Hey dudes. So I decided to put this guide together for anyone wanting to play Shadowgun and Sprinkle and other games requiring NVIDIA tegra that we can't normally play. These games are all pretty badass. In case you don't know, NVIDIA tegra is a processor that allows for better graphics, etc.
Someone asked about playing these games so I researched and the results I found were pretty awesome , so here we are. The app/tool that makes this all possible is called Chainfire3D. It's an intermediary OpenGL driver.
You can find more detailed info about it in Chainfire's thread. Thank Chainfire when you're there, he's the man for coming up with this.
Currently I am running CM7 #258 with chad's 11272011 incredikernel and have no problems playing these games, although reading through chainfire's thread I've found that people running sense 3.5 are having issues with it. Check the thread, it's worth taking the 5 minutes. Also I would do a nandroid just in case. Chainfire mentioned that some phones won't reboot after installing the CF3D driver mentioned in step 2. Again, I had no problems whatsoever but like I said do a nandroid anyway, it can't hurt . If you encounter that problem, boot into recovery, restore your backup and you're golden.
So I'll start by outlining the steps and providing links:
1. Download Chainfire3D. There are 2 versions. Free and Pro. You need Pro in order to edit the OpenGL settings for the games to play and get optimal performance. It's 5 bucks and well worth it.
2. Open Chainfire3D, Install the CF3D driver and let it reboot.
3. Download the plugins from this thread. Follow the instructions in that thread. Basically just download the plugins, extract to root of your sdcard, open Chainfire3D and install the plugins.
4. "Fix Market Settings" in Chainfire3D while still open. This will allow you to find the games in the market.
5. Buy/Install the games. The funny thing I found is that when searching the market from my phone, "Shadowgun" pulls up no results. But when searching "Madfinger" (the company that makes the game) Shadowgun shows up. So if you're having issues finding games, you might want to search the company that makes the game. I've only had that happen with Shadowgun though.
6. Edit your OpenGL settings per app in Chainfire3D. I found that the settings in this thread work perfectly on my phone. Although yours might need to be different I suggest you start with the settings in the screenshot in that thread. You need to designate NVIDIA as the plugin for Shadowgun as well as Sprinkle.
7. Play the game and think "f**k yeah, this is dope!"
I hope this helps people interested in playing these games because they are pretty frickin cool. Who said rooting isn't awesome? Cheers!
Not sure if i want to play the games you mentioned, but does this help in running fast 5 HD? That game lags like hell.
sid3091 said:
Not sure if i want to play the games you mentioned, but does this help in running fast 5 HD? That game lags like hell.
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I couldn't say, I've never played it. If you can play it on your inc without an intermediary then I don't think it's run with tegra, otherwise you wouldn't be able to play. Atleast that's what I've learned.
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Not sure if i want to play the games you mentioned, but does this help in running fast 5 HD? That game lags like hell.
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I couldn't say, I've never played it. If you can play it on your inc without an intermediary then I don't think it's run with tegra, otherwise you wouldn't be able to play. Atleast that's what I've learned.
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Yeah, the tegra plugins wouldn't do you any good, but Chainfire3D may still prove useful for improving performance.
when i go into "load a driver" from per app config what driver should i select for modern combat 2. (a first person shooter game)
Shadowgun works perfect forma me Bit sprinkle not run when ir starts only black screen and then close nota FC just close
No marer what i change con chainfire sprinkle not works
Samuray vengance 2 works great too
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Alton (Halo 2) said:
when i go into "load a driver" from per app config what driver should i select for modern combat 2. (a first person shooter game)
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NVIDIA. Sorry for the late reply. You probably figured it out by now. I have a Galaxy Nexus so not in this section much anymore.
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NVIDIA. Sorry for the late reply. You probably figured it out by now. I have a Galaxy Nexus so not in this section much anymore.
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Thx
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Is there something for JellyBean devices? Cuz CF3D doesn't work on those...
