Hi all,
My phone experiences big lag on most of the Glu Games. When I first enter the game everything is smooth, but after playing for a while (10-20 minutes, it depends) the phone starts stuttering. I have to quit the game, which takes like 2-3 minutes, go to the Task Manager and press Clear Memory. After this everything gets back to normal. By enabling the show CPU usage from the Developer Options, I can see that every time the phones lags, mmcqd/0 is eating a lot of CPU and stays high until I Clear the memory. This happens with Contract Killer 1 and 2, Contract Killer Zombies, Blood and Gory, Blood and Glory Legend. Other games like Dead Trigger, Dungeon Hunter 3, Shadowgun, Death Dome lags a bit, and all other smaller games like Angry Birds, etc are running smooth.
Does anyone have an idea of why this is happening?
Just to rule out some suggestions:
- I don't have Power Saving enabled
- I don't have an external SD card
- I did a Factory Reset
I'm on latest stock ROM for BTU: I9300XXELLA.
Thanks.
Have you tried disabling haptic feedback? What kernel you on?
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Have you tried disabling haptic feedback? What kernel you on?
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Just updated first post. I'm on stock LLA. Haptic feedback is disabled.
Stocks aren't really optimized for heavy usage..you should have no such probs on a custom rom. If you're on stock just for battery, you could settle in for battery savers like phenomenal kernel..
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Stocks aren't really optimized for heavy usage..you should have no such probs on a custom rom. If you're on stock just for battery, you could settle in for battery savers like phenomenal kernel..
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That's strange because using other intensive games like Dungeon Hunters I have a smooth experience. It just happens as mentioned with most of the glu games.
No one else having these issues?
Can I simply flash SiyahKernel without doing anything else? I'm on latest stock 4.1.2 LLA (with Exynos security bug fixed).
Will it have any impact if I'm not also using a custom ROM?
you can flash only the kernel, yes
Running siyah now and having the same problems.
same as me....lag..freeze after a while
Im on MA2 rom Tuga Power from MiUi from CM10.1 from marcello v9 from viking rom v456
all lag hard and freeze on glu games especcially contract killer 2
So i stripped everything out just leaving cam.gallery.browser.files.
I get like 400 /500 mb free ram on boot but once i start the game 20-30 minutes it lags hard amd freeze
Check ram usage amd i have 100/200mb free ram but contract killer 2 is stuck. Battery out and back at 1 again over and over.
I dont know why a quad [email protected] [email protected] is freezing.
Siyah kernel 1.8.9
Puzzled for sure and worse of all my p6200 galaxy tab 7 plus plays it beautifully no stutter or lag or freeze... 7hours straight.
skyelm said:
Im on MA2 rom Tuga Power from MiUi from CM10.1 from marcello v9 from viking rom v456
all lag hard and freeze on glu games especcially contract killer 2
So i stripped everything out just leaving cam.gallery.browser.files.
I get like 400 /500 mb free ram on boot but once i start the game 20-30 minutes it lags hard amd freeze
Check ram usage amd i have 100/200mb free ram but contract killer 2 is stuck. Battery out and back at 1 again over and over.
I dont know why a quad [email protected] [email protected] is freezing.
Siyah kernel 1.8.9
Puzzled for sure and worse of all my p6200 galaxy tab 7 plus plays it beautifully no stutter or lag or freeze... 7hours straight.
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Yeah. This is f***king annoying. A quad core phone to freeze like hell in this games...
ludovicianul said:
Yeah. This is f***king annoying. A quad core phone to freeze like hell in this games...
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No-one experiencing similar issues?
ludovicianul said:
No-one experiencing similar issues?
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I have two galaxy SIII's and experiencing exactly the same problem. It only happens in glu games (tried blood and glory 1 2, dragon slayer, heroes of Destiny). I did some search on the internet but haven't seen anyone experiencing this problem but you.
Hello,
there are a lot of people with such a problem within Contract Killer 2. I have also S3 (9300) and after 1 contract played sound is going crappy and I cannot play due to freeze, but interesting is that enemies can walk,shoot, everything except me. After reboot it is going fine one contract and again.
I have disabled hardware overlays... any new solutions such an annoying problem ?
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Hello. Recently I have installed Android 2.3.3 on it because I wanted to play some 3D games and they lag like hell.
I've got some HD games like Splinter Cell Conviction and BattleField Bad Company 2 and both are lagging really bad.
