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How well do high end games play on your Charge?

I was thinking of buying N.O.V.A. 2, Order and Chaos, and maybe one of those 3-d racing games I'm just not sure how well the Charge can run higher end games, I'm running 1.8.5 Gcharged with Voodoo and the ability to OC(although I haven't yet). Anyone care to comment on the smoothness at which any of these games run(if you've bought any).

Modern Combat 2 runs as well as it possibly can.

Just tested N.O.V.A. and it's perfect! Seems just as smooth as playing on my PSP. Running Humble with Voodoo enabled, not overclocked(1ghz) and actually considering underclocking if it doesn't hurt the gaming performance, gotta save battery life any way I can!

N.O.V.A 2 runs really smooth for me on stock ROM. Also you should try out Samurai Vengeance 2, great game.
Sent from my Charge Stock EE4

SV2 is a pretty fun game! Thanks for the tip, also glad that N.O.V.A. 2 is working, planning on buying that once I beat N.O.V.A.
It's pretty funny, an underclocked Droid Charge runs even the top spec requirement games just as smooth as a phone like the Galaxy SII with its dual core 1.2ghz and 1gb of RAM. haha.

Any game that's out right now on Android should run very well since the Charge's GPU is still pretty high-end and that matters more than having a current-gen dual-core processor. Tegra 2's graphics capabilities aren't really that extraordinary in comparison.
Tegra 3, on the other hand, is a big step up (5x faster than Tegra 2), and at that point we may see games the Charge can't run (well)... but that's not due until the 2nd half of this year.

£99 Gaming Tablet - Acer Iconia B1

Hey all I picked up one of the Acer Igonia B1 tablets from Asda yesterday just for giggles. The specs looked reasonable and it really dosent disapoint. You can play a fair few games on this thing without it lagging out.
Video proof:

Hi,
although it is a nice review (though I don't get why you had such a long intro and then said a lot of things again plus the constant "hi" made me feel like it was supposed to be in like 5 different videos, not in one review), I don't think that this tablet is suited for gaming. Now, at 99 pounds, it may be the best thing out there today, however, that is only due to the dualcore processor becoming mainstream (just as one core 1Ghz procesors became before) and Acer is only among the first who gave the dual core to its low end tablets... Now sure, the dual core can run a lot of games but call it a gaming tablet is a bit too much if you ask me. The games you showed were... Well, the Need For Speed was a bit slow, if you ask me (now I'm really sensitive about FPS and I get dizzy if I play a game with 20-24FPS only) and the other games weren't HW demanding at all. For example, the Dead Trigger is excelently optimalized (at least for all the dual cores) but when it comes to more intensive gaming, like GTA, I don't think you're gonna have a good time. It can run a lot of games - today, but after half a year? It's gonna breathe hard not only because of the dual core, but mainly because of only 512MB ram. People from acer didn't sit down and said "well, we need great tablet for the lowest price possible, what can we get" but sat and said "well, what parts can we get for the lowest price?" This is the outcome. I wouldn't really buy that for gaming (at least if it had 1GB ram) but I can see a lot of less demanding people happy with that (dual core is excellent for browsing and "not so hardcore" games).

People want a lot for £99 these days!
Anyway, good review, more in-depth than others I've seen, glad that it can handle many of the popular games & will be picking one up soon enough

Odp: £99 Gaming Tablet - Acer Iconia B1
Could you try order and chaos or modern combat? How is plastic screen in every day use? Is it worth to sell desire hd and buy this thing?

Acer Iconia B1 gaming
Meowing Byakuei said:
Could you try order and chaos or modern combat? How is plastic screen in every day use? Is it worth to sell desire hd and buy this thing?
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Hey! I bought the tablet 2-3 days ago and I am really satisfied with it. For 3D gaming on the tablet I have tested the following games:
-Order & Chaos Online (Runs with absolutely no lag for me, however, graphics is not as good as it is on iPod and possibly other android devices)
-Shadowgun: Deadzone (Runs smoothly)
-Shadowgun (Same as above)
-Heroes of Order & Chaos (Does lag a bit at some points, but not much and it is playable)
-The Sims: Freeplay (Runs smoothly, but lags at menu screen)
-Six Guns (Runs smoothly, nothing to say on this one)
-Mass Effect: Infiltrator (Runs smoothly, haven't experienced any lag yet)
-Critical Strike: Portable (Runs smoothly)
-Minecraft (Runs smoothly)
I am going to try Modern Combat 3 when it has finished downloading and I will possibly try some other games aswell

Hiya I have this tablet and I've had a few sl101 and a few shanzai tabs and I can say this is one is good at gaming but I was really miffed as the capacative sensor went wonky so after loosing my temper with Acer support I decided to fix myself and it was amazingly easy I didn't have to do much
The back popped off simple and I discovered the black ribbon cable for the sensor was about a 1mm loose at one end and clip wasn't homed so I pushed it in and now its perfect good all rounder tablet I would say not a hardcore gamer tab but you wouldn't expect a 99 quid tab to be awesome
Just my tuppence
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I just picked this baby up today, its great! Modern combat 4 works as well as it does on my optimus 4x. Just wish the internal memory was bigger, but if I can persuade my GF to root it I will no longer have that problem very recommended, poor mans nexus 7!
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I to just got this tablet and it's okay for the price but found a lot of my games are not compatible with it like gta vice city and gta 3.
And I found that reading is hard to do because of the plastic screen I would say it's a 8 out of 10 tablet.
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Update sold it due to compatibility with most apps so lowering my rating to 6 out of 10
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Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 GPU

Im new to XDA so please read this post
The galaxy tab 3 7.0 is released.Its specs are 1.2GHz Dual Core processor,7inch 1024 by 600 screen TFT,GPU is Vivante GC1000 and its running 4.1 Jelly Bean.Camera are 3.15 MP rear camera and 1.3 MP front camera and it does NOT have flash.It records at 720p.Now the GPU is fairly unknown considering the market is flooded by adreno and PowerVR GPUs.Here are some details of the GPU.
About Vivante GPU Products
Optimized for Google Android apps, Vivante's product portfolio includes performance-leading technologies in 2D/3D GPU, CPC Composition Processors, GPGPU, and vector graphics. Vivante cores leverage a unified driver architecture that is compatible with industry-standard application programming interfaces like OpenGL(R) ES 3.0, desktop OpenGL(R), OpenCL(R), OpenVG(R), Microsoft(R) DirectX(R) 11, WebGL, Google Renderscript / FilterScript, Compute, and other standard APIs. With Vivante technology, mobile devices deliver stunning, high resolution user interface graphics as well as to photos, games, business applications and more.
Robust features built into the GPU cores include:
-- World's Smallest Licensable GPU Core for OpenGL ES 3.0
-- Single/Dual/Quad/Eight GPU Configurations
-- Single Software Stack
-- Battery Optimization
-- Memory Efficiency
-- Support for Heterogeneous Platform Architecture
And some Benchmarks are added.They are compared to the tab 2 7.0.
The latest Galaxy slate comes with GPU Vivante GC 1000, which as the benchmark results confirm, is twice as capable as the PowerVR SGX540 found in the Galaxy Tab 2.So while the CPU performance is probably unchanged, besides the clock difference of 200 MHz, graphics power has seen quite some boost in the latest generation of the Samsung affordable slate.
According to the benchmark results, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 is powered by a Marvell PXA986 chipset with 1.2 GHz dual-core Cortex A9 processor. The SoC is not the most impressive in the market, but is still a significant upgrade when compared to the one powering the Galaxy Tab 2.Benchmark results are given on attachments.
And please hit thanks.

