No Tegra 3 support from Gameloft?

Miths000 · Jul 20, 2012

I bought an Asus Transformer TF300 a week ago and I've been both very surprised and very disappointed to learn that there's apparently close to zero support for it (and Tegra 3 devices in general I assume?) from Gameloft.

Before buying the tablet the Spider-Man game was among those I had been looking forward to try - not supported according to the Play store. They've just released the Dark Knight game today - not supported.
And seemingly the same for all but a select few of their somewhat older games (Asphalt 5 for instance would apparently work - haven't tried - while Asphalt 6 doesn't).

Thankfully many or most other Android game developers do appear to support Tegra 3, but has Gameloft given any official reason why they don't, even for their brand new releases?

HaloGod · Jul 20, 2012

they dont support anything but old dated chipsets, trust me. I cant get batman or some of the newer games to be compatible with my galaxy s3. And it will be a long time before they do, they are very very slow with updates

Miths000 · Jul 20, 2012

Aren't there so many Tegra 3 devices on the market now that not supporting them - particularly for a company mostly releasing games of fairly high graphical fidelity - seems like a somewhat poor business decision?

HaloGod · Jul 20, 2012

they barely have customer support, so i doubt the coding team is anything spectacular, its also an issue with android, very fragmented and so many models out there that they cant keep up.

Shocky · Jul 20, 2012

Gameloft are very slow to support new devices regardless of chipset, most of the Gameloft games on my Transformer Prime are modified Tegra 2 versions, they work perfectly, but some newer titles are not available. My guess is that Tablets are low on their priority list.

HaloGod said:
they dont support anything but old dated chipsets, trust me. I cant get batman or some of the newer games to be compatible with my galaxy s3. And it will be a long time before they do, they are very very slow with updates

The new Spiderman and Batman game work fine on the Galaxy S3, at least on the international version that is.

AmneonX · Jul 21, 2012

Dark Knight Rises and Spiderman are available on my Nexus 7. However, Order & Chaos, and Six Guns are unavailable.

Miths000 · Jul 21, 2012

So it can't just be Tegra 3 in general that's the issue then?

HaloGod · Jul 21, 2012

no its not just tegra 3, its gameloft

Miths000 · Jul 21, 2012

I certainly wasn't blaming Tegra 3

- I was blaming Gameloft for not being able to work with Tegra 3. But if they do support some Tegra 3 devices it seems there must be some other factors at play as well - not that that's much of an excuse for not supporting devices other developers can manage.

Shocky · Jul 21, 2012

It was the same situation when Tegra 2 tablets arrived, some got support and for no apparent reason others never, that's changed somewhat now as I'm sure it will for Tegra 3 but knowing Gameloft we will have to wait.

ArtificialMind · Jul 22, 2012

Its because Tegra 3 is a failure. There are like 3 devices that uses Tegra 3. Qualcomm snapdragon S4 dual-core is faster and is the dominant chip in todays phones and tablets.

Wilkas · Jul 23, 2012

Artificial that's not necessarily true, the snapdragon is better at the single core stuff but when they are both running on full steam the tegra 3 is better... I can't quote benchmarks but I have both a One X and S3 in front of me and the One X runs quicker at almost everything and going in depth with what Project Butter actually does on JB, you will see the difference even more when both phones get it.

Tegra 3 is starting to be used a lot more too, from the One X to the Huawei D Quad and the Nexus 7, it is really starting to take off so expect more support coming soon

350X · Jul 23, 2012

I use a Samsung i9100 build prop foot print so I get access to all the good games and apps on my new W17PRO .

here is it edited for my tablet, what you need to change for yours, you need more tech help as I don't know.

# begin build properties
# autogenerated by buildinfo.sh
ro.build.id=ICS.f04ref.20120204
ro.build.display.id=Ramos W17Pro
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ro.build.version.sdk=15
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ro.build.version.release=4.0.3
ro.build.date=Fri Dec 30 16:56:13 CST 2011
ro.build.date.utc=1325235373
ro.build.type=eng
ro.build.user=root
ro.build.host=android
ro.build.tags=release-keys
ro.product.model=Ramos W17Pro
ro.product.brand=samsung
ro.product.name=f04ref
ro.product.device=f04ref
ro.product.board=f04ref
ro.product.cpu.abi=armeabi-v7a
ro.product.cpu.abi2=armeabi
ro.product.manufacturer=samsung
ro.product.locale.language=en
ro.product.locale.region=US
ro.wifi.channels=14
ro.board.platform=exDroid
# ro.build.product is obsolete; use ro.product.device
ro.build.product=f04ref
# Do not try to parse ro.build.description or .fingerprint
ro.build.description=GT-I9100-eng 4.0.3 IML74K 20120303 release-keys
ro.build.fingerprint=samsung/f04ref/f04ref:4.0.3/ICS.f04ref.20120204/eng.root.20120204.165424:eng/ release- keys
ro.build.characteristics=tablet

Shocky · Jul 23, 2012

ArtificialMind said:
Its because Tegra 3 is a failure. There are like 3 devices that uses Tegra 3. Qualcomm snapdragon S4 dual-core is faster and is the dominant chip in todays phones and tablets.

Not really. :rolleyes:

HTC One X: Snapdragon S4 vs Tegra 3 in performance, GPU, battery life, and web browsing | Android and Me

Vanquished · Jul 23, 2012

Have you checked the Gameloft site? There are no games on the Play store that have been updated to support my LTEvo (HTC One X with S4) but Gameloft has updated 18 of them on their site (The only new one being The Amazing Spiderman). I would imagine there are a couple of titles that support phones with the Tegra 3, but as someone else stated tablets are a lower priority for them (as is updating titles in general...An update for Starfront would be awesome as it is the only decent RTS "available").

Clipp · Jul 26, 2012

Gameloft is terrible with device support. Makes no sense why the HTC EVO LTE only supports uno and asphalt 5 on google play, but then you can go download newer games from the site. I don't think they know how to optimize their games for tegra 3 either...

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