For Splinter Cell Conviction, the textures don't even load! Everything is white except the characters.
Also GTA 3 lags like crap. Maybe 2 or 1 frames per second.
I've heard I needed to go into this rom file in the system called "build.prop" and change a line :debug.composition.type=gpu" to "debug.composition.type=mdp"
I did and it didn't do a damn thing.
Maybe in 5 years I'm going to get a reply. This forum is dead.
maybe someone witb more game experience on the ds5 will come along....but i would lime to add,i would try setcpu,and put it in performance mode before playing the game,to see if theres a difference....perf mode will run bat down fast tbough
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Maybe you should get your money back...
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Too late to get my money back.
Also I've tried just now SetCPU and OC'ed to 1.19GHz.
Games still lag but not as bad. They run better. Any App to OC the GPU?
GTA 3 Still lags like crap.
besides setcpu to overclock....did you put it in "performance mode" which forces it to full speed all the time...but will drain batt down fast if not plugged in....also im running dsc.63 it can overclock to 1267,i run it in consertive or ondemand(still trying to find best setting)then run in performance mode if gaming(i set in call profiles to max cpu)....i was wondering about the chainfire app for gaming...but cant remember name
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Hi guys, the game works fine for a couple of mins, until the phone starts heating and well , it starts lagginggggg. Multiplayer works fine, but single player is just killing me. Problems only occur when phone starts to warm up. Anyone facing this issue?
More info : Strafing and scrolling "view" seems to be lagging, as though frame-rate just dropped or something. I've reinstalled and uninstalled, downloaded data and still, the same outcome. Multiplayer is as smooth as
Please tell me this isnt just meeee
im alone?????
Ive only played the first mission. it does not lag or overheat like you mention,although i do notice the frames drop in some areas becoming slightly laggy.online gaming is great.i hate that the game crashes and restarts sometimes in online play
Have some apps running in the background?
I also experience UHT moment when i play gameloft games.. but theres no continuous lag, only stutters on some area..
You may also need to check that your governor wasn't on conservative..
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Got no framerate issue here. Try looking for a newer version.
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Got no framerate issue here. Try looking for a newer version.
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Gorjess said:
Have some apps running in the background?
I also experience UHT moment when i play gameloft games.. but theres no continuous lag, only stutters on some area..
You may also need to check that your governor wasn't on conservative..
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djunited said:
Ive only played the first mission. it does not lag or overheat like you mention,although i do notice the frames drop in some areas becoming slightly laggy.online gaming is great.i hate that the game crashes and restarts sometimes in online play
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Hmm, im on the latest version. 1.0.1. What im getting is the BLURISH effect when scrolling views. Im pretty sure its a framerate drop. Ive got MC3 running alone, no background apps. Its literally killing me. Ive tried 5 different kernels, and Im sure im not overclocking or underclocking the cpu. Im using stock rom though. Would cyanogenmod help improve the gameplay? Any good roms that still preserve the samsung qwerty keyboard?
I have this issue too. I have a Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100, Noble Black, 2.3.5, stock ROM, kernel XWKJ1 (also stock), NO ROOT
At some point (fire or many trees or something) the game is lowering the FPS. I didn't noticed that for example on Sensation XL (which has 1.5 singlecore and even higher screen resolution than my phone has) and i didn't saw a single lag.
I made a video about this problem and posted it on youtube here it is:
I suppose this problem is related to my stock ROM or even my stock kernel... something similar is happening with backstab but there it's not that annoying since it's not a FPS game
Chaoshead3 said:
I have this issue too. I have a Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100, Noble Black, 2.3.5, stock ROM, kernel XWKJ1 (also stock), NO ROOT
At some point (fire or many trees or something) the game is lowering the FPS. I didn't noticed that for example on Sensation XL (which has 1.5 singlecore and even higher screen resolution than my phone has) and i didn't saw a single lag.
I made a video about this problem and posted it on youtube here it is:
I suppose this problem is related to my stock ROM or even my stock kernel... something similar is happening with backstab but there it's not that annoying since it's not a FPS game
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YES YES Im not alone. Thats the problem. I wonder if its due to the stock rom...
Got the game no issue here. im rooted on slimrom with siyah kernel, not overclocked but undervolted so it doesnt heat up so much. Fyi shadow gun is a really good game as well
looks like an iphone but powered by android baby!!!!
No issues here.
