I played guinea pig and tried HAWX...

[MannyZ28]

Don't buy it.

Slow as hell, the frame rate may reach a peak of 10-15, but even early on in battle I have seen it drop to single digits. For a flight simulator with fast paced action, this game is absolutely unusable. During the first training mission I even had a hard time getting that stupid plane to fly straight through a virutal tunnel, the bend at the end of that tunnel was impossible to take.

So yeah...don't buy it.

I just hope they can manage to get Angry Birds to run well on the Evo, I saw a teaser video of the game played on a Droid (of course) and that ran great, hopefully that POS GPU in our Snapdragon can handle at least that game.

Why oh why did they put that crappy GPU into this chipset. Innards of Droid X in Evo.....that would have been my dream phone...but noooooo!

Grrrr

 

[storino03]

That's not the reason. The games, coupled with the fps issue and not bring optimized is slowing everything down

 

[MannyZ28]

I know...I have been an advocate of this theory as well. But...the reality is this, game makers are faced with two powerful types of "Super Smartphones" (to use the Gameloft categorization), the ones based on Snapdragon, and the ones based on Ti OMAP chipsets. Do you really think they are going to go through the trouble of optimizing for one or the other? They will write it in generalized code and hope it works. Just look at the PC gaming world with the epic battle between ATI and Nvidia...some games run better on one chipset when compared to the other and they don't make specialized versions for the opposing chipset if a developer choses to favor one. Same in the Xbox and PS3 world. The PS3 has the newer more powerful hardware, but most games are straight ports from the Xbox except exclusive titles. Even a lot of games that first came out from the Xbox 360 and were ported to PC don't get any optimization.

With a price tag around 5 bucks, I don't think developers will spend any more time or resources than they have to. The PowerVR in the Omap chipsets is better, things run better without any extra tweaking, end of story. Now, if they were to optimize a game for the Snapdragon and it would run great on a OMAP chipset too, then that would be great, best case scenario for us.

Just look at that benchmarking video of the DroidX, it tells it how it is.