FPS in games - Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers

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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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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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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63Hz refresh rate causing major stuttering in all locked 60fps apps/games/emulators

Hey, so i recently tried Retroarch on this phone and noticed some stuttering in everything i try to play with it, i then looked through the settings and apparently the OS reported refresh rate said it was 63Hz, I then tried the calibrate refresh rate option and that said it was 63.4Hz. I've tested this on several other apps/games as well that have a locked framerate, and to my dismay, they also stuttered about 3 frames every second.
This is a pretty major issue for me, because everything looks and feels very unpolished and it's distracting to me. What i wanna know is, if it's possible to force feed the display 60Hz, and if the display would even handle it properly without any doubling or skipping of frames. If any of you have a solution for this, I would be very grateful.
Thanks.
gwimmel said:
Hey, so i recently tried Retroarch on this phone and noticed some stuttering in everything i try to play with it, i then looked through the settings and apparently the OS reported refresh rate said it was 63Hz, I then tried the calibrate refresh rate option and that said it was 63.4Hz. I've tested this on several other apps/games as well that have a locked framerate, and to my dismay, they also stuttered about 3 frames every second.
This is a pretty major issue for me, because everything looks and feels very unpolished and it's distracting to me. What i wanna know is, if it's possible to force feed the display 60Hz, and if the display would even handle it properly without any doubling or skipping of frames. If any of you have a solution for this, I would be very grateful.
Thanks.
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I'm having this same issue with my phone as well, and it even effects flappy bird. I know its not the most serious issue in the world but for games that require fluid motion and somewhat precise timing, such as emulators or flappy bird, its enough to make me stop wanting to play the games altogether. Does anyone know why the phone (Oneplus One) runs at 63hz and is there any way to change it or somehow fix the issue with video stuttering in apps on phones that run at uneven refresh rates, such as 56hz, 59hz, or 63hz?
tj11112129 said:
I'm having this same issue with my phone as well, and it even effects flappy bird. I know its not the most serious issue in the world but for games that require fluid motion and somewhat precise timing, such as emulators or flappy bird, its enough to make me stop wanting to play the games altogether. Does anyone know why the phone (Oneplus One) runs at 63hz and is there any way to change it or somehow fix the issue with video stuttering in apps on phones that run at uneven refresh rates, such as 56hz, 59hz, or 63hz?
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Did you ever find a fix? Everything on the phone is flawless, its just the stuttering is the only thing bugging me!!

LG k4 LTE Device lag

Hi. my device has become so slow lately. for example when I'm in a program it lags for 1 or 2 sec. is there anyway I could fix this problem without losing data/ factory reset?
jwalker9715 said:
Hi. my device has become so slow lately. for example when I'm in a program it lags for 1 or 2 sec. is there anyway I could fix this problem without losing data/ factory reset?
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Lg k4 2017 m160 is good except graphics processing
But after tweaking resolutions with adb shell wm i found that 300x533 and density 182 is best between quality and performance
Now i can play better Subway Surfers and in app Xash3D on same scene fps climbed up from 10-15 fps to 30-40 fps (playing half life)
Try change resolution to that
And also try closing apps from recents
dorimdstm said:
Lg k4 2017 m160 is good except graphics processing
But after tweaking resolutions with adb shell wm i found that 300x533 and density 182 is best between quality and performance
Now i can play better Subway Surfers and in app Xash3D on same scene fps climbed up from 10-15 fps to 30-40 fps (playing half life)
Try change resolution to that
And also try closing apps from recents
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hey bro, how to tweaking resolutions with adb shell? can you explain?
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and you know how to root this device? or unblock the bootloader?