Odd thing i noticed the gpu in the tab 3 7" it preforms much better than my galaxy s3 adreno 205. cpu in the s3 crushes the tab though

How is your tabs handling gaming? Mine doesn't show much promise.
Into the Dead - runs fast but has stuttering issues when striding to the left or right
Heroes O&C - laggy as hell, almost unplayable (might be due to our connection though)
Turbo Racing League - lagging at some parts of the game
Minion Rush - Before reinstalling, it was a total nightmare, totally unplayable ( <10 fps). After reinstalling, the game runs much better now yet far from perfect due to frequent hiccups (lags, freezes, etc.)
SG: DeadZone - Lagging, but not as much as Heroes O&C
Plague Inc. - Game slows down (fps) as the game progresses
However, other games run fine such as:
Dead Trigger - love the smoothness of this game. Runs perfect.
2Fuse - perfect, too.
Frontline Commando: D-Day - runs ok.
Am I the only one experiencing these problems?

andreicobey said:
How is your tabs handling gaming? Mine doesn't show much promise.
Into the Dead - runs fast but has stuttering issues when striding to the left or right
Heroes O&C - laggy as hell, almost unplayable (might be due to our connection though)
Turbo Racing League - lagging at some parts of the game
Minion Rush - Before reinstalling, it was a total nightmare, totally unplayable ( <10 fps). After reinstalling, the game runs much better now yet far from perfect due to frequent hiccups (lags, freezes, etc.)
SG: DeadZone - Lagging, but not as much as Heroes O&C
Plague Inc. - Game slows down (fps) as the game progresses
However, other games run fine such as:
Dead Trigger - love the smoothness of this game. Runs perfect.
2Fuse - perfect, too.
Frontline Commando: D-Day - runs ok.
Am I the only one experiencing these problems?
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I donno i do notice some lag on some things but i attribute most of that to the slow cpu then again my way of telling was running quadrant on my tab the fps on all the demos is double what my gs3 gets. And samsung fixes the scores they get as best they can.

mirrin said:
I donno i do notice some lag on some things but i attribute most of that to the slow cpu then again my way of telling was running quadrant on my tab the fps on all the demos is double what my gs3 gets. And samsung fixes the scores they get as best they can.
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Real Racing 3 and Ravenshield 2 runs really fine too!

andreicobey said:
How is your tabs handling gaming? Mine doesn't show much promise.
Into the Dead - runs fast but has stuttering issues when striding to the left or right
Heroes O&C - laggy as hell, almost unplayable (might be due to our connection though)
Turbo Racing League - lagging at some parts of the game
Minion Rush - Before reinstalling, it was a total nightmare, totally unplayable ( <10 fps). After reinstalling, the game runs much better now yet far from perfect due to frequent hiccups (lags, freezes, etc.)
SG: DeadZone - Lagging, but not as much as Heroes O&C
Plague Inc. - Game slows down (fps) as the game progresses
However, other games run fine such as:
Dead Trigger - love the smoothness of this game. Runs perfect.
2Fuse - perfect, too.
Frontline Commando: D-Day - runs ok.
Am I the only one experiencing these problems?
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I didnt play all these games but i played NFS most wanted and it runs smoothly.I also played dead trigger and it also runs smoothly.Real racing good too.
Samsung gave an NVIDIA type GPU on it but gave a pentium type CPU on it.

Just a simple question.
Is Mali-400MP better than vivante gc1000 gpu?

same here
andreicobey said:
How is your tabs handling gaming? Mine doesn't show much promise.
Into the Dead - runs fast but has stuttering issues when striding to the left or right
Heroes O&C - laggy as hell, almost unplayable (might be due to our connection though)
Turbo Racing League - lagging at some parts of the game
Minion Rush - Before reinstalling, it was a total nightmare, totally unplayable ( <10 fps). After reinstalling, the game runs much better now yet far from perfect due to frequent hiccups (lags, freezes, etc.)
SG: DeadZone - Lagging, but not as much as Heroes O&C
Plague Inc. - Game slows down (fps) as the game progresses
However, other games run fine such as:
Dead Trigger - love the smoothness of this game. Runs perfect.
2Fuse - perfect, too.
Frontline Commando: D-Day - runs ok.
Am I the only one experiencing these problems?
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i don't know about other games but i'm having a same issue with in to the dead, well i thought this was gpu issue, but must be compatibility issue.
lol i was about to exchange my galaxy tab

me too
NexusMobileGamer said:
I didnt play all these games but i played NFS most wanted and it runs smoothly.I also played dead trigger and it also runs smoothly.Real racing good too.
Samsung gave an NVIDIA type GPU on it but gave a pentium type CPU on it.
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I also run NFS games and a a few other "heavy" games with no issue.
I do find I have to clean the Ram a lot though.

