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
Sent from my R800i using xda premium
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.
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..
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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)
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my Galaxy J7 J700M uses a lot of RAM, especially with MarshMallow ROMs (Touchwiz)
i cleared ram, played a game with xmod (app for modding games) + screen recorder, ram started using 60% but after about 15 minutes ram is 90%+... They had no problems until it LowMemoryKIller closed screen recorder and xmodgames, after some minutes my game is to slow and was closed for lack of ram. so no ram free!
any tweak, buid.prop code, kernel or optimized touchwiz rom for multitask and little memory consumption? cyanogenmod discarding obviously because the camera does not work and has very low performance
sorry for my bad english. thanks :good: