I enjoy playing games on my Play and do not want to lose the gamepad support, I am on Stock gingerbread but with Doomkernel v14, and was wondering if updating to the Sony ICS beta would affect my gaming? Meaning would my games work and would they be laggy and unresponsive?
For gaming, stay on GB. Better gaming experience and stability.
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JWTROCKZ said:
I enjoy playing games on my Play and do not want to lose the gamepad support, I am on Stock gingerbread but with Doomkernel v14, and was wondering if updating to the Sony ICS beta would affect my gaming? Meaning would my games work and would they be laggy and unresponsive?
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Gaming suckkkkss with ICS. trust me
XDark ICS
Actually, on XDark ICS many of my Gameloft, EA games worked with touchpad support! It is actually alright for gaming but again is not as good as gingerbread. If you're bored and want to try it go ahead. Do a nandroid backup backup beforehand, then what have you got to lose ?
Edit: if you just want the look and feel of ICS try Gin2JellyBean, the dev is great and it is hands down the best GB rom I've ever used. Infact it's my daily driver for whenever I get bored of ICS. Gamepad and touchpad work as they would on stock too!
I would suggest staying on GB.
I have used ICS and GB and ICS is, although beautiful, not the best for gaming.
From my experience:
GTA3 wouldnt run
Dead Space ran half speed
Emulators (SNES,NES,MD) ran full speed
So if you only play emu, go for it.
Majority of the games out the market right now support gb. Believe me it is a big mraket. Give ics some time and you would see the games out on gb may also come out for ics.
So far (in my *bountiful* (one day)) experience with ICS, gaming has been good.
Emulators at least. Only real games I play are Minecraft and that has been quite nice too. But, to go with most people I'd say stay on GB for now if you want definite stability.
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god day all you happy xperia play owner.
i will soon getting a new phone and i wont have any need for the xperia play as a actual phone. so this will be only a gaming device.
what im looking for is the perfect kernel and rom to give me as much quality gaming as possible.
currently on ICS++ and a ICS beta kernel from doom and am realy happy with it. only downside is emulators not working to a 100% (SNesoid. gameoid, n64oid and nesoid.) the issue is sound on = lagg and n64oid lags / reboots phone.
so what im looking for is a ICS rom (for the touch pads working) that gan give a good gaming experience.
I decided to go back to a stock 2.3.4 on my r800x. All custom roms and any that are ICS gave me lag in games, and low fps for some reason.
JokaWild
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JokaWild
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Jokawild isn't ICS.
I think that if you want everything to work like it should, you should go back to stock.
ICS seems to be more demanding overall over Gingerbread from what ive seen.
Xperia play is pretty dated Hardware wise so a really trimmed down version of Gingerbread might be the best option for gaming
Ive seen a few threads point to use either DiXperia, Jokawild, or TruAncestor
I'm using the Xperia S Style ROM and man games run faster than they did before. V6 Supercharged of course.
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I'm using the Xperia S Style ROM and man games run faster than they did before. V6 Supercharged of course.
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I can confirm this!
I just swithed to DiXperia (on of the many Xperia S roms) and i have seen a huge boost in performance with a full 200MB of Ram free while running.
The nice thing about DiXperia so far is that its completely barebones and you add what you want to it.
Definetely get on the Xperia S Roms
Agreed with above, im actually switching my phone over to an xperia S rom.
JokaWild is the best custom ROM that I know.. definetly great!
touch?
i can live with going back to GB since SE are not releasing official ICS. but is there anyway to have GB with touch pad support on emulators?
DarkForest Roms is a not bad options
jensenjr said:
i can live with going back to GB since SE are not releasing official ICS. but is there anyway to have GB with touch pad support on emulators?
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I second this.
which one is better for 3d gaming GB(true ancestor rom) or ics?
MKJMKJMKJ said:
which one is better for 3d gaming GB(true ancestor rom) or ics?
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I would say GB hands down. Majority of games are not optimized for ICS. I have never used the True Ancestor ROM but have heard nothing but awesomeness for it. I am on GB and have no plans on going to ICS as most of the games I play for my phone do not work or do not work right
The Xperia Play works a lot better with gb, and although ICS is the actual thing in modern android devices and they should run as smooth as they do on gb in newer devices, this phone handles 3d gaming a lot better in gb rooms than any other ics rom. That and game pad and touch pad support.
