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[Q] Performance of Emulators

Moderators please move this thread if it is in the inappropriate place . I couldn't decide where it should be so I decided to put in general just to be safe.
As the topics suggests I would like to know the performance of various emulators for Android such as PSX4droid, NDS4droid, Tigerlabs, gba4droid etc. on the Samsung Galaxy SII. If anyone has tried any type of emulator made for android please post your opinions and evaluations below regarding its perfomance, quality, FPSetc below.
Okay Guys Confirmed Emulators working with full speed on the Samsung Galaxy SII
FPSe
n64oid
SNESoid
GameBoid
More coming soon according to developers........

FPSE (psx emulator) - Full Speed with sound. Played Crash bandicoot, and final fantasy 9

n64oid - no lag in mario kart, ocarina of time, golden eye (sound lags at loading sometimes but i think it's a defect in the emulator)

sorrowuk said:
FPSE (psx emulator) - Full Speed with sound. Played Crash bandicoot, and final fantasy 9
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Great! Btw though was the sopund glitchy?

None of my friends were able to get nds4droid working.... Maybe its still doesn't support the sg2

moxdown said:
Great! Btw though was the sopund glitchy?
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Turn on the SPU sound thing and its alot better.
It does do the odd glitch in the sound but it still seems really good.

Havent played many roms but the follwoing emus seem to be working without issue on the roms I have tried:
FPSe
SNESoid
GameBoid

bilboa1 said:
n64oid - no lag in mario kart, ocarina of time, golden eye (sound lags at loading sometimes but i think it's a defect in the emulator)
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Hmm ocarina of time lagged for me, but Mariocart and supermario was fine.
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MaBlo said:
Hmm ocarina of time lagged for me, but Mariocart and supermario was fine.
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MaBlo you played these after overclocking or before? Has overclocking shown any improvement in emulation for anybody?

where do you get n64oid from, the market?

mwilson1987 said:
where do you get n64oid from, the market?
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As they say.... Google is everyone's friend

moxdown said:
As they say.... Google is everyone's friend
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Not my frend

would it have been so hard just to tell me? prick

mwilson1987 said:
would it have been so hard just to tell me? prick
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Woah cool down sonny jim..... Yes the market if your willing to pay for it.... Pm me if your not AND if your phone is rooted.

sorry but it just pisses me off that some people on here assume that everyone is as techy as they are, I've searched in the market and can't find it. My phone is not rooted so don't think you can help me

mwilson1987 said:
sorry but it just pisses me off that some people on here assume that everyone is as techy as they are, I've searched in the market and can't find it. My phone is not rooted so don't think you can help me
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Its not on the market anymore.
But if you search google for n64oid , you will prob find an apk and then stick that on your phones storage and install.
I dont have it so i don't know where to find it, but if you google you will definatly find it.

btw has anyone tried the sega emulator that went out of development a few months ago on the sg2? How is the emulation on that?

Thanks, I've managed to get N64oid but now struggling to find a good website to download the ROMs, anyone got any good suggestions?

mwilson1987 said:
Thanks, I've managed to get N64oid but now struggling to find a good website to download the ROMs, anyone got any good suggestions?
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All in good time........ hitting the thanx button wouldn't hurt either........ Oh and btw sharing info about roms is...... highly illegal........ correct me if i'm wrong. This thread aims on emulators my friend....... not roms

mwilson1987 said:
sorry but it just pisses me off that some people on here assume that everyone is as techy as they are, I've searched in the market and can't find it. My phone is not rooted so don't think you can help me
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yeah thats xda developers. you know _developers_.

PXDroid + Beast Galaxy s2= Fail!?!

Did any one try this?(Pxdroid)
The app seems to lag(v3.0)
And i've tried some games nothing works!..
You can download application form here>
http://www.smartkeitai.com/psx4droid-hits-3-0-now-free-open-source-project/
As the link says its FREE and OPEN SOURCE
So its ok to post links here.
Use Google to download some roms for play station..
Please do report if any game works!
Because it sucks to have a powerful phone with limited gaming experience!

Did you try Chainfire 3D with the Qualcom plugin?

BackfireNL said:
Did you try Chainfire 3D with the Qualcom plugin?
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No not yet.
Trying Right away!
Edit: Where do i get plugin's from!? I downloaded the free version from market.
Ok got the pulgin..Still wont work! :/

Try use FPSe emulator, it's much better than Psx4Doid. Here are some videos showing how FPSe works on SGSII .
youtube.com/watch?v=PTIeG9psbJs&feature=player_embedded
youtube.com/watch?v=gLcUYBkx1G0&feature=related
(I can't use url cause i'm a new member on this forum and when i'm trying to do this i'm getting error)
Psx4Droid sucks, FPSe is really much more productivity.

