Momentary hesitation during game play

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Momentary hesitation during game play

I have an iPad that is about a month old, and its starting to experience a problem that I often had on my iPod touch. During game play, it will sort of freeze or hesitate for a split second repeatedly. Happens about every 10 seconds. So far I'm only noticing it in Angry Birds, but the issue got so bad with my iPod touch that I could no longer play games on it.

Done some searching, and haven't seen this issue discussed. Have tried hard restarts and doesn't seem to help.

Have others seen this issue?

Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, iMac, G5, G4, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Jan 23, 2011 12:30 PM

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Answer 1

JimHdk

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Jan 23, 2011 1:01 PM in response to John Hall3

This is probably due to another activity which is periodically being given control to perform some function (polling for notifications, events, etc.).

What applications do you have running? (Check the recently used apps bar - accessed by double-clicking the home button)

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Answer 2

Jan 23, 2011 4:25 PM in response to John Hall3

I've only noticed this in ad supported games-when the ad reloads/changes.
Never in any others.

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Answer 3

xabbess

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Jan 25, 2011 12:07 AM in response to John Hall3

I have also noticed that....but it's seems only to be when playing Angry Birds. Your mention of this makes me lean towards thinking that it's the game and not the iPad. I don't have that happen in any other game or app. Also, using the same thought as the OP had, I have quit the game, closed out all other running apps., started the game again and had the same thing happen.
No resolution here.

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Answer 4

John Hall3 Author

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Jan 25, 2011 4:42 AM in response to xabbess

I found a bug report on Angry Birds that describes this issue, so I have decided it must be related to that. They say that it happens only after you visit the main menu, and usually goes away after you play awhile. That seems to be what happens. Not related to other apps being open, cause it happens after a restart.

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