Re: Need For Speed Download Free Android
Wan Cabiness
Need for Speed Most Wanted careened into Google Play today, hauling with it high expectations based on the long-standing franchise. The latest Need for Speed racing game for Android excels in graphics, and offers an otherwise pared-down, straightforward racing experience. Race types are all familiar, including the usual 6-car run, one-on-one, time trials, and checkpoint races.
As players progress, they earn Speed Points, which over time unlock new cars. Those cars are bought with in-game cash, which is acquired by winning gold, silver, and bronze awards in races, or through in-app purchases if you're feeling skeezy. It's hard not to begrudge a dev for pushing IAPs after charging seven bucks for it up-front as well. So far the only car customization I've seen are paint jobs, though the Google Play listing mentions mods that can properly enhance your car's performance.
The graphics really are phenomenal. Though I felt the framerate was a little low playing on the Nexus 7, it kept up fine and the models still rendered extremely well. Lighting is great, and there are a few particle effects, such as sparks and a bit of dust, but it would be good to see a bit more in terms of water effects. Reflections are particularly well done. As for audio, the soundtrack is excellent, with recognizable, high-octane tunes shuffling throughout your races. The sound effects do a decent enough job to convincingly portray what's happening, right down to the brief lull in the motor roar as gears shift.
I'm pretty happy with the controls though they felt a little sluggish, likely because I was playing on the Nexus 7. Keep in mind that this game is nearly 2 GB once everything's installed. Tilt-based steering is the default, with upward swipes employed for activating nitrous speed boosts, right-side taps to drift around corners, and left-side taps for the breaks. If you like, you can use a tap-and-drag scheme to steer, but if my video is any indication, it takes some getting used to. The gameplay is ultimately geared towards racing purists. Tightly hugging turns, timing boosts, and avoiding obstacles are the core muscles you'll be flexing in Most Wanted, unlike other racing games which tend to be more dependent on car upgrades, catching floating power-ups, and taking down opposing racers.
Need for Speed Most Wanted really pushes the cross-platform Speedwall, which is a fancy name for a scoring leaderboard with your friends. Speedwalls exist for every challenge, and if you don't have any NFS buddies to fill them up, AI placeholders will fill it up. The top scorers make it to the Most Wanted list. Getting top scores has never been a big draw for me, especially when it's hard enough adding friends you care about that actually play the same game. Same goes for Origin; EA's social gaming network continues to be gently nudged our direction, but there's still little impetus to be particularly active on there.
It's sad that even run-of-the-mill online multiplayer isn't included in Most Wanted. Real Racing 3 will be doing some cool work with asynchronous multiplayer when it eventually launches, and I would be surprised if EA and Gameloft didn't follow suit with something similar eventually.
The cars themselves are all recognizable brand names broken up into major categories, such as GT, muscle, and sports. That's great news for car fans, but the downside to this is that you will never see one of them flip ass-over-teakettle on the track, nevermind explode in a blazing inferno. Some scratch on the paint, a dangling bumper, a spiderwebbed windshield, and a loss in speed are all you need to worry about when ramming another car head-on at 200 mph. That takes you out of the moment, especially in a game that's ostensibly steering away from the arcadey goofiness of the Asphalt series and towards some semblance realism.
Need for Speed Most Wanted stands in sharp contrast to the other big-name racing games on Android as leaning towards grittier, more realistic racing. The graphics are absolutely superb, but it's a toss-up if you're willing to sacrifice the visual element for wider gameplay variety. Need for Speed Most Wanted lacks significant multiplayer, substantial car customization, and the good old-fashioned thrill of absolutely demolishing cars at high speeds. Those may seem like tacky additions for those looking for a "real" racing game, but personally, I play games to have fun, not to hop in some simulation of reality.
I recently upgraded from Eclipse to Android Studio and I'm not really liking the experience. I'm comparing them both on a Windows 7 64 bit ultimate with 16GB of ram and Intel i7 4770 running NVidia Geforce 780 with the latest NVidia drivers if it matters and I'm running the latest JDK and the latest Android Studio.
