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Games smoother but stuttering under ICS

ROM : Stock nordic ICS
Kernel : ardadat 4.1
Others : CPU Master Free : 1.32 GHz @ interactive/sio (sample rate 30000/maxspeedload 80)
Most games run much smoother (like 60 FPS as opposed to 30 FPS on GB, are they vsynced as on pc/consoles ?) but have random stuttering (complete pause for 1-2 seconds then resume). Most noticeably on games like the Temple Runs. Any fix ?

It's weird, because the first game i played on ics was NOVA 3 and it runs flawlessly. But i recently bought "Granny Smith" and i have the same problems as you (i thought it was the game).
Is there any program i can run to record the processes on background? (how they catch the cpu). Maybe we can get what is causing the problem that way.

dragosh01x said:
ROM : Stock nordic ICS
Kernel : ardadat 4.1
Others : CPU Master Free : 1.32 GHz @ interactive/sio (sample rate 30000/maxspeedload 80)
Most games run much smoother (like 60 FPS as opposed to 30 FPS on GB, are they vsynced as on pc/consoles ?) but have random stuttering (complete pause for 1-2 seconds then resume). Most noticeably on games like the Temple Runs. Any fix ?
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switch to ardat's 4.2 b4 kernel
all the games are working fine in this kernel
HIt tHnX iF i hElP u
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amar1548 said:
switch to ardat's 4.2 b4 kernel
all the games are working fine in this kernel
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No its not..
Even tegra optimized granny smith stutters in beta 4
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drarunmmc said:
No its not..
Even tegra optimized granny smith stutters in beta 4
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no dude....i am able to play granny smith properly on my phone...
bt yes i do have occasional lags/freeze bt they are not so sever...
But i am able to play Temple Run with no lag...
I am on austrian ROM + ardatdat 4.2b4

vipul12389mehta said:
no dude....i am able to play granny smith properly on my phone...
bt yes i do have occasional lags/freeze bt they are not so sever...
But i am able to play Temple Run with no lag...
I am on austrian ROM + ardatdat 4.2b4
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Yes I am talking about those occasional lags..
Shouldn't we be playing a tegra optimised game without even a single lag/freeze..?
Imo ics of galaxy r is fully not ready for gaming....
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drarunmmc said:
Yes I am talking about those occasional lags..
Shouldn't we be playing a tegra optimised game without even a single lag/freeze..?
Imo ics of galaxy r is fully not ready for gaming....
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or maybe the build by sammsung is poor...
just think that ardatdat has helped to resolve maximum of the game lags...so i dnt mind those occasional and very rare lags on T2 optimised games...

Hello I'm new,
where i can download ardatdat 4.2b4?

18974 said:
Hello I'm new,
where i can download ardatdat 4.2b4?
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https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ksfqfltbq3mmg2x/u5AKXnnzHp/i9103_kernel_collection

have you tried using SetCPU between 1000hz and 1200hz or something like that?

Shurplayker said:
have you tried using SetCPU between 1000hz and 1200hz or something like that?
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Can someone put up an explanation on how all the governor settings work ?

dragosh01x said:
Can someone put up an explanation on how all the governor settings work ?
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If you are asking about about CPU Governors, check this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1856256

I found a solution for me, PvsZ stops and go each 10 seconds, now everything is ok . We use to configure SetCpu with "sio" scheduler but when I change it to "noop" the stuttering disappears. For me doesn't matter what governor you use, only, scheduler affect to it. Try it. I'm using Ardatdat beta4.

Game lags corrected. (Atleast have stopped for me)

So yesterday i was researching about gamelags on STOCK ICS.
I found out this solution somewhere.
Initially i did not flash ardatdat's kernel
but
after doing this plus flashing ardatdats kernal lags have like vanished.
So just do this thing
1.Go to settings---> developer options and check 'Force GPU Rendering' and restart your phone.
2. Use Ardatdats kernel v4.2 beta 6 *HIGHLY Recommended*
Games tried :
1. Temple Run Brave (15 minutes of play..No lag)
2. World Cricket Championship (10 over game..no lag)
3. Farming Simulator
4. Plants vs. Zombies
5. Stick Cricket
6. Stick Tennis
7. Temple Run 2
8. Race, Stunt, Fight 2
9. Drag Racing 3D
10. Fruit Ninja
Hope it helps
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+1 for this. Didn't try games, but it's good to have this option always set to on. Increases overall performance.

