
So far, the Nexus 4 is capable of playing ALL Android games smoothly, with exception to those that are (temporarily) incompatible with 4.2
Frustrated with the heat & throttling the phone endures when playing some big games?
Try Matr1x Kernel to minimise heat with a small undervolt, and get more performance from a GPU overclock
After some testing, here's a little idea of how some games run on the device. I also briefly tested a few with different processor speeds too so I'll note down my findings there too.
*if you haven't played with your CPU frequencies then don't worry about my babbling about CPU speeds - the game will run fine if stated so and won't change if you haven't messed about with processor power saving*
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Max Payne Mobile - 60fps:
Seems to be a trusty 60fps on highest settings; brilliant graphics for a phone. I don't recall it ever slowing in performance at all on Roscoe Street station (first level after the prelude) or the tutorial level. Runs and looks much better than GTA3.
Minecraft Pocket Edition - 60fps:
60fps solid on Fancy graphics; doesn't seem to heat up the phone too much either which implies it isn't too demanding and thus should stretch the battery a bit longer. I could be wrong in that assumption, though.
Grand Theft Auto 3 - 25-30fps:
Somewhat disappointing performance. Runs acceptably smooth on default graphics settings (medium everything) at around 30fps, though with some drops in framerate. Also heats up the phone considerably, so expect throttling after 10 minutes. On highest possible graphics settings it stutters quite alot; I'd estimate it hovers around 15-25fps but it's really not pleasant.
Bus Parking 3D - 60fps:
Smooth as can be.
Temple Run - 60fps:
Yep, smooth and responsive as can be again. Still playable down to around CPU @584mhz, but will introduce a bit of stuttering ofc.
GnarBike Trials (free and pro) - 60fps:
Solid 60fps, but will still hiccup a tiny bit when a large number of explosion barrels are set off. You can disable these in the options if it really bothers you.
X-Plane - 60fps:
You guessed it - completely flawless performance again.
Dead Trigger - 30fps:
Capped at a solid 30fps if I remember right. Never drops below this on max settings; completely smooth.
Contract Killer 2 - 50-60fps:
Seemed more than playable. Didn't have it installed for long though so that's all I can say; around 50-60fps if memory serves me right.
Survivalcraft Demo - 50-60fps:
Was a little bit stuttery on highest settings, but only when walking around. This was probably just because the map was still generating around me as I explored, so should be nothing to worry about.
Asphalt 7: Heat - 30fps:
Slight stutter in cutscenes at the start of each race, but it looks like this game is capped at 30fps (difficult to be sure but it seems that way by my judgement). Stays completely smooth at that framerate throughout the game though.
Riptide: GP - 60fps:
Solid 60fps, very smooth and very pleasing graphics.
Chaos Rings - 30fps
d u o XIV: "I just checked Chaos Rings on my N4 right now. Works like a charm. Just to be clear, I started up the game, danced around the menus for a bit, ran around as the main character, and fought in one battle. It all worked flawlessly, and it all seemed to work at 30FPS."
Final Fantasy III - 60 fps
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Chrono Trigger - smooth as butter
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Theme Park - 60fps
Trial Xtreme 2 - 60fps
Need for Speed Most Wanted - smooth:
Need to test again, the consensus is that it does run smoothly.
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Gameboid Emulator - 60fps:
Runs Pokemon Emerald and Fire Red as if you were playing it on a real GBA. No frame skipping whatsoever at a lovely 60fps.
GBCoid Emulator - 30fps?:
Runs games as they were intended. Not sure if the older Gameboy games ran at 60fps, it looks more like 30fps. Still, that's how it's meant to perform so no problems here.
Hill Climb Racing - 60fps:
Completely smooth at all times. No change in performance whatsoever, even on lowest 384mhz power saver CPU setting.
Osmos HD - 60fps:
Great looking 2D game and runs at a solid 60fps. No problems with lag here as you'd expect.
Doodle Jump - 60fps:
Smooth as butter. Clocking the CPU below 584mhz will cause a little stutter every now and then but still playable.
Bad Piggies HD - 60fps:
I noticed an occasional stutter here and there but it's nothing to lose hair about, it seemed to only happen at the start or end of each level. Otherwise, completely smooth.
Cut The Rope - 60fps
Angry Birds - 60fps
ChuChu Rocket - 60fps
[I think it'd be a challenge to find a 2D game that does lag on this phone to be honest, so i'll leave it at that]
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If you guys have any requests for games to test then I'd be happy to give it a go for you, provided I can acquire them. Feel free to share your experiences with any games here as well.
Cool man. This is the first device with which I've felt confident to pay for games. I hope GTA Vice City is better than GTA 3. Also I hope crazy coaster comes to Android:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/coaster-crazy/id561451269?mt=8
Can You try Wild Blood and NFS Most Wanted?
What about need for speed most wanted?
I tried playing Max Payne, my phone got hot as hell.
Does your phone gets hot too when you play?
I heard and read that the specs of Nexus 4 can handle xbox 360 level gameplay/graphics. I wonder when hardware will be utilized to max i cant wait to shift from xbox to just mobile. Because the CD-ROM system is hell frustrating.
Can you anybody test if Horn works?
How abt asphalt 7 heat? It is extremely laggy on Gnexus..
Unfortunately, Need for Speed: Most Wanted didn't work right. The graphics were glitched up and everything looked black (atleast, when I tested it), so this game may need an update to be playable on the Nexus 4. Whether or not this has been fixed yet needs to be clarified by current owners of the game since I *only just* managed to get a refund in 15 minutes after trying it a few days ago.
I'm downloading all 1.5gb's of Asphalt 7: Heat at the moment so I'll post up when I've finished downloading and testing it in an hour or two. As for Wild Blood and Horn, I'll try them some other time since they're pretty expensive for something I probably won't play.
@AntonJart: Yeah, my phone gets very hot in some games. The phone throttles itself when it gets to around 38C I think, so it shouldn't be anything to worry about. However, you can use CPU apps to underclock the processor and reduce the amount of heat being generated, sometimes with no loss in performance. But that's effort.
Need for speed works for me
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Most wanted works fine for me
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Horn does not work with the Nexus 4 I tried installing it and play on got when I first received the phone
In that case I'll redownload Most Wanted at some point and try it again.
Asphalt 7: Heat - 30fps:
Slight stutter in cutscenes at the start of each race, but it looks like this game is capped at 30fps (difficult to be sure but it seems that way by my judgement). Stays completely smooth at that framerate throughout the game though.
Has anyone tried batman or the latest mass effect?
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I just thought of Rip tide too. Very graphics intensive.
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I made a gaming performance video if anyone is interested - http://youtu.be/Vha62lcGSgs
Games included are
-Nova 3
-NFS:most wanted
-Temple run
-Spider man
-Dead trigger
-GTA
italia0101 said:
I made a gaming performance video if anyone is interested - http://youtu.be/Vha62lcGSgs
Games included are
-Nova 3
-NFS:most wanted
-Temple run
-Spider man
-Dead trigger
-GTA
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Does everyone experiencing overheating? My phone gets hot as hell...
AntonJart said:
Does everyone experiencing overheating? My phone gets hot as hell...
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That doesn't mean its overheating.
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chrisjcks said:
That doesn't mean its overheating.
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To the point that you can cook an egg on it?
Mine gets warm, no where near hot as hell though
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To the point that you can cook an egg on it?
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Then you never owned a one X, early software builds made the phone temp actually too hot to even touch.
But still, it only overheated twice and when running go benchmark constantly.
Later, they fixed the heat dramatically.
But the word 'overheating' is one that gets used incorrectly too much, it probably isnt, its just hot.
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That doesn't mean its overheating.
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Really
even LG OG have same problem : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1995107
One potential issue for long-term use revolves around overheating. I thought it may one specific model, but both units tested had significant drops in benchmark performance after extended use and, more importantly, after getting extremely hot. I cooled the phones down and retested, and after a brief warm-up period they were back to benchmark-breaking numbers. It’s unclear as of yet whether that means thermal throttling is in place or if the phone just cannot dissipate heat well enough for the new CPU and GPU, but one thing is certain: performance drops significantly, from way over competition from phones like the HTC One X or Samsung Galaxy S III, to just under them both.
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http://www.gadgetreview.com/2012/10/lg-optimus-g-first-impressions.html
Hi im thinking of buying a nice phone for playing games is xperia t right thing. How are games like modern combat 4 , nfs most wanted, spiderman, dark knight rises running on this device . Plz give a quick response
Out of the box, it works OK until it gets hot. There have been numerous threads about thermal throttling kicking in after a while and killing performance - do a search rather than creating an 'urgent' new thread next time.
Having said that, if you are prepared to root then this thread may keep your performance up:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1937329
This phone gets HOT when playing games? i thought its 28nm cpu will stay cool. Should i buy xperia T or should i buy htc one XL for gaming
by the way i researched alot and could not find a similar threat.
Most new phones have some sort of heat issue and thermal throttling. I would recommend trying the games on the handsets to see exactly what you feel about it.
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I am running now at 192 - 1458MHz, both cores always on, when the heat is going over about 65°C, CPU is throttled to 1188MHz (and less), still with both cores on. When I am gaming a little longer, CPU temperature is going up to 75°C and battery temperature does not exceed 50°C while connected to wall charger.
All games I know are running smoothly this way.
These temperatures should be fine. If anything goes wrong with these temperatures, then it's a bad device.
Thing that is low on T, is RAM. I would recommend something with 2GB. I believe there will be games with 2GB requirement soon. And T has only 640MB available RAM for applications. And system is using about 300 - 400MB. The rest of RAM is low even for browser and low for future gaming, at least now in ICS.
And internal memory chip has not very good performance. For example SenseMe Slideshow (plastic frames) never makes smooth slideshow. Opening phone or SMS app takes almost 2 seconds. Opening NFS Most Wanted takes about 15 seconds (and this procedure kills all opened apps, very nice. Etc.
I am not telling it's a bad device, I like it (except wifi, that one drives me mad. But I recommend something else for heavy gaming.
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I am running now at 192 - 1458MHz, both cores always on...
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Out of curiosity, ¿what rom/kernel combo are you using?. I'm interested in undervolting and underclocking my device.
I used Siyah kernel while I was on Timin8r's stock rom, but now I'm running AOKP and I don't know any current kernel compatible with that.
Siah kernel, but works on stock kernel too (except 192MHz). Values are changed manually.
i have already ordered the Xperia T But hope that it will not dissapoint me Devices with 2GB are out of my reach and in my country i found xperia T the fastest in my current budget
You won't be disappointed. It is good device. But has some disadvantages. Just like other devices.
waleed794 said:
i have already ordered the Xperia T But hope that it will not dissapoint me Devices with 2GB are out of my reach and in my country i found xperia T the fastest in my current budget
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I'm sure you will enjoy it. The Xperia T is quite fast and capable.
One more question , Does modern combat 4 run smooth on this device ? And are the graphics high like s3?
waleed794 said:
One more question , Does modern combat 4 run smooth on this device ? And are the graphics high like s3?
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My exp. with mc4, laggy. We do only have 1g RAM
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tr33z said:
My exp. with mc4, laggy. We do only have 1g RAM
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Its got f*** all to do with ram. 1gig is enough. We get full effects like the galaxy s3, and as mentioned in earlier comments adjusting the throttling works wonders. This game never lags for me.
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I basically want every game till date to be playable. Possible?
Bit worried about new Modern Combat 5 and Dead Trigger 2 though.
I can get xperia T (or TX) for 320$ in my country and it is a really really great phone (I tried it in one shopping mall) so...
Option58 said:
I basically want every game till date to be playable. Possible?
Bit worried about new Modern Combat 5 and Dead Trigger 2 though.
I can get xperia T (or TX) for 320$ in my country and it is a really really great phone (I tried it in one shopping mall) so...
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Gameloft have started adding graphics setting to their games which is a good move, so I imagine MC5 will have them. Dunno about dead trigger 2 but they normally optimize their games well. I have a lot of games, they all work fine after reducing the thermal throttling. Only problems you might face is games being unavailable such as a few flu titles, but device spoofing takes care of that. My phone sometimes shuts down from online gaming because the battery can't take the stress, but as long as the throttle allows 12420000 or lower it rarely happens unless battery is low. Plus a friend is trying to make a fix for it, by putting out a voltage based on averages, rather than having a voltage that is too high then it dropping too low under pressure . Also its the same chip as USA version of GS3
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Dead Trigger 1 plays smooth on my Cortex A5 800Mhz and Adreno 200. :\ Few lags here and there but nothing noticeable... I think this will handle Dead Trigger 2... Subway Surfers lags like hell though.
How about N.O.V.A 3 and MC4? I just worry about constant non-playable frame rates. I can't judge by YouTube. Do you get smooth experience with Adreno 225?
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Dead Trigger 1 plays smooth on my Cortex A5 800Mhz and Adreno 200. :\ Few lags here and there but nothing noticeable... I think this will handle Dead Trigger 2... Subway Surfers lags like hell though.
How about N.O.V.A 3 and MC4? I just worry about constant non-playable frame rates. I can't judge by YouTube. Do you get smooth experience with Adreno 225?
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Yeah its pretty good. My shutdowns are getting bad though. If you get one of these get one with a 1780mah battery, the 1850mah is fatally flawed
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I am actually getting 1750mah Xperia TX.
Good! @peetr_ is going to replace his with a 1780mah variant, if this solves the problem I may have to do this too
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GTA VC is pretty much unplayable with extreme stutter and low frame rates, carmageddon suffers from the same, and NFSMW and real racing 3 have low frame rates. max payne 3 has passable framerates though.
anyone else's xperia z performs absolutely terribly at 3d gaming? it was like this on stock; nothing changed with FXP CM10.1. is this a software or hwardware issue? i think a quadcore with adreno 320 should be performing much better than this.
Roflnova said:
GTA VC is pretty much unplayable with extreme stutter and low frame rates, carmageddon suffers from the same, and NFSMW and real racing 3 have low frame rates. max payne 3 has passable framerates though.
anyone else's xperia z performs absolutely terribly at 3d gaming? it was like this on stock; nothing changed with FXP CM10.1. is this a software or hwardware issue? i think a quadcore with adreno 320 should be performing much better than this.
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probaly Sony ****ty software
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK4Hy7gxiKc same spec on nexus 4
G1_enthusiast said:
probaly Sony ****ty software
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK4Hy7gxiKc same spec on nexus 4
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thing is, the performance is equally poor on CM - is it something to do with kernel or something?
Roflnova said:
thing is, the performance is equally poor on CM - is it something to do with kernel or something?
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I dont know, some people might tell you its the 1080p issue screen that is causing the lagging but I dont think its that. was your phone hot while trying to play? the cpu might be down clocking due to heat.
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I dont know, some people might tell you its the 1080p issue screen that is causing the lagging but I dont think its that. was your phone hot while trying to play? the cpu might be down clocking due to heat.
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it does get pretty warm, but i'm not sure cpu throttling would cause it become that slow, especially when the rest of the UI is fine. in fact, it stutters and is slow even before the phone gets hot.
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it does get pretty warm, but i'm not sure cpu throttling would cause it become that slow, especially when the rest of the UI is fine. in fact, it stutters and is slow even before the phon gets hot.
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U can try to email dev, and hope the update the game for the phone, but i doubt it since there are not that many XZ owner, lol S3 can run the game easily...so sad...
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GTA VC is pretty much unplayable with extreme stutter and low frame rates, carmageddon suffers from the same, and NFSMW and real racing 3 have low frame rates. max payne 3 has passable framerates though.
anyone else's xperia z performs absolutely terribly at 3d gaming? it was like this on stock; nothing changed with FXP CM10.1. is this a software or hwardware issue? i think a quadcore with adreno 320 should be performing much better than this.
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I am not suffering this issues, or at least not so badly.
GTA VC is marked as not compatible with XZ in Play Store, anyway I have it and it works perfectly, it is like 20 to 30 fps, but perfectly playable, in fact it runs faster than it was in PS2, but with much better graphics.
Carmageddon is butter-smooth, it feels like 60 fps all the time, I am at number 63 in the classification and enjoying it so far.
Real Racing runs at about 25fps but perfectly playable.
And I have not tested NFSMW or Max Payne.
EDIT: I have just tried GTA VC, the first time I try it after. 253 update, and I am impressed of how smooth it is, I think it is running between 5 to 10 fps faster than before. Not perfect, but very, very playable
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I only have Real Racing, it run smoothly for me, no issue so far.
Just install BoostMyXperia
Roflnova said:
GTA VC is pretty much unplayable with extreme stutter and low frame rates, carmageddon suffers from the same, and NFSMW and real racing 3 have low frame rates. max payne 3 has passable framerates though.
anyone else's xperia z performs absolutely terribly at 3d gaming? it was like this on stock; nothing changed with FXP CM10.1. is this a software or hwardware issue? i think a quadcore with adreno 320 should be performing much better than this.
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I have NFSMW and runs not smooth at all but still playable. Atm i'm installing GTA VC to told you how runs on my XZ.
Take a look at this:
GTA VC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy0h5OU-FAA
NFS MW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3uJP1H6qkc
Real Racing 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSg0dId9BAc
i think mine runs a little bit better than this, since .253 update. Also some apps thap reviously crashed when enabling experimental GPU acceleration, now work perfectly. If yours is running worst than on this videos, then there is something bad with your phone/software.
PS: the videos do not belong to me, they are just random youtube videos i have found.
Just opened this thread to discuss games for the Xperia Z5, including recommendations and any issues you have encountered.
For the most part, games run very smoothly on the Z5, but once the phone gets warm (around 42) it will start to throttle with some more intensive games and the frame rate drops to around 20-30fps.
Another problem I have had is relatively common with Adreno devices. Games like Real Racing 3 and Need For Speed: No Limits fail to render in 1080p and also lag. This was the case for my HTC Butterfly s (Snapdragon 600 w/ Adreno 320) and users of other devices such as Nexus 7 2013 have also complained to the developer about it but they kept saying they couldn't fix it (despite there being a mod before that involved locking the rotation of the device). Asphalt 8 looks fine but either has poor antialiasing or is only rendered at 720p.
Some games I play:
Horizon Chase - Retro-style racing game like Top Gear (has a really nice soundtrack by Barry Leitch). Sounds really nice with the front-facing speakers. Runs at 60ps on Z5 but goes down to ~25-30fps in later levels or when the phone gets warm
Hungry Shark Evolution - Also suffers from a frame drop when the phone is warm, after about 5-10 minutes of gameplay.
Smash Hit - This one really puts the stereo speakers to use as you can hear where the glass is smashing
PBA Bowling Challenge - Fairly simple but addicting bowling game. Runs very smoothly and doesn't use a lot of battery life
Alto's Adventure - A one-touch endless runner snowboarding game. Very minimalistic with immersive audio.
I'm trying to look in particular for games that have good graphics and audio, such that they can take advantage of the stereo speakers.
What games do you play?
Root your phone, instal gltools, play nvidia games on z5, take that other phone, install BTcontroller on both devices and play
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Root your phone, instal gltools, play nvidia games on z5, take that other phone, install BTcontroller on both devices and play
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Produce too much heat on heavy games my e6683 reach 58c easily on high end games any way to reduce heat plz tell me
rajdeep312 said:
Produce too much heat on heavy games my e6683 reach 58c easily on high end games any way to reduce heat plz tell me
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If you have root access, you can install apps that can overclock and underclock cpu, find them install one and set cpu fq lower, but the best thing to do is if you have a cese put it into deep freeze for an hour and then place it back on your phone
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You can read the following topic I have found the solution to your problem since I had the same problem
[Tut] Optimize GPU 60FPS and CPU processors Qualcomm snapdragon
Anyone having issues of lag in certain games ?
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Anyone having issues of lag in certain games ?
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What games?
Candy Crush flies like a rocket!
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SAO said:
Anyone having issues of lag in certain games ?
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Is this a joke
There is no game that would cause lag on this phone...
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Is this a joke
There is no game that would cause lag on this phone...
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Agreed.. normally... but i'm having issues with this specific device... not sure if it's just me.. check out my download speed test vs the p20pro
For the third time I'm disappointed with Real Racing 3. By default, it doesn't render at even 1080p resolution. I've had the same issue with HTC Butterfly s and Sony Xperia Z5. To add to this, the aliasing of the graphics is extremely bad. Fortunately with the Note 9, this can be changed with the Game Tuner app, although it leaves a persistent "ingamepopupservice" notification. The aliasing is still bad so while the textures look full-res the game still looks worse than 1080p. Performance is good, though there are occasional stutters.
Bowling by Jason Belmonte - this is just a bowling game but one of the most demanding despite its simple graphics (probably due to the physics engine run on Unity). It struggled to run on my Xperia Z5 due to thermal throttling but here I was able to play it for a long time with no performance issues. The only issue I've had is the ball return screen is not optimized for the display. There's some very occasional stutters but the game remains running at 60fps. The stuters are more apparent if you reduce CPU usage with power saver.
Aside from this I'm also getting a volume issue with some games after a period of time the volume of the speakers dip and the audio quality becomes somewhat muffled.
For RR3, I recommend you download the third-party app RR3 Graphics settings and set it to "Average Higher". You lose a bit on the glossy reflections of the cars, but the aliasing is somewhat less apparent and the game looks cleaner overall.
On the other hand, Asphalt 9 has poor aliasing regardless of graphics settings.
Game performance is the reason I swapped exynos for snapdragon
Exynos is under even the lowest expectations for that price range
Look at the attached video
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Looks more like an optimization issue rather than performance, which still sucks. Take a look at this article: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13582/samsung-galaxy-note9-performance-review-snapdragon-vs-exynos
Asphalt 9 performance is mediocre if I force the game to render at 1440p and overclock. Real Racing needs to be set to medium graphics but otherwise run. Gear Club looks amazing, but I must change HW Performance on Game Tuner to +3 to get consistent performance (was able to play for over 1 hour, with almost no frame drops).
Sure, these games may run better at 1080p, but I paid for a 1440p phone and expect it to run such. Once you install Game Tuner you'll see that most games run at 75% resolution by default, which is only 1080p.