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Grand Theft Auto III now available in Android Market (may support our device).

As announced earlier,Rockstar Games has released GTA III in the Android Market today. Available now for $4.99, it works on select Android devices, mainly those running on NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, although company is promising a TI OMAP supported version soon, which will work on devices like Galaxy Nexus.
Games Features via Market Description:
Visually stunning updated graphics, character and vehicle models
HD quality resolution
Gameplay optimized for touch screen devices
Custom controls for the mobile platform
Countless hours of gameplay
Gamepad Support for select USB controllers
since,gt-i9003 uses T1 OMAP chipset,so i believe it will work on our device.

Tried to install the apk today, and got "There is a problem parsing the package." message.
not sure if its because of the chip or because i'm still running stock froyo that came with the phone "FROYO.JPKC2" (2.2.1) (arabic version).
If there is anyone who tried the game with gingerbread or a custom rom, please share if its working, and if it requires chainfire, etc,
thanks guys

The game is starting but crashing now trying cf3d
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tarunagg said:
The game is starting but crashing now trying cf3d
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please let us know how it turns out and which ROM are u using.

Stock xxkpm
android_and_me said:
please let us know how it turns out and which ROM are u using.
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tarunagg said:
The game is starting but crashing now trying cf3d
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yes starts intro then crash! fuuuuuuu
cranium 5.1 -.-

...yes...same problem
Play intro and then crash and exit on my Droid 3

CornholioGSM said:
...yes...same problem
Play intro and then crash and exit on my Droid 3
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does droid 3 use the nvidia chip? if not, you and the others that are testing the version of the game intended for nvidia are seeing that you should wait for the omap version, as OP stated

New version (1.1) supports PowerVR and works in our device (no FC after intro), but the game is slow, especially when you're driving a car. I have tried reducing textures and quality on chainfire, but doesn't improve too much.
I am on KPQ and CF-root without OC, you can try with UC OC, and will post here the results.

Holy cow!,this game runs awesome on uc v6 and xkpq, just tested it,guess what it runs faster than my brother's i9000
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Just delete the sound folder and it will run smooth
Unkalo said:
New version (1.1) supports PowerVR and works in our device (no FC after intro), but the game is slow, especially when you're driving a car. I have tried reducing textures and quality on chainfire, but doesn't improve too much.
I am on KPQ and CF-root without OC, you can try with UC OC, and will post here the results.
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tarunagg said:
Just delete the sound folder and it will run smooth
Thanks, its works. I hope a new release with better optimization, and we will play this game with sound!!
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V1.1 is laggy even with uc kernel v5 test 6
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bscraze said:
V1.1 is laggy even with uc kernel v5 test 6
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Yes I tried with v6 and its laggy, for me moment the solution is no audio....

Unkalo said:
Yes I tried with v6 and its laggy, for me moment the solution is no audio....
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V6 is laggier as v5 test 6 has more gpu optimizations i think.
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.yes.. it supports our device ... i played ..smooth... but no sound
pls tell guys, u have sound while playing gta3?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20442379&postcount=1
i playing like xplay enjoy guys

My download stopped about halfway through, and when i opened it again, surprise surprise, it worked!! with no sound tho :S
the graphix are pretty smooth and the controls are very responsive, however the FPS drops a little with sharp turns or quick view changes, still quite playable.
I'm on stock froyo without chainfire 3D or any custom kernals.
Update: The download was corrupted as the memory card became full and save games are corrupted. Perhaps the sound files were never downloaded in the first place.

Without audio it works like a charm..
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working..but if i no delete audio folder it lag like hell

(Q) GTA3 working on Charge

Anyone have GTA3 from market working on their charge?
Mine downloaded fine but then just sits at a black screen the goes back to launcher after about 5 seconds.
I'm running infinity 1204
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Sorry to say, but our Samsung Charges don't have the nVidia Tegra 2 that GTA3 for Android was built around... You're SOL man. Might still be able to refund your purchase and get yourself a PSP. All jokes aside though I did the same thing and looked it up after. Only phones with the chipset Tegra 2 can operate GTA3.

Have you tried using Chainfire 3D?
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Tried with Chainfire, no luck. Chainfire emulates Tegra's decoding and processing, but can't emulate its hardware, IIRC, so some games (Riptide GP) work perfectly, some games (Galaxy on Fire 2) are glitchy as hell but playable, and some (well, this) just don't work at all.

