Here's How To Improve Game Performance On Your Android Phone

These eight easy tips show you how to optimize your Android phone to make it more game-friendly (Photo: Unsplash)

JAKARTA - If you are a long-time lover of mobile games, you should make sure that your phone is compatible enough for the game. Did you know that you can change some options on your Android phone to make the game run more smoothly?

You don't even need root access for most of these tips for optimizing games for Android. Let's take a look at some of the best ways that VOI will provide to make your Android phone more game-friendly, launches from Makeuseof.

Change Screen Refresh Rate

The higher the screen refresh rate, the better visual feel you will get from your game, with much smoother animations. Switching to a high screen refresh rate is one of the easiest ways to increase game performance on Android without root.

On some phones that support this feature, here's how to increase the refresh rate:

Launch Settings on your phone and tap Display. Select Advanced on the resulting screen. Tap Refresh rate. Choose the highest possible refresh rate from the options on your screen.

Since there are different flavors of Android, the exact steps will vary from device to device. Check your phone model online if you can't find the option and are sure your device has a high display refresh rate.

Switch to Fast Internet Connection

If you play online games on your Android phone, the speed of your internet connection affects your game performance. This is because your game has to constantly send and receive data.

Therefore, to make sure your online games play as smoothly and lag-free as your offline games, consider using a fast internet connection when you play your games.

You can use any connection that is fast enough. It could be a Wi-Fi connection or even a mobile data connection, especially if you have access to 5G.

Turn on Force 4x

Force 4x MSAA (multisample anti-aliasing) is an option found on some Android phones that greatly improves the quality of your game. By far the best Developer options setting to improve game performance on Android.

Force 4x MSAA improves your performance and graphics in OpenGL 2.0 apps and games.

This feature is disabled on most of the phones as it drains the battery pretty quickly. If you're not too concerned about battery life and want the best gaming experience on your phone, you can enable this feature.

Keep in mind that not all phones out there support Force 4x. If it's yours, here's how to enable it:

Open the Settings app, tap About phone, and tap Build number seven times. Your phone should say you are a developer. Return to the main settings menu and tap System. Tap Developer options. Find the option that says Force 4x MSAA and enable it.

If these steps didn't work for you, quickly search Force 4x using the top search bar in the Settings app. Remember, Developer options must be enabled first.

Remove Junk from Your Phone

The more files you store on your phone, the slower your phone will be. This performance increase will positively affect your gaming sessions.

You can actually use the built-in feature on many Android phones to find unused files and safely delete them from the phone. Here's how you can find and use this feature:

Access Settings on your phone, and tap Storage. Tap the Free Up Space button. Select items you no longer use, and tap Clear at the bottom right.

Enable Dolby Atmos Sound

Dolby Atmos sound greatly improves the audio quality of your game. If you have an Android phone that supports this, you can enable this feature and enjoy better sound quality in your games.

Most Samsung Galaxy phones have this feature, and you can enable and disable it from the Settings menu. Here's how:

Open the Settings app on your phone, and tap Sounds and vibrations. Tap Sound quality and effect on the following screen. Turn on Dolby Atmos. Use Game Booster App

With more and more people playing games on their Android phones, there are now apps to optimize your Android device for gaming.

These game booster apps change various options on your phone to make sure your phone can play games smoothly, and they will also turn off notifications, so you don't get distracted while playing. You don't have to manually optimize each option as the app does it for you with one tap.

Use Mobile Game Accessories

Apart from software, you can make changes to your hardware to improve the gameplay on your Android device. For example, an external game controller to play games on your phone.

This controller will help you better control your moves in your game. Most of these game accessory items are easy to install. You just plug them into your phone, and they start working.

Phone CPU Overclock

Finally, something more practical for true mobile game fans. Overclocking your phone's CPU allows you to extract more power from the same processor. This allows your game to process more items at once, and it results in a better game environment.

However, keep in mind that you will need to root your phone before you can overclock it. If you're not sure what root is, maybe you shouldn't do this or you risk damaging your device.

In order to overclock an Android phone, you must first install a custom kernel. Then you can use an app like the popular Franco Kernel Manager to overclock your CPU.

Overclocking will make your phone run hotter and shorten your battery life, but it can squeeze every drop of power out of your device.