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LT15i Custom kernels performance

Hi, first at all i want to say that i tested nearly every rom & kernel combinations and still i'm not satisfied with the performance. Overall device is performing better (i'm running @1,4GHz - Stock Plus & DoomKernels 15-20) and in 3D heavy games framerate is higher for sure, but there's a lot of stuttering and sometimes games are unplayable (for example Backstab and Asphalt 6 with annoying one sec stuttering). On stock kernel game (Backstab) is running without any performance issues (only few dropped frames when there's a high draw distance) and the device itself is running "only" at 1GHz. Now something about DoomKernel - interface is not running smoothly (with simple 3D live wallpaper but 2d is ok) and i can give you another gaming example with MC3 - main menu is running at ~20 fps (and game itself is also stuttering) and on stock kernel/stock plus it's much smoother. So there is any fix for my problem or it's something wrong with my arc or what . Stock kernel by Sony > custom kernels? Something is wrong here... Thanks in advance and pardon about my english .

try playing on performance governor

I played with governors with no result ;(
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okay, now i'm gonna "stress test" every single governor available in kernel ; d

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I've added a video :<
youtu.be/nCK0dvRbTHI

Have you tried Stockplus Kernel? It's based on DoomKernel but has a lot of changes and tweaks. Some people report better results with it when compared to DoomKernel.
Check it out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1432198

How to play Half life on the Samsung Galaxy Note 2

Half Life 1 can now be fully played on Android with the use of the DosBox Turbo App. Here you will learn how to run the game and watch some in-depth, low fps gameplay(1-10) with my Galaxy Note 2. To see the step by step creation guide head over to the LSGameChannel and Learn how to make this fun PC game an Android port. Big thank you to the LSGameChannel for making the video guide.
[Video] How to play Half life on the Samsung Galaxy Note 2
Click Here to watch the LSGameChannle Video "How to run Half-Life on Android (DosBox Turbo)"
DosBox Turbo By:Fishstix
https://play.google....ix.dosbox&hl=en
Recommended System Requirements:
CPU Quad-Core 1.6+ or Dual-core 1.5+GHz, equivalent or better.
GPU Adreno 220, Nvidia Tegra2/3, equivalent or better.
1GB, 512. My Config asks for a min or 256MB & shouldn't be run on a device with less than this.
8GB disk space
1)Install DosBox Turbo. Go into Config/DosBoxSettings/ and make sure Manual mode is selected. You will need to restart the app for it to take effect.
2)Download and extrat the Half Life for Android folder.
3)Copy and paste the two files (HL.img & dosbox.conf) into the internal memory or sdcard on your device.
4)Start DosBox Turbo and enjoy Half Life.
Notes:
-You can enable GPU Rendering by go to settings/Screen and Rotation Settings/GPU Rendering(Check)
-You can improve the scale quality by going to settings/Screen and Rotation wettings/Scale Quality/HQ Scale(Slower)
-Galaxy Notes users may want to disable "Power Saving" mode to improve performance.
How to run Fallout 1 & 2 on Android with Sound, Patches & Mods Video+Guide:
[media]http://youtu.be/hYTTrHbQcBo[/media]
How to run Fallout 1 & 2 on Android with Sound, Patches & Mods Video+Guide Thread @ XDA:
CPU Master (free) Overclocking App:
https://play.google....asterFree&hl=en

Sweeeeet! Using your guide, I got it working on my Nexus 7. I did make one change, I set cycles = max and that seems to have make the audio much much better, the tradeoff being that the framerate is a bit slower.

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gururise said:
Sweeeeet! Using your guide, I got it working on my Nexus 7. I did make one change, I set cycles = max and that seems to have make the audio much much better, the tradeoff being that the framerate is a bit slower.
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Hey, glad you got it working! The auto setting will give you the best sound quality but will cost you some performance.
Try doing this
-You can enable GPU Rendering by go to settings/Screen and Rotation Settings/GPU Rendering(Check)

RolandDeschain79 said:
Hey, glad you got it working! The auto setting will give you the best sound quality but will cost you some performance.
Try doing this
-You can enable GPU Rendering by go to settings/Screen and Rotation Settings/GPU Rendering(Check)
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+1:good:

