Gaming performance is quite poor, specifically on the smallest, most recent Samsung phone models, such as S24 5G and S25 5G - particularly with scroll lag, scroll dragging, or scroll stopping/hitching.

Hello, I was wondering if anyone else was having the same issue as me, or, better, if they have a proposed solution?

Last year, I bought an S24 5G, upgrading from an S21 5G. However, I immediately noticed that gaming performance was substantially worse on the S24, compared to the S21. For example, in the game Fire Emblem Heroes, scrolling up and down in menus with a flick/swipe of your finger used to roll smoothly on the S21, but then on the S24, it would get "stuck" every time. The S24 seems incapable of allowing menus to roll naturally the way you'd expect.

I picked up an S25 5G hoping that it would rectify whatever the problem with the S24 was, but it turns out, I might have been a fool to give Samsung my money again. The problem is still present even 1 year later on an entirely new piece of hardware.

However, this problem is not present on the "Plus" or "Ultra" versions of those models. In other words, I've tested the S24 Ultra, the S25+, and the S25 Ultra, and none of them having the scroll-stopping issue in the same game.

I have tried changing basically every performance or display-related setting within the phone's Settings menu, and I've even tried resetting WebView, factory resetting the phone, and downloading extras like Game Booster and Good Guardians, configuring them in hopes that the game doesn't keep hitching this way, but absolutely nothing works.

Does anyone know how to get an S25 to scroll smoothly in games? Thanks.