Sony Xperia Play - Tapatalk 2
however I have to say ICS as it just seems faster overall.
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My poor Xperia Play is getting on a bit and I think it's time to put it into retirement. I'm hopefully getting an Nexus 4 soon, but I want to hang onto my Xperia Play as a pure gaming device. Mainly emulators and such, but also supporting the touch pads if possible (particularly FPSE).
I want to give it the best ROM for this purpose, with a good balance of speed, stability, and support. Any suggestions would be welcome.
Any Gingerbread rom with a custom kernel capable of overclocking will probably be fine for gaming. ICS and Jellybean are more resource-intensive, thus decreasing the in-game performance on such roms.
Barguast said:
My poor Xperia Play is getting on a bit and I think it's time to put it into retirement. I'm hopefully getting an Nexus 4 soon, but I want to hang onto my Xperia Play as a pure gaming device. Mainly emulators and such, but also supporting the touch pads if possible (particularly FPSE).
I want to give it the best ROM for this purpose, with a good balance of speed, stability, and support. Any suggestions would be welcome.
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All my games have ran perfect since switching to NXT Light Edition.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look into the ROMS suggested so far.
What's the situation with the touch pad controls in FPSE these days? Last I heard, a long while ago, they worked provided you were on an ICS ROM?
FPse touchpads work on GB/ICS now. Probably JB too
Just read my signature... No lags any more!!
I tested all roms for locked BL and that's the ONLY ONE that gave me the required performance!
Just thing what can you do with an unlocked BL!!
Cheers mate!!
Cola rom. Not sure if it works with 800i but if it does you'll love it.
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I bought me a new shiny xperia play for the sake of gaming. not for regular use -- that's what i have my htc onex+ for... its one battery sucker and made just for looks...
of course when i first got the xperia-play i wanted ics on it so i installed "Doomlord"s kernel and different variations of ICS roms found on these forums.
Unfortunately almost every game i run thats made by gameloft will crash immediately right after the intro video. for example dungeon hunter 2 right after skipping the intro video it would crash.
this happens on ANY rom i install.
the only common thing i have is the "Doomlord" kernel.
Could this be the cause and should i try another kernel?
please advise.
Try a gingerbread rom or stock debloated.
Nothing to do with doomkernel.
cylent said:
I bought me a new shiny xperia play for the sake of gaming. not for regular use -- that's what i have my htc onex+ for... its one battery sucker and made just for looks...
of course when i first got the xperia-play i wanted ics on it so i installed "Doomlord"s kernel and different variations of ICS roms found on these forums.
Unfortunately almost every game i run thats made by gameloft will crash immediately right after the intro video. for example dungeon hunter 2 right after skipping the intro video it would crash.
this happens on ANY rom i install.
the only common thing i have is the "Doomlord" kernel.
Could this be the cause and should i try another kernel?
please advise.
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I hate to break this to you Gameloft only supports stock GB.
here I leave a post with the list of games that are not compatible with ICS Roms!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2028714
Markphyton test rom which is the most compatible, and which has better performance for games eh all roms that I have tasted since my Xplay! (over a year)
f'ing hell. well i went back to stock R800i_4.0.2.A.0.62_Generic and guess what? no crashes!
this is absurd. i want to ICS.. heck i want JB but we're only up to ICS with the play.
The sad part is their games are the only good ones... unless you guys can recommend any other software developer with good games?
and i primarily bought the xperia play to game on.
I am curious what people feel is the best rom for gaming and speed on an r800at, guess that part doesn't matter as long as its a GSM Rom.
Thoughts and if you can detail why you feel said rom is the best. Again I am looking for best gaming rom, speed and available memory.
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[ROM] DiXperia 2 'Everlasting' | Performance. Stability. Experience. | 04.09.2012
I used a lot of GB ROMs but I always return to this.
I believe it's smoother and more stable than others.
Cant believe u open a thread just to ask this Q. Scrolling down my xda app there's a bunch of thread asking the same. Not to mention in the general sect.
