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What are your GTA III display settings?

I've made this thread to help people find some good settings to help reduce the lag.
Please state:
Draw Distance
Screen Resolution
Visual Effects
Dynamic shadows
If you have overclocked (If yes how many MHz/GHz)
Do you lag? (Lots, Some, When traveling fast, none at all)
I'm just curious of what the best settings are to make the game look good and run smoothly and I'm sure many people are wondering the same.
To start off with I'll say my settings.
Draw Distance: 43%
Screen Resolution: 66%
Visual Effects: high
Dynamic shadows: On
Overclocked? Yes, 1.613 GHz
Do you lag? A little bit, mainly when traveling fast.

Draw Distance: 81%
Screen Resolution: 79%
Visual Effects: max
Dynamic shadows: On
Overclocked? no.
Do you lag? rarely and usually only on the middle island but rarely.
My device is rooted with bloat removed but no overclock, r800a (rogers)

RacecarBMW said:
Draw Distance: 81%
Screen Resolution: 79%
Visual Effects: max
Dynamic shadows: On
Overclocked? no.
Do you lag? rarely and usually only on the middle island but rarely.
My device is rooted with bloat removed but no overclock, r800a (rogers)
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Hmmm
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RacecarBMW said:
Draw Distance: 81%
Screen Resolution: 79%
Visual Effects: max
Dynamic shadows: On
Overclocked? no.
Do you lag? rarely and usually only on the middle island but rarely.
My device is rooted with bloat removed but no overclock, r800a (rogers)
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That's quite good mine lags quite a bit even with low settings
My modifications are
Draw distance 50%
Screen resolution: 50%
Visual Effects: Low
Dynamic Shadows: Off
Overclocked: No
Do you lag? yes it does when there's a lot going on.

RacecarBMW said:
Draw Distance: 81%
Screen Resolution: 79%
Visual Effects: max
Dynamic shadows: On
Overclocked? no.
Do you lag? rarely and usually only on the middle island but rarely.
My device is rooted with bloat removed but no overclock, r800a (rogers)
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Can you post a video? I'd like to see just how rarely it lags with those settings.

Draw Distance: 60
Screen Resolution: 70
Visual Effects: Max
Dynamic shadows: On
If you have overclocked (1.9 ghz)
Do you lag? Yep. Upon first starting the game I will have some lag while it fills memory I'm guessing, and it will lag a bit every few blocks. It's not game breaking, but an annoyance that keeps me from diving in hardcore.

I have noticed that how much free ram you have when you start the game makes a HUGE difference to lagging....
I had alot of apps installed and usually had around 100mb free ram when i close all apps in my go launcher, but after uninstalling almost all of my apps that i dont use, and removing ram heavy apps, i managed to get my free ram to 200mb before launching gta and the difference was amazing!
More ram = less lag

My game lags even when running on low. I have tried the usual things like cleaning memory (I have at least 200 MB of RAM free consistenly), rebooting the phone, reinstalling the game, even restoring factory settings. Patch 1.3 made a small performance increase over 1.2, but like I've said in the beginning, I can't really enjoy it. My phone is R800i with stock firmware. I've been playing like this for months and now it's starting to annoy me.
Can somebody help me please?'
Draw distance: 55
Screen resolution: 70
Visual effects: low
Dynamic shadows: off
Not overclocked.

Maybe turn the draw distance down? It's a small screen, you can get away with it. These settings have nice nearfield detail. Things pop out of the middle distance in some places, but I'm used to old school handhelds where that might be absolutely fine. I found the game lags regardless even below these settings, but I also couldn't go above them.
Draw Distance: 37%
Screen Resolution: 90%
Visual Effects: Medium
Dynamic Shadows: On
Do you overclock: Only if there is lag that annoys me
On stock kernel, there were pockets of low framerate in the middle island and when there were a lot of cars but it wasn't so objectionable that I couldn't play through it. Then on Doomkernel for some reason it was a more annoying kind of lag at 1GHz, but 1.2-1.4GHz makes it play great, with a good sensation of speed for the sports cars, but I don't like overclocking too much. But perhaps it wasn't the kernel, perhaps my rom had got a little more bloated. What's weird is that it occasionally ran perfectly at 1GHz, but I couldn't reproduce those conditions at will. I'm on ICS beta now, where GTA crashes the phone horrendously.

I'm using my ROM, and GTA III v1.3.
Draw Distance - 34%
Screen Resolution - 59%
Visual Effects - High
Dynamic shadows - On
OC - Yes, my frequency is 364.8 MHz - 1305.6 MHz
I think I don't have lags, maybe sometime when some new things on map loading.