I tried gaming on stock ICS.
Did try unofficial JB on our phone. But then vibration problems.
Actually some nexus version had an ICS lag in scrolling and gaming.
So someone posted it as an answer.
I tried it for gamelags of our device and it worked.
(Obviously the nexus solution did not have include the ardatdats kernel part )
@adam sir: please help us with the vibration problem in Pacrom
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Isn't this more battery hungry?
From my CM10.1 powered galaxy R

vbz89 said:
Isn't this more battery hungry?
From my CM10.1 powered galaxy R
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Didn't notice it, but theoretically yes. It uses the GPU for rendering the UI. However, I have it always turned on, regardless of which rom I'm on.

vbz89 said:
Isn't this more battery hungry?
From my CM10.1 powered galaxy R
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Well the games are too
So wasnt quite evident.
But i couldnt notice some MAJOR chunk of battery % vanishing in thin air
But the lags have finally gone on ICS (Hopes held high)
Rest lets see...
Bdw if you're on root, Antutu Battery saver is kinda good too for saving battery Has helped me
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Yup, ardatdat kernel with performance governor, almost eliminates the Game stutters(I won't call them lags)

The-Droidster said:
Yup, ardatdat kernel with performance governor, almost eliminates the Game stutters(I won't call them lags)
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Hahaha yeahh...stutters
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DeepankarS said:
Hahaha yeahh...stutters
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Great. So 1st thank from my side to you buddy. Hope you will be doing well in future too.

Games still stutter for me, maybe less often but it is still there
Indian ROM & Ardatdat 4.2b6

@Vikesh: Thank you
Yes definitely ^_^ only if i have people like you around me
Helping me out even when i disgust you
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M3r0De4DoR said:
Games still stutter for me, maybe less often but it is still there
Indian ROM & Ardatdat 4.2b6
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On ardatdat kernel use setcpu app to set both the cpu freq's to max(equivalent to performance governor). Then try a game...eg temple run...no lags.

But remember when u select performance then top level of clock will work and hence battery backup goes down.
@deep: buddy its my pleasure if i would suggest or make u understand the thing and become part of ur few moments.
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M3r0De4DoR said:
Games still stutter for me, maybe less often but it is still there
Indian ROM & Ardatdat 4.2b6
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Well if you know how to use SetCpu go ahead it will completely resolve the issue. (Never tried as i am not comfortable..but our senior members do recommend using it )
But if youre still not comfortable with the stutters we have to live with it till official JB arrives (maybe..on samsungs mercy :'( ) :sigh:
Atleast the frequency of the lags seems to go less.
My games even stuttered with PacRom :'( (stick cricket did )
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Guys, One of my friend is working as a senior developer at Samsung in Chennai.. he said there was not even one person voting for jelly bean for our SGR during a discussion about updates thing for all phones in a meeting... Some bulls**t i say for Samsung..!!! Here 1 small group of good buds are doing what a whole company of millions of employees can't do.. XDA u simply rock..!!!

Doesn't work
DeepankarS said:
So yesterday i was researching about gamelags on STOCK ICS.
I found out this solution somewhere.
Initially i did not flash ardatdat's kernel
but
after doing this plus flashing ardatdats kernal lags have like vanished.
So just go to settings---> developer options and check 'Force GPU Rendering' and restart your phone.
Ardatdats kernel Recommended.
Games tried :
1. Temple Run Brave (15 minutes of play..No lag)
2. World Cricket Championship (10 over game..no lag)
3. Farming Simulator
4. Plants vs. Zombies
5. Stick Cricket
6. Stick Tennis
Hope it helps
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Does not work for me

masculinum said:
Does not work for me
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Buddy apply it..and then restart your phone after 2-3 minutes.
If not working use setcpu and clock the minimum to 1000mhz i.e. Max=Min=1000mhz.
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Temple Run 2

Those who r facing error while downloading the temple run 2 from android store due it's large size, here is a direct download link...
http://tool.iapknew.com/2013/01/com.imangi.templerun2-20130124.apk

Playing this game with "better" graphic setting @ 1401MHz is the best setting.
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Does anyone experience slight lag with temple run 2 on sense 4 roms?

