Many already know that this device will be very good to run different emulators with.
Everything from Dolphin to Drastic DS, Reicast, Mupen64 and many more. I'll focus a lot on Dolphin as thats the emulator that will get the best boost compared to the Tegra K1 32-bit.
Extra Tutorials/Videos
How to use "Overclock" in Dolpin Emulator
Dolphin Android - "Overclock" vs Normal speed - Paper Mario
Dolphin Android - "Overclock" vs Normal speed - Metroid Prime
Dolphin Android - "Overclock" vs Normal speed - Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4
Dolphin Android - "Overclock" vs Normal speed - Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
Dolphin Android - "Overclock" vs Normal speed - Baten Kaitos Origins
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Dolphin(Gamecube & Wii)
Mario Kart Double Dash!!
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
Super Smash Bros. Melee
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Super Mario Sunshine
Luigi's Mansion
Tales of Symphonia
[Wii] Xenoblade Chronicles
[Wii] Super Smash Bros. Brawl
[Wii]The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
[Wii]Sonic Riders Zero Gravity
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Drastic DS(Nintendo DS)
Pokemon Black Version
New Super Mario Bros
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Mario Kart DS
Pokemon Black Version 2
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Reicast(Dreamcast)
Shenmue
Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure 2
Virtua Tennis
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PPSSPP (PSP)
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
Little Big Planet
Final Fantasy Type-0
Final Fantasy: Crisis Core
Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley
Burnout Dominator
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Mupen64Plus AE (Nintendo 64)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Mario Kart 64
Super Mario 64
Super Smash Bros
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Mario Party 3
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ePSXe (Playstation)
Crash Bandicoot 3
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy IX
The Legend of Dragoon
Xenogears
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RetroArch
(PPSSPP) Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
(PSX) Vagrant Story
(SNES) Super Mario World
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Look forward to seeing them, since I won't be getting my own N9 at release. I don't really care about seeing anything but PPSSPP and Dolphin though, since the others are already fine on older hardware.
I hope that PPSSPP and Dolphin will work good
I think PPSSPP will run almost all games at full speed. But running dolphin at full speed will be much, much harder to achieve. Hopefully we will see at least 50% gain in fps compared to the shield tablet.
Not really interested in emus since I have a Wii U for that but I expect the N9 to run anything you throw at it
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I hope that PPSSPP and Dolphin will work good
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I have PPSSPP running Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together and Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions running fine on a FireTV and Galaxy Tab 2 tablet fine. I'm also playing around with a few Japanese visual novel imports. PPSSPP should not have any issues on the N9.
You need to remember that this tablet is rocking a QXGA (2048x1536) screen so it will be more heavy to play on it
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You need to remember that this tablet is rocking a QXGA (2048x1536) screen so it will be more heavy to play on it
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Thats where overclocking comes in
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That won't tax it harder on Dolphin per se, since it won't be rendering at that, i wouldn't expect it to run well except on 1xIR (the Dolphin native resolution).
The Nexus 9 certainly won't be able to manage "anything you can throw at it" though, since even the most high spec PC can't do that right now and maintain full speed on certain games in Dolphin. My i7 4790K with water cooking and overclock and GTX 980 SC ACX 2.0 can't, and that's much more powerful than the K1.
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Ooo yeees!
I mostly emulate on my nexus 7----does anyone know of a good way to emulate gamecube games? I would love to do that...
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I mostly emulate on my nexus 7----does anyone know of a good way to emulate gamecube games? I would love to do that...
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Dolphin is the Gamecube emulator, but never going to playable on the Nexus 7.
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Dolphin is the Gamecube emulator, but never going to playable on the Nexus 7.
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Would it work on the nexus 9?
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Would it work on the nexus 9?
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That's the question we're all waiting to have answered!
So far the Nvidia Shield Tablet, by far, runs it the best and the expectation is that the K1 Denver should be a good step up from there as it nearly doubles CPU performance, which the emulator is more dependant on. I would expect many games to still run slow, but a good deal more titles should be playable (more easily emualted games like Timesplitters 2, which runs at about 40-45fps on my Shield tablet and might be fully playable on the Nexus 9).
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That's the question we're all waiting to have answered!
