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Games running slow

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.
Sent from my superfast Galaxy 3

cop1976 said:
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.
Sent from my superfast Galaxy 3
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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

Bad snapdragon 800? or just software slowing it down?

noticed that i only have 1gb free of ram when i restart too, but back to the topic. When playing games like Asphalt 8, eternity warriors 2, or even watching youtube, the phone tends to stutter, but the "lag" is happening on rhythm. EX: when loading frames, goes from 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4, but on every "4", it lags/stutters. it also happens when iim watching youtube videos. i tried the 3dmark benchmark, and it seemed to run completely fine. anyone else having this issue? or are there going to be performance updates with 4.3? its really getting obnoxious not being able to play my favorite games. The odd thing, is that it plays smoothly on pre-downloaded movies(mxplayer) and not-as-3d-heavy games. I thought the snapdragon 800 would be able to handle some of the higher end games? my atrix 4g runs riptide better than my G2......HELP! and thanks in advance.

wasssabi5 said:
noticed that i only have 1gb free of ram when i restart too, but back to the topic. When playing games like Asphalt 8, eternity warriors 2, or even watching youtube, the phone tends to stutter, but the "lag" is happening on rhythm. EX: when loading frames, goes from 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4, but on every "4", it lags/stutters. it also happens when iim watching youtube videos. i tried the 3dmark benchmark, and it seemed to run completely fine. anyone else having this issue? or are there going to be performance updates with 4.3? its really getting obnoxious not being able to play my favorite games. The odd thing, is that it plays smoothly on pre-downloaded movies(mxplayer) and not-as-3d-heavy games. I thought the snapdragon 800 would be able to handle some of the higher end games? my atrix 4g runs riptide better than my G2......HELP! and thanks in advance.
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I experienced the same thing, but like you said only in some games. I played a game that has a frames-per-second display, and for the most part it runs at 60 while older phones could only manage 40. But it does dip down to 40 then right back to 60 regularly as you said. It has to be a software or thermal throttling issue. But I have hope, this is one of the first devices to have the Snapdragon 800, and I bet they are working on it. I would welcome a 4.3 update that solves the performance issue too!

[Q] I have a problem with my LG G2

I've been using LG G2 D802 international for a month and it is very fast device, no complains except one day I installed flappy birds and It didnt run well, it skipped many frames, but subway surf runs very smooth and also device in normal use is fast as hell .So I did a little test here is my experience: Those games lagged: Flappy bird, jetpack joyride, fruit ninja. Games who ran very good: Need For Speed most wanted, Modern combat 4, subway surf, GTA vice city. How is possible those heavy games runs smoothly but those small games like fruit ninja and flappy bird, lags , I think those games do not support snapdragon 800, I want to ask you about your experience , thank you.

I noticed same problem... I just installed flappy bird and its lagging.
But, I need to say that my whole phone is laggy a little...
When im in viber message and press back it needs 2 sec to return into viber inbox... That is realy slow for top smartphone...
Sent from my LG-D802 using Tapatalk 2

Every now and then mine is but i do a cache clean and a restart all is fixed this beast eats ram like crazy but im sto k rooted completely debloated and i overclock when i playgames i got fpse ps1 emulator and most of the oldskool. Classics run better on this animal than any other except my note 3

leptons said:
I've been using LG G2 D802 international for a month and it is very fast device, no complains except one day I installed flappy birds and It didnt run well, it skipped many frames, but subway surf runs very smooth and also device in normal use is fast as hell .So I did a little test here is my experience: Those games lagged: Flappy bird, jetpack joyride, fruit ninja. Games who ran very good: Need For Speed most wanted, Modern combat 4, subway surf, GTA vice city. How is possible those heavy games runs smoothly but those small games like fruit ninja and flappy bird, lags , I think those games do not support snapdragon 800, I want to ask you about your experience , thank you.
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i dnt knw abt flappy bird but fruit ninja does lag only in the staring point not always...i hav the same problem in my note 2 and a chinese tablet...

I think that problem is because flappy is in 2D and G2 wont run his power on that game...
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Upon a few more min of research quite a few people are saying that a few games such as flappy birds aint quite compatible with the snpdrgn proccesser. Other games are compltey. Commpat and run great dont hold me to it but that might be worth more of a look in that direction

After some research i found that the lag is due to lg hotplug idk why but after installing dorimanx kernel and changing hotplug removes lag. Something wrong with lg hotplug

[Q] huge lag on Brothers in Arms 3!

I just bought the phone (it's Exynos) and the first thing i installed was antutu benchmark, which gave me 52000 which was even higher than the note 4 in the list!! Anyway, it proved that the phone is really good. Now the first game i've installed on it is BIA3, but im having bad problems playing it. it gives me around 16-20 fps only, but i've seen this game run on htc one with more than 25 fps! Also someone else had a problem with spider man which was again weird, and he said that it was the only game doing this!
So now im guessing that these games are running on the 4 weak cpu's, instead of the strong ones...anyone has any ideas on it or how to fix it?
Also could you owners of the snapdragon version share your experience on these two games?

I opened clash of clans, and it was again really laggy...it wasn't before. I thought that the ram being almost full had to do something with it, so i restarted the phone and it played good for about 5 minutes and then the lag started. I tested this on BIA but again it was laggy even in the first 5 minutes of restart.
It's my first samsung phone ever, and i am not satisfied with it!

I ran an another antutu benchmark, and the results were good again,, so the problem must be with the games!
Maybe a way to force use the strong cpu's will help! Any ideas on how to do this?

Its because of 2k Screen .
I have Galaxy Alpha Exynos and Brother in arms 3 is running at 30 fps

kktkaran said:
Its because of 2k Screen .
I have Galaxy Alpha Exynos and Brother in arms 3 is running at 30 fps
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Do you really think if display is 2k that means all games run in 2k resolution, lol?

well you have a point, but that must not be it. because i dont think that this phone in unable to run even 4k clash of clans smoothly!

Just downloaded played 1 hour no lag whatsoever
Exy model.

S7 Edge (Exynos) Gaming

Well, I found just one game, Dream League, that runs smoothly. (3d games)
And there's my question, why does the gaming on this phone suck? Can't play NFS No limits, Real Racing 3, Fifa 17, without lag... even low titles lag.. like pixel bus simulators etc.. i disabled also DVFS.. still laggy ..

Try to disable power save mode.
Also disable battery saver in Game Center.