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Gaming on the GNex

does anyone lag when playing games on the gnex? it is very choppy when playing 3d games like running fred or dungeon defenders.
im currently on stock, unrooted and am wondering if installing custom roms will improve the frame rates?

I have aokp m4 installed with Franco's latest r98 kernel and I have no lag in any game... and I play the same ones u listed plus shadow run modern combat 3 and back stab
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Modern combat 3 is very smooth, but the multitouch bug kills the gameplay

Can't speak for stock, I was only stock for 20 minutes. But I haven't experienced any lag in any games on the ROMs I've run. Games include: Shadow Gun, Flick Golf, and Asphalt 6 HD.

mudferret said:
Can't speak for stock, I was only stock for 20 minutes. But I haven't experienced any lag in any games on the ROMs I've run. Games include: Shadow Gun, Flick Golf, and Asphalt 6 HD.
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can u try running fred and dungeon defenders?
they are my favourite games but the lag is quite frequent on both games, especially dungeon defenders...

I tried Running Fred and it indeed shutters 2 or 3 times per seconds. What is strange it that it seems to do it for several frames.
I'd guess the game has a bad rendering pipeline.

Just tried Running Fred, no lag. CM9 currently with stock CM9 kernel, GSM phone.
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thanks..i guess i have to root and install aokp + franco kernel. any ideas what is the best and easiest way to root the phone (im currently looking at the GNex Toolkit)?

salivaman said:
thanks..i guess i have to root and install aokp + franco kernel. any ideas what is the best and easiest way to root the phone (im currently looking at the GNex Toolkit)?
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If you're not familiar with fast boot and/or adb, that's the safest bet. I'd encourage you to at least review the fast boot method however.
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I'm running cm9 with glados kernel, default settings. No lag for fred, and the only lag in dungeon defenders is when they spawn the new waves.
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I play Dead Space on Android and it is as smooth as you could ever imagine. But there is occasionally a few lag and buggy, but it doesn't bother me much. Also, multitouch is a breeze on that game too. It's rooted, stock ROM

kind of sucks that you have to root and flash a rom in order to play certain games lag free
I'm rooted but on stock...i'll give the games a try and let you know from my end. It's a better comparison since I'm on stock too.
The other posters who have custom kernels and roms are obviously going to have different results.

I'm on stock too and no lag at all for Super Monkey Ball Sakura and The Sims FreePlay.

MilkPudding said:
I'm on stock too and no lag at all for Super Monkey Ball Sakura and The Sims FreePlay.
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hes asking about fred and dungeon defenders though

lazaro17 said:
hes asking about fred and dungeon defenders though
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Aw, I thought he's asking about gaming in general on GNex.
It's probably a better idea to email the app developers than asking here.

MilkPudding said:
Aw, I thought he's asking about gaming in general on GNex.
It's probably a better idea to email the app developers than asking here.
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Ya that's what I was thinking too....could just be they aren't optimized for ICS yet.

lazaro17 said:
kind of sucks that you have to root and flash a rom in order to play certain games lag free
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who knows if you have to; there's obviously a selection bias here in that most of us already have custom roms/kernels installed.
Awaiting your stock results.
sent from my Zerg Hatchery.

salivaman said:
does anyone lag when playing games on the gnex? it is very choppy when playing 3d games like running fred or dungeon defenders.
im currently on stock, unrooted and am wondering if installing custom roms will improve the frame rates?
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Just tried out running fred...definitely not "very choppy" for me. I am getting slight stutters usually when one of those "checkpoint reach" pop ups come the framerate will stutter a bit and the sound will as well. Nothing seriously bad, I've run into certain parts of Shadowgun that will have similar behavoir.
Not 100% but doesn't make the game unplayable for me. I'd suggest check to see if you have any background processes that are slowing things down for you. Maybe a bad app somewhere is ruining your 3d gaming experience. Also, game might not be fully optimized for us yet so might be a good idea to get in touch with the developer and let him know.
I won't be able to check dungeon defenders second wave today because my internet and 3g coverage is spotty right now at my hotel. And the extra content will take forever to download.
Hope this post helps a bit.