So far the Nvidia Shield Tablet, by far, runs it the best and the expectation is that the K1 Denver should be a good step up from there as it nearly doubles CPU performance, which the emulator is more dependant on. I would expect many games to still run slow, but a good deal more titles should be playable (more easily games like Timesplitters 2, which runs at about 40-45fps on my Shield tablet and might be fully playable on the Nexus 9).
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OOOOoooooohhhhh sorry, my bad, I'm used to people on here knowing everything hahaha sorry
Dolphin only uses 2 cores, that means that dolphin is not taking advantage of the full power the shield tablet has. Nexus 9 is running a dual core k1, and the single core performance is up to 100% faster than the quad core k1. This should give us a big speed improvment in dolphin
I'm currently running DraStic on my Samsung Tab S 8.4, and it works PERFECTLY. Soooo smooth, best DS/3DS emulator out there. Looking forward to using it on the Nexus 9, with what the wider screen.
(PS. Got the emulator for Pokemon . you're never too old for that game )
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I'm currently running DraStic on my Samsung Tab S 8.4, and it works PERFECTLY. Soooo smooth, best DS/3DS emulator out there. Looking forward to using it on the Nexus 9, with what the wider screen.
(PS. Got the emulator for Pokemon . you're never too old for that game )
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You're right mate. Most of the games I play are older Pokemon games, from when I was a child or hacks based on those games.
Not sure if I find the huge screen preferable for GBC and GBA emulating, but I'm really looking forward to pushing that soc to the max
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(PS. Got the emulator for Pokemon . you're never too old for that game )
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Truest thing ive heard all day:good:
Rage1ofakind said:
I'm currently running DraStic on my Samsung Tab S 8.4, and it works PERFECTLY. Soooo smooth, best DS/3DS emulator out there. Looking forward to using it on the Nexus 9, with what the wider screen.
(PS. Got the emulator for Pokemon . you're never too old for that game )
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3DS emulation is possible?
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Hi,
I'm looking for some HD games for Folio and I besides Dungeon and turbofly I couldn't get any to work. I'm specially looking for something like Dungeon Hunter, or Diablo, hack'n'slash I mean.
Do you know any HD game, beside this two, that will run on Folio?
Gameloft as incridible HD games but none works on Folio, because tegra2 texture compression is not supported.
This is a disapointment, as I expect that tegra 2 from nvidia had better game support and afterall it end up being one of must poorly supported platform in terms of games.
We no longer can say that tegra 2 is in its early days, almost 3 months have past since the launch and no support was added. Any new nvidia drivers to fix this issues with gameloft games. Any other publisher with HD games that run on folio.
I heard so much talking about how easy is to port the games from other platforms to tegra, but haven't seen any to this date? What's wrong with tegra?
Don't publishers like money?
Dude, have you tried Dungeon Defenders: First Wave ???
Imho this is the 1st proper game that supports Tegra 2 and runs like a candy on our Folio !!!
http://dungeondefenders.com
Yes I try it! Is a great game indeed. One think I love in this game are the graphics, but gameplay is not as good as one could expect.
I recently found a Beta version of robot defence and I must say it's awesome. Some animations are still poor but as I said is only a early stage demo of the game.
The lack of content for tegra 2 tablets is really a pain! Good games will make this things sell like hot cookies... but I guess google and nvidia are waitting to the last moment to make content available. Too sad though
I did find another great game, this time a shooter airattack HD
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I did find another great game, this time a shooter airattack HD
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What is that game called like?
Maybe we should make a 'games' topic, with in the first post a list with all perfect working game titles for our folio's
Airattack HD lite. I get it also in my ipod touch and it's a must for those who want to kill some time! Beautiful graphics, not full 3D but quite good
I will re-edit #1 post on this thread as soon I get some more games to work.
Some new games, and also some old ones are getting HD graphics. Tegra Zone will be launched soon, probably tomorrow.
Tegra 2 may result in a big fiasco if they don't launch exclusive games and apps... It's the first time I see a thing like this: launching a platform with no software, no games, nothing...
Nvidia should be more carefull. A5 from apple is on its way, samsung will have dual core soon, intel already has...