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Okay I am so addicted to this game, but after the Amazon official app kept freezing on me, i ran into a Tablet Optimized apk of plants vs zombies off google "just google plants vs zombies HD apk" well its noted that a tegra 2 is required to run the game. well afyer sideloading it I was stunned to see the vast improvement in graphics, I was so excited, so then after starting a new adventure, i came to notice all the sprites "Zombies and plants" show up as solid black boxes...... so i want to see if anyone has had sucess running this HD version of the game on their gtabs. ive also noticed this same phenomenon on Vendetta online.. or if anyone knows what is causing the black boxes to show instead of the graphics.... a friend of mine told me to try and install chainfire 3d to lower the detail of the graphics, which does in fact fix the black box issue, but leaves the whole background completely trashed. im stuck. I WANT TO GET THIS GAME TO WORK ON MY GTAB lol
On what ROM?
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im running it on Cyanogen Mod 7.0.3, i tried it on honeycomb, but would not make it past the lading screen..
I know this is not what you wanna hear, but it only works perfectly on Vegan 5.1.1 stock kernel. I installed that and haven't looked back since. I miss the bells and whistles of Vegan GE but 5.1.1 ain't so bad. In a few days I will probably install Calkulin with the 5.1.1 kernel. There is no chance that it will work on Cya at the moment. You have to learn to accept it.
when i use chainfire 3d, and reduce texture quality, im able to load up the sprites, but makes the backroung all funky, but this makes the game playable... but not enjoyable....
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I know this is not what you wanna hear, but it only works perfectly on Vegan 5.1.1 stock kernel. I installed that and haven't looked back since. I miss the bells and whistles of Vegan GE but 5.1.1 ain't so bad. In a few days I will probably install Calkulin with the 5.1.1 kernel. There is no chance that it will work on Cya at the moment. You have to learn to accept it.
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imdaman ur thinking about the official plants vs zombies app from amazon, this is the HD tegra 2 version ripped from a lenovo Lepad i believe.... i tried this on vegan tab rom, and still get the same issue.... in thinking this has to do with our tabs ram being only 512mb instead of 1gb
I had the same problem with this HD version of Plants vs Zombies. The Amazon version was freezing for me as well so I sideloaded this HD version on my Gtab running Vegan 5.1.1. The kicker is this HD version looks great and doesn't freeze, but I can't see the plants and zombies... just black blocks. If you get this HD version working please let us know how you did it.
Also, you may want to post this question in the Apps & Themes section because you may get more responses over there.
load chainfire 3d and install the driver. go into chainfire and check the option to lower texture quality. load plants vs zombies hd and start the game when you see the preview of the zombies starting press the home button. then go into the game again this should cause the background texture to display properly or it will be a black background but when the level actually start the background should pop into place.
this fix seems to work until you go back to the menu then it garbles back up quit out of the game completely and restart to redo the trick
Running fine on Beasty rom http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...-gtablet-beasty-2-2-1-rom-clemsyn-kernel.html.
Dave,
he is talking about the HD version not the amazon verson Dave.
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load chainfire 3d and install the driver. go into chainfire and check the option to lower texture quality. load plants vs zombies hd and start the game when you see the preview of the zombies starting press the home button. then go into the game again this should cause the background texture to display properly or it will be a black background but when the level actually start the background should pop into place.
this fix seems to work until you go back to the menu then it garbles back up quit out of the game completely and restart to redo the trick
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Awesome!!!!! this does the trick, its a little of an annoyance but hey, its working!!! it will hold me off til amazon releases a tablet version
I just had an idea. If the problem is that the GTab doesn't have enough memory, maybe it will help to run a swap file. You know, something like Swapper2 in the Androiod Market. Has anyone ever tried to run Swapper2 on the GTab?
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I just had an idea. If the problem is that the GTab doesn't have enough memory, maybe it will help to run a swap file. You know, something like Swapper2 in the Androiod Market. Has anyone ever tried to run Swapper2 on the GTab?
