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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

Game lags corrected. (Atleast have stopped for me)

So yesterday i was researching about gamelags on STOCK ICS.
I found out this solution somewhere.
Initially i did not flash ardatdat's kernel
but
after doing this plus flashing ardatdats kernal