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Accelerometer issues

When i try to play certain games the accelerometer is totally wonky and doesnt work right AT ALL. i was wondering if this is a hardware issue that can never be fixed, a firmware issue or a kernel issue... any ideas?

Yeah, same peroblem here
ddarvish said:
When i try to play certain games the accelerometer is totally wonky and doesnt work right AT ALL. i was wondering if this is a hardware issue that can never be fixed, a firmware issue or a kernel issue... any ideas?
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When I try to play a Polar Bit game like Wave Blazer or Asphalt HD, etc., the controls are completely out of control. Other games like NFS Shift, and the Gangster games from Gameloft, appear as if they will load, then half the screen has ghost like cars and people.
Is this something that will clear up with Gingerbread or will we likely have to wait for Honeycomb (which I have read has been written for the Motorola tab with almost identical hardware to our G pads) ?
Has anyone found any games besides Angry Birds that res up properly to a 10 inch screen ?
Thanks in advance.

I could actually be the game, or a firmware issue or both. Some games work fine, some do not probably as they coded for a smaller phone screen that's in portrait mode by default.
I wouldn't recommend this tablet for gaming, yet. Too many issues that may not be worked out until the app makers start developing for tablets. You could also call CS to complain, so that way they know it's an issue (I've done this a few times, myself).

roebeet said:
I could actually be the game, or a firmware issue or both. Some games work fine, some do not probably as they coded for a smaller phone screen that's in portrait mode by default.
I wouldn't recommend this tablet for gaming, yet. Too many issues that may not be worked out until the app makers start developing for tablets. You could also call CS to complain, so that way they know it's an issue (I've done this a few times, myself).
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Not sure I agree that the G is not good for gaming. Angry Birds, Mini Squadron, Steambirds, Quake series, PSX and the down the road releases of Dreamcast and N64 emus have no equal with Tegra 2.
If solely for Android games and especially Gameloft games, 100% agree.

I used to think the sensor was screwed up in the tablet. More I play with things the more I believe it is the way the games were coded. They were not made to work on a tablet in landscape mode. Some developers did a better job then others and may have thought ahead.
Raging Thunder is a good example. Raging Thunder 1 has to be driven with the tablet sideways. Raging Thunder 2 works fine. Seems to me something may have been learned about how things should be coded between game 1, and game 2.
If the G sensor was bad no game would ever work. Since there are games that do work I tend to lean towards the game being broken, and not the sensor in the tablet.

rushless said:
Not sure I agree that the G is not good for gaming. Angry Birds, Mini Squadron, Steambirds, Quake series, PSX and the down the road releases of Dreamcast and N64 emus have no equal with Tegra 2.
If solely for Android games and especially Gameloft games, 100% agree.
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I can't wait til the N64 and dreamcast emus.

Labyrinth works perfect so I'm convinced its the games themselves

I wouldn't recommend it for gamers yet because some games don't work. But agree that, when they do work, they work very well. Angry Birds, for example, is a game I almost wish didn't work.
But since it's hit or miss, it's not something I would recommend to a gamer. I figure that this will work itself out as more Tegra 2 devices are released.

I just figured that some of the games i saw working on the galaxy tab in the vzw should be working on this tablet as well but there were some issues with them not working. anyway i hope can create a database of games that work well somwhere on the forums and sticky it

We should make a new logo for the back of the gtab and it will say ABTab
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cuzzinz said:
We should make a new logo for the back of the gtab and it will say ABTab
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^^ THIS ^^
Side note got my daughter the set of angry bird plush toys for X-mas... She is going to be so happy

[Q] GTA III full gamepad support?