I get lags and slow responsiveness on Official ICS 4.0.4

With some tweaks using Kernel Tuner app, I can play this game with "best" graphic setting @ 1401MHz
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Downloads fine from the play store here, on ice cream saga and Andromadus.
Yes, setting the graphics to the highest quality causes lag in the game.
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Getting slight lag on ICS and Andromadus CM 10.1 Build 13 on medium settings at 1510Mhz . I mean it's playable but but sometimes framerate drops. Also I didn't have download issue both on HTC ICS (downloaded through H data) and Andromadus (WiFi).

VnnAmed said:
Getting slight lag on ICS and Andromadus CM 10.1 Build 13 on medium settings at 1510Mhz . I mean it's playable but but sometimes framerate drops. Also I didn't have download issue both on HTC ICS (downloaded through H data) and Andromadus (WiFi).
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Drop the oc down
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Odp: Temple Run 2
Sadly dropping oc didn't help setting it up to 1800mhz did.
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lag !
yes, little bit laggy

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On JB 4.2, At 1.2ghz its quite laggy...but still playable ....A nice update from the imangi I must say..

Great game and no lag

I didn't have any problem with the downloading and actually it drops frames, not lagging. It doesn't affect the gameplay I think.

no lag ...

maxmax195 said:
yes, little bit laggy
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on STOCK ICS many of my games is running too bad and laggy. f.x. subway surfers is lagging.. I don't know, but it seems to be too much overhead in ICS 4.0.0..

vba00 said:
on STOCK ICS many of my games is running too bad and laggy. f.x. subway surfers is lagging.. I don't know, but it seems to be too much overhead in ICS 4.0.4..
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Please stop spamming the threads with pointless and repeated answers just to make your "10-post" limit. I will place money that your amazing question in the Development Forum will be as pointless as your other posts have been so far

SimonTS said:
Please stop spamming the threads with pointless and repeated answers just to make your "10-post" limit. I will place money that your amazing question in the Development Forum will be as pointless as your other posts have been so far
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I dont think so.. but you can check it out in a few minuts in flinnys thread if you want and is bored since you comment on my post. I just follow the rules....

[Q] Real Racing 3 on Desire S?

Hi everyone. I'm a noob.
I was wondering if it was possible to make my HTC Desire S running PACman v20.0.1 ROM able to run Real Racing 3. It doesn't appear in the play store and online it says incompatible. Please reply
Thanks.

I would normally tell you to use market unlocker app, but it doesn't work anymore, so the only thing left would be warez try looking on the net for an apk... I'm playing rr3 on my DS overclocked to 1.7ghz but it's still leggy. Laggy but playable
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lower the oc to 1k-1.2k, high oc is known to cause lag in some games.

rain987 said:
lower the oc to 1k-1.2k, high oc is known to cause lag in some games.
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I'll try
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Real Racing 3 was available on 28th February. I downloaded it, installed, noticed that it was laggy on my ROM. I've changed the ROM and it wasn't available. Since then I've tried some other ROMs and also incompatible. Installed with the .apk file and I'm now playing it(although it's lagging, especially after hacking and buying all cars )

Reaper V4.0 is probably the most stable rom available. Gaming performance proves to be much better on this rom, so you might want to give it a try.

oddoneout said:
Reaper V4.0 is probably the most stable rom available. Gaming performance proves to be much better on this rom, so you might want to give it a try.
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Maybe the game performance would be great on it, but it's on GB. I have flashed the Desire XS and the performance of Real Racing 3 is even better, than on CM and PACman with overclocked CPU. But thanks anyway for your advice!
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Your call. Something to remember is that many things affect gaming performance including governors and I/O schedulers. Also, you might want to try using V6 Supercharger script (link is in my sig) and GameBooster 2
Haven't got a chance a chance to try GameBooster 2 yet but judging from the responses in the play store, it seems to work well.

