Nexus 7 (2012 version) not powerful enough?

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Star Ocean will run best on Tegra 3 at a lower render resolution. It does some tricky things with stencil buffers that make it not very efficient to emulate.

It's not always best to assume that a game that is mostly 2D ought to run super duper fast.

Star Ocean is imho not very playable without this stencil buffer handling, which is exponentially expensive with higher render resolutions. Most other games (even demanding ones like God of War) never do these tricks, and therefore are not impacted by this issue. It took a good bit of work to get Star Ocean to be playable.

However, you will get full speed if you disable stencil testing (in speed hacks), although characters will always be in front of things and some other graphical glitches will occur.

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