PSX4droid isn't compatible with the SGS2, and some other high-end advices. Doesn't work with the Optimus 2x either. You can keep an eye on his site (http://www.zodttd.com/) and wait for the update he's "making."

Is it really necessary to have that enourmous ugly image in your signature?

maedox said:
Is it really necessary to have that enourmous ugly image in your signature?
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no i've to yet change it..Its old!
Twomorecharacters said:
PSX4droid isn't compatible with the SGS2, and some other high-end advices. Doesn't work with the Optimus 2x either. You can keep an eye on his site (http://www.zodttd.com/) and wait for the update he's "making."
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Thanks! At least now i do know.
Jeffero said:
Try use FPSe emulator, it's much better than Psx4Doid. Here are some videos showing how FPSe works on SGSII .
youtube.com/watch?v=PTIeG9psbJs&feature=player_embedded
youtube.com/watch?v=gLcUYBkx1G0&feature=related
(I can't use url cause i'm a new member on this forum and when i'm trying to do this i'm getting error)
Psx4Droid sucks, FPSe is really much more productivity.
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Trying now.

I can confirm that fpse works great on s2.. As of now I have played ff7,metal gear ,metal slug, resident evil2 and mortal kombat 3.. no lags at all ^^

fpse works PXDroid Sucks!
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GTA III + Samsung Galaxy S I9000

Does it work with you?
I could open it, download game data but then it closes (no force close) every time I click on the app icon. Downloaded Chainfire 3D, installed it, but no luck.
I9000 + MIUI

Works for me pretty smoothly.

I really want to download this game but i want to know if the i9000 can handle it first =/.

If it doesn't work go into market and hit refund. I believe it gives you a full refund if you uninstall within 15 minutes of downloading.
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Yeah thats true but the problem with big games like this is that if you have trouble downloading the additional files the 15 minute window can soon disapear.
They should have left the refund time at 1 hour. 15 minutes just isnt enough half of the time.

Of course it will run smoothly on Galaxy S... It's 1 thread optimized game and actually does not require dual core device.

pls post your kernel, rom or other requirments what we need to play.
thanks.

BHuvan goyal said:
Works for me pretty smoothly.
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I9000? Which ROM?
I'm getting a bit closer now... I can now watch the two intros, but then it exits again.

Doesn't work for me (Cyanogenfortomorrow). Damn, i first bought it on Galaxy S, than i got my money back. Later i tried on galaxy nexus, where it isn't working either, and now i can't get back my money.

It's not working for me either (i'm on Darkys 10.2 EE),i'm now installing Chainfire 3d as you suggested
edit: doesnt work with chainfire3d either...

Lame!
I really wanted to download this game =[

BHuvan goyal said:
Works for me pretty smoothly.
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How did you get it to work? Help us!

It almost works for me
It opens, and when I leave it, it shows the credits while music is playing. However, when I touch the screen, it turns black and nothing seems to happen anymore.
I am running Simplicity 2.1
edit: just got it as far as the homescreen, clicked start game, and now I have a black screen and nothing happens :-(
edit2: with chainfire3d it doesn't work either

Maybe he was telling porky pies
Has anyone on a stock rom tried running it?
Has anyone been on the android market on their PC and searched for this game?
Why is their like 5 different versions of it with like 1 pence difference

zolah said:
Maybe he was telling porky pies
Has anyone on a stock rom tried running it?
Im on stock JVQ 2.3.4 with CF root at the moment. I might give it a go when i get home from work...
Has anyone been on the android market on their PC and searched for this game?
Why is their like 5 different versions of it with like 1 pence difference
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All different versions are for different regions, don't know why the small price difference exists, and I don't really care either..

Doesn't want taste the Ice Cream here. FC after clicking the game icon.

isn't working on ics either

zolah said:
Maybe he was telling porky pies
Has anyone on a stock rom tried running it?
Has anyone been on the android market on their PC and searched for this game?
Why is their like 5 different versions of it with like 1 pence difference
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If you look at the URL of all the 4 version you see that there's a US, AUS, JPN and GER version

t-jet said:
If you look at the URL of all the 4 version you see that there's a US, AUS, JPN and GER version
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Yeah got it
Looks like im going to have to steal my friends SGS2

So... it doesn't run on stock either!?