I've tried reducing Draw distance and it does have an impact on the performance.
I never realized it was this big, reason why I've been ignoring it. Might try OC and root to remove some of the bloatware
Thanks for the help.

On stock gingerbread 2.3.4:
Draw Distance - 100%
Screen Resolution - 100%
Visual Effects - max
Dynamic shadows - on
If you have overclocked - 2.0 GHz, smartass v2
Do you lag? Rarely, only when traveling very fast with 6 stars wanted level (due to multiple choppers, cops, tanks, etc + map loading)
Sacrifice battery life for performance, leaving it with only 2 hours and a half of gameplay with full charge and half of the brightness (the screen is pretty dim anyways )
On FXP CM9:
Draw Distance - 1% (can't see anything)
Screen Resolution - min (looks UGLY)
Visual Effects - min (no lights or blood)
Dynamic shadows - off (static shadows)
If you have overclocked - 1.6 GHz, ondemand
Do you lag? Yes, when there are more than say, 4 peds or 2 cars on screen. When having lots of stuff going on, the device and the OS completely crash
Definitely in need for a new ICS rom.

[Feature Request] Benchmarking

Once upon a time there was TCPMP (CorePlayer) for WM. It had one interesting feature - benchmarking. This options forces player to play video as fast as possible and measures FPS (until you hit stop or video ends).
Such feature is really useful for testing overall perfomance and perfomance hit/gain of different options (how much "speed-up tricks" help, how much subtitle rendering consumes, new decoder optimisations, etc.).

Interesting thought. Though, you could always use something like Antutu, or get an FPS meter app?

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Interesting thought. Though, you could always use something like Antutu, or get an FPS meter app?
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It's a bit different - it measures real playback perfomance, not some abstract number. Even if it was measuring pure cpu perfomance - different archictures have different efficiency at video decoding (think about extentions like MMX/SSE/AVX on x86), plus decoder gets better over time (you get more fps for same cpu perfomance).
Is 40k in antutu enough to play 720p hi10p flawlessy? "It depends".
Fpsmeter will (at best) show only frame drops - when player was not fast enough to draw a frame. If you play 30 fps video and it will say that it plays at 20 fps - it doesn't mean that you can play similar video at 20 fps or that you need to get 50% faster. And if it plays without frame drops - you'll never know how much extra perfomance you have.
But that way it would be possible to do such things:
1) Run video and say:
- "hey, it runs at >120%, I don't need to touch anything to be happy".
- "it runs at 100%, which means that it barely could play it - I need to do something".
- "it runs at <80%, nothing will help so it's better to give up".
2) Change settings and say:
- "switching to yuv/rgb32/rgb16 made it 10% faster, so I should probably use it if I'm happy with quality"
- "I needed some extra perfomance and speed-up tricks got me extra 30% - just what I needed"
3) Give video and ask to benchmark it and then judge how capable the device it (I've seen people that say "flawlessly"/"watchable"/"playable" at 15 fps).
For example I've wasted hours testing hi10p perfomance on my Z3c - sometimes it plays flawlessely, sometimes overheats (drops cpu freq), sometimes lags... and there're different setting to play with, let alone videos with different complexity (and subtiles).

Mx is a media player not a benchmarking tool. I think this feature will only hog unnecessary space for thousands of people.

I partially agree with the OP.
Benchmarking would help with identifying how fast the decoding/rendering is on a certain device.
However, I think there's more value doing this for the ffmpeg team