Gaming on honor 8

Games like pubg running like mess on honor 8 nougat 7.0 even a hundred dollar phone can run pubg better
I think the main culprit is kernel bcz pubg is not using high performance cortex a72 cores i have monitored it while playing
My ques is : is upgrading to oreo will solve the problem??
Because this chip is not optimised by game developers
Or can we tweak the kernel
Or can i turn off 1st cluster of a53 cores
??????
pubg runs good on my phone
Maybe if someone be able to port GPU turbo to honor 8
I have noticed the exact same thing but the bigger cores drop to prevent over heating i guess. Playing pubg on paranoid Android rom, using root and forcing a72 to work at performance using kernel adiutor works great.
How to force a72 cores??
annujangra said:
How to force a72 cores??
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Use kernel adiutor app from play store. You need root access so either magisk or SuperSU. Then you can drag from the left to find core option and you can then choose the frequencies of both a72 and a53. Use full while playing. It'll kill your battery not drain but really kill your batteries life.
It works best on custom ROMs, tried on stock but failed because of the kernel continuously resetting.
Search on google for "GPU turbo XDA". There's a thread where a developer has created something like GPU turbo. You'll need a custom recovery and magisk installed on your device to use it. Hopefully it might help. To play pubg I use Gltools and Gfx tool for pubg.
Set your GPU to adreno 540 using gltools and then open PUBG. In the graphics settings change the Quality to "Smooth", this will unlock extreme FPS setting. And select FPS as "Extreme". Disable changing auto fps. Save the settings. Now try playing the game.
(Optional) Exit the game and open GFX tool for PUBG. Select 0.7 version and change the resolution to lowest and graphic settings to "So smooth". Don't touch the FPS setting. Save and run the game. With this the game will run smoothly with over 40+ fps all the time for hours. But your trade off will be some graphics in the game which you'll have to get used to. I hope this helps.
Game is not running when i set adreno 540 on gltools
It closes automatically
annujangra said:
Game is not running when i set adreno 540 on gltools
It closes automatically
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It works fine for me in any adreno and Mali GPU setting except for open GL2.0 GPUs. Maybe you should try clear data in PUBG and try again.
Just a quick update. Games are working super smooth on RROS B2. I didn't have to use gfx tool for pubg to reduce graphics like I used to do before. Just used gltools to unlock 60 fps and it works like charm in higher graphics quality and steady frames around 50-60fps. And the best thing is phone is not even getting hot even after 1 hour of pubg :good:
Alok Bajaj said:
Just a quick update. Games are working super smooth on RROS B2. I didn't have to use gfx tool for pubg to reduce graphics like I used to do before. Just used gltools to unlock 60 fps and it works like charm in higher graphics quality and steady frames around 50-60fps. And the best thing is phone is not even getting hot even after 1 hour of pubg :good:
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Is RROS B2 oreo? Can you tell me whats the gpu driver version? On nougat it is r12p1
xfim said:
Is RROS B2 oreo? Can you tell me whats the gpu driver version? On nougat it is r12p1
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It's r20p0 here.
Just wanted to check whether anyone else's device drains battery even while charging when playing pubg or if it is only my phone.. any reply would be appreciated
You shouldn't play games while charging. It's killing battery fast.
Will we get gpu turbo on H8?
No
infinityplus said:
Just wanted to check whether anyone else's device drains battery even while charging when playing pubg or if it is only my phone.. any reply would be appreciated
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Yes the battery drains even while plugged and playing pubg. That's only on stock ROM. In Custom ROMs it charges even when you play.

Any 120hz working games for the Oneplus 8T ?

I tried a couple games altos oddysey , bullet force and dead trigger but none of them show the option for 120hz. I have show refresh rate enabled in developer options and it shows the games at 60hz. Why is this phone like this unless the devs for the game have to add this phone to there list. if thats the case then 120hz is only for social media which is good but i want it for games as well that should support it
check it and you re right . found a paid app AutoHz that seems to have profiles for all apps. if anyone has test it, plz share.
i also came to the conclusion that the "dynamic" refresh rate, its not so dynamic. even if you have the ambient display (always on) the rr its 120. this means that you drain your battery fast all day.
found it. the game is called vainglory and the counter shows 120hz
found it. the game is called vainglory and the counter shows 120hz
cala2ar said:
check it and you re right . found a paid app AutoHz that seems to have profiles for all apps. if anyone has test it, plz share.
i also came to the conclusion that the "dynamic" refresh rate, its not so dynamic. even if you have the ambient display (always on) the rr its 120. this means that you drain your battery fast all day.
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I use it. Can confirm it works.
Blamz said:
I use it. Can confirm it works.
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you are referring to autohz yes ? so if you make a profile for a game at 120hz it works? even if the game previously was playing at 60 ?
cala2ar said:
you are referring to autohz yes ? so if you make a profile for a game at 120hz it works? even if the game previously was playing at 60 ?
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yes i use it to play real racing 3 which previously only ran at 60hz, now runs at 120hz.

FPS Drops in games

When i open a game it does very high FPS 60 above, when i go home or just open the multitasking and back again on the game, the game does only 30 fps .
i already did the FPS max thing on game booster but it doesnt change anything.
ako9 said:
When i open a game it does very high FPS 60 above, when i go home or just open the multitasking and back again on the game, the game does only 30 fps .
i already did the FPS max thing on game booster but it doesnt change anything.
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Have you seen this thread about the same issue here:
Facing Huge Framedrop on Note 20 Ultra Exynos
The fps in pubg drops from 60 to 10-20 for few seconds Especially when there is enemy nearby I have tried -disabling game optimizing service and game tools -updating all game optimizing apps -reinstalling Pubg -turning all sorts of battery saver...
forum.xda-developers.com
Maybe there you can find a solution or advice.

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