Grand Theft Auto III HiRes patch GN V0.2

I uploaded a new gta3.set with best improvement.
V 0.2
- Breaks and Debris
- Accelerate/brake and steer at the same time (tks mixedlemon)
V 0.1
- Car lights, Lamps and Flashing Lights
- Detailed Shadows, Traffic Lights, Blood
- Hi Resolution
just download attached zip file (gta3HiResV02.zip), and copy extracted file (gta3.set) to: /sdcard/Android/data/com.rockstar.gta3/files/GTA3
- backup existing one
Basically it is .set file specific for Galaxy Nexus

Thanks man, not only does this look better but on my Nexus it also fixed the touchscreen issue of not being able to accelerate/brake and steer at the same time.

Do you think it's possible to get a fix so that we can jump out of moving cars? There's a bug that doesn't allow you to get out of a car until it has come to a complete stop? How else are we supposed to ghost ride cars into crowds of people lol?

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Do you think it's possible to get a fix so that we can jump out of moving cars? There's a bug that doesn't allow you to get out of a car until it has come to a complete stop? How else are we supposed to ghost ride cars into crowds of people lol?
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from what I remember gta3 never had the ability to do this

BlackDino said:
from what I remember gta3 never had the ability to do this
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That's right. Impossible to add.

Any chance for a all weapons patch lol

Sorry guys, but it's been awhile since I played these games on my PS2. I guess I got mixed up. I think the ability to jump out of moving vehicles happened in GTA4?

TBolt4Now said:
Sorry guys, but it's been awhile since I played these games on my PS2. I guess I got mixed up. I think the ability to jump out of moving vehicles happened in GTA4?
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vice city I believe

How are you guys getting this game to show in market? It won't show if I search manually in market and if search in browser it just shows as incompatible.
I'm happy to buy legit way just can't, any help please?
To be clear im not asking for warez just want a way to buy off market in legit fashion
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Vice City is when it was added

anyone else have the issue where the save menu does not appear, and you cant hit retry during a mission?

Thanks for this!!

altimax98 said:
anyone else have the issue where the save menu does not appear, and you cant hit retry during a mission?
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just saved and had to retry a mission, works here

Any reason why my language is not English. Added the file and all the text is non English. Maybe Italian.
Edit- found where to change language. Doh.
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The Gingerbread Man said:
How are you guys getting this game to show in market? It won't show if I search manually in market and if search in browser it just shows as incompatible.
I'm happy to buy legit way just can't, any help please?
To be clear im not asking for warez just want a way to buy off market in legit fashion
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I'm starting to think that it may have only been the international versions that had compatibility restrictions, even when it wasn't playable on the Nexus and specifically stated "Coming soon for the Galaxy Nexus" I was always able to find it in my market and buy it from my CDMA Galaxy Nexus on Verizon.
This is just my best guess based on not reading anything, so if anyone else knows more about the subject please correct me.
Have you tried using Market Enabler?
Back during the $0.10 sales I had to edit the build.prop files on my HTC Rezound to make it think it was a Nexus S in order to buy the Gameloft games. Perhaps you'd be able to change it to identify your device as a Rezound or some other phone on the supported devices list?

I'm not seeing a gta.set file... should I just place this one in there? or am I missing somethin?
edit: Nevermind, there was no .set file in there to backup, but dropping this in there actually made a huuuuge difference. Thanks alot.

So this will not work on Galaxy Note :?

The Gingerbread Man said:
How are you guys getting this game to show in market? It won't show if I search manually in market and if search in browser it just shows as incompatible.
I'm happy to buy legit way just can't, any help please?
To be clear im not asking for warez just want a way to buy off market in legit fashion
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I had this problem too at first. There's a number of different versions out, being in Australia I'm pretty sure we would've had a censored version. Try going to https://market.android.com/developer?pub=Rockstar+Games,+Inc. and see what shows up. I used to be able to see 3 different versions but only one was installable, though they must have updated it recently because now the other versions are hidden from me.

love the hi res update but y is it not in english did i do something wrong

emptyclipzzz said:
love the hi res update but y is it not in english did i do something wrong
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you can change the language back to english in the settings
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Fix: asphalt heat graphics. UPDATE!!!

