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TL;DR
- Viral videos show the Pixel 10 Pro XL completely glitching out while running the latest version of Genshin Impact.
- The problems could be related to the Pixel 10 shipping with a PowerVR GPU, for which the game’s makers dropped support earlier this year.
- A future driver update might fix performance issues, but if game developers keep dropping support for PowerVR GPUs, Google may need to rethink its strategy.
Videos showing the Pixel 10 Pro XL glitching while running one of the most popular Android games — Genshin Impact — have been circulating on social media over the weekend. In these clips, textures flicker, controls misbehave, and the screen tears apart after the latest update to the game, giving people another reason to heavily criticize Google’s choice of GPU this year. But are things really as bad as they appear?