On my new tab 210 run all games very fast and without errors
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bensonhsu2008 said:
Just a simple question.
Is Mali-400MP better than vivante gc1000 gpu?
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yes if you see that mali 400 is paired with good CPUs.but vivante doesnt get that good of a cpu.it all matters on the cpu.the cpu calculates how many FPS can it pull and the GPU just tries to pull it.if the cpu cannot calculate high FPS whats the point of a good GPU?

Bro have u tried to use Nenamark 2 to check the fps for your device? Because the mali 400mp on my galaxy tab 3 8.0 achived a average of 58 fps, which is not bad considering the price I bought this for

gameloft dungeon hunter 4
don't paly

who have succesfully played Injustice Gods Among Us on SM-T210?? mine closes in first loading screen. it unplayable

Lag on sonic dash
Hello everyone, I installed sonic dash on my sm-t210 but it lags a lot, comparing it to the p3110 or the tab 2 7.0, the tab 2 has no problem running sonic dash. Any suggestions guys? thanks..

this tab is a peace of **** sorry if you can buy it an nexus seven one have nvidia
andreicobey said:
How is your tabs handling gaming? Mine doesn't show much promise.
Into the Dead - runs fast but has stuttering issues when striding to the left or right
Heroes O&C - laggy as hell, almost unplayable (might be due to our connection though)
Turbo Racing League - lagging at some parts of the game
Minion Rush - Before reinstalling, it was a total nightmare, totally unplayable ( <10 fps). After reinstalling, the game runs much better now yet far from perfect due to frequent hiccups (lags, freezes, etc.)
SG: DeadZone - Lagging, but not as much as Heroes O&C
Plague Inc. - Game slows down (fps) as the game progresses
However, other games run fine such as:
Dead Trigger - love the smoothness of this game. Runs perfect.
2Fuse - perfect, too.
Frontline Commando: D-Day - runs ok.
Am I the only one experiencing these problems?
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is a piece o garbage ,if googlehadnt brick my nexus 7 i will happy ****ing google and mode apx :/ the tab 3 burn my hands the nexus didnt, the games run but no looks like nexus 7 the browsers are slowly all of them in nexus are better. tab 3 600mb of ram using nothing !!! if on a game and go to other game that game close for low memory in nexus i run real racing 3 and go to shadow zone or gangstar rio without problems of low memory.i hope in my **** country came evga tegra note to buy it that table have nvidia tegra 4 that is a gaming fast browser and in nexus 7 i can play gta 4 from my pc with splashtop game thd without lags in this tab i need to comform with splashtop personal ;(

4phoenix said:
is a piece o garbage ,if googlehadnt brick my nexus 7 i will happy ****ing google and mode apx :/ the tab 3 burn my hands the nexus didnt, the games run but no looks like nexus 7 the browsers are slowly all of them in nexus are better. tab 3 600mb of ram using nothing !!! if on a game and go to other game that game close for low memory in nexus i run real racing 3 and go to shadow zone or gangstar rio without problems of low memory.i hope in my **** country came evga tegra note to buy it that table have nvidia tegra 4 that is a gaming fast browser and in nexus 7 i can play gta 4 from my pc with splashtop game thd without lags in this tab i need to comform with splashtop personal ;(
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Wa are ya crying sa loud ?

for that i cry so loud ;(
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Wa are ya crying sa loud ?
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hehe cause a week a go i had a nexus 7 and googleupgraded with low battery and the procees of bootloader dont finish cause no battery but i didnt authorice to google for upgrade .i left my nexus in my bed and when i back from work my nexus dont power on so is in apx mode google giveme another but i live in argentina and i dont have access to dollar to send it for that i cry so loud

could this tweaked like adreno?

Galaxy tav 3 inch 7
NexusMobileGamer said:
yes if you see that mali 400 is paired with good CPUs.but vivante doesnt get that good of a cpu.it all matters on the cpu.the cpu calculates how many FPS can it pull and the GPU just tries to pull it.if the cpu cannot calculate high FPS whats the point of a good GPU?
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Hi everyone, i've the galaxy tab 3 inch 7 (3g), i'm very suprised for the performance. I can run modern combat 4 in high quality in 55fps - 60 fps.
Dead trigger 2 and 1 run very fast.
gc vivante 1000 is better than mali 400,because gc vivante 1000 is a dual gpu and he support opengl ES 3.0 (in galaxy tab 3 the extension it's didn't present because the version of OS is jelly bean 4.1.2, and opengl ES 3.0 run only android 4.3+) but don't worry,galaxy tab 3 in all version will receive the kitkat,and i've tested very games (brothers in arms 2,the walking dead and etc),i'm very happy but this gpu suport only extension tegra (high quality in games). Mali 400 is very powerfull but it doesn't suport opengl ES 3.0.
i have the comparison powervr sgx 540 vs gc vivante 1000.

Emulating perfectly on a 600 MHz ARM v6?

So I have a dinosaur of a smartphone - 600 MHz ARM v6 "ZTE Score" revision 5 single-core CPU, Adreno 200 GPU @ 245 MHz, and just 512 MB of RAM (half of which is used 90% of the time), and Gingerbread (unrooted).
I have gotten these games to run perfectly (at least 60 FPS constantly):
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Gensoid 1.6:
1.All Sonics, from Sonic The Hedgehog to Sonic 3 + Sonic & Knuckles.
2.Disney's Aladdin.
3.World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck.
4.All Mortal Kombats, from Mortal Kombat to Mortal Kombat III.
5.Tom and Jerry: Frantic Antics.
6.Vectorman.
7.Mickey & Minnie: Circus.
Snesoid 2.2.4:
1.Super Mario World.
2.Super Mario All Stars.
3.Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.
4.Killer Instinct.
5.Chrono Trigger.
6.Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures.
7.The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past.
8.Goof Troop.
9.Disney's Aladdin.
10.Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2.
GBCoid 1.8.6:
1.Ren & Stimpy: Veediots!
2.Sylvester & Tweety: Twouble!
3.Super Mario Land.
4.Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins.
Gameboid 2.4.7:
1.Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap.
2.Final Fantasy VI Advance.
3.Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.
4.Pokemon Ruby Version.
5.Fire Emblem.
Nesoid 1.6:
1.All Mario Bros. games.
2.Battletoads.
3.Galaga: Demons of Death.
4.Kid Icarus.
5.Castevania.
6.Metroid.
2600 EMU (Atari 2600 emulator):
1.Asteroids.
2.Frogger.
3.Pitfall.
4.Pac-Man.
5.Super Breakout.
These games run, but not at full speed (anything from one quarter of a frame per-second to 60+ FPS):
SuperN64 3.0:
1.Super Mario 64 (goes at an average of 7-12 frames per-second, and can get to almost 20 with the best optimizations possible).
2.Yoshi's Story (almost 8 frames per-second).
3.Mischief Makers (mostly 8-13 FPS, but sometimes as much as 15).
4.Mario Party 1 & 2 & 3 (quite slow; no more than 4 FPS in most areas, but sometimes up to 10).
nds4droid (Nintendo DS emulator - latest version):
1.Plants VS Zombies (nearly 2 FPS all of the time with best optimizations possible).
2.Mario Party DS (almost 1 frame per-second).
3.Mario Kart DS (nearly half a frame per-second).
4.Smackdown VS Raw 2009 (around 1/4 of a frame every few seconds).
FPse (Playstation 1 emulator - quite an old version):
1.Final Fantasy VII (on an even older version of FPse, I've gotten 60 + FPS, and averages around 60 in field and world map, 30-40 in battles (a little more with frameskipping hacks), but sound is bad).
2.Final Fantasy VIII (haven't tried on the aforementioned version of FPse yet, will update the outcome).
3.Final Fantasy IX (same as above).
Do you know what your ARM is capable of? This is what I've squeezed out of mine.
Whenever a PS2 emulator arrives for Android, I'll try and see if I can get a single game to even load on the aforementioned device.