Well,it even happens on my device,which is overclocked,both the CPU(1600MHz) and the GPU(400MHz).It seems to only happen when there is smoke on the screen.Doesn't happen in any other case.
Feel like flashing a new rom. Gonna get a usb jig first...
Btw, any roms to recommend?
@androidkid:slimrom running touchwiz?
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I have this issue too. I have a Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100, Noble Black, 2.3.5, stock ROM, kernel XWKJ1 (also stock), NO ROOT
At some point (fire or many trees or something) the game is lowering the FPS. I didn't noticed that for example on Sensation XL (which has 1.5 singlecore and even higher screen resolution than my phone has) and i didn't saw a single lag.
I made a video about this problem and posted it on youtube here it is:
I suppose this problem is related to my stock ROM or even my stock kernel... something similar is happening with backstab but there it's not that annoying since it's not a FPS game
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Because it has another much weaker GPU, therefore it has much lower graphical quality settings. It's like playing on Low and the GSII on very high.
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Because it has another much weaker GPU, therefore it has much lower graphical quality settings. It's like playing on Low and the GSII on very high.
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Well,even if it is so,it's unacceptable,as it's definitely a fault on Gameloft's part.The game is,once again like other Gameloft titles,more or less badly coded.It uses too much GPU.I can play ShadowGun with 16x MSAA(Using CF3D) for hours and the phone just gets warm,while I can't play MC3 for nearly as long and the device burns.Before anyone tries to say that it's because MC3 has so super awesome graphics,it's not the cause.Our GPU doesn't overheat,even when overclocked.Excessive heat is only generated by the CPU.So,try playing ShadowGun and MC3 with 500MHz or 800MHz CPU.ShadowGun still plays as awesome as before,while MC3 lags.
We should contact Gameloft me thinks...
tolis626 said:
Well,it even happens on my device,which is overclocked,both the CPU(1600MHz) and the GPU(400MHz).It seems to only happen when there is smoke on the screen.Doesn't happen in any other case.
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Well,even if it is so,it's unacceptable,as it's definitely a fault on Gameloft's part.The game is,once again like other Gameloft titles,more or less badly coded.It uses too much GPU.I can play ShadowGun with 16x MSAA(Using CF3D) for hours and the phone just gets warm,while I can't play MC3 for nearly as long and the device burns.Before anyone tries to say that it's because MC3 has so super awesome graphics,it's not the cause.Our GPU doesn't overheat,even when overclocked.Excessive heat is only generated by the CPU.So,try playing ShadowGun and MC3 with 500MHz or 800MHz CPU.ShadowGun still plays as awesome as before,while MC3 lags.
We should contact Gameloft me thinks...
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Contacted gameloft 3 weeks ago. Said they would look into the problem. Lets just wait for the net update to roll out
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Contacted gameloft 3 weeks ago. Said they would look into the problem. Lets just wait for the net update to roll out
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Yeah...Ok,so what's the next best game you said?
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Car drive
Try the map where your using a minigun and escaping with a truck/car (dont remember the map name)
the fps drops from stable 60 to under 20 impossible to, win the level through with hard
Hmm which governor are you using? i just know that lulzactive is kinda bad if it comes to gaming. try out some stock governors like ondemand, conservative or performance.
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Hmm which governor are you using? i just know that lulzactive is kinda bad if it comes to gaming. try out some stock governors like ondemand, conservative or performance.
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Tried all, only choice is to run stock rom, like cm7... Btw guys, if I use chainfire and download the game under "Adreno", would it work
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Yeah...Ok,so what's the next best game you said?
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Now play GTA3.
I want to get this phone and have stock ICS/Sense on it!
However, I want to be able to play games smoothly, and I want this phone to be compatible with lots of games.
With 1GB of RAM and 1.5 GHz Dual-Core processor, that shouldn't be an issue... right?!?!
I want games. Like, Angry Birds, Bad Piggies, Fun Run, Temple Run, Infectonator, Dead Trigger, Shadowgun, etc.
Can I do this? Or am I asking for too much!!
Thanks in advance, guys!!
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I want to get this phone and have stock ICS/Sense on it!
However, I want to be able to play games smoothly, and I want this phone to be compatible with lots of games.
With 1GB of RAM and 1.5 GHz Dual-Core processor, that shouldn't be an issue... right?!?!
I want games. Like, Angry Birds, Bad Piggies, Fun Run, Temple Run, Infectonator, Dead Trigger, Shadowgun, etc.
