Exactly what is it and how can it benefit my experience with the S3? Will it save me battery life or something?
It's for old apps from like the eclair/froyo era. It forces them to run accelerated.
I cancelled my Netflix account like 3 months ago so I haven't used it since, but this was an App that I personally felt ran like crap on Android compared to iOS. However, enabling GPU rendering made the Netflix App A LOT smoother. Again, this was about 3 months ago. Not sure if there's since been updates to the Netflix App that improves performance without the need to enable Force GPU Rendering. I know Force GPU Rendering didn't play well with some of my Apps. The main one that comes to mind is one of my personal favorites PicSay Pro picture editor.
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