Nice
��Veselov said:
So I have a dinosaur of a smartphone - 600 MHz ARM v6 "ZTE Score" revision 5 single-core CPU, Adreno 200 GPU @ 245 MHz, and just 512 MB of RAM (half of which is used 90% of the time), and Gingerbread (unrooted). I have gotten these games to run perfectly (at least 30 FPS constantly):
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Do you know what your ARM is capable of? This is what I've squeezed out of mine.
Whenever a PS2 emulator arrives for Android, I'll try and see if I can get a single game to even load on the aforementioned device.
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I will try it,

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I will try it,
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You have a ZTE Score, or you mean "I will try emulating all of those games to see if my device can compare"?
Any modern device would wipe the floor with a ZTE Score in nearly any shape or form.
With a Galaxy S4 you could probably emulate plenty of PSX games at roughly full speed (including all of the ones I listed).

That's pretty amazing, because I have a Note II (more than 3x better than a single-core ARM v6 @ 600MHz) and I can't properly emulate Super Mario 64 on N64oid (maybe its the emulator as well?). I never tried FPse, but on ePSXe I can only get FF7 to 15-20 FPS. Those are some amazing performance specs for such a low-end device, unrooted and all. What are your optimizations?

WChav said:
That's pretty amazing, because I have a Note II (more than 3x better than a single-core ARM v6 @ 600MHz) and I can't properly emulate Super Mario 64 on N64oid (maybe its the emulator as well?). I never tried FPse, but on ePSXe I can only get FF7 to 15-20 FPS. Those are some amazing performance specs for such a low-end device, unrooted and all. What are your optimizations?
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you must not know what your doing cuz I have a phone not much more powerful than what the op described and I am getting almost the same specs with ff7 as you mention using epsxe sure better cpus help and such but if you don't optimize you will never get any thing good out of it

BillyGoat14 said:
you must not know what your doing cuz I have a phone not much more powerful than what the op described and I am getting almost the same specs with ff7 as you mention using epsxe sure better cpus help and such but if you don't optimize you will never get any thing good out of it
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Yeah, optimization helps (better plugins, enabling full cpu frequency, removing crapware/memory hogging widgets, speed hacks with custom ROMs, etc,). I didn't use custom ROMs, but I used some of the best emulator settings possible, gave the app as much RAM as needed, and pushed for full cpu frequency.

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On an older version of FPse for Android, with the exact same specs as listed above, still unrooted and everything, I now have gotten Final Fantasy VII (7) to run at 60 + FPS on the aforementioned device. It's not 100% perfect, as FPS drops to 30-40 in battles and the music is a bit choppy, but for the device mentioned above, this is incredible it even goes so good. It runs better than Super Mario RPG on Snesoid, and Super Mario 64 on any N64 emulator I've tried, even with the best speed hacks possible.

Anyone use the Drastic Emulator on this phone?

Only reason I am not pulling the trigger yet. I heard that the GPU is pretty mediocre compared to the Snapdragon SoC. Anyone play any games using the DS emulator? How does it run?

Ascertion said:
Only reason I am not pulling the trigger yet. I heard that the GPU is pretty mediocre compared to the Snapdragon SoC. Anyone play any games using the DS emulator? How does it run?
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Plays fine on my honor! Only played the pokemon games. I also run with high quality textures.
I can't tell much difference from the s7 minus the resolution

man i play with drastic on my Honor 4x (mediocre gpu, cpu 1.2ghz x 8) and drastic runs smooth as hell, i cant even imagine how it would run on a honor 8 lol

It runs FFIV and Mario Kart at 100% speed for me. FFIV is kind of my benchmark game as the intro seems to be one of the most demanding DS games.