We asked for Miiverse, we got performance improvements.
I approve!
Eh...I'd still like Miiverse.
I personally don't care about it at all so performance increases are something I can enjoy myself.
Sounds right, adding Miiverse will use some 3DS power so it'll be like before.We asked for Miiverse, we got performance improvements.
This is something I immediately noticed once I've updated my 3DS to 5.0/1.0-11. Also, the slowdown in MiiPlaza Puzzle Swap and Find Mii is gone.
(Insert "3rd core unlocked" joke)
I just popped the game in to see for myself, and, lo and behold, it does run much smoother than before! This is crazy! But awesome!!I've heard Sonic Racing runs much better too. Can someone confirm this?
Alcohol fixes that right up.Still can't fix the awful last boss of Sonic Generations.
Alcohol fixes that right up.
Someone should upload videos (even of just one minute) of these games after the update. It would just need to play levels featured in videos on YouTube, the difference would be clear in that case, no?
now that there's several people testing stuff, can someone try VLR to see if it still crashes like usual?
A friend of mine told me the same about KH 3D running much better.
Damn.Okay, just tried Ace Combat and the frame rate still chugs when you fly through smoke or near explosions. Not sure if it's as much though; it's been ages since I last played this.
Up to a certain extend: yes.Do video drivers affect game performance?
Can someone actually provide proof for this update increasing frame rates? This sounds like a bunch of people falling for a placebo effect.
I see people on phone forums read a single person say ___ firmware update makes the battery last longer and then suddenly most of the people say it's true. Then the next firmware update comes out and the same shit happens, and the same people say that the battery was so bad with the last firmware. I need legit proof before believing impressions on forums.
Maybe. Or maybe the update frees up resources originally dedicated to the OS. Some of the issues with games people are citing are pretty specific though. If there's a notorious section of a game that chugs heavily I don't know that placebo effect would be enough to make someone who's checking suddenly blind to obvious problems.Can someone actually provide proof for this update increasing frame rates? This sounds like a bunch of people falling for a placebo effect.
Gonna use my unpatched og. 3DS to compare it with the patched XL after Work. Some games really have awful framerates on this system.
Bummer about MGS 3.
Tales of the Abyss seems to run just the same, but the Sonic Racing demo is definitely smoother. Has anyone tried Dead or Alive Dimensions?
Its pretty amazing if system performance can improve this significantly just by firmware thats released this long after the system itself. Gives me hope for the Wii U.
It's amazing that so many games needed a boost to play smoothly in the first place.
It's amazing that so many games needed a boost to play smoothly in the first place.
It's amazing that so many games needed a boost to play smoothly in the first place.
It's amazing that so many games needed a boost to play smoothly in the first place.
cmon namco eshop Riiiiiidge Racer!!!
It's possible, on the PSP Daxter got a significant FPS boost if you set the CPU to 333Mhz.The Mii Plaza still runs a billion times faster than it did before. So they did something.
Rumour has it that the 3DS has a heavily downclocked ARM11 CPU. If that CPU is downclocked in software, there's no reason Nintendo couldn't have done something about that.
Then again, this is Nintendo, they write awful operating systems. It's probably more likely that they just refactored their code to run faster.
It's amazing that so many games needed a boost to play smoothly in the first place.
I just tried Snake Eater 3D and I can't notice any difference in the FPS.
Now you mention it, I haven't noticed any slowdowns whatsoever in Luigi's Mansion since the last update.