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Games and Phone Performance

Azma

Newbie
Hello there! So far, I've just tried a few games on my phone. So far, Angry Birds Rio is the only one that works fairly well (although it makes me notice how actually low my Samsung Galaxy Q's screen resolution is when I zoom out).

For instance, MapleStory Live was rather slow and laggy, and the display was awful. I can't say for sure, but having tried a few MapleStory games on iOS, I don't think it's supposed to be that way. Also, it felt as though my phone's graphics weren't good enough as the text looked awful, even though text of the same size outside the app looks neat and nice. So not much of a resolution issue.

That made me say: my phone isn't powerful enough to run this application properly; it has the minimum system requirements, but not the recommended ones.

So I wanted to know, how can I know whether my phone can properly run apps I download on the Play Store? I don't see the information anywhere.

Also, is it possible for it to tell me whether the application will run smoothly on my phone?

Is it possible that installing a game on my SD card is the source of the issues? If so, is there a way to automatically move the app to the phone when I launch it, and back to the SD card for storage when I stop using it? Because my phone has barely 152 MB of internal memory, over half of which is used by system applications and data that apparently don't have a choice to be on the phone.

I have one last question. A games I see have on-screen controls, but my phone is one of the few blessed with a physical keyboard. Is it possible to set controls there in some way, even if the game itself didn't plan for that?
 
Hey Azma!

Unfortunately I don't think that there is a good way to ensure that your phone is up to the minimum specs. I think its likely that most developers don't even have a good idea of what the minimum specs are for their games. I'd just try to stick to the free games.

As for the SD card and the on-screen controls, I'm not 100% positive on either one, but I think that the answer is no to both
 
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