Ok so after about a month of running unrooted stock I have just installed aokp + Franco kernel and this seems to have a positive impact on the gaming performance. Running Fred runs quite a lot smoother now. But I haven't tried dungeon defenders yet. Will probably post results again when I have the time, but still its enlightening to know and let the community know that the custom roms and kernels not only benefits in synthetic benchmarks like quadrant but also in real-world application performance.

salivaman said:
Ok so after about a month of running unrooted stock I have just installed aokp + Franco kernel and this seems to have a positive impact on the gaming performance. Running Fred runs quite a lot smoother now. But I haven't tried dungeon defenders yet. Will probably post results again when I have the time, but still its enlightening to know and let the community know that the custom roms and kernels not only benefits in synthetic benchmarks like quadrant but also in real-world application performance.
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Out of curiosity, which governor are you using? Settings -> ROM Control -> Performance

[Q] Stay on GB or Move to ICS Beta?

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.

Games running way to laggy on TW base ROM??

Ok guys i love Restaurant story but its way to laggy on a TW ROM, as soon as i go on a AOKP CM9, 10 the game runs smooth as butter but i love my TW but the game(s) run so laggy... Trust me ive try so many other options wipe wipe different kernels i think ive try them all even soft brink my phone in the process. So whats the deal here S3 so powerful i think not, my damn gf G2x runs this game smooth .... -.- she makes fun of me all the time. Thanks!

xxjrsmith3xx said:
Ok guys i love Restaurant story but its way to laggy on a TW ROM, as soon as i go on a AOKP CM9, 10 the game runs smooth as butter but i love my TW but the game(s) run so laggy... Trust me ive try so many other options wipe wipe different kernels i think ive try them all even soft brink my phone in the process. So whats the deal here S3 so powerful i think not, my damn gf G2x runs this game smooth .... -.- she makes fun of me all the time. Thanks!
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Have you emailed this to the game's developers? I run a ton of games on my S3, all of them high impact, and they all run great, so this has to be an app-specific issue.
Lately I've been playing Asphalt 7, Dead Trigger, ShadowGun, Riptide GP, Ski Safari, Mini Motor Racing, Monsters Ate My Condo, and none of them have lag issues.

What is the best rom for gaming? R800at.

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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ozzmanj1 said:
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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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.

[Q] Any game oriented Rom for the Defy?

Hello guys!
So, not long ago I started "modding" my Defy. Things were not that new to me, since I used to "mod" my Xperia Mini Pro).
The main point is, Xperia Mini Pro had a Game oriented Rom named Gingergames, so my question is, if is there anything similar to that for the Defy!
I took a few searches but could not find any so far.
For the record, I tried Quarx 4.2.2 rom, but it doesn't do good at games even though its looks are fantastic!
Thanks a lot!

some states that stock rom is good for gaming..

pakarbu said:
some states that stock rom is good for gaming..
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This is actually true, but I was hoping for a rom with especifical game optimization.
Well, after looking the internet up and reading a lot, I came to the conclusion that White Rabbit Next Gen ROM would have a good performance on gaming since it was deemed as very light, fast and reliable and the final fact is that my Defy is running all 3D games I have tried so far without barely any lags or slowdowns. I have tried Asphalt 7 and Contract Killer 2, and both run just smooth.
So, in case anyone else is wondering, I am not sure if White Rabbit Next Gen is the BEST Rom for gaming, but I can assure it is a pretty good one!

Well, I'm on Quarx's cm10 20130326 ROM and gaming is buttery smooth. I have been playing FIFA 12 and Need For Speed Most Wanted with no lags. I still wanna try GTA III and see if passes the test. However, I had to over clock. Here are my settings
300/16
600/28
900/42
1250/58
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