Good evening, all!
I recently got a brand new iPhone 17 today and I continued playing this game, but I noticed that (especially when NOT on battery saver mode), my phone heats up like crazy! I noticed this with my iPad 9 (A13 chip).
I am hoping this is not just me because the phone is brilliant, but I feel like ever since the Hong Kong update, things have been incredibly unoptimised. Battery saver mode helps keep things cooler, but the 30fps is rather jarring for me to be honest.
I’d love to hear what other people think!
Ta-ta for now!
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its not so much that it got unoptimized with HKG, but rather just the sheer size of HKG. HKG is at the very edge of what is possible for the devs in terms of largeness. That said, I have an iPhone 16 pro and have no difficulties running the game at the moment (HKG included) beyond occasional crashes. As best as I can tell, it is based in large part on how many contracts you have. I noticed substantial crashing issues at more than 150 contracts there, and I have heard of people having the warming up problem with an excess of 300 contracts. Not sure what might be the cause beyond that. I assume you dont have some crazy background things running. Also might be caused by charging while playing the game.
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Yeah the sheer size of things is nuts! I will try and tone things down a little, but I get you.
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wait, are you talking about your iPad or you phone?
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Yeah both, pretty much anything haha.
I’ve heard some things about the 17 on how it has the dual chamber cooling system or whatever, it should be able to handle it just fine. As for the ipad, it only has like 3 GB of RAM and that is like the minimum to run WoA
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Try then to make graphics down to fast 
I’m having the same issue, but only with the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Whenever I play at HKG, my phone gets really hot and sometimes the game freezes. Even if I keep the phone in a cool place, it’s still the same. At other airports like MCT, LHR, and BKK, it runs on minimum settings. I know my phone needs a screen, battery, and back replacement, so some performance issues are understandable — but it’s still really annoying that HKG causes so much trouble.
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this is beginning to become a very common theme for larger airports.
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I’m really surprised to hear that your iPhone 17 is having this issue as my 16e is able to run HKG just fine (other than the fact the screen is too small for this game’s UI and my thumb size). Those are pretty beefy devices.
The A13 iPad 9 doesn’t particularly surprise me. Its hardware for graphics just isn’t comparable to the more modern apple silicon devices.
Do you have any of the newer Apple Silicon (M-series chips) Macs? You can install and run WoA natively on apple silicon Macs, and it runs quite smoothly!
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