Have we heard anything regarding GTA III getting full Xperia Play optimization? I mean, we have two joysticks right there and the game doesn't use them, when the original game used dual joysticks.
Any word?

definetly +1

Oh it uses them alright, just poorly.
I'd LOVE to see them use it right though. Moving with dpad instead of analog, and having to center the camera instead of just aiming correctly is lame as hell.
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i got gta III too but he is slow?
Srry for my bad english i'm dutch and 14

I've a stock rom OC'd to 1.6 and it still lags, very little installed on the phone too...dunno why

I suggest you contact Rockstar Support here and complain (nicely!). I opened a support ticket with them and explained to them that I purchased the game b/c I saw that the phone was "supported" and I interpreted that to mean that there is full support for the Play's PS controller. I also suggested that they let me map the buttons as I see fit, like the PC versions. I also suggested that they could let us use the volume up/down buttons as the second set of L triggers or onscreen softkeys for the second set, and we could replicate the PS2 controls perfectly.
I got them to admit after a couple of replies back and forth with them that the game does not fully support the Play's controller. It's not public, but my support request # is 157050, you may want to mention it in your ticket, in order to show them that people other than me are interested in this. In the end they said they forwarded my request to the development team. I doubt they'll actually fix it unless more people complain.

Not to change subject at all, but Are you guys even actually able to use these damn touch-pad-thinggies?lol. I have tried in Shadowgun, GTA III, & Modern Combat 2, & some others games but its hard for me! Especially the games that have shooting. Maybe its only me ,but I feel the touchpads are the weakest part of the controllers design. I think they are a good start for 1st PS phone ,but I hope they are replaced by something else in the next model.
Battlefield....b*tch.

cyrusalmighty said:
Not to change subject at all, but Are you guys even actually able to use these damn touch-pad-thinggies?lol. I have tried in Shadowgun, GTA III, & Modern Combat 2, & some others games but its hard for me!
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Shadowgun would be a good example of how developers screw up touchpad usage. When they're used correctly, they feel very nice.
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Agreed, Fifa 12 is a good example on how good they are, I think Rockstar put very minimal support in... don't know.

cyrusalmighty said:
Not to change subject at all, but Are you guys even actually able to use these damn touch-pad-thinggies?lol. I have tried in Shadowgun, GTA III, & Modern Combat 2, & some others games but its hard for me! Especially the games that have shooting. Maybe its only me ,but I feel the touchpads are the weakest part of the controllers design. I think they are a good start for 1st PS phone ,but I hope they are replaced by something else in the next model.
Battlefield....b*tch.
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The problem is that devs are just mapping analog thumbstick style controls to them, which DOES NOT WORK without being able to start moving from a true center position. Dead Space does it right with aiming controls that work more like a touch screen. It doesn't start spinning left just because you touched it slightly to the left of center; instead, it considers your initial point of contact to be the virtual center. Then, it moves proportionally at the speed you move and stops when you stop, like a mouse or touchpad on a laptop. Unlike the poor controls in so many other apps, it doesn't continue moving in a direction until you "let go" or the virtual stick. It just works. Try Shadowgun on a tablet and you'll see that the touch screen controls work almost exactly like that, but even they did the stupid "map like an analog stick" method on their Xperia PLAY "optimization."
I agree: Battlefield Bad Company 2 is MADDENINGLY BAD!

Try now, it just got updated with much better controls!

Still no touch pads, but at least the rest of the buttons are more in line now.
Also liking the new display settings and performance increase.

speedyink said:
Still no touch pads, but at least the rest of the buttons are more in line now.
Also liking the new display settings and performance increase.
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Do you mean just no touch pads for moving? Because it has touch pad functions on mine and always has done, they're how you change the radio

The Alpha Gamer said:
Do you mean just no touch pads for moving? Because it has touch pad functions on mine and always has done, they're how you change the radio
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Sorry, yes that's what I meant.

Lets get a list of games NOT working

I've noticed a lot of games I've tried are crashing or "not compatible" with my device.
I'm testing on the AT&T variant of the HTC one X.
So far these games have failed:
-Dungeon Defenders
-N.O.V.A 1 + 2
-Dungeon Hunter 1 + 3
-Toki Tori
-Lets Golf 3
-Alphalt 5 + 6
-Dead Space
-Fifa 2012
-9mm
-Madden 12
-Modern Combat 3
I'd like for the idea to be that we scratch through the ones that get patched or start working so we know we can use them finally as the thread progresses.

"Toki Tori" (from the Humble Indie Bundle) doesn't seem to work either. Force Closes before the screen even leaves my app drawer...

Dungeon Hunters 2 HD works and so does Modern Combat 3 HD.
Bought them both for $5.00 over at Gameloft.

badboydiablo said:
Dungeon Hunters 2 HD works and so does Modern Combat 3 HD.
Bought them both for $5.00 over at Gameloft.
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I got Dungeon Hunter 2 to work after downloading it for the HTC desire instead. Weird.

lets golf 3

Asphalt 6
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asphalt 5 both the free and the full version are not working. They play like half size and force close

Dead space won't download

Fifa 2012
9mm
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I can't get madden 12 to download extension pack...keeps saying disconnected also modern combat 3 isn't compatable..
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The only commonality, thus far, is that these are all pretty high end games -_-
Luckily, FPSE works pretty well.

dead space works here..only sound is a bit "bugged" in the first scenes
i cant post screens atm because i got too less posts so ill do that later or pm them to someone here

Has anyone been able to sucessfully mod their build.prop to download these?
I tried to change it to a SGH-T989/samsung stuff and i got pulled into "Safe Mode" and I had to create a script on Windows to restore the original build.prop.

modern combat 3 works need to change build prop as well as maybe use chainsfire 3d to nvidia if it runs i have the package that works i can give you the build number of the package
it also fixes all the bugs for mc3 no longer takes forever to reach a match extremely better on the one x nice and smooth
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also works in tablet mode excellent gonna try mc2 right now
checked mc2 but HUD is still scrunched to lafet and cross hairs off to right side of fire button?

Spectral souls works but, has a very annoying sound issue. It constantly sounds very scratchy and such with the music and sound effects.

with your at&t version, all games should work fine, im not sure why they dont. As for the global version, the issue is and has been the same for the asus transformer prime is that we have a nvidia tegra 3 quad core processor. Very few gameloft games work properly and te ones that do are crappy or free ones. I found a site that has gameloft games that are cracked for the global version and work on tegra for FREE, and the multiplayer works on the all, but for MC3 the ranking doesnt seem to work properly unfortunately

the picross game "PIX" works but force closes after pretty much every puzzle you finish (i'd say roughly 8 times out of 10)

Robot Unicorn Attack is not working. =/

Has anyone else gotten MC3 working via a build.prop mod? It won't work for me, no matter what I try as a build.prop phone.
Can someone help? MC3 is one of my favorite Android games.

rohan32 said:
Has anyone else gotten MC3 working via a build.prop mod? It won't work for me, no matter what I try as a build.prop phone.
Can someone help? MC3 is one of my favorite Android games.
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It works fine for me without a build.prop mod.

Dungeon Hunter 4 on Shield

Hi I downloaded DH4 from Amazon app store. It works on Nvidia Shield but the graphic setting are stuck on Very Low. I tried to change it to low but it crashed and when I try to go higher it doesn't work. I'm sure the shield can do better than very low settings seeing as it the latest graphic card inside. Any ideas on how to get a better quality version of it working on Shield?

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Hi I downloaded DH4 from Amazon app store. It works on Nvidia Shield but the graphic setting are stuck on Very Low. I tried to change it to low but it crashed and when I try to go higher it doesn't work. I'm sure the shield can do better than very low settings seeing as it the latest graphic card inside. Any ideas on how to get a better quality version of it working on Shield?
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I'm having the same issue I have contacted Gameloft support about several issues including this, interestingly they have now removed dungeon hunter 4 off the playstore through the shield.... so hopefully a newly updated version will be released soon.

jolly good
Will be good to see. I'm currently trying to Root device so I can get proper controller support and be able to use SD cards to store games ETC
hopefully my driver issue will be rectified soon

DH4 back on google play
DH4 is back up on Google Play... still not controller savvy

are you guys able to select high settings now?

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are you guys able to select high settings now?
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I'm only seeing low and very low as options. This is the first I've ever installed the game.
Emailing Gameloft now...

Im playing gangster vegas on my shield with Tincore mapped keys, I downloaded a mod from xda to enable high graphics and it works really smooth, i hope there is a mod for DH4. Will try after i download it.

