From the comments and emails I receive, the game does not work on tablets using Rockchip/Vivante hardware.
So I got myself an Archos Carbon 9.7″ tablet to investigate:
The results are sad at the moment. I managed to get the game to run, but shaders support by the Vivante driver is atrocious. It messes up anything more complicated than basic diffuse lighting. I use hardware skinning for animals and alpha testing for certain blocks. On Vivante they are both horribly broken, resulting in funky colors on the terrain and invisible animals. The clouds jitter randomly because there’s probably not enough precision in the interpolators.
I will try to put together an update that makes the game at least run on these devices, but please don’t expect me to workaround all the GPU driver issues. I’ve done it for Tegra 2, and it’s ugly enough. Vivante – well, there’s so many issues I doubt any workarounds are even possible.
And have I mentioned how slow it is? I get about 15 fps on high settings and it’s completely GPU bound.
If you want to play the game (or, more likely – any game), please don’t buy a cheap tablet with a Vivante GPU in it. There are tons of cheap tablets with Mali (the same that Samsung Galaxy uses), and these should work better.
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Kaalus i still didnt got a reply on my issue :/
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Hey Kaalus I have a Ainol Novo 7
Crystal, 7 Inch Tablet with Jelly Bean
4.2.1 (CM10.1) and Dualcore Cortex
A9 1.5Ghz processor supported by
Mali-400 Gpu and 1GB RAM but I have
a big problem with this game.
First one is that it takes about
5minutes to open the game and to get
to the main menu amd another
10-15minutes to open my world (just
started only 0.9mb big)
This is way toooo long for me.And
after i finally loaded my world i dont
get any sound.
Is it because of my hardware or does
it open so slowly on all devices?
Hi Shady,
This is a different issue, but I don’t have your device yet to diagnose it. Sorry about that, I may get it at some point, although next on my list is Nexus 10. Android causes me a lot of trouble with all these subtle incompatibilities.
cheers,
Kaalus
The same thing happens to me that happens to “shady” it takes forever to open I have a dopo 1010 tab I have no clue what the other specs are other than it has a double core thingy
But love the game so much that I wait the half hour it takes to open
Please fix p.s
I can’t wait for 1.21
ya ihave the same problem. @shady SC run smooth on soulgem rom
I’ll say more: do not buy android tablets. Surface even better.
And… Yes, what about Surface? You planning SC for this tablet?
Can’t you just stop certain devices from downloading survivalcraft from the play store and amazon??
The only way you’re going to make this game suitable for as many devices (in the future) as possible is making sure that it can still run well for midrange devices that were playing it in early/ mid 2012, as people will still be using their device for around 5 years? (Getting your moneys worth) ;)
I’m with Dan, and some others sorry, there are so many android devises and still twice as many more coming out in the next year, If you carry on pushing that snowball along your going to need help if you haven’t got any yet. If you don’t, it will get so big the great big snowball will come to a stop.
The smamsung galaxy CPU is better because my phone runs it incredibly fast
You must waste a lot of money buying every piece of garbage that comes out
Nokias better than focus
Hey what’s the mater with yours
please add transport
As much as i love android, issues like this are why they need to have specific minium spec requirements like microsoft requires from all window phones. It is just to easy to buy a cheap android device with out-dated specs and get ripped off. Just look at how many still ship with the great but very old android 2.3 gingerbread os. That why personaly i only buy Samsung phones and tablets. When it comes to an android you gotta put your research in and you generaly get what you pay for.
My galaxy tab 7.7 run SC pretty well, GPU mali400 and CPU Exynos i think ^^
Y u no add snow blocks.⛄
Like to comment…
Snowballs are as deadly as spears!
Why?
They’re not. They should only do minuscule damage. Unless there is a bug, how do you know they are as powerful?
I found out how to make bulbs on and off in a one second rate coz i use 2 delay gates,it keeps blinking until i move certain radius.A bug or clock?
P.S i did not use SR latches
Thats because any circuit that is out of range (a certain amount of chunks) will reset to 0 and stop so the game wont crash. SR latches would allow it to continue to function though i believe.
Lot of wires go to the bulb and they all are connected
Doesn’t launch on my archos 80 titanium :(
(rock chip with Mali GPU)
Hi,
Are you running stock Android or is it rooted?
What exactly happens when you try to launch it?
cheers,
Kaalus
I’m running the stock ROM but it is rooted and what happens is I launch the game and it just stays on a black screen