[Q] Dual core deactivation - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello!
im just wondering if there is anyway to deactivate the dual core?
or is my problem somewhere else? ive noticed that some, actually lots of games and emulators doesnt run on my s2 and i figured this is cause of the dual core?
is there anyway around this, isnt it the dual core? or is there anyway to turn it of (temp ofcourse)

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Are you sure it`s not because of the Mali-400MP GPU in the S2, a lot of games designed for the nvidia tegra2`s gpu , you can download a emulator but you need to have root.

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Your problems have nothing todo with dual core.

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but i didnt need root to play emus on my xperia, so it shouldnt be because of root.
mabye the gpu?

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The 2nd core is added and removed as and when needed but it's not your problem.
The problem is that game makers and gpu makers have been using non standard opengl sharers, and Mali only supports the standard ones.
The way to get around this is to use chainfire 3D along with plugins, which you can find via google and in my 4shared in my sig.
There are loads of threads on it, and about which games need which plugins etc.
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Bug Village, Inotia 3 and more are not nVidia Tegra games and they do freeze.
Using Chainfire3D doesn't help either.
As for dual core being the problem is really unknown for me. I am thinking along the same lines actually.
Multiple cores might not be used all the time depending on whether the application is multi-threaded or single-threaded. The 2nd core is always there, even if your application doesn't use it. It does not turn off just because the 2nd core is idling away.

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Throw it against a wall. That should disable the second core. Just be careful that you don't do it too many times as you may disable both.
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LiFE1688 said:
Bug Village, Inotia 3 and more are not nVidia Tegra games and they do freeze.
Using Chainfire3D doesn't help either.
As for dual core being the problem is really unknown for me. I am thinking along the same lines actually.
Multiple cores might not be used all the time depending on whether the application is multi-threaded or single-threaded. The 2nd core is always there, even if your application doesn't use it. It does not turn off just because the 2nd core is idling away.
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Because they are not Tegra games doesn't mean they work with Mali gpu.
And multiple cores won't cause such issues : if the App was not designed with threading, it won't use second use.
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Underclock to 500mhz and do a dance
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XpLoDWilD said:
Because they are not Tegra games doesn't mean they work with Mali gpu.
And multiple cores won't cause such issues : if the App was not designed with threading, it won't use second use.
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Mali GPU might be a sad thing then, either that or these games are badly programed.

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It's the games who are badly programmed. They're using Qualcomm's or Nvidia's proprietary textures format, which aren't (officially) supported by the MALI GPU, leading to incompatibilites (even with Chainfire, which is not perfect)