Short version: Global Ordnance no longer installs on phones and tablets with certain processors. We tried hard to keep them in the fight. They kept crashing, and those crashes were hurting the game for everyone.
Why we did it
Global Ordnance runs on Unreal Engine and draws every frame with Vulkan, the modern graphics system on Android. On a small group of chips, the phone’s own graphics driver crashes in the middle of a battle. The bug is inside the driver, not in the game, so we can’t patch it from our side.
Over the last month one driver crash caused 94% of all our crashes. Almost all of it came from MediaTek chips with Imagination PowerVR graphics. We shipped two rounds of fixes for those chips. Neither one worked.
Google Play ranks games by stability. When a few phones keep crashing, the whole game is shown to fewer players. Blocking these chips protects the game for the thousands of players whose phones run it well.
Already installed?
Nothing is taken away. If the game is already on your phone, it stays there. You just won’t get new updates from Google Play on a blocked chip.
What’s next for these phones
We are building Global Ordnance Light on a lighter engine, made for exactly these phones. Same game, same units, lighter graphics. Follow this site to hear when it lands.
Early development: the clip below is a very rough draft of where we’re going. Art, sounds and features will all change before release.
Blocked processors (174)
Added today because of the driver crash:
- MediaTek Dimensity 930: MT6855, MT6855G, MT6855V/AZA (e.g. Moto G64y, Moto G66j, Redmi/POCO “citrine”, Honor 400 Lite, Infinix Hot 60 5G)
- MediaTek Helio P90 / P95 family: MT6779, MT6779 P90, P90M, P95 and all MT6779V/C* and MT6779V/W* variants
- Allwinner A733 (tablets)
Blocked earlier this autumn, after crashes, freezes or very low frame rates showed up on them:
- MediaTek: MT6575, MT6580, MT6582M, MT6735, MT6737, MT6739 (all variants), MT6750, Helio P10, P20, P22, P23, P25, P35, A22, G25, G35 (MT6761, MT6762, MT6763, MT6765, all variants), Helio X20 (MT6797, MT6797M), tablet chips MT8166B, MT8167A/B, MT8173, MT8765A/B, MT8766 (all variants), MT8768 (all variants)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon: 425, 430, 429, 435, 439, 450, 625, 626, 630, 632, 636, 653, 660, 820, 821, 835, APQ8053, SDA450, SDA660, SDA835
- Samsung Exynos: 7872, 7884, 7884A, 7884B, 7885, 7904, 7905
- Unisoc / Spreadtrum: SC7731E, SC9830A, SC9832A, SC9832E, SC9838A, SC9863A, SC9863T, T310, T603, UMS312
- HiSilicon: Kirin 659
- Allwinner: A133, A133 Pro
- Rockchip: RK3368a, RK3399
- Socionext: SC1408AJ1
- Intel and AMD (Chromebooks): Intel i3-10110U, i3-1115G4, i3-1215U, i5-8265U, i5-10210U, i7-7Y75, m3-8100Y, N100, N4000, N4500, Core Ultra 7 155U; AMD A4-9120C, Ryzen 3 3250C, 5425C, 7320C. The game is built for phone (ARM) processors only.
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