In addition, the panels at the bottom of AS keep jumping around which is a horrible user experience (moves from Android to Messages to Version Control or anything else on an ad-hoc basis depending on what's happening which is very, very annoying).
1) How do I make Android Studio run better? I may be doing something wrong or missing some updates that I'm not aware of and I'm sure others have also noticed these behaviors and have found some solutions to it.
3) I have an old dual core with 4GB ram, running ubuntu. Qs command line option I have only --offline (which specifies that the build should operate without accessing network resources). I also enabled the remaining checkboxes and now it's running ok:
I have an old dual core with 4GB ram, running ubuntu. Qs commandline option I have only --offline , which specifies that the build should operate without accessing network resources. I enabled also the remaining checkboxes:
On windows the defaults are stored into C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\bin\*.vmoptions. The IDE allows you to tweak those values through Help->Edit Custom VM options (thanks to @Code-Read for pointing it out).
If Android Studio has a proxy server setting and can't reach the server then it takes a long time to build and waiting for a timeout. Removing it helps much. File > Settings > Appearance & Behavior > System settings > HTTP Proxy.
Gradle configures every project before executing tasks, regardless of whether the project is actually needed for the particular build. In global gradle.properties adding this will help much: org.gradle.configureondemand=true
In one particular system I looked at, this issue was caused by an over-zealous anti-virus that was interfering with Gradle, the build manager for Android Studio. It seems every time Gradle was "touching" a .jar file, the virus checker was unzipping the .jar and scanning it for viruses first. The Gradle build could only continue once the unzipping and scan was complete, thus leading to very long build times (5 min plus). Since Android Studio, by default, runs a Gradle build when you start up, it manifests as an extremely slow start-up.
To solve this, you will have to add the correct directories to the "excluded folders" of your anti-virus. Assume that your Windows username is "Username" and you have installed Android Studio on C: drive. You would then request to exclude from the virus check the following directories:
Please note that you may need to take additional security precautions if you exclude these directories and you should co-operate with your security department in the workplace. This may involve setting up your own Maven repository if deemed necessary.
The best way to boost up android studio runtime performance is to use SSD Drive. It will boost the performance as very much. I did all the above things and felt I should go for new laptop, but suddenly I came to know about SSD Drive and I tried it. Its Much Much better.....
As you are learning, performance problems with AS are not trivial to diagnose! In my case, an array of 9215-character-long strings (see below) was causing AS to dump threads every time I typed a few characters. The thread dump in turn caused AS to freeze for many seconds at a time. This bug appeared in the Windows 64 bit release of AS 2.2, still occurs in 2.2.1, but was not present in 2.1.
BTW, for the present I have worked around the problem I describe above by moving my long strings into a separate file (a new class containing only the array itself). I try not to edit this file with AS:
A file name with full path causes the particular binary file to be excluded, i.e. any files it touches, regardless of where the file is located, will not be scanned by Windows Defender. A file name without any path causes any binary file with this file name to be excluded regardless of its location. A path followed by a "*" (e.g. c:\my\private\tools*) causes any binaries under this path to be excluded. Any files touched by these processes will be excluded. This is different from a path exclusion, where files touched by any process under the excluded path is excluded.
The key here being....adding these exclusions as "Process" type exclusions takes into account "files the binary touches" as opposed to manually finding and excluding every file / folder that is generated by Android Studio / Gradle.
To be fair I am using 1.4RC1, which is just short of being in the stable branch. Turning the internet off helped a little. The new feature of simultaneous Design (Preview) and Text views working with XML layouts is very helpful.
This might sound stupid and off topic but in my case I was using an external 4k Monitor with my MacBook Pro 13' (MacOS High Sierra, 2016) and I had the resolution set to the wrong scaled resolution. Switching to another scaled resolution where there was no "using a scaled resolution may affect performance" warning resolved my overall performance issues. In my case I had to increase the resolution to max.
Just for anyone looking, after upgrading to El Capitan, I noticed a huge lag with the IDE. After increasing a ton of RAM and using the suggestions above, it turned out that I needed to update the legacy Java, and reinstall via: =en_US
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