There's some people without tegras workings. Just depends I guess.
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Probably need better hardware...
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There may be hope. I was poking around in the Galaxy Tab forums (I have one, plus it has the same CPU and GPU). lo and behold, I found the same thread there. One person said this:
misterjom said:
Might be good news:
I found out through LogCat that the problem might lie within the PowerVR SGX540. Which is in fact the same GPU as the Galaxy Nexus, in which Rockstar states will fix soon. So yeah, it should work, just wait a bit for an update.
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It works fine now after update.
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Still not working for me after the update

It worked for me after the update, however, the game lagged pretty bad and eventually froze. It didn't FC, it eventually came back but it wasn't playable. I haven't tried it again since.

So after uninstalling GTA3, I am not unable to re-install it. The Market claims my device in not compatible with it. How did I download it before then??? Any ideas here?

JoeVsFox said:
So after uninstalling GTA3, I am not unable to re-install it. The Market claims my device in not compatible with it. How did I download it before then??? Any ideas here?
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Apply Market Fix. I think it's in jrummy's ROM toolbox
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kvswim said:
Apply Market Fix. I think it's in jrummy's ROM toolbox
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Did the trick. Runs fairly smooth enough to tolerate. Thanks.

letsgophillyingeneral said:
It worked for me after the update, however, the game lagged pretty bad and eventually froze. It didn't FC, it eventually came back but it wasn't playable. I haven't tried it again since.
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This sums it up for me, our poor Hummingbird can't keep up
Still worth the $3, it's nostalgic, and good to keep for a future more powerful device

adrenaline_rush said:
This sums it up for me, our poor Hummingbird can't keep up
Still worth the $3, it's nostalgic, and good to keep for a future more powerful device
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Luckily, I just got an ASUS Transformer and GTA3 runs amazingly well.

(Q) is there any ICS ROM can play HD games?

if try many ICS ROM and many kernel, but there are no one can play my SplinterCellHD more than 5 minutes, it always said 'unfortunatrly blah.. blah.. blah'
any idea for this case?
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Slim ICS + Trinity Kernel + over clock!! Should do the trick!!
Greetzz, Jojoost.
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They can all play HD. You just need to install chainfire3d driver and you'll be good to go.

thanks for the answere, ill try to install chainfire first.
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Using CM9 4.0.3 v2.1 with Air kernal 2.9 (200-1100, lulzactive(stock setting)/sio).
No FC when playing HD games, some games even dont need Chainfire 3D to run.
But it drains my battery
Anyway..there is no error of HD games with CM9
Try it and hope it works on you!

Um... a low available RAM is it's reason, isn't it?
I use a Ram manager PRO, setting ram manager pro Hard gaming, I play HD games and there isn't FC
and my phone's is CyberGR 7 + Air 3.0!

Make sure to install the driver after you install the chainfire app. Once phone reboots you should be good.

I already try all this methods, try to use chainfire and driver install on it, slim ICS, Trinity kernel, overclocked, ram optimation, all are still have same problems. But the longest time I can play its while I'm try to stop common application that running in background, so I think its a RAM problems.
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I will test. thanks

These games are not in HD gameloft calls all their nexus game HD...480x800 is not HD resolution
You don't need chainfire unless your using adreno or tegra version of the game and u already stated u can play for up to 5 mins
And u don't need a particular rom or kernel
If was a ram issue you would see performance degrade over the course of gameplay(lower fps stuttering...ect) before is actually crashes
Could be corrupt data.
delete all the content in gameloft folder for game on SD card
Start up the game and re download game data.
pirated version it could be old version not optimised for ics
Or could be trying to do a licence check and when it can't verify it boots u from game
Edit
splinter cell isn't even listed on game loft website for nexus s.

[Q] Real Racing 3 on Desire S?

Hi everyone. I'm a noob.
I was wondering if it was possible to make my HTC Desire S running PACman v20.0.1 ROM able to run Real Racing 3. It doesn't appear in the play store and online it says incompatible. Please reply
Thanks.