oddoneout said:
Your call. Something to remember is that many things affect gaming performance including governors and I/O schedulers. Also, you might want to try using V6 Supercharger script (link is in my sig) and GameBooster 2
Haven't got a chance a chance to try GameBooster 2 yet but judging from the responses in the play store, it seems to work well.
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Thanks very much for your advice!
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Gaming Performance on ALL custom JB roms

Lately I've been switching back and forth from Stock Samsung JB rom to Custom JB roms (4.2.2) and notice a huge difference in gaming performance and general smoothness.
For me, I feel like all recent custom roms that I've tried, whether its CM10.1, or SLIM6 or AOKP, seem to be a bit laggy when running games compared to the stock JB feel of the same games. It seems like the only way I can get reasonable performance is if I disable hardware overlays, but its still not quite as nice and smooth as stock.
Is this type of thing purely KERNAL controlled? Or is it just the fact that its 4.2.2 and not really optimized for the skyrocket yet? I mean the Android UI feels smoother on custom roms, but in games it does not... I can't wrap my head around that...
Its bugging me because I feel like all these lightweight custom roms should blow away the stock rom in almost all aspects... but if performance can't be better, its a deal breaker for me as daily driver.
I'm sure all the devs are doing their best to work on performance issues and I do appreciate all the hard work going into all the custom roms by the devs, as without them, we'd have nothing to cure our flashing itch of course... :laugh:
Sorry for my lack of knowledge on this, but does anyone have any proven methods of boosting performance of games?

No lag here on cm10.1 gta3, block story, zenonia, majesty, sims 3, game of life, n64, psx, GBA.
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mtdew said:
No lag here on cm10.1 gta3, block story, zenonia, majesty, sims 3, game of life, n64, psx, GBA.
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Hey sorry for the late response.
Hmm, that's interesting. Are you on 10.1 stable or nighties? Hardware overlays disabled?

10.1 stable hw overlays enabled
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mtdew said:
10.1 stable hw overlays enabled
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Oh ok, well are you running any other mods/scripts/tools that would speed up performance? I tried stable as well but it still stuttered for me "out of the box".
ALSO, I can't even get the free game "Subway Surfers" to load off the Play Store at all... does it work for you? It used to work fine for me, but now I'm just getting a black screen on game load (soft keys are lit and system is not frozen), it never starts. I've always done a full wipe, even tried wiping internal SD, and it still won't run. If I go back to stock JB rom, it works perfectly fine everytime....
Maybe the game developer locked it down to only stock kernals with a recent update?!?... is that even possible?

crazycage said:
Oh ok, well are you running any other mods/scripts/tools that would speed up performance? I tried stable as well but it still stuttered for me "out of the box".
ALSO, I can't even get the free game "Subway Surfers" to load off the Play Store at all... does it work for you? If I go back to stock JB rom, it works perfectly fine everytime....
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Start stock if you want play those silly games.
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crazycage said:
Oh ok, well are you running any other mods/scripts/tools that would speed up performance? I tried stable as well but it still stuttered for me "out of the box".
ALSO, I can't even get the free game "Subway Surfers" to load off the Play Store at all... does it work for you? It used to work fine for me, but now I'm just getting a black screen on game load (soft keys are lit and system is not frozen), it never starts. I've always done a full wipe, even tried wiping internal SD, and it still won't run. If I go back to stock JB rom, it works perfectly fine everytime....
Maybe the game developer locked it down to only stock kernals with a recent update?!?... is that even possible?
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No scripts or performance mods stock cm kernel no voltage mods nothing.
I'm not installing subway surfers sorry bit I don't do games like that.
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mtdew said:
No scripts or performance mods stock cm kernel no voltage mods nothing.
I'm not installing subway surfers sorry bit I don't do games like that.
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No worries man but thanks for the replys. I went back to a 4.1.2 Rom and everything is fast and smooth again.