Tips

FMBG Product FaceMe Backgammon Game Center Tips

FaceMe Backgammon uses the Apple Game Center servers to coordinate and play games between Game Center users. Please complete the following steps to ensure a problem free experience: create a Game Center account, configure the account, configure the iOS notification settings, send friends invites, and then play a game. Note that FaceMe Backgammon required iOS 5.0 or higher to play Game Center games.

iOS 10+ Instructions

Logging in to Game Center Account


To login in to Game Center, you will use your Apple ID.

  1. Start the iOS Settings app and press on the Game Center Section.
  2. Click sign in and enter in your Apple ID.

Configuring the Game Center Account


To ensure that your account works properly with FaceMe Backgammon, you must be able to receive Game Invites. To ensure this capability is enabled, verify the following:

  1. Start the iOS Settings app and press on the Game Center Section.
  2. Turn ON the "Nearby Players" setting.

Configuring the iOS Notifications Settings


To ensure that you can receive Game Center Invites from your friends, you must enable Notifications on your device. To do this, perform the following steps:

  1. Start the iOS Settings Application and tap the Notifications setting.
  2. Scroll downwards and tap on the Game Center Item and make sure that "Alerts" in the ALERT STYLE section is selected, "Show Alerts from Everyone" is checked.

Sending Friend Invites to your Game Center friends


Starting with iOS 10, adding friends through Game Center has been removed from iOS.

Memory Management Tips


When applications start behaving improperly either by slowing down, failing to connect to the network, or crashing, you may have a memory problem. Starting with iOS 4.0, applications are no longer closed when the user presses the Home button and instead they are put in the background where they continue to use up memory even though they are not running. This can cause a significant problem especially on devices with small memory such as the iPad and some of the older iPhone and iPod Touch devices.

There are two simple solutions to this problem. The first is to reboot your device on a regular basis. This closes all the applications and clears the memory allowing the device to once again perform optimally. The second is to fully close the applications that are running in the background. This works quite well but you should still reboot your device at least once a week.

Restarting the device


To restart your device perform the following steps:

  1. Exit the current application you are running by pressing the Home button.
  2. Press and hold the button on top of the device until you see "slide to power off" option appear on the screen.
  3. Slide the red button to the right to turn off the device
  4. Press the top button once again and hold it for a couple of seconds, to start up the device.

Fully closing applications


Fully closing an application release its memory and resources and makes them available to other applications to use. This is very helpful especially for games as they tend to use more graphics and hence more memory. Follow these steps to close as many apps as possible: