[HTC One X] hamdir:
The initial Wild Blood 1.0.7 had full effects and it ran bad on Tegra 3 devices (especially the slower ones like the Nexus 7)

Gameloft quickly botched the game with the v1.0.8 update and downgraded most effects to make it run well on Most Tegra 3 device

check this post for screenshots comparison and how to return your game to v1.0.7

Interestingly the game runs well on stock 2.17 kernel with gaming boost, yet it runs very bad on the One X gaming optimized kernels like Faux, Tegrastats revealed it's using only one core, without gaming boost it rarely crossed 50% load and with boost it rarely crosses 82% load, in other words this game is not using the Tegra 3 CPU at all

Not only it doesn't even begin to use the CPU, Gameloft still fails to optimize their games for the Tegra 3 GPU shortcomings for example Wildblood has an high level of Anisotropic filtering and our GPU is pixel fill rate bound, a reduction to this filtering could have been enough to relief the GPU instead of killing off all the effects

The very best way to play wildblood v1.0.7 is using the One X base 2.17 stock with gaming boost 2.1 or even better with the custom gaming enhanced stock 2.17 kernel

For some very specific reason it runs perfectly playable on this kernel even with full effects as long as you use gaming boost

However if you like to force this game to run well on custom kernels like faux and franco, continue with the following methods

Since this game and many Gameloft games don't uses Tegra 3 cores, we will want the maximum out of our single core

How to Run Wildblood and many Gameloft games at the maximum possible performance on custom One X kernels

First Method: Dual Core lock

- Download the latest Renovate Gaming boost

- Download any CPU control app like SetCPU

- First Enable boost in the gaming boost app, this will set the maximum background free memory and tweak the GPU

- Then change the CPU Governor to Performance mode using your CPU app, this will lock Tegra 3 to dual core mode at maximum clock speed, since two cores are disabled for safety in this governor you don't have to worry about overheating

Run Wildblood 1.0.7, you will notice it runs at least 2 to 3x the performance of default values

Recommended custom kernel for this method is Faux 11 mainline but also works with stock kernel, make sure you don't use an OC kernel since this method will push the device and you don't want it to overheat

OCed kernel might have issues with this method

Don't use this method and game on the charger otherwise your device might overheat

This tips is for non Tegra optimized games, using it with the THD games will surely cause high heat

Once you are done gaming disable boost mode and restore your CPU governor to ondemand to conserve your battery

Alternative method: Quad Core + Throttle lock

This is a much more aggressive method and will heat the device

for some reason the game runs in full quad core on the userspace governor using faux 12b1 and it runs over 30fps with full effects v1.0.7

we also need an OC kernel like faux' variant free this is because we don't want it to throttle all the way down to 1200MHz which always cause a massive drop in speed, I think its related to linked memory speed, so faux variant free or ultra or beta, will throttle to 1350

I didn't try any other kernel like stock but Franco doesn't have userspace and ondemand is only single core on this game, the stock kernel has userspace but I didn't try

so using faux 12b1 enable gaming boost 2.1

using setcpu or ur fav CPU app switch to userpace gov and Noop scheduler

set the min and max clock to 1400, this will lock to the throttle speed of 1350mhz at full quad

run the game and be surprised

u can reduce the lock a little if u feel its too hot, but don't set min below 900 because this governor has a mind if its own

In theory this should also work on stock kernel but it will lock to throttle speed of 1200mhz at full quad

Don't use this method and game on the charger otherwise your device might overheat

This tips is for non Tegra optimized games, using it with the THD games will surely cause high heat

Once you are done gaming disable boost mode and restore your CPU governor to ondemand to conserve your battery