Any luck?
Any luck tweaking the graphics?

sadly haven't found any mod for the graphics

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A new update as of today says the game supports Moga controller use so it may be possible that the shield will work with it. Not sure about graphic settings or anything yet. Hopefully there is some early optimisation already but havent been able to download yet.

dungeon hunter 4 has supported moga since a long time. Iv been using it with moga. Im 90% sure we wont have high graphics ever on shield or any tegra devices. unless its a hack

bummer
that's a shame. Would be nice. Currently rinsing the ass out of Asphalt 8. Great little arcade racer but the IAP's are just a little harsh as it takes ages to earn cash normally and the design of the game is so tight in terms of what is included in the 69p app price and what is extra.
Such a shame as if they charge $4.99 for the game and didn't add the "buy buy buy" scheme the game would be one of the best racers I've played on a mobile device ever.
Don't mind the grind but it is losing points for being so money orientated.
EDIT:
Just downloaded it, it runs on VERY HIGH GRAPHIC settings with full controller support on shield from Google Play now woohoo!

Nice finally the decided to support a tegra chip properly wow, but where is the offical gangstar vegas version ?

This is very new to me, I thought this was basically a console and didn't think it would have graphics settings

DH4
Cool game..great graphics...just wish it wasn't a money pit game.

well..gameloft is one of the rare companies that needs graphics settings because they tend to have the best graphics in their games, and given that android is like a windows pc with many configs, its good they do this.

[Q] Lost boy with a Nvidia Shield

So!
I finally own the Nvidia Shield.
I bought it mainly for emulators. I'm not interested in streaming PC games (I don't have a compatible graphics card in my PC).
I have unlocked the bootloader and rooted it.
My first reaction is that the Nvidia Shield is almost TOO powerful. Will there ever be an app, or game or emulator to max it's potential?
I'm not saying it's most powerful thing ever and that it will never be topped, but powerwise it feels a bit avant-garde for a handheld console.
I got a little disappointed when I tried Reicast.
It runs fine, but there's too many graphical glitches for it to be playable IMO.
No disrespect towards the developer. He has done and is still doing amazing work on the app, but I was hoping it would be more playable.
I have no doubt that if development continues, Reicast will run flawlessly on the Shield.
What fun is there to do with the Nvidia Shield?
Anything I should give a try? Emulator wise or just some Android game that is fun to play?
Will it ever be able to run a PS2 or Gamecube emulator on it's own, not streaming from a PC?

Well I've had two since launch date and love the shield still on bench scores out preformed the note 3 and as far as ps2 and GameCube or any emulator its not so much about the power of the device your trying to run it on as it is how well the person that coded the emulator did on coding it for our device and android because if for say you could put a ps2 disc in the shield and it was coded for ps2 it would run ten times better then the old ps2 hardware get me? A lot of people don't understand how that works so I just wanted to clear things up also game wise portal is coming soon to shield I love mc4 a lot and mapped mc3 and love it as well there's lots of shield supported games just gotta browse also some ouya games will work fine on shield sorry this is so long just wanna help anyway I can

You should Google something like: cool thing to do with Android. You have a rooted Android device so you can do anything you want, it's nearly unlimited potential.
It's a good device to use as a dedicated HTPC connected to the TV, you can control it using bluetooth or using another Android phone via DroidMote. Considering it have USB OTG you can connect a harddrive to it and use it as a DLNA server. It make a decent offline GPS as well.
PS. It won't be powerful enough to emulated PS2 (well).
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Nvidia Grid blew me away. That capability poises Nvidia to become the Netflix of gaming.
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hers something
the shield is a tegra 3 backwards compatible device, and I found, when I rooted my ouya and extracted the amazing frog apk, and installed it on shield, to my amazement it worked, I have a video of it on youtube, just search the amazing frog on shield or something along those lines.

mudflap2.0 said:
the shield is a tegra 3 backwards compatible device, and I found, when I rooted my ouya and extracted the amazing frog apk, and installed it on shield, to my amazement it worked, I have a video of it on youtube, just search the amazing frog on shield or something along those lines.
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Super crate box is also FANTASTIC on the shield, EVERYONE needs it.
The game is free, it should be ok to post here.
Obviously someone take this down if it's against any rules. (I don't think it is, It's free)
http://www.ouyalytics.com/app/45-Super-Crate-Box/ :good:
It should be noted that you can play this on any other device, as long as you have a controller.

here is the video if anyone was interested, I had a cold when I filmed it, but all is good now! http://youtu.be/hBO8i3a9wg0