+1 thanks

Half-Life on Samsung Galaxy Note 2 N7100 with Stock Rooted 4.1.2 Firmware
Good work, but this barely passes for even mildly playable. Why? 1-10 fps is nothing but a big pile of steaming bs. I mean, why waste time on this crap when you can play better native games.
Also, I think we should all be thankful to the id software, because if they had not released their game engine as free-source, the guy called n0n3m or something like that could have never developed the DIII4A app. Its fantastic, I got a rock steady 25-30 fps without fail. Also, I played Quake 1,2,and 3 along with RTCW(Return to Castle Wolfenstien) with HD enabled 1080p screen size without problems.
As far as HL is concerned, this game cannot be enjoyed at the framerate the DOSbox turbo is giving. Quite frankly,its pathetic and one should not even try to waste time as I did, because the game is a classic and can be only be enjoyed with full audio. Oh, and did I forget to mention the fact that there is no audio in the gameplay?
My Verdict: This project has a rock solid future as just being able to even get to the in-game screen was like drinking the sweet morning dew from the leaf blades of lemon grass, but quite frankly, it has a long way to go to even come under the category of playable.
: TECHNICAL CONCLUSION :
1) PLAYABLE : Yes, goes in game and is playable as long as you dont mind the bs framerate.
2) FRAME RATE : 1 -10 on a QUAD-CORE PROCESSOR WITH QUAD-CORE GPU
3) AUDIO : No
4) GLITCHES : Yes, Multiple, with wierd graphics here and there.
5) WORTH TRYING : Hell yeah, if you are a dev and wanna contribute to make it better, or just a casual tester or a user. Definitely worth a shot.

Wow...this community is great. I swear...people are blowing me away with these kind of mods. Good stuff sir!

HELP!!!!
This worked for the first time but after i tried to load it again it said has performed an illegal operation and must be shutdown!
I tried everything but it wont boot
HELP

[Q] Gangstar vegas on Arc s

Has anyone played Gangstar Vegas on Arc S without lag or other problem ? "Very low" visual quality gives lag free gaming experience,but can't see other people or vehicles.On "Medium" visual quality,the game lags so much... If "Low" is selected,everything goes black.Only the navigation and action buttons are shown.Have anyone faced it? Got any solution to play it well on xperia 2011 line ?

alone_in_dark said:
Has anyone played Gangstar Vegas on Arc S without lag or other problem ? "Very low" visual quality gives lag free gaming experience,but can't see other people or vehicles.On "Medium" visual quality,the game lags so much... If "Low" is selected,everything goes black.Only the navigation and action buttons are shown.Have anyone faced it? Got any solution to play it well on xperia 2011 line ?
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Ice Cream Sandwich ROMs are not good for gaming. Use Gingerbread, 4.0.2.A.0.62.

Someguyfromhell said:
Ice Cream Sandwich ROMs are not good for gaming. Use Gingerbread, 4.0.2.A.0.62.
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OR Jelly bean, with a 2.6 based kernel.

Phenomzye said:
OR Jelly bean, with a 2.6 based kernel.
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If there is any jb kernel based on 2.6
(which works without losing WiFi or Bluetooth or getting damn reboots )
And out there is can u please give me the link for it plzzzz
Sent from my LT18i using xda app-developers app

whisper_ said:
If there is any jb kernel based on 2.6
(which works without losing WiFi or Bluetooth or getting damn reboots )
And out there is can u please give me the link for it plzzzz
Sent from my LT18i using xda app-developers app
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The best kernel FusioN made and the most stable for JB 4.1 ROMs, the 5.4. There are links everywhere, but if you want I can attach it to this message

Phenomzye said:
The best kernel FusioN made and the most stable for JB 4.1 ROMs, the 5.4. There are links everywhere, but if you want I can attach it to this message
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Actually I doubt it will be possible playing Gangstar Vegas on medium settings with our Devices without any lag using any Rom.
Gangstar is damn big and got High Quality Graphics, but we must face the fact that the time will come where our phone will be pushed to the limits and simply has not enough power to run the game...
At least I´m sure that you won´t be able to play it on Good Quality Graphics and witout lag on our phones. :silly:

For best gaming performance I recommend the new Atomic GB 8.0.

Thank you all for your suggestions...But have you tested the game on JB or GB ? And why the "Low" quality graphics is not available for us? I mean everything goes black if low is selected...Only option "Very Low" or 'Medium" are available for us...!!

