Attention people using devices with Adreno 220 & Adreno 225 GPUs:
(HP Touchpad, Samsung Galaxy S II, HTC Evo 3D, Nexus S, many others - (see here for a good list)

There is a known issue with FPSE and the Adreno 220. I personally don't have many details, and am trying to find out more about it myself. The information I found about it can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1444517
Also from this forum I see some good stuff here from back in April:
viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2034&hilit=adreno+220&start=3560


Schtruck, i900frenchaddict, is there any update on this issue? Schtruck says to "update drivers" - how do you do that? Schtruck also says to update to ICS. I found this link which talks about updating the drviers if you already have ICS.

Xandrex, drgci, this likeky explains some of the issues you are having (though Drgci already know about this). Drgci, again, for FF9 and OpenGL please check my post about FF9 and OpenGL.

I'm going to update my OpenGL forum post about this and some other issues I've found about the Samsung Hummingbird / Exynos SoCs (chipset).

Edit:
I see there's a current thread on this issue - see here

Hi,

I have downloaded that libopenglplugin.so file linked above, copied it to my device and fed it into fpse through the "Config/misc/switch to openGL/load from SD card" menu. However, once I try to load an iso, the booting is halted and the screen reverts to "load iso".

When I install he openGL via the "install from internet" option, games load perfectly. Unfortunately, once I return to the software gpu plugin for certain games, I need to reinstall the openGL via Internet if I want to use it again. Which is no good, as I do not always have an internet connection. So I wonder: where does fpse download the openGl plugin from and where does it copy it to? In other words, can I obtain that exact plugin version (which works perfectly for me...) and keep it for off-line installation from the SD card?

Thanks alot.

That's the same link that I use in my opengl thread. If that doesn't work, I want to know where we can download it from also.

PM me with your email and I can send you the two I have (and older and a newer one).

I can also confirm that in software mode I experience no slowdowns whatsoever on my Galaxy Nexus. Even in OpenGL mode a lot of games work flawlessly.

I've been going on about FFIX just because it's one of my all time favorites. But take Ape Escape, for me the best platformer ever made, it works flawlessly in OpenGL. Connect my PS3 controller and it plays like a boss.

@blue: I was aware of that thread on OpenGL, but I just can't seem to get a decent framerate when using frameskip/framelimiter, even when OC'd to 1.5 Ghz dual core and GPU clocked at 512 Mhz. Ah well, back to FFIII

Even with the GPU @ 512Mhz OpenGL on FF9 still has issues eh? Did you make sure to use the 'special frame limiter' instead of the standard frame limiter? In FF9 the standard frame limiter slows down the game.

I am downloading FF3 from Google Play now. It's too expensive, but I want to encourage them to release more apps on Android instead of sending everything to Apple.

Since the xda thread you've quoted, things have changed:

So on my (now retired^^) Sensation (Adreno 200), updating to ICS, then later, to 2.15 drivers for Adreno seriously improved things. Then Fpse has been updated too, giving much better results with openGL, especially the fact that it became possible to apply filterings and remain full speed with frameskip, which was not possible before this update (was it 2 month ago? I don't exactly remember). Just keep in mind that Tekken 3 is THE slow game here, too many ligntenings, shaddings, etc. Even on quad-cores, this game requires frameskip to run full speed.

i900frenchaddict - Do you have any thoughts on the Adreno 225? People have been reporting issues with it....

I thing there is no 2.15 drivers only 2.13 and 2.18
Can you provide me with link

Hmmmm I guess you're right I've played too much with the One-X, I start forgetting about the Sensation
I remember not using 2.18 because it could create some glitches in some Android games

Hi,

I recently got verizon galaxy s3. I started to test out fpse again on this device.

In ff9 with opengl installed by using web option, i get very choppy (stutter) screen.

I tried to look for force mono core feather but i couldnt find that option.

Any advice????