I have seen the option under Settings- Developer options - Force GPU rendering - use 2d hardware acceleration in applications.
Should that option be checked ? What exactly does that do ? Sounds like would make phone snappier/ smoother ? But does it chew up more battery ?
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I believe it works in a way that if a dev hasn't added hardware acceleration to their apps yet, it will attempt to do so.. but I could be wrong. I see no ill effects doing this either.
I enabled it, see if it helps ? So far it makes scrolling through XDA posts more fluid smooth. So must be doing something.
I am on ROM Android Revolution HD 2.1.3.
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Been thinking about this for a while. Exactly what type of apps benefit the most from having GPU Acceleration enabled and what type of apps have bad side-effects from having it enabled? I noticed that if you have it enabled and try to click on the weather graph in the "News&Weather" app it produces a foreclosure.
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Hi,
I take you mean "force GPU acceleration"?
The setting in the dev section of the phone just forces it on, it doesn't "enable" it...
What I can think of is "old" games and graphic intense apps, not supported and developed anymore ... or very rarely apps that don't support this GPU.
SynFox said:
Hi,
I take you mean "force GPU acceleration"?
The setting in the dev section of the phone just forces it on, it doesn't "enable" it...
What I can think of is "old" games and graphic intense apps, not supported and developed anymore ... or very rarely apps that don't support this GPU.
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You're right I did mean to put "force GPU acceleration" lol. It just seemed weird to me that it borks the weather graph in the News&Weather app and causes it to force close. I've had it enabled for a while then I disabled it didn't really see any difference in most apps[games & everyday apps] I've tried.
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Yeah I just left it off and I never had any problems ... if there EVER occurs to be any lag or something in a graphic intense app I'll turn it on.
As long as there aren't any problems, I'll just leave it off, I don't think there is much benefit, if at all, for 99,9% of the apps
Try Facebook without gpu acceleration just scroll down and look at the frame rate its just not smooth. Enable gpu acceleration swipe Facebook off from task and do the same scrolling again.
By scrolling I mean. Flick your finger and let go.... difference is massive in smoothness . If you can't see it theres clearly something wrong with your eyes
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MattSkeet said:
Try Facebook without gpu acceleration just scroll down and look at the frame rate its just not smooth. Enable gpu acceleration swipe Facebook off from task and do the same scrolling again.
By scrolling I mean. Flick your finger and let go.... difference is massive in smoothness . If you can't see it theres clearly something wrong with your eyes
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i just tried it, its horrible.
out of curiosity, leaving gpu acceleration on will impact battery life no?
sheek360 said:
out of curiosity, leaving gpu acceleration on will impact battery life no?
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No.
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sheek360 said:
i just tried it, its horrible.
out of curiosity, leaving gpu acceleration on will impact battery life no?
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What's horrible?? With or without gpu acceleration????
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MattSkeet said:
What's horrible?? With or without gpu acceleration????
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Think about it.....
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Hey my CPU cores keep going to 1.9ghz making my phone hot. I'm on deviant kernel 7 hypedrive rsl12. I have it on Pegasus and zen I/o scheduler and max set to 1.5 and min to 192mhz please help its killing my battery.
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Flash another kernel, change your governors, under volt, underclock.
Have you tried any of those?
Also make sure no other apps are messing with your processor speed, or certain setting applied at boot.
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Enable CPU power saving in settings. This would limit max speed to 1.26.
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I'm thinking of flashing elementalx kernel but I would like to know the best settings for it before I flash it
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I'm thinking of flashing elementalx kernel but I would like to know the best settings for it before I flash it
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I don't know about best. That's definitely a question that will generate many different answers. These are my settings and they work well for me but they are also fairly conservative. By no means am I trying to get the highest benchmark scores. And of course the same settings will not produce the same results on every device. I should mention that I don't use sweep2wake or doubletap2wake, They will to some extent lower battery life.
Set CPU core separately = no
Cpu overclock to 1620 MHz
L2 cache and bus bandwidth = ElementalX
Auto Undervolting = 850 min
Thermal setting = run hot. Mine never gets very hot but then I don't do a ton of gaming.
GPU overclock = 450 MHz
GPU governor = ondemand
Cpu governor set to stock ondemand. With ElementalX governor I was seeing a slight stutter running quadrant.
Gboost = I am not using.
Enabled max screen off frequency.
Enabled USB fastcharge.
Disabled magnetic on/off. Tablet is naked, no cover.
Again, those are the settings that I'm using and they are admittedly conservative. Not using any apps like setcpu, kernel tuner or trickster. Don't forget to make a backup first.
Ok thanks, will give it a shot, thanks again
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While the RAM fix helps, I'm sure there are better ways to improve memory management.
Has anyone tried adjusting the minfree settings yet?
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