Ok, so earlier on i was having a mees about with the deviceconfig.xml in the asphalt obb file.
I got some good graphics working but it added a bit of lag.
I have now created a deviceconfig.xml wich will put the game to max graphics and also be extremely smooth. (Its about the same as we have now with the latest update, if not smoother)
Basicly what i have done is....gone into device config.xml and swithed our device with the galaxy s3, our device falls under medium-hi dev class. (That class has bad graphics) and changed it with high-dev class devices (galaxy s3 max graphics) so all i have done is switched the to names around.
There are one or two graphic effects i have turned off. They are very minor and not even noticable.
So..... heres what you have to do.
1. Copy the .obb file off you're device from android/data/obb/ com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftA7HM/ main.101.com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftA7HM.obb
2. Using 7 zip right click the file and open archive, now go to data/deviceconfig/ and you will see 1 file (deviceconfig.xml) delete it. It will take anout 2 minutes to delete.
PLEASE READ If anyone is nterested in having the game the way it should be then what we need to do is tell gameloft to enable hires_map for tegra 3 on twitter. just simplyu copy and paste this to gameloft. @gameloft please enable hires_map for asphalt heat tegra 3 {nexus 7) also put it in youre review in the playstore. it seams a bit extreme but otherwise we wil never have the game the way it should be. wich is what we all thought we where getting when we purchased it.
if enough people do this then maybe they will listen. its no good one or two people doing it as gameloft seam happy with the game the way it is.
3. Now copy the new deviceconfig.xml over o where the old one was. Once again this will take about 3 minutes to copy over.
4. Now exit 7 zip, delete the obb file wich is still on youre tablet and now copy the new one over.
5. Start the game, it will tell you it needs to download 1mb of data (this normaly resets everything we have done but it wont)
6. Enjoy.
I put a lot of trying and error into this to get it working the way it is. If there are any hiccups i will once again edit this file.
UPDATE!!!!!!
Enabled msaa
enabled gamma illuminance
enable high quality car shader
maybe one or two more things.
there is not much i can do in reguards to the enviroment. allthough it does look better.
you should try a quick race on huwai and you should see the differance. i noticed a slight frame rate drop every now and then, nothing to bad though and i am enjoying the game very much the way i have this xml set up.
i reccomend you pull the xml you are using now and keep it on youre computer for backup reasons, incase you think the game is to laggy.
Link Updated [https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2EOPJ1y9uirdlI2MG0xYkIyQjg
UPDATE 2!!!!!!
this as hire map enabled. i disabled some other graphices to make this even remotely playable. i would not reccomend you keep using this si its laggy. this is just to show you what the game should look like. infact it should look better than this but as i said i dissabled some effects.ie gamma illuminance. post process render textures. dynamic car shader.
hi es map link https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2EOPJ1y9uirLWZMamx1cnJqN2M
please do not write back to me complaining this is laggy. i allready know this and there is nothing i can do. we allready have the best we can get with the previous release.

No one done this?
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Thanks for your efforts, if it wasn't so late I would give it a shot. I'll give it a go tomorrow mate.

TheChaoticLlama said:
Thanks for your efforts, if it wasn't so late I would give it a shot. I'll give it a go tomorrow mate.
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No problem, just dont want this thread disappearing further down. As i can pretty much promise it will work.
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i am doing it right now...will post results...

I hear batman does not have that good graphics on nexus 7. I dont have the game and not sure if there is a deviceconfig.xml in the files. But if someone can check and if there is, upload it here. I would be more than happy to take a look and see wht i can do.
I hav checked nova 3 and moden combat 3 and cant see a deviceonfig.xml so there is nothing i can do with those two games. Maybe spiderman has one but i dont own that game either.
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I'll give this a try tonight. :good:
Spiderman has very glitchy graphics and could really do with a tweek! I've deleted it off my tab to make room for Horn so can't fit it back on to check if it has one of these files.

How do i copy the .obb file it wont even let me ? o.o

i can confirm that this does work to improve the graphics of A7. most improved was the reflections off the car what was dull before has environmental reflections now. hard to tell if there has been any track or environment improvements maybe leelaa can go into detail on what he has done?
thx & cheers
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leelaa said:
I hear batman does not have that good graphics on nexus 7. I dont have the game and not sure if there is a deviceconfig.xml in the files. But if someone can check and if there is, upload it here. I would be more than happy to take a look and see wht i can do.
I hav checked nova 3 and moden combat 3 and cant see a deviceonfig.xml so there is nothing i can do with those two games. Maybe spiderman has one but i dont own that game either.
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TDKR graphics are not bad at all and it's actually a fun game. i will have a look at the obb for it in a few.
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How do i copy the .obb file it wont even let me ? o.o
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first have your N7 plugged into the PC. go into your my computer and in your drives list it should have your n7 as the last one. look at the file list and open the android folder two options data / obb click obb. open the folder for A7HM. you will see the a7hm obb file listed as 1.36g right click copy. right click your desktop and select paste. if you did it right a pop up should come up showing the file moving to your pc.
then follow leelaas directions.

I just tried the fix and I can also confirm that it improves some graphics, namely the reflections on your car and the motion blur effect while using NO2.
Some minor problems occurred though: on the Rio track, at some points opponent cars appeared to disappear and reappear out of nowhere. Also, the game doesn't wait for you to touch the screen to continue after you've finished a race, moving instead right on to the results screen. Both of these are relatively minor niggles considering the improvement.
Thanks, leelaa.

t_007_v2 said:
i can confirm that this does work to improve the graphics of A7. most improved was the reflections off the car what was dull before has environmental reflections now. hard to tell if there has been any track or environment improvements maybe leelaa can go into detail on what he has done?
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what i have mainly done is switched are device config withe the galaxy s3's. the galaxy s3's class in the deviceconfig.xml has all graphics turned on. the only one that isnt is use_msaa {multi sample anti alasing} i have tried with this turned on and it does improve the overall quality of the graphics slightly, but there was quite a bit of frame rate drops. it was still very playable but i wanted to keep the game as smooth as possible and at the same time keep an acceptable frame rate. if anyone would like i could upload the deviceconfig.xml with the mssa enabled? and you can decide on the performance vs graphic quality.
as for the game going straight to the results, i have noticed this too. i dont know what is causing it but really isnt a problem. as the only thing you can really do after a race is touch the screen to continue. so really i see this as saving us doing a job lol. i will take another look in the xml in about an hour and see what i can bump up.
on a side note, i put the gameplay hud in low res texture. i personaly cant notice any diferance but this improved performance.
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ok so i have bumped every setting i can, and for some reason it plays smoother than the last one i uploaded here. i cocked up one setting though and you could only see the car wheels. but not the actual car. i would say the lightiong and enviroment is as good as we can possibly get. i dont think we will ever see these graphics on our device from gameloft. just waiting for the obb file to copy to my device so i can see if i have corrected the car issue where you can see wheals only. if all is well i will upload. i think this can be compared to ios graphics if not better.
wont be long guys

So is the link in the first post the updated version or not cos it states new link? :fingers-crossed:

spthacker said:
So is the link in the first post the updated version or not cos it states new link? :fingers-crossed:
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You might want to wait than to have to move that big arse file again like I'm going to have to do. Thx leelaaaaaa (;
Been playing the updated graphics version on the elite kernel set at 1.6 with the 650gpu and there is no lag at all. Why the he** is gameloft dumming down the graphics for n7 owners? Total crap from dumbloft
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t_007_v2 said:
You might want to wait than to have to move that big arse file again like I'm going to have to do. Thx leelaaaaaa (;
Been playing the updated graphics version on the elite kernel set at 1.6 with the 650gpu and there is no lag at all. Why the he** is gameloft dumming down the graphics for n7 owners? Total crap from dumbloft
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No it is not the new link, the next one i put will be calked updated. I have been running asphalt now with max graphics. Even graphics that are not turned on by default ie use_msaa and gamma_illuminance. I want to change the actual gamma file as i think i can make the graphics look even better. This process will take about 10 minutes and i know i can do it so theres no worries there.
The only problem is my lapop screen is completely broke so i have to connect it to our tv. But my wife is eatching the soaps. Its a stupid situation, but new file will be up tonight. And trust me, you will love it
Sorry or the hold up guys.
So my next process will be......edit the gamma.txt file, and test that on one or two tracks. If that pans out the way i want it to i will upload. If it does not look as good as the one i am testing now i will revert the gmma.txt and upload.
So there may be two files you have to copy over this time.
I will update the instructions if needed.
Thank for youre patience guys.
And i am glad its working for you.
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OP Updated guys. new .xml file available. you can also see changes i have mad. we are now at the point where there are no more graphic effects to enable. enjoy, and please report back youre experiance. thanks

leelaa said:
OP Updated guys. new .xml file available. you can also see changes i have mad. we are now at the point where there are no more graphic effects to enable. enjoy, and please report back youre experiance. thanks
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https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2E...lI2MG0xYkIyQjg 404 Files Not Found

Link fixed, sorry about that
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leelaa said:
Link fixed, sorry about that
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no probs, just sending back now

The reason why are device has the bad graphics is dow to the xml. There are 4 classes low,medium,medium hi dev and high. For a strange reason our device falls in the meium category. I dont know why this happens but its something gameloft need to sort. But they dont seem to of acknowledged this at all. Because when the game was released our device was in medium class. And it was very bad, yes fir enough they updated the game and the graphics looked slightly better and framerate- bu in other places the graphics are worse. The main thing is that our device still falls into medium class.
All they really need to do is create a tegra class and assign our device to that class along with other tegra devices. Its such a simple fix but they dont do it. They are lazy and take shortcuts by doing what i am doing now and it seems they cant even do that properly.
We bought the game that was advertised, not a work in progress.
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