[GAMES] Nexus 5 Gaming Thread

[Mr_Loon]

How's emulator performance, anyone tried them yet (PPSSPP for example)?

DraStic (NDS Emulator) runs like a charm, works really well with the phone attached to an Ipega BT Controller

 

[enfxuevsi]

+1 for DraStic, tried some backups I had, ran really smooth, couldn't complain about any game I tested.
Also, Mupen64+, Zelda OOT ran around the village, grabbed my sword, threw around rocks. Smooth as butter and Mario Kart 64, perfectly playable on 150CC.

PPSSPP I tried with the 2 images I had available and they were good but not playable. That said PPSSPP is very varied on the game, some run great, others barely at all xD

 

[pathtologos]

I'm running ppsspp emu and it's freaking awesome. I did have to change the settings a little bit once I did, oh my god! It flies. Now, I've only ran ff7 crisis core, but it runs great.

Other games I'm playing : dead trigger 2, iesabel (awesome Diablo like--game, highly recommend), ff5, Nova 3, fpse emu (runs great), horn (awesome awesome awesome), temple run, Neon shadow.

The device runs them all. I'm in love!

 

[Makoers]

I'm running ppsspp emu and it's freaking awesome. I did have to change the settings a little bit once I did, oh my god! It flies. Now, I've only ran ff7 crisis core, but it runs great.

Other games I'm playing : dead trigger 2, iesabel (awesome Diablo like--game, highly recommend), ff5, Nova 3, fpse emu (runs great), horn (awesome awesome awesome), temple run, Neon shadow.

The device runs them all. I'm in love!

Crisis core is a great game, awesome story to it.

 

[italia0101]

gaming review

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GRcTxaWd24

shown with FPS meter and system monitor ( to detect throttling )

 

[matteventu]

What avg framerates are you getting?

What do I have to do to know it? Is there any app to monitor that?

 

[clorbag]

i use drastic ds emulator to play chrono trigger =)

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Crisis core is a great game, awesome story to it.

+1 to this. ppsspp is awesome as well so is fpse, they run so amazing especially paired with a ps3 controller suing sixaxis

 

[WaPeR32]

I played today Real Racing 3 and it lags sometimes.
I read that PvZ2 makes the N5 very hot, really?

 

[thor6577]

Madden 25 seems like it would run nice on the Nexus 5. Can someone confirm as mine is one of those which are still shipping?

 

[daLareid]

Thanks for the games suggestions you guys

 

[iPWNtehNOOB]

What settings are you guys using for PPSSPP? I tried playing Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, but everything is incredible low res.
Crash Tag Team Racing works and looks good, but runs waaay too slow to be playable.

 

[hackdisk]

No love for rhythm games ?

Here's a pretty decent rhythm game called Cytus:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rayark.Cytus.full&hl=en

I used to play osu! on PC, but their android app doesn't seem to work that great
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.nsu.ccfit.zuev.osu&hl=en

 

[MrPhilo]

I'm running ppsspp emu and it's freaking awesome. I did have to change the settings a little bit once I did, oh my god! It flies. Now, I've only ran ff7 crisis core, but it runs great.

Other games I'm playing : dead trigger 2, iesabel (awesome Diablo like--game, highly recommend), ff5, Nova 3, fpse emu (runs great), horn (awesome awesome awesome), temple run, Neon shadow.

The device runs them all. I'm in love!

I thought Horn only works for Tegra devices?

 

[raines43]

Anybody playing Shadowgun on the Nexus 5. I've come across a problem and can't get any further into the game. In the screenshot there should be a floating 'settings' icon above the computer console that opens the door when pressed. It simply isn't there for me; I've replayed the level and still no icon. anyone else getting this?

 

[AndroidKills]

Do you still need invited to play ingress ? If so I have ten invites I just heard somewhere you didn't anymore

Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

Nope the game is no longer invite-only, it's open everyone :good:

 

[WaPeR32]

Anybody playing Shadowgun on the Nexus 5. I've come across a problem and can't get any further into the game. In the screenshot there should be a floating 'settings' icon above the computer console that opens the door when pressed. It simply isn't there for me; I've replayed the level and still no icon. anyone else getting this?

I played yesterday night a little and no problems. I don't know if you are so far in the game.

 

[sluflyer06]

gaming review

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GRcTxaWd24

shown with FPS meter and system monitor ( to detect throttling )

For anyone interested in throttling and watches this review. Pay close attention to the behavior of the CPU as throttling kicks in, what we're really seeing here is a problem with the Adreno throttling not the CPU, yes the CPU is throttled but that actually has no impact on framerates.

You'll notice as the system throttles farther and farther the CPU load actually DROPS with frequency. This tells us a couple things, firstly that the systems 3d performance is completely GPU bottle-necked as even when cold your only utilized up to about 85% of the available CPU time on only 2 cores, second that as the system clocks down the the amount of CPU time being utilized begins falling as well, what this tells us is that even at 1.2ghz the CPU is still not inhibiting gaming performance as the Adreno has throttled down significantly more in proportion to the CPU.

This presents an interesting proposition that kernel devs might want to look at which is exploring if there a balance where aggressive CPU throttling to reduce heat in order to maintain higher GPU speeds could result in noticeably improved framerates as the system heats up.

 

[bluegizmo83]

Has anyone tried any Tegra Only games? I heard that you can use Chainfire 3D to trick the system into running games that will only install and run on Tegra devices...

 

[giannis_ch]

What settings are you guys using for PPSSPP? I tried playing Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, but everything is incredible low res.
Crash Tag Team Racing works and looks good, but runs waaay too slow to be playable.

This http://forums.ppsspp.org/showthread.php?pid=38976 looks like a decent guide for settings. For high res, set rendering mode to non buffered.

 

[raines43]

I played yesterday night a little and no problems. I don't know if you are so far in the game.

Tried playing on different difficulty levels; the door switch is still missing. Also, one time the game had no sound and another 'Slade' arrived at the top of an elevator with his gun shouldered, giving me no controls to shoot. They re-appeared after he'd been killed. Have uninstalled and will wait for an update (hopefully). Anyone recommend a good first person shooter that I can try instead?