[email protected] said:
Actually I doubt it will be possible playing Gangstar Vegas on medium settings with our Devices without any lag using any Rom.
Gangstar is damn big and got High Quality Graphics, but we must face the fact that the time will come where our phone will be pushed to the limits and simply has not enough power to run the game...
At least I´m sure that you won´t be able to play it on Good Quality Graphics and witout lag on our phones. :silly:
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Soo.. you want a video of me running it lagfree or something? xD gangstar vegas isn't thaaat heavy graphic, I ran on decent settings gta 3.. :l You just have to get the proper ROM and proper settings, our adreno and snapdragon can do magic.

Phenomzye said:
Soo.. you want a video of me running it lagfree or something? xD gangstar vegas isn't thaaat heavy graphic, I ran on decent settings gta 3.. :l You just have to get the proper ROM and proper settings, our adreno and snapdragon can do magic.
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so your settings and rom are the one you´ve put in signature?
I still doubt that it looks at any way equal to the screenshots gameloft released in terms of graphic.
I can´t even select *High Quality" in Gangstar Quality settings, that says it all, unfortunatly

Phenomzye said:
Soo.. you want a video of me running it lagfree or something? xD gangstar vegas isn't thaaat heavy graphic, I ran on decent settings gta 3.. :l You just have to get the proper ROM and proper settings, our adreno and snapdragon can do magic.
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Gta 3 aint that heavy
I ran gta3 on stock ICS rom and kernel with very little lag
Ofcourse i removed the sound to speed up the game
Sent from my LT18i

[email protected] said:
so your settings and rom are the one you´ve put in signature?
I still doubt that it looks at any way equal to the screenshots gameloft released in terms of graphic.
I can´t even select *High Quality" in Gangstar Quality settings, that says it all, unfortunatly
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No, for heavy games and to run them lagfree, are the same settings but with the difference of 1.5 GHz.

edit the file profile.bin in the folder Android/obb/com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftGGHM
like this
5 0 5 3 21
then launch the game,you can get the medium quality

If you want to use your phone for heavy gaming, I recommend you to use a GB based ROM like Atomic GB (best for UI) or XGAMER (best for performance) with a custom kernel like LupusGB or DooMKerneL ! Don't install RAM consuming apps like Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. and keep your phone light ! If it continues to lag, try to overclock your phone (but it can be dangerous !) ! That's all folks !

alone_in_dark said:
Has anyone played Gangstar Vegas on Arc S without lag or other problem ? "Very low" visual quality gives lag free gaming experience,but can't see other people or vehicles.On "Medium" visual quality,the game lags so much... If "Low" is selected,everything goes black.Only the navigation and action buttons are shown.Have anyone faced it? Got any solution to play it well on xperia 2011 line ?
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yeah im running it on my Arc S without any lag on medium With 1.5GHz / ondemand / deadline....
see my signature

I don't get this,ok i get that lt18i is a bit faster than lt15i but with overclocking it can get there.
But i tried Ultimate HD and i tried Racing Bean 3.1 but non of these ROM's don't work with heavy games,GTA3 lags,Wild Blood multiplayer unplayable.gangsta rio lags like hell.And my RAM can't get higher than 200 mb and that's in his best days i mean if i have just maybe 10 apps installed.It's stupid to say that ICS/JB is better than GB in gaming,yes it's true ICS/JB looks so perfect and beautiful but now we have GB ROM's that looks like ICS or JB,here i'm using one it's called Atomic GB 8 and i can get 240mb Ram when i stop apps that are running,that's grate,and when i restart my phone and stop apps i can get up to 250-260 mb,and in combo with DooMKernel v22 ICS/JB don't stand a chance,the ROM doesn't look so much like ICS but it's getting there,if you want Jelly Bean look,there is Gin2JellyBean,but didn't try that ROM myself so i don't know what to tell about it.I didn't try this game yet on my Arc lt15i with Atomic GB 8 ROM but i will.I don't have very big hopes for it but hey...

Need help with overclocking

Hi!
I want to somewhat improve the performance of FPse and ePSXe on my XPlay, and it seems that CPU overclock is the way to achieve it. The problem is that I am completely inexperienced in this sort of business.
Could you please advise on the simpliest procedure and/or point me towards some easy-to-understand guides?