Games on Galaxy Ace 3 LTE (GT-S7275R) - what you can run

Games what are tested by me on Galaxy Ace 3 LTE (GT-S7275R)
3G and DualSIM versions - i not have, i cant test.
Asphalt 8 Airbone - High settings super!
Call of Duty:Strike Team** - little lags,but playable
Despicable me: Minion Rush - no lags
Gangstar Vegas - bit laggy - high/medium
Grand Theft Auto: (no lags at settings, or little very little lags)
III - draw dis. 20%, screen res. 40%, vis. effects medium,dyn. shadows off,frame limiter off
Vice City - crash when loading - cant run/play
San Andreas** - Trafiic mode Light, Vis. Effect low , resolut. 0%, draw dis. 30%, shadows off , car refl. Low
(When update to 1.07 - Traffic Classic,Vis. Eff Low,resolution 100%, draw dist. 0%,shadows Low,car refl. Detailed, and still more fps than older version!)
Minecraftocket Edition - all setting on, draw distance maximum - no lags
Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour - i think never lagged
Real Racing 3 - no lags
(Real Racing 2 - i think when run RR3 then can run RR2)
Simpsons: Tapped Out - no lags
Subway Surfers - no lags
World of Tanks:Blitz - average 30-40 Fps (PS:After update 1.6 fps is higher and gameplay better)
** Games you can play and run! But you cant download or buy from Google Play store..
Games are working and tested by me on kosthouls Cyanogenmod 12 - Android Lollipop, i know , in Stock ROM 4.2.2 games will laggy ! (Ex: Asphalt 8 will lag in Low setting on stock!)
All games tested on 1.2 GHz, no overclock.
Be sure you have free RAM in phone, when phone RAM is free only 150MB and lower, phone will laggy ! Very laggy! (Using RAM manager pro and good)
Use FolderMount for save big games to external SD card.Its better!
Tip: Try Greenify if you on Stock ROM or phone is laggy than earlier - it will help !

I played asphalt 8 smoothly on stock rom at highest setting (i used greenify to hibernate apps)

Gaming performance.

After mucking around with certain games I used to have on my old Galaxy S8 I've discovered something interesting. I get ridiculous lag and frame pacing in just about every game leading to poor results in games such as Cytus 2 (fast paced rhythm game relying on accurate input with no lag) the new Sky game (stutters and tearing in both refresh modes), and a side scroller that has no heavy graphical fidelity (lags on screen and even tears sometimes).
This is all kind of in accordance to this recent review video of the p40 (different phone, same chipset)
https://www.androidauthority.com/huawei-p40-vs-galaxy-s20-plus-1133345/
Now one thing I've noticed is that if I use appassistant to launch these games, the poor performance disappears entirely. No lag anywhere, in Cytus, where before during fast sections it wouldn't even register taps 6-7 times per song, there are ZERO misses across the board. Similarly, no screen tearing or lag in any other game.
Wondering if the OS is optimized to cut power to the GPU and put it into limp mode during normal operation to save battery as I've noticed a dramatic difference in battery drop when using appassistant or not to play games. I mean naturally, the appassistant game center is doing its job but man that's a big difference.
Anyone have similar experiences?

Whats appassistant????

FPS in games

I can't seem to get any game to play at 120 fps on my Note 20 Ultra. There's really only 1 game that I have that is capable and I generally can't tell a difference unless I really state and look for that extra smoothness but I figure I have the phone it should do what I want. My S20 plays subway surfers at 120hz according perf z but the Note does not and I can tell (barely but I can). Anyone else have any issues?
Edit: not sure if it's because it's adaptive refresh rate vs full time and so the games don't sense 120hz and so won't run at 120fps. If that is the case 120hz would be a true gimmick, lol.

Same here. Even the games that supposedly are 120hz run 60hz. Some say it is because the games are not utilising some Samsung compatibility api. I've tried also, as suggested, disabling game optimization. Still @ 60hz

raul6 said:
Same here. Even the games that supposedly are 120hz run 60hz. Some say it is because the games are not utilising some Samsung compatibility api. I've tried also, as suggested, disabling game optimization. Still @ 60hz
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I've tried 5 games that are supposed to run at 120fps but none have been successful. So the one true advantage of battery sucking 120hz isn't an advantage at all. Nice.

chetly968 said:
I've tried 5 games that are supposed to run at 120fps but none have been successful. So the one true advantage of battery sucking 120hz isn't an advantage at all. Nice.
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What games did you try?

harsh9101 said:
What games did you try?
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Well games that I like to play that do not work include brawl stars (only 90 but still plays at 60), subway surfers (I got this to play at 120 on my S20 ultra), and critical ops. I also tried random games on the play store including bullet force and some other random one...none of them played at 120. I did, since my last post try a game that finally did display at 120 fps according to perf z. But it's not a game that would have ever played. Wish there was some consistency.

What app are you using to show fps. Mine shows 120 for games. 60 for maps
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chetly968 said:
Well games that I like to play that do not work include brawl stars (only 90 but still plays at 60), subway surfers (I got this to play at 120 on my S20 ultra), and critical ops. I also tried random games on the play store including bullet force and some other random one...none of them played at 120. I did, since my last post try a game that finally did display at 120 fps according to perf z. But it's not a game that would have ever played. Wish there was some consistency.
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At this moment, there are like 50 games that supports 120hz. I only tried injustice and it goes till 120 fps
It's on optimized, adaptive smoothness on and no adaptive power saving.
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hayabusa1300cc said:
What app are you using to show fps. Mine shows 120 for games. 60 for maps
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I use game plugins tools, you can find that on galaxy store and in game plugins, there is a toggle for perf z which is basically an overlay that shows CPU, GPU consumption, FPS & Temp

harsh9101 said:
At this moment, there are like 50 games that supports 120hz. I only tried injustice and it goes till 120 fps
It's on optimized, adaptive smoothness on and no adaptive power saving.
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I use game plugins tools, you can find that on galaxy store and in game plugins, there is a toggle for perf z which is basically an overlay that shows CPU, GPU consumption, FPS & Temp
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Oddly, I couldn't use it about 2 weeks ago. I could use it last week. And the. I restarted my phone and perf z is greyed out. Strange. Haven't updated the firmware. Not other changes in settings. Just says not compatible.
Edit: restarted phone and it works again.

Same here. I downloaded alto and It works on 60hz only. What to do to force 120hz?

Same here. I also can monitor ingame fps with the PerfZ-App, but in every game it shows a maximum of 60 fps. In Subway Surfers, the fps-bar goes up to 120, but it's half-full all the time at 60.
Another weird bug is in Archero. Every time when i'm not moving and there are many particles on screen, the GPU turns off completely (the GPU utilization-bar shows only "-" instead of a percentage) and the fps goes to 0. When i touch the screen, it rises instantly to 60 again...
I tried disabling the Game Optimizing Service and the Game Booster App with package-disabler, turned every power-saving mode off, tried to reinstall the games i tried (A LOT), even did a hard reset. All i can do now is to wait for an update that hopefully fixes everything... I'm losing my patience with this phone...
BUT: C.A.T.S Crash Arena is the ONLY game, that runs in 120 fps on my phone...

PhaazeX1 said:
Same here. I also can monitor ingame fps with the PerfZ-App, but in every game it shows a maximum of 60 fps. In Subway Surfers, the fps-bar goes up to 120, but it's half-full all the time at 60.
Another weird bug is in Archero. Every time when i'm not moving and there are many particles on screen, the GPU turns off completely (the GPU utilization-bar shows only "-" instead of a percentage) and the fps goes to 0. When i touch the screen, it rises instantly to 60 again...
I tried disabling the Game Optimizing Service and the Game Booster App with package-disabler, turned every power-saving mode off, tried to reinstall the games i tried (A LOT), even did a hard reset. All i can do now is to wait for an update that hopefully fixes everything... I'm losing my patience with this phone...
BUT: C.A.T.S Crash Arena is the ONLY game, that runs in 120 fps on my phone...
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Same here. I tried CATS arena. It works in variable fps. But it goes higher than 60 and upto 100 in my case.

My games don't show 120 either.
Very weird
Edit Rayman Adventures is 120ghz
Get game boast it will give you better idea

hayabusa1300cc said:
Oddly I can't use it
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Did you try reinstalling the plugin tool?

harsh9101 said:
Did you try reinstalling the plugin tool?
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I just did, same thing even after another sep update
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hayabusa1300cc said:
I just did, same thing even after another sep update
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Oh man so sorry then because it's tough to help remotely

harsh9101 said:
Oh man so sorry then because it's tough to help remotely
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That is literally my job, tech support for computers
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hayabusa1300cc said:
That is literally my job, tech support for computers
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No no like since you have a problem for a brand new phone which hardly anybody faced (or at least reported), it's tough to help out when you have tried every possible way there is
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Same here. I also can monitor ingame fps with the PerfZ-App, but in every game it shows a maximum of 60 fps. In Subway Surfers, the fps-bar goes up to 120, but it's half-full all the time at 60.
Another weird bug is in Archero. Every time when i'm not moving and there are many particles on screen, the GPU turns off completely (the GPU utilization-bar shows only "-" instead of a percentage) and the fps goes to 0. When i touch the screen, it rises instantly to 60 again...
I tried disabling the Game Optimizing Service and the Game Booster App with package-disabler, turned every power-saving mode off, tried to reinstall the games i tried (A LOT), even did a hard reset. All i can do now is to wait for an update that hopefully fixes everything... I'm losing my patience with this phone...
BUT: C.A.T.S Crash Arena is the ONLY game, that runs in 120 fps on my phone...
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Use game booster plus and set every game to max fps and restart you should see the difference. I can play injustice at 120 without any issue

harsh9101 said:
Use game booster plus and set every game to max fps and restart you should see the difference. I can play injustice at 120 without any issue
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I already tried that, there is no difference in any games. Every game besides C.A.T.S cap at 60 fps...

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