Can I do this? Or am I asking for too much!!
Thanks in advance, guys!!
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Games for me run nice and smoothly - just keep in mind we have a very intense screen that will drain battery if too bright and on for too long.
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I have played nearly all of those games on NRG's Stock ICS ROM, and have experienced 0 lag while playing them.
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Games for me run nice and smoothly - just keep in mind we have a very intense screen that will drain battery if too bright and on for too long.
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I have played nearly all of those games on NRG's Stock ICS ROM, and have experienced 0 lag while playing them.
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Nice!! Thanks for the info.
Would you be okay with telling me which games in that list you haven't played??
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Nice!! Thanks for the info.
Would you be okay with telling me which games in that list you haven't played??
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Yeah sure, I have NOT played Infectonator or Fun Run yet.
Kobraki17 said:
Yeah sure, I have NOT played Infectonator or Fun Run yet.
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Nice!!! Thank you!
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Nice!!! Thank you!
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Good luck and enjoy!
Yeah
Yeah you can play Angry Birds, Bad Piggies, Fun Run, Temple Run, Infectonator, Dead Trigger, Shadowgun without any lag .Also i have played GTA 3,Wild Blood,specially Modern Combat 4 without a single lag!Amaze is a monster for any work!Games or whatever!
Thanks for the input!
I'm having a hard time deciding between this and the One S.
Get the Nexus 4 don't even think about the Htc one s (I am assuming that you have a budget). It would cost you around 250 dollars for an amaze in extremely good condition with box on eBay, while you can get the Nexus 4 for 350 dollars (16gb) version from the play store which is in a league of its own and quite cheap with high development. Just think it would be more future proof for 100 more bucks (its unlocked as well). It's such a beautiful device too
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Sorry for the hijack but I'd like to ask the gamers here one quick question if you prefer I can open a different thread but I'm running NRG rom and lately (after installing and playing Hill Climb Racing) my phone is acting out.
First started with lots of lag on the game (sometimes is impossible to play) and then I get the black screen that won't wake up (yes I do have the CPU @ 374 or whatever it is that it has to be at idle).
Any help???
Thanks,
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Sorry for the hijack but I'd like to ask the gamers here one quick question if you prefer I can open a different thread but I'm running NRG rom and lately (after installing and playing Hill Climb Racing) my phone is acting out.
First started with lots of lag on the game (sometimes is impossible to play) and then I get the black screen that won't wake up (yes I do have the CPU @ 374 or whatever it is that it has to be at idle).
Any help???
Thanks,
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Sounds like you are running out of ram, hence the lagging. Close some apps in the background and see if that helps. Secondly it can be the rom because when I was on cm my games were lagging (temple run was lagging bad) switched to sense 4.1 and it was back to being buttery smooth. Hope that helps
Thanks, I'll try closing apps (if I figure out how to do it )
As in topic i checked many,many 4.1.2 roms and even leaked 4.2.2 still i have lags in any 3d game.
Tried Perseus kernel as well as Siyah and more others.
In every combination this phone has massive lags on 3d games. 2d games run just perfect.
Tried every solution possible to free up ram and increase performance but nothing works.
Even stock roms lag on my international gt-i9300
Please XDA Community! Help me.
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As i checked 3d benchmarks i see there is massive lag in repetetive form.
Something like this:
1sec 50 fps
2-3sec 20fps
and back to 1sec 50fps
Checked in Quadrant,Antutu,3dmark
What games?
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Asphalt 7, Shadowgun, Gangstar (all of them), Nova, All gameloft other games.
And even something like Beach Buggy Blitz (almost no quaility graphics)
The lag seems to occur more frequently when i turn through streets in example gangstar, when device loads up textures or stuff...
Did you every try games immediately after fresh flash?
For example, wipe, flash rom, set up wizard, install game, play game?
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Just before writing this post i have flashed 4.1.2 rom and siyah kernel. Full wipe and everything. Even in system options i downed running applications to 1 and lagg is still visible as before.
Now i noticed every 10 seconds there is massive lag that drops down to something like 5fps fo 3 sec
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even my gt-i9000 works better in these games
That's pretty drastic. I'm not much of a gamer but I have some of the games you mentioned and never had this problem. I'm not sure what the solution is.
What other kernels have you tried? Perseus and siyah both change GPU stepping.
Do you ever find lags or freezes outside of games?
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I have lags only in 3d games. 2d games work like charm. Only once have keyboard lag. Do you think its hardware issue?
I have tried many more kernels and cant remember them all now. But tried every kernel i saw in developement page.
For ROMS i was using PardusROM, Android revolution( both 4.1.2 and 4.2.2) and some other like paranoid android
Downloading now RevivaROMv1. I will tell you how it works in 40 mins
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I thinks it's a kind of miracle. I did not flash this rom yesterday, but when i woke up, for last time i wanted to check and somewhat it all games run great with no lags. But there are still same lags in benchmarks. Dunno...
Hey folks , I got some strange problems with my phone here.
So,what's my story about. My gaming performance just suddenly got bad. Before,I was on official 4.3 with everything stock and games ran flawlessly. Then I flashed AOSP ROM and everything still worked as it should (games didn't lag) and I was on AOSP for more than 4 months.
Now,I flashed back stock sammy-based ROM , and only after 4 days,I noticed that gaming performance is really bad.
Let's start from the fact that only god knows what I've done with my phone today to fix that, but I was unsucsessful. I changed ROMs,kernels,tweaked my phone,overclocked it,but nothing , games still lag like hell. Real Racing 3 has BIG fps drops,dead trigger 2 (low) has some lag spikes and some fps drops,too. Now I downloaded modern combat 4 and it was unplayable! I haven't flashed stock with odin,as my computer doesn't read my phone in download mode (again!),so I'm lazy to do it on other computer. But still thinking of that. Maybe at least very official ROM is the last hope.
So,can anyone help me? This is the first problem which I can't fix and that's bothering me,though I already got used to fact that now I may have to live without gaming,lol. Not a big problem,as for now. But really? What can be the cause? What's wrong with my phone? Why is UI smooth,why can't I see any lag when watching HD videos and etc, but games lag so badly? Look how good my score in antutu is (no overclocking,cpu and gpu - everything stock):
If you are using a custom kernel disable zram. Real racing 3 will lag when offers are loaded at the title screen. If you get lag in game then you have something else going on.
System panel on the playstore can help you see what is going on. Also disable dvfs with the xposed module as that causes issues with overclocked devices.
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If you are using a custom kernel disable zram. Real racing 3 will lag when offers are loaded at thebtitle screen. If you get lag in game then you have something else going on.
System panel on the playstore can help you see what is going on. Also disable dvfs with the xposed module as that causes issues with overclocked devices.
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I'm not overclocked.
Btw,will try and report back. Thanks!
EDIT: Helped partially,like 20%,but still lags,just less fps drop downs. Thanks for trying to help!
Anyone else. Would like to fix this issue.
No one?
I have similar problem (just posted a help thread about it), in my case it's thermal throttling which is scaling down CPU to 800MHz after 5 mins of playing heavy games. try running CPU analyzer from System Tuner and check if that's the problem.
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Hey folks , I got some strange problems with my phone here.
So,what's my story about. My gaming performance just suddenly got bad. Before,I was on official 4.3 with everything stock and games ran flawlessly. Then I flashed AOSP ROM and everything still worked as it should (games didn't lag) and I was on AOSP for more than 4 months.
Now,I flashed back stock sammy-based ROM , and only after 4 days,I noticed that gaming performance is really bad.
Let's start from the fact that only god knows what I've done with my phone today to fix that, but I was unsucsessful. I changed ROMs,kernels,tweaked my phone,overclocked it,but nothing , games still lag like hell. Real Racing 3 has BIG fps drops,dead trigger 2 (low) has some lag spikes and some fps drops,too. Now I downloaded modern combat 4 and it was unplayable! I haven't flashed stock with odin,as my computer doesn't read my phone in download mode (again!),so I'm lazy to do it on other computer. But still thinking of that. Maybe at least very official ROM is the last hope.
So,can anyone help me? This is the first problem which I can't fix and that's bothering me,though I already got used to fact that now I may have to live without gaming,lol. Not a big problem,as for now. But really? What can be the cause? What's wrong with my phone? Why is UI smooth,why can't I see any lag when watching HD videos and etc, but games lag so badly? Look how good my score in antutu is (no overclocking,cpu and gpu - everything stock):
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Sometimes the games lag but not like u mentioned.. If u want a stock 4.3 that is flashable via recovery and you can have great performance then i have one.. I really have and own it
Here is the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/rom-t2744141/post52483316