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Airattack HD lite. I get it also in my ipod touch and it's a must for those who want to kill some time! Beautiful graphics, not full 3D but quite good
I will re-edit #1 post on this thread as soon I get some more games to work.
Some new games, and also some old ones are getting HD graphics. Tegra Zone will be launched soon, probably tomorrow.
Tegra 2 may result in a big fiasco if they don't launch exclusive games and apps... It's the first time I see a thing like this: launching a platform with no software, no games, nothing...
Nvidia should be more carefull. A5 from apple is on its way, samsung will have dual core soon, intel already has...
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Doesnt work on my Folio (1.4)
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Doesnt work on my Folio (1.4)
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the game works, at LOGO screen press "HOME" once, and then "BACK" and menu appear..
same bug is seen on ElocityA7 , so its a nvidia bug in graphics driver for now..
Take a look at hexage games like buka hd or radiant hd. Really Nice and addictive, runs smoothly but not so kickass graphics like 3d or explosions.....
I'm also interested in a Hd gale topic.
Yes they are quite fine, not my kind of game though. If you have a Tegra 2 and 512 Megabytes of RAM, you will expect better. I could show this guys the kind of game that I had in my old Intel Pentium 1,3 Ghz, with no GPU by the way. So much power for nothing. A4 from Apple will not even stand against Tegra 2, but if you see the graphics...
I saw backbreaker running on a folio 100 on youtube, but when I run it (1.3d, now clean 1.4), the geraphics are pretty messed up?
The Samurai II: Vengeance was just released specifically for Tegra 2 devices.
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The Samurai II: Vengeance was just released specifically for Tegra 2 devices.
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Absolutly great... a real tablet game...a lot of great details in graphics, you can move control if you want etc.. . A must try!
Jp
Yes it is a most buy in every way. I love the sound and the graphics. Gameplay is great. Story line is very good.
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The Samurai II: Vengeance was just released specifically for Tegra 2 devices.
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Omg! That game is awesome! I really love it, it play well on our FolioMod v1.4. Thank you so much for recommending it!
So far the list of HD games that works on my Folio is:
- Air Attack HD
- Dungeon Defenders
- Samurai II Vengeance
There're other non-HD titles games but play well on Folio are:
- Fruit Ninja
- Glow Hockey
- Angry Birds
- Doodle Jump
- Ninjump
- Drift Mania
- Buka HD
- Dink HD
- Everlands HD
- Evac HD
Samurai II Vengeance 1.0
Samurai II Vengeance 1.0
I tried the game, something beautiful! and, indeed, are seen just how powerful the machine! and how good the video accelerator.
Hey you should try this one too...monster madness, tegra2 special : too expensive for me but looks very nice !!!
market.android.com/details?id=com.southpeak.monsterapp
Jp
Sorry for url i am not allowed to post one
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Hey you should try this one too...monster madness, tegra2 special : too expensive for me but looks very nice !!!
market.android.com/details?id=com.southpeak.monsterapp
Jp
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direct Market link here
Ok, market website fault.. seems the game is actually Tegra2 only!
poor support from Google's website, only showing non-tegra2 devices, when its actually tegra2 ONLY!
you need this View attachment build.zip (download attachment) to actually find it on the market, and buy/install it.
copy the build.prop (inside zip) to your /system folder and reboot.
and you find it.
is it just me or?
Why does the recently released games looks like Amiga500 from 1990?
Samurai II and Monster madness has cartoon like graphics which pretty much were fashion back in 90s when its was too hard to do better graphics and the no GPU were not capable of handling it.
is Tegra2 not better than a 90's cpu?
or should 3d games seen on other mobiles just wait, until Nvidia fixes the OpenGL ES issues, so its better supported, because its not just a port issue, its also the work tegra2 GL seems to be designed since games are still "2D"..