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i had the same exact though, but never had success with swapper2, keeps fc
i think it has something to do with the graphic driver because GB dont have a proper on it messes up
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I was unable to play PvZ with most ROMs, but lately I was able to run it with both PacMan and Eclipse ROMs (based on the DRH drivers). PvZ seems to be very CPU hungry, I had to lower my overclocking (from 1.5G down to 1.4G, if I remember corerctly) to avoid crashes
Once in a while you come across a game that you like instantly. "Running fred" is one of these games. But sadly it isnt running smoothly at all.
Im on sch rom with uc kernel v8.
Can anyone test it on his/her device(its a free game) and tell me if its running smoothly or not? Or maybe can anyone suggest a way to smoothen the game up?
Update: Just tried it on galaxy s2 and its running as smooth as silk.... guess our device cant handle it :/.... Its weird though since our device can properly play games like asphalt 6 hd and spider man hd
Well have you tried falling fred from the same dev? Its also free yet it runs on our phone smoothly. But the running fred isn't. I also have that game and it's great but as you said it's kinda laggy that you can't see where the hell the coins are when are aleeady that fast. Well i think the reason is the GPU. Or perhaps it is not yet OPTIMIZED for our device. Let's wait for updates of that game.
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Hmm i guess you're right... we have to play the waiting game for this awesome app :/
you must have installed this as an apk from another phone or something's messed up in my market. I can see it, it prompts me to instal it, but it doesn't install, so I can't test it without making some effort to find a way to download it.
Probably something is wrong with your market since i did downloaded it from the android market.
As far as I know NFS MW is not supported on Infinity. So for people who actually extracted the apk from their phones(or other compatible devices) but observed unbelievable lag, there is a fix. Your mileage may vary. For me, it is running the way it was supposed to in the first place. This is similar to the asphalt fix, i.e reducing the graphics quality. In this case however, there isn't much of a loss of quality and there is little to no drop in frame rate. Your mileage may vary. All credits to original uploader.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1845993
It is for the HTC One X, but I can confirm it works well for the infinity. Try the automatic method method(provided you have the game installed already.)Password is hamdir.
I tried the automatic method and then the manual method(pushed it to 1.5ghz in the nfsmw_scaling file),ran the automatic method again and removed the scaling file...Ran it..And voila!!Reflections on vehicles that wasn't present before with just Automatic method. Performance is the same! Love it! Again I have to stress that your mileage may vary. Until Asus pushes that tegra update I am going to go with this!!:victory:
P.S: I got this from one post in a thread which was lying around in the apps section which I am pretty sure wouldn't have reached the general thread. So spreading the good word. I know people dying to run the game on the tablet! I am one of them!! One more thing. I am on stock. If you want more ram,developer options-->Limit background process to 4 or less.
Thanks! Going to try this first thing tommorow!
Who is playing this game. I need some SP points in carrer mode. I have login to Orgin and I am looking for some friends: 1adamos
I downloaded the game from apkmania and it works fine. But the resolution is nowhere good. What do guys suggest me to do.
king231 said:
I downloaded the game from apkmania and it works fine. But the resolution is nowhere good. What do guys suggest me to do.
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Resolution looks great on my tab. Color me stupid, but what's apkmania? It's a free game, why not get it from the legit source?
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Resolution looks great on my tab. Color me stupid, but what's apkmania? It's a free game, why not get it from the legit source?
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NFS Most Wanted is not a free game. And what is apkmania, google it!
Ok, so i have cyanogen 7.2 on my G3 and i REALLY want to play HD games. So i installed chainfire3d, i reduced texture qualities and texture size..then i tried to play nfs shift but no luck! It keeps force closing. Can someone please, PLEASE help me out here, im not really good with chainfire but i know how to work an android. Can someone please advise me something?
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Ok, so i have cyanogen 7.2 on my G3 and i REALLY want to play HD games. So i installed chainfire3d, i reduced texture qualities and texture size..then i tried to play nfs shift but no luck! It keeps force closing. Can someone please, PLEASE help me out here, im not really good with chainfire but i know how to work an android. Can someone please advise me something?
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NFS Shift won't work on CyanogenMod (for now) cause it uses tom3q's OpenFIMG which has not been implemented to the fullest yet. It's still under development.