I would normally tell you to use market unlocker app, but it doesn't work anymore, so the only thing left would be warez try looking on the net for an apk... I'm playing rr3 on my DS overclocked to 1.7ghz but it's still leggy. Laggy but playable
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lower the oc to 1k-1.2k, high oc is known to cause lag in some games.

rain987 said:
lower the oc to 1k-1.2k, high oc is known to cause lag in some games.
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I'll try
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Real Racing 3 was available on 28th February. I downloaded it, installed, noticed that it was laggy on my ROM. I've changed the ROM and it wasn't available. Since then I've tried some other ROMs and also incompatible. Installed with the .apk file and I'm now playing it(although it's lagging, especially after hacking and buying all cars )

Reaper V4.0 is probably the most stable rom available. Gaming performance proves to be much better on this rom, so you might want to give it a try.

oddoneout said:
Reaper V4.0 is probably the most stable rom available. Gaming performance proves to be much better on this rom, so you might want to give it a try.
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Maybe the game performance would be great on it, but it's on GB. I have flashed the Desire XS and the performance of Real Racing 3 is even better, than on CM and PACman with overclocked CPU. But thanks anyway for your advice!
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Your call. Something to remember is that many things affect gaming performance including governors and I/O schedulers. Also, you might want to try using V6 Supercharger script (link is in my sig) and GameBooster 2
Haven't got a chance a chance to try GameBooster 2 yet but judging from the responses in the play store, it seems to work well.

oddoneout said:
Your call. Something to remember is that many things affect gaming performance including governors and I/O schedulers. Also, you might want to try using V6 Supercharger script (link is in my sig) and GameBooster 2
Haven't got a chance a chance to try GameBooster 2 yet but judging from the responses in the play store, it seems to work well.
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Thanks very much for your advice!
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[Q] Running apps that require a better CPU

Hello everyone.
As you see, I'm "new" to this forum (I have been roaming here as a guest for a while) and it already helped me a lot in doing root, installing a custom recovery and custom Roms to my Samsung Galaxy Fit, I even learned how to overclock it!
Anyway, my main questioning is if there's anyway I can run apps that require a better CPU like Subway Surfers, Temple Run, Mobli and others?
I thank everyone in advance.

No way until it's ported or modified to run on armv6 processors.

NM99 said:
Hello everyone.
As you see, I'm "new" to this forum (I have been roaming here as a guest for a while) and it already helped me a lot in doing root, installing a custom recovery and custom Roms to my Samsung Galaxy Fit, I even learned how to overclock it!
Anyway, my main questioning is if there's anyway I can run apps that require a better CPU like Subway Surfers, Temple Run, Mobli and others?
I thank everyone in advance.
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As samo_gf said it depends on game porting from arm7 but as you require app to overclock your gfit then use "No frills CPU" from playstore

samo_gf said:
No way until it's ported or modified to run on armv6 processors.
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Raj joshi said:
As samo_gf said it depends on game porting from arm7 but as you require app to overclock your gfit then use "No frills CPU" from playstore
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I see... I thought there was another way to run them.. Well, I don't have to install any other app after installing the app ported to ARMv6, or I have to to make the app run better and more smoothly?

NM99 said:
I see... I thought there was another way to run them.. Well, I don't have to install any other app after installing the app ported to ARMv6, or I have to to make the app run better and more smoothly?
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No u just need the ported game/app and depends on the game that you need to overclock your device.. Min 245Mhz and Max 729Mhz are good settings to overclock for most of the running games

Rohit02 said:
No u just need the ported game/app and depends on the game that you need to overclock your device.. Min 245Mhz and Max 729Mhz are good settings to overclock for most of the running games
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Well, I'm usually running 748Mhz and 122Mhz as the minimum, so I guess that will be more than enough to run those games. All that I need now it's a bigger micro sd card (4GB ain't doing the trick no more)
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If u want some ported game for armv6
Then try....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1993644
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JatinSoni said:
If u want some ported game for armv6
Then try....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1993644
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Hey, thanks for the list, I'll be sure to check it out later! By the way, you know any list of apps (not games :lol ported to armv6, like Mobli and others?
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NM99 said:
Well, I'm usually running 748Mhz and 122Mhz as the minimum, so I guess that will be more than enough to run those games. All that I need now it's a bigger micro sd card (4GB ain't doing the trick no more)
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For Sd card you can buy transcend 8,16GB Class 10(BEST class) for storing your data..
Class 10 is the best, you can also have class 4,6,8. class is nothing but related to rw speed,it enhances it.
List of apps...?? Google baba the best option.

Rohit02 said:
For Sd card you can buy transcend 8,16GB Class 10(BEST class) for storing your data..
Class 10 is the best, you can also have class 4,6,8. class is nothing but related to rw speed,it enhances it.
List of apps...?? Google baba the best option.
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Never heard of class before... It's good to learn new things hahaha Well then, guess Google is my friend.
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