Hmm, that could be a bit tricky because the Xperia Play only has a 1GHz processor..
That aside, are you currently on marshmallow firmware? If not, what firmware are you on, does your device have root access, and a custom recovery? Or is it completely stock. Please provide these details so that may be able to help you further..
Thanks
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Oh and please also provide details of current config settings for fpse and epsxe... Ty

Many people (like the author of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQIxsBTEDq4) claim that overclocking is efficient. So I decided to give it a try.
I am using the stock firmware - 4.0.2.A.0.42
The only non-default thing is root access. I didn't do anything about recovery, so it is probably stock.

Ok, As for your device, It clearly is stock..
As for your settings in FPSE and EPSXE, which one do you use or plan to use the most?? im guessing whichever provides better compatibilty/speed/ etc??
If So. i would like some detail of your config settings within the EPSXE app first..

As for emulators, I'm using them both. Compatibility and overall picture quality are better with ePSXe, while FPse is faster, hence sometimes I have to use the latter. For my favorite Colony Wars series, for example.
FPse settings:
Framelimiter on
Screenfiltering on
Enhanced 3D rendering on
Hardware acceleration on (although doesn't seem to do anything)
Boost high res games on
Dithering on
Others are off
All the above is in Software smoother image mode. OpenGL and Software HD are unplayable for most of games.
The setting may vary from game to game, but the overall standard is this.
What I want to achieve by overclocking is to make graphics-heavy games (Colony Wars, Panzer Front, etc.) to be playable fullspeed in OpenGL. Or at least in software mode of ePSXe. Getting Ocarina of Time to run decently in Mupen64 would be good too.

ePSXe settings:
CPU Frameskip off
MME Enable autodetect
Screen ratio stretch
Screen color depth 16
Top/Bottom bands real PSX
VR modes disabled
Video Renderer hardware
Internal Resolution 1x
Video Filtering enabled
HW/Soft Threading Mode none
Plugin subpixel precision disabled
PSX Dithering enabled (not always)
Sound quality less
Sound latency normal

Well, you might have to compromise a little bit of graphic quality for performance or vice versa..
But generally if you're looking to increase performance (speed of a game) you need to down tune the graphics settings..
In FPSE video renderer, set it to software (sometimes hardware can slow down performance).. Give that a try.
Boos high res games, off.. (if that increases performance then keep itnoff, otherwise leave it on..
Let me know how those work out for you

Its not exactly the point. I've been using those emulators for three years now, so I know enough about quality/performance balances. What I want to do not is to expand the usable quality range. And for that I need to overclock. Advise on that please. Anyone?

Dornil said:
Its not exactly the point. I've been using those emulators for three years now, so I know enough about quality/performance balances. What I want to do not is to expand the usable quality range. And for that I need to overclock. Advise on that please. Anyone?
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Only way to overclock Play is to flash custom kernel which have overclock integrated. Doomlord is up to 2GHz,, Lupus is up to 1.6GHz (or few more that you can find in sticky threads). To be able to flash custom kernel, you must unlock your bootloader (if you can, it depends on model of your phone ...)

What bakisha said. Unlock bootloader, flash custom firmware.. Thats the only way youre gonna really overclock it

Thank you!
1) How do I check whether my bootloader is unlocked (it could be)?
2) How do I unlock it?
3) Which custom kernel should I choose?

Dornil said:
Thank you!
1) How do I check whether my bootloader is unlocked (it could be)?
2) How do I unlock it?
3) Which custom kernel should I choose?
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http://developer.sonymobile.com/unlockbootloader/unlock-yourboot-loader
Also in google type
Sony Xperia Play unlock bootloader..
There will be 2 links taking you directly to Xda thread
Hope that helps

Laggy homescreen and gaming

The homescreen is quite noticeably not a smooth 60fps, it stutters and with the overlay enabled in developer settings, can see the framerate drops alot. Especially in freestyle layout mode. Also a lot of games stutter and don't run at a smooth framerate - for example monument valley. Does anyone else get this? Im on stock rom latest update

andy010101 said:
The homescreen is quite noticeably not a smooth 60fps, it stutters and with the overlay enabled in developer settings, can see the framerate drops alot. Especially in freestyle layout mode. Also a lot of games stutter and don't run at a smooth framerate - for example monument valley. Does anyone else get this? Im on stock rom latest update
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This is completely dependent on your OS, applications, widgets on screen, running apps, cpu state and the speed you're using your device.. If its really congested and you're running a tonne of apps then you'll perhaps have some slow downs, if you're using a custom kernel and you've lowered the up cpu threshold then that will too have an impact, honestly I'd leave it on stock and minimise the amount of widgets (especially lives ones) you have on your desktops, anything with transparency will have an impact too.
Gaming wise, I have to say this phone is rock solid.
The only game that it couldn't run is dolphin which is a gamecube emulator, running zelda the windwaker.
But I think that's down to optimization rather that anything else.
What set up do you have? Custom rom? Stock? Kernel? Lots or not a lot of apps?

my runs smooth on games, emulators, home screens, videos, taking and recording pictures and video, everything. ive been very happy with its performance, completely stock and running custom roms on my Verizon Variant, viper is my favorite now after last few updates.

I'm also satisfied with my HTC 10 performance, runs smooth (everything stock), but I notice that some games are a bit laggy (like Realracing 3, even if I lower the resolution to FullHD in the Boost+ app).
I wonder if I would get better framerates with the CleanSlate kernel that has Adrenoboost feature, but I'm not to keen on rooting my device because then you can't install OTA updates anymore.

Im running on the stock rom straight from the box, no custom rom or everything
, every game I have tried so far runs awful, massive framerate drops with or without boost. I have compared my framerate in asphalt 8 to this video, with an fps counter, and I get much worse framerates, usually around low 20s, dropping to teens. I don't have powersaving enabled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nks2pE_U_PY

andy010101 said:
Im running on the stock rom straight from the box, no custom rom or everything
, every game I have tried so far runs awful, massive framerate drops with or without boost. I have compared my framerate in asphalt 8 to this video, with an fps counter, and I get much worse framerates, usually around low 20s, dropping to teens. I don't have powersaving enabled
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Anything in HTC's ROM seems to cripple Adrenoboost of the GPU. While on other devices it works perfectly and is reaching up to 60 fps, it doesn't on the HTC 10. It doesn't bother me, as I'm not a heavy gamer, but if you're in need to change it, you could use a custom kernel, as e.g. CleanSlate by @tbalden.
Sent from my HTC 10 using XDA Labs

5m4r7ph0n36uru said:
Anything in HTC's ROM seems to cripple Adrenoboost of the GPU. While on other devices it works perfectly and is reaching up to 60 fps, it doesn't on the HTC 10. It doesn't bother me, as I'm not a heavy gamer, but if you're in need to change it, you could use a custom kernel, as e.g. CleanSlate by @tbalden.
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I hope HTC fixes that with some OTA.
Anyway, would the High performance mode in the developer options help the framerate?

CroCop18 said:
I hope HTC fixes that with some OTA.
Anyway, would the High performance mode in the developer options help the framerate?
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As I'm on Viper10, Stock, pnp thermal tweak, or Viper 10 and CleanSlate Kernel. So I can't tell if it would work. The CleanSlate kernel fixes the problem quite well, so I'll use it until HTC maybe fixed the issue as long as I'm gaming and the other config I'll use as my daily driver.
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Can anyone that has no custom rom test the framerate on the first map of asphalt 8 and report back?

afuller42 said:
my runs smooth on games, emulators, home screens, videos, taking and recording pictures and video, everything. ive been very happy with its performance, completely stock and running custom roms on my Verizon Variant, viper is my favorite now after last few updates.
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Try to running windwaker on dolphin. Would love to play thar

dladz said:
Try to running windwaker on dolphin. Would love to play thar
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I use mupenfs haven't tried it on 10 yet

andy010101 said:
The homescreen is quite noticeably not a smooth 60fps, it stutters and with the overlay enabled in developer settings, can see the framerate drops alot. Especially in freestyle layout mode. Also a lot of games stutter and don't run at a smooth framerate - for example monument valley. Does anyone else get this? Im on stock rom latest update
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Do u use sd card
If yes which class, coz i noticed that it can slow the device

I hope htc support team improve the performance and fix the lag issues by updates.
This is an awful bug .May htc solve this in the android 7 update .

Slow SD card like someone else said.
Try it without one.
Maybe your hardware is faulty in some way.
Also try to set all clocks to a constant maximum. So you see if you have the power or not.
Maybe a fake device?