No Streetlights, etc. when playing on Android Tablet

Hi @lasocalpride,

Long story short in order to optimize the game's performance, some features are deactivated on certain devices.  If you want more information about the performance check performed by the game, a very detailed answer from the tech support team has been shared in this post. It's actually a very interesting read. Hope that will answer all your questions.

I know the post is marked as solved but as an owner of an ASUS ZenPad with an Intel CPU and PowerVR GPU I wasn't satisfied with EA's excuse of a response; so I've fixed it myself and now have full shadows, streetlights, traffic lights, all the vehicles and Sims running around and all it took was copying one file onto my device.

The file in question is benchmark.txt and that file lives in the simcity install folder next to dynamic_new.txt and dynamic_old.txt. All you need to do is get a copy from a device where all of the above works and replace the one on your device. I took mine from a Nexus 7 (2012) and as soon as stated the game everything worked.

Notes:

• My device is rooted, not sure if you will need yours rooted for this to work or not.
• You will likely need to repeat this each time there is an update as the benchmark will run again.

I'll try and upload my benchmark.txt later but please give it a go and leave feedback.

Starfury Shang of Shangsville

Can you Reply the TXT file ? Please.

It worked! Thank you man. I've been trying to look for some solution in ages and I never thought its that easy.

Thank you again.

Thx for ur help. Lost the Graphics Features after an Update and now All Works find again only by copy and Paste.