If you tried to play MENSHIN IMPACT On your Pixel 10 smartphone, you have probably encountered problems. Recently, those who have given the call of the new Google devices have seen that the successful video game of the Chinese studio Hoyverse (downloaded more than 100 million times on Android, anyway) is difficult to play on their smartphone.
In Reddit, users complain that in many areas, such as the first major city of the game, the title freezes and begins to show visual errors, before being completely impossible to drive. It even makes Pixel 10 a plant rarely.
Google made the bet of a Powervr GPU
In question, an update of MENSHIN IMPACT He arrived a few days ago. Hoyover first announced this change in August 2024 and then published a detailed note of the update that will arrive last August. He announced that he was going to improve the material requirements of his role -playing game, abandoning the care of a GPU family, the Powervr, developed by the British company Imagination Technologies.
The Pixel 10 are equipped with precision since Google left the Mali GPU, developed by ARM and confided the manufacture of its TSMC and no longer Samsung. They are not the only ones in question, but Pixel 10 is much more widespread, the negative feedback of players is multiplying on social networks.
9to5google goes further and explains that the failure really goes to Google, which has chosen to use the Powervr when the rest of the industry has advanced, especially in high level and very high models. For the registration, before developing their own GPU in their chips A, for iPhone and iPad, Apple trusted the graphic part of these imagination soc. Until 2017, the Cupertino company announces that it would not be without its services in the next two years.
In any case, he officially announced, this end of the management of imagination fleas by MENSHIN IMPACT It does not prevent the launch of the game, but as we can see, certain areas are simply not accessible, at the risk of significantly tarnishing the experience of the game. The situation could also get worse as updates MENSHIN IMPACT. If you want to continue playing comfortably in this regard on a smart phone in pixels, a solution, opt for an older model.
Contacted by Tech & Co, Hoyvers has not yet answered us.
Source: BFM TV
