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Hi all,
Myself like many other players have been the victim of very very poor performance of Hay Day on multiple Android devices since the update at the start of the week, now I've seen it mentioned in numerous threads but I couldn't find a single acknowledgement message from SC that it's an issue.
So are they merely ignoring the issue because they haven't experienced it or is it being ignored because they don't know how to fix it....
My Android devices (phone & tablet) load slowly when logging in & coming back from town & fishing areas & from other farms. I have done all updates/downloads there is. HayDay is the only app I'm having problems with!
Hope they get it fixed!
I haven't noticed any thing significantly slower in my wife's and daughters Hayday games but I have noticed it in a few of the popular games that I'm running currently Pokemon go and Magic puzzle quest have both been staples for the last year on my iphone6 and this year they have began running slower due to fact that they both doubled the amount of processor power needed. I would imagine that the fact that the limit on farm sizes for months was due to the fact that older phones wouldn't support it. and now that they have increased land mass that they have indeed decided to use more ram. if your android devices are 1 gig or less ram that could be a factor.
I believe it's still within the rules that it's okay to load hayday on an emulator. like bluestacks (i'm sure a mod will edit this post if not) in bluestacks it's possible to edit the program to allow more or less ram. you can quickly see the difference between running the farm on 512k of ram vs 2048k of ram. so if you enjoy the game it might be time to upgrade if that's the issue you're having.
I only play on idevices and have only experienced a minor change on my phone with 1gb ram. My 2 go ram iPad runs as good as it did pre update.
Is the performance change significant?
How much RAM does your device have?
Anytime a game gets bigger it will put more strain on RAM, just wondering if that is the only issue or something else causing issues on android only devices.
I feel like that change is significant on my feeder farm, which runs on an old Google Next table, and on my main farm when playing on my iPad Air.
This wasn't unexpected to me. HayDay frequently is slow when I visit farms full of many trees or decorations: it think it's just really susceptible to refresh rate problems when there is a lot of "stuff" on the farm. The faster the CPU/GPU on your device is (i.e. the more recent it is) then the less you see the problem. Unfortunately with the update we have a lot more stuff. And as much as I would like to keep the new trees and rocks, I will likely end up having to remove them just for performance reasons.
I hate to say this, but there are days when I wish I could pave all the unused spots with concrete, shoot the birds, and poison the butterflies just to get the "stuff" off the farm and make it perform better. Sigh.
Addendum: I also play my main farm on an iPhone 6s. It's got a much more recent CPU/GPU. And the refresh rate is just fine there. However, if this is all related to the amount of time it takes to draw all the stuff on the screen then it's still draining battery faster than before even if the refresh rate is fine. I really wish SC would spend some time optimizing their code.
Very slow and laggy playing on my Galaxy Tab 4 tablet. Okay on my Galaxy 6 phone. Prefer playing on my tablet, but it is frustrating.
I always felt more land delays were due to ram issues.
Many moons ago Clash of Clans had a waterfall in the background it removed for performance reasons.
Another game I play [which I may not for much longer, frustrating game] is much bigger than Hay Day and has bigger performance issues than Hay Day.
Not sure if Team Hay Day can optimise a lot more, but I'm confident we won't get more land after this for a loooonnnnnggggg time until devices get stronger.
Edit: Probably another reason why it seems town will be upgraded next, much smaller and performance is much better there. It has room for growth; our main farms no longer do.
The lag usually wouldn't bother me. I know it happened after a previous update but got sorted eventually. I hate to complain but the way my farm is acting lately is putting me right off playing the game.
The page on the paper opens slow and the pages stay white. Swiping and loading machines are slow and jolt. I can't even go to a friends farm without having to hard close the game and open it again. When trying to get a task, or even trash them the little loading circle starts up, that's if it doesn't say "Processing Derby Result" before having to hard close it... Again.
I've tried everything, reloaded my phone, checked my internet, deleted the game and install it again, nothing. 😞
Most of my hood play on Apple devices, I asked how their farms are running and most say fine. Is it just an Android thing?
I can confirm, that running Hay Day on my old samsung s4 mini is lagging a lot since the update. I am in the happy position to have all sorts of devices on different OS Levels.
Ipad mini newest generation on IOS 9, farm runs fine, no lags, changing between areas and friends seems bit slower than before, however acceptable. Chat messages however takes noticeable longer to appear after sending (tested in different wifis, as well mobile, all the same)
Ipad mini ~ 3 years old, for personal reasons still on IOS 7. farm runs fine, no lags changing between areas and friends seems bit slower than before, however acceptable. Chat behaves completley strange: Reading is all fine, once tapping the speech bubble chat turns completey black, after sending messages are visible (tested in different wifis, as well mobile, all the same)
Iphone 6; Ios 8 farm runs fine, no lags changing between areas and friends seems bit slower than before, however acceptable. Chat behaves ok, but slow and lagging
S4 mini Android 4.4.2; after starting the app loading takes endless untill farm opens, changing areas or friens or DD has a real lag, Chat is lagging a lot, filling machines is in slow motion, same for planting and harvesting
I understand that mapping the game to so many platforms and OS versions is an endeavour, but as long as it says e.g. IOS 7 still supported I would expect, that bugfixing will happen. Btw support has acknowledged that there are many chat issues.
So I am looking forward to performance tweaks and improvements
Cheers City
I received a message from in-game support yesterday morning which stated that they are aware of the issues. Okay.....??? I just hope it gets back to the smoothly flowing ol' Hay Day real soon! I play on an Android tablet s2.