But since u new to Gsm i like to point out to ur Q that ALL GB ROM can gme & they hav their own pros/cons. So to know which suited u best, u just gonna hav to try it. Coz we may hav the same phone but our taste & view are totally diff. Cheerio.
Regards,
Sdojoin
Normally I balked at these threads, but okay. I like NXT Lite rom and Doom kernel, though honestly I find all gingerbread roms to be good with gaming performance.
You can check here on explanation of the cpu governors and and i/o schedulers: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1369817, it might help with tuning between performance and battery life. I'm using 'smoothass' and 'bfq' @ 250-1000 and it's very smooth, as far as this old phone goes.
Thank you everyone for the replies. As stated I am new to the GSM xperia play but have been on the CDMA for 18 months. I pretty much stick to my own stock VZ rom but heavilynmodded and debloated. So I am just trying to determine what are some users preferred choice(s) of roms as I have been limited to choices of roms when compared to the GSM model.
I guess I should also ask as I have been on 2.3.3 since pretty much the beginning but with the recent release of JB for the PLAY I would imagine that the xperia games launcher doesn't work as these roms are not built on Sony framework, am I incorrect in this? And also how people rate the gamepads on JB? I pretty much play some of the following
Shadowgun,
asphalt 6, backstab,
modern combat 3. (want to play 4 but its not smooth enough for me to play it emjoyably.)
NFS most wanted. (If you want to add me - ozzmanj1)
Order & chaos
The built in PS1 emulator
Other emus
Bards tale
Dead space
All kemco RPGs
Nova 2.
Sorry for the long list. But if someone sees any games above that don't really play nice with JB can you state below. Thank you
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Thank you everyone for the replies. As stated I am new to the GSM xperia play but have been on the CDMA for 18 months. I pretty much stick to my own stock VZ rom but heavilynmodded and debloated. So I am just trying to determine what are some users preferred choice(s) of roms as I have been limited to choices of roms when compared to the GSM model.
I guess I should also ask as I have been on 2.3.3 since pretty much the beginning but with the recent release of JB for the PLAY I would imagine that the xperia games launcher doesn't work as these roms are not built on Sony framework, am I incorrect in this? And also how people rate the gamepads on JB? I pretty much play some of the following
Shadowgun,
asphalt 6, backstab,
modern combat 3. (want to play 4 but its not smooth enough for me to play it emjoyably.)
NFS most wanted. (If you want to add me - ozzmanj1)
Order & chaos
The built in PS1 emulator
Other emus
Bards tale
Dead space
All kemco RPGs
Nova 2.
Sorry for the long list. But if someone sees any games above that don't really play nice with JB can you state below. Thank you
Sent from my R800x using xda premium
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Some ics roms can play them with no trouble apart from mc4 but mc3 works good and so does gta vice city on low graphic settings on ics but as for jb there's touchpad lag in some games lie gta mc3 and a few others shadow gun works but I couldn't get the expansion pack (leftover) to work just kept force closes but some games can run pretty good like fifa 12
But if you want perfect gaming any gingerbread rom
For ics my personal favourite is miui Australia
And jb slimbean or Turbo ui
But these are just my findings and opinions
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ILikeTheWayYouMove2 said:
Some ics roms can play them with no trouble apart from mc4 but mc3 works good and so does gta vice city on low graphic settings on ics but as for jb there's touchpad lag in some games lie gta mc3 and a few others shadow gun works but I couldn't get the expansion pack (leftover) to work just kept force closes but some games can run pretty good like fifa 12
But if you want perfect gaming any gingerbread rom
For ics my personal favourite is miui Australia
And jb slimbean or Turbo ui
But these are just my findings and opinions
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Thank you. I game a lot (when I have the time) So I would prefer something that would be best with the following features:
Excellent for Gaming
A Rom that has the most available memory.
Is DiXperia and/or NXT2JB / NXT Lite good with these above perks? Again sorry for all the questions its just that now that I have all these choices of ROMs I cannot decide and thought I would pick everyones brain on it.
My vote goes toward jokawild. No titanium backup issues, great on gaming, better wifi strength, xperia stock look. Best of all its based on stock gingerbread.