Thats just a thought...maybe you havent seen Amiga500 games, but they looks almost better sometimes
You are right! Some of this games are 2d only... But they are good enough to be played again and again, because they are fun. Most iPad and iPhone are just 2d because the game engine is more simple and the dev time is faster
hi there, i have a rooted Samsung Galaxy 3 as most of you too.
here's the thing, i've rooted my phone, installed 3d chainfire and updated all of my drivers (of chainfire that is) installed setcpu and set it on perfromance base on 1300MHz. after that i thought to myself well a everything is done i can start downloading games now, i first downloaded PES 2011 and felt really excited when it booted and expected some good gaming and fun when traveling but when i started the game it was just horrid...the game is running approximately at 20% of it's usual game speed which kills it off entirely it feels like i'm playing the game with VSync enabled all the time.
So i was hoping if i could get some feedback from you guys to inform me what i did/am doing wrong or to give your impressions on the way things are shaping up for you.
thx in advance.
Hi
Did you tried different configurations specific to the game?
Did you installed plugins?
well, different games needs different configurations and each of them works good with a specific plugin.
Here is some examples:
For Nfs Shift you only need to select "Reduce texture quality and Qualcomm plugin.
For Modern Combat: Sandstorm you have to select both "Reduce texture quality" and "Reduce texture size" and choose Qualcomm plugin.
So the best way to play a lag free game is to try different settings.
Good Luck
trust me i've installed the plugins and have all 3 updated to the newest version i have tested all possible configurations and plugins even reducing texture and size settings still i can't get the game to run at more then 20-30% of it's potential...it's kinda sad as i saw that many of you are playing games smoothly on the SG3
Try using on of g3mod OC bus kernels.
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em, could you please provide a link (with possible explanations) as i'm kinda new to this stuff, i got my SG3 a few months back and never had an android before.
this topic Must be very useful to you:
[How to]Play "HD" games on SG3 (NOVA, Shift, Asphalt5, AC, PES11 and more!)
PES 2011 working slow on every G3. You can't do anything with that but games like Nova, Nfs Shift and many others working great. You can try Psx emulator also, Fpse is the best I think and then you can play with psx games like Tekken 3, Gran Turismo, Civilization or Mortal Kombat.
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You can try Psx emulator also, Fpse is the best I think and then you can play with psx games like Tekken 3, Gran Turismo, Civilization or Mortal Kombat.
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So, overclocked processor even to 1300 Mhz doesn't provide performance in 3D games. (Neocore benchmark @ 667 Mhz - 13 FPS, Neocore benchmark @ 1200 Mhz - 14 FPS). Practically zero growth in performance of 3D.
Fpse emulator? The same situation. gran Turismo (time trial, only Your car on the track - 30-42 FPS - playable) Gran turismo (race, 6 cars - slow, not playable)
I5800 is not for games and emulation.
well, G3 is not good for 3D games, that's just how it is. There are awesome 2d games for android though. Refraction, rope cut, mx mayhem-a bit slow but fun and playable, angry birds all run fine. believe me if you had high end 3d games on g3 they would become boring in a week. better to just stick to your pc or console for real games
I still am waiting to get my note. Should be the end of Feb.
But in the mean time, I've been looking around for a decent NDS emulator for android, as it strikes me that the note is prefectly suited to be a DS emulator.
The screen seems the right size to be split in 2, it has a stylus, and it is powerful enough to potentially handle DS emulation.
The problem is I can't seem to find any good DS emulators anymore.
I found a copy of nds4droid 1.3 somewhere on the internet and tried it on my Xoom, but it is really slow.
Anyone know of a better one, and where the official nds4droid site is?
Or is NDS emulation on android dead and not likely to start up again?
Cheers
Jayd
On settings, switch on the second core
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On settings, switch on the second core
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The version I had had an experimental mode which apparently tried to make it faster, but it was still too slow on my Xoom, even with frame skip on 10.
What version do you have?
Are there any other ones?
It's weird that N64 can be emulated so well, but not the DS.
are you kidding, ds emulator barely runs smoothly on a core2dual, and you wish to run it on a dual core? its gonna take you like 5min to do a 1min action... even core2dual lags. just wait for core2dual happens on mobile, than nds is starting to be playable, by that time playing nds games is just like todays playing a snes game lol.
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are you kidding, ds emulator barely runs smoothly on a core2dual, and you wish to run it on a dual core? its gonna take you like 5min to do a 1min action... even core2dual lags. just wait for core2dual happens on mobile, than nds is starting to be playable, by that time playing nds games is just like todays playing a snes game lol.