With Froyo, it works great.
And make sure you are using the APK and game data specific to the Galaxy 3.
aman9991 said:
Ok, so i have cyanogen 7.2 on my G3 and i REALLY want to play HD games. So i installed chainfire3d, i reduced texture qualities and texture size..then i tried to play nfs shift but no luck! It keeps force closing. Can someone please, PLEASE help me out here, im not really good with chainfire but i know how to work an android. Can someone please advise me something?
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Try jetpack joyride
cf3d --> reduced textures--> qualcomm plugin
Arjav23 said:
Try jetpack joyride
cf3d --> reduced textures--> qualcomm plugin
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i already have this game but thank you..are there no other worth playing games though? I have a GBA emulator but the tiny screen makes pressing the button you want a bit harder
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i already have this game but thank you..are there no other worth playing games though? I have a GBA emulator but the tiny screen makes pressing the button you want a bit harder
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Don't know
Gba emulator is actually good.
Just increase its speed
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I realize this should probably go to the General section but sometimes I feel this section gets more notice.
I made a thread at the GameLoft forums, informing them of the bug where if you open the controller before playing the game there are little micro lags. If you open it after the game has loaded then its better but still not as good.
I recently ran a FPS (frames per second) test and saw around 43-45fps with the gamepad closed, when I opened it to play using the touchpads....26-28fps. Still playable but definately not as smooth and fluid.
I would like as many people as possible to post a reply on this thread at GL asking them to update the game to fix this bug, there is no reason for this to go unresolved and yes its still playable but we should be allowed to play it at the best settings while still retaining the gamepad usage.
Link:
http://forum.gameloft.com/index.php/topic,79113.0.html
Thanks for putting this up! I feel the same way. It could be such a beautiful game to play if only there wasn't that glitch! I know this is something that can be fixed and hope they address it in the next update. Please fix this GL! Thanks!
Oh and I tested a full effect modded version and found that with whilst overclocked (1612MHz) the game runs as smooth as butter with my d-pad closed. But when I opened it... Shame there isn't an effects level parameter in the games settings (wishful thinking I know, haha!).
Incredibly as I have said before that version 1.0.0 from the WapShop never had micro lags, well it actually did LATELY, not being solved by closing the gamepad but by turning on the Wi-Fi and it becomes very fluid... even more fluid than NOVA 2.
Only time i noticed that lag was on multiplayer if you're playing online. There it was really laggy with opened gamepad and with closed it was nearly perfect. But on single campaign (if remember right) everything was good.
C'mon guys we need a fix for this game! It's unplayable at the moment. I didn't pay £5 for s**t!
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C'mon guys we need a fix for this game! It's unplayable at the moment. I didn't pay £5 for s**t!
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Thank you. I am shocked at how little interest there appears to be in at least asking GL to look into a fix for this. At present my thread at GL has been turned into a thread about V6 supercharger.
Come on people I know GL has a sucky track record at fixing bugs but if we at least voiw our frustrated in this matter and VOICE THIS in the above thread maybe they will do something about it. I'm myself and a couple others are the only ones b!itching on the thread I made then its all for nothing
I am kindly asking/requesting that members of this forum wagon have so voiced their frustrations in other regards please please rise up the occasion again and make our voices/words recognized by GameLoft that they look into fixing this game for our phone. I know this phone is capable of playing this game. I myself get 47-48fps with gamepad closed. But soon as I open the gamepad in the game to play it drops to 26-28. This is clearly a bug in the game.
Pease xperia play users please rise up and create a b!itch storm to GL in the link I posted in post 1. As we all know the squeaky wheel gets the grease
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Thank you. I am shocked at how little interest there appears to be in at least asking GL to look into a fix for this.
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We (our site) are interested and have contacted them but with no avail.
But I think you have answered your own question why others are not here below.
Come on people I know GL has a sucky track record at fixing bugs
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They are a big no caring money making machine, which is sad as if they spent more time to make games right they would have some of the best titles ever made on mobiles. As our devices such small % of their android customer base I very much doubt we be at the top of the list. For example Nova3 has been broke for months in a much more serious way (no hardware button controls) and still no closer at a fix.
