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Last updated: May 1st, 2020 at 19:42 UTC+02:00
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Game Tuner was a mobile gaming-centric app containing features such as an FPS limiter, per-app brightness and texture quality settings, a resolution downscaler and more.
Samsung's mobile game-tuning app was quite useful, especially for non-flagship phones and users who may have wanted to boost performance at the expense of graphical fidelity. But since Game Tuner stopped being updated almost two years ago, it's been slowly phased out in favor of Samsung's newer game-centric app Game Plugins. The Game Plugins Plus module, in particular, offers per-app graphics settings such as a downscaler and FPS limiters. In other words, it offers more or less the same features as Game Tuner.
For now, Galaxy users who still have Game Tuner installed on their device can continue to use the app, as long as the device runs Android Oreo and not a more recent OS version. Otherwise, if you want to go deeper under the hood of your mobile games and force them to run a certain way, you'll have to rely on Game Plugins moving forward.
Mihai is a blogger and column writer at SamMobile. His first Samsung phone was an A800 which took a lot of beating, and a part of him still misses the novelty of the clamshell design. In his free time, he enjoys watching shows, documentaries, and stand-up comedy; listening to music, taking walks, and occasionally playing old(er) video games.
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