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So GBA is the best handheld emulator that I'll get for a while then?
I just think it is strange that PS1 and N64 which have better graphics can run smoothly but not the DS, but then again, I don't know how they differ at the process level.
When is Nintendo going to realise that Handhelds are dead and bring out Mario, Zelda and Pokemon for Android? Seriously!!!
I am thinking about buying a 7 inch tab, so i have to decide which one. For me is gaming really important(ill buy a tab to play games everywhere) so i have a few questions:
How many fps do you get when you play a n64 game with mupen64?with texture pack?
Do the new games like horn, dark meadow, dark knight and gangstar rio play lagfree?
How fast is chrooted ubuntu?
Sry for posting a question for a device i dont own, but
Thanks, transformador
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I am thinking about buying a 7 inch tab, so i have to decide which one. For me is gaming really important(ill buy a tab to play games everywhere) so i have a few questions:
How many fps do you get when you play a n64 game with mupen64?with texture pack?
Do the new games like horn, dark meadow, dark knight and gangstar rio play lagfree?
How fast is chrooted ubuntu?
Sry for posting a question for a device i dont own, but
Thanks, transformador
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I just played around with Mario 64 running off a cheap usb stick using n64oid and it worked very well. There was some stutter, but I'm sure that is due to the crappy usb stick.
Anyone tried Gamelofts big games ex nova 3 mc4 amazing spider man and games like real racing 3 nfs most wanted gta 3 vice city, do these games have smooth with the full graphics like on ios devices, since it does have powervr sgx 544? Would it be wise to buy this tablet solely for gaming? I know there is N7 but i heard/seen lots of gamelofts top games perform poorly on it due to optimization.
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Anyone tried Gamelofts big games ex nova 3 mc4 amazing spider man and games like real racing 3 nfs most wanted gta 3 vice city, do these games have smooth with the full graphics like on ios devices, since it does have powervr sgx 544? Would it be wise to buy this tablet solely for gaming? I know there is N7 but i heard/seen lots of gamelofts top games perform poorly on it due to optimization.
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Most Gameloft games I have (have a number of them and I haven't tried installing them all, so going with 'most') give me the 'Device not compatible' error - both stock and cm. Also, Gameloft really pisses me off because they remove back-catalog games to force you to purchase the newer versions (like Asphalt 5, original Modern Combat & Dungeon Hunter, etc in case you have those).
GTA games run great. Haven't ever tried IOS, but they run full quality and 60fps smooth w/ the nook. Same w/ EA games, all work fine.
I have tried Nova 3, MW3, both GTAs, NFSMW and NBA 2013 and all play fairly smooth.
Asphalt 7 though plays, but not smooth. Seems a lazy port since NFSMW and the other "busy" games play smooth.
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I have tried Nova 3, MW3, both GTAs, NFSMW and NBA 2013 and all play fairly smooth.
Asphalt 7 though plays, but not smooth. Seems a lazy port since NFSMW and the other "busy" games play smooth.
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Does Asphalt 7 on nook retain its graphics like on the iphone 4s/5 etc?
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Does Asphalt 7 on nook retain its graphics like on the iphone 4s/5 etc?
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All I notice is the game is not smooth like my other device or the iPad 4. All graphics seem in tact, but uninstalled. If it was missing stuff, it would have been even less smooth with it.
Just so you know I tried order and chaos hoping it would look great, bit they have gimped the effects and draw distance and it looks rubbish...
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I have tried Nova 3, MW3, both GTAs, NFSMW and NBA 2013 and all play fairly smooth.
Asphalt 7 though plays, but not smooth. Seems a lazy port since NFSMW and the other "busy" games play smooth.
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Does GTA vice city play good on stock non rooted?
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Tried asphalt 7, unplayable, Spiderman looks terrible, tdkr low fps but semi playable...nooks not the greatest for games from gamecrap ...awesome screen for 1080p anime though =)
Forgot to say I'm on cm10 emmc...
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Anybody try and playing with the build.prop so Gameloft's games install, and installing Chainfire3D to make them work?
Used to do this on my old Allwinner A10 tablet, and it worked for some games, but its been awhile.