I think due to this most people here will be thinking this is like talking to a brick wall, getting gameloft to fix things just does not ever happen. its a shame as really like this game.
We contacted them showing our video and the comments we had =
PS, @all with gamelofts track record I would recommend everyone make a back up of this first 1.0.1 version if ever does get updated as they usually make things worse in updates then make it better
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Si I grabbed my unlocked att play and opened the gamepad and started mc4 just now and it ran buttery smooth @ 48fps. But doing the same on my Verizon model it takes the hit. Any ideas why this is the case? Good thing my contract with VZ is almost up and I can switch to the unlocked att model. Also just for the heck of it I bought a new moga controller to mess with for $25
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When I emailed them about this issue they where pretty helpful and gave me the wapshop version which doesn't have the problem
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ILikeTheWayYouMove2 said:
When I emailed them about this issue they where pretty helpful and gave me the wapshop version which doesn't have the problem
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I installed my Wapshop version and the fps is better (instead of 26-29, its 26-32) But still though when I close the gamepad 43-49 fps.
Is it possible for someone to hack this game to figure out the issue and fix it? I know there are MC4 files out in the wild with max graphics modded and or other features.....
Edit: So I want to clarify, those who are saying to open the gamepad before even staring the game, or is it opening the gamepad after your game is loaded and you can play then open the gamepad? I do both and no change for me in frames per second
I think fps dont matter much if the game ran smooth enough for u to play. Either in campaign or mp. Just saying.
I'm curious, how much ram/fps do u really need to run it smooth?? Coz on mine even with below 180mb free ram it ran perfectly. Especially in-game aim-assist feature. To me thats kinda important in this game.
So i'm kinda confuse on why does fps counts bothers u?? Mc4 is not that heavy compare to wild blood. Dont u think??
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As I have tested myself, Gameloft Wapshop version 1.0.0 seem to have a different case. Closing/opening the gamepad WON'T affect the game in any way (at least in my case), BUT WI-FI DOES.
The game runs much faster and smoother with Wi-Fi turned on and connected to an active network
In campaign its playable, guess I just want this game to be as smooth as possible, however playing online with either PLAY store version or Wapshop is abysmal... terribly laggy. Its so glitchy I can barely get a kill.......
Guess I will be back on MC3 for my multiplayer fix, and speaking of prior MC games.. isnt there a version of MC2 with the swipe controls like in MC3? The version I have 3.2.8 (I think) and its virtual thumbsticks..... I want to say somewhere I read there was a version that was more like MC3/4... this true?
New MC4 v1.0.2 version out now on google play. Hope it fixes the lag issue. Looks like need to redownload data 1.88gb so hope it's worth it. When finished will report back
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poo-tang said:
New MC4 v1.0.2 version out now on google play. Hope it fixes the lag issue. Looks like need to redownload data 1.88gb so hope it's worth it. When finished will report back
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Dont forget to take a backup. You remember what happened with Nova 3 right?
Hope I can leave office early today to check the update. I really dont understand why they have not provided a changelog
Great news people!! Looks like they have sorted the lag out in v1.0.2. Have played just one multiplayer game but seams to be so much better and runs smooth. All the controls still work and we still have swipe to look (No rubish virtual pad added thankfully). So is 100% safe to update
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Great news people!! Looks like they have sorted the lag out in v1.0.2. Have played just one multiplayer game but seams to be so much better and runs smooth. All the controls still work and we still have swipe to look (No rubish virtual pad added thankfully). So is 100% safe to update
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WOW!!! GL actually did something right! Just played a quick round online and big difference.. so smooth, same with campaign. Online was the worst though... until now. Thanks poo-tag....
I have the wapshop version 1.0.0 and it seems smoth enough, but not as with Xperia T: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpIpp9wiBYg
Us, wapshop version users, will have to wait for about a month, I guess. Drat.
Still my other games like the amazing spider-man & n.o.v.a 3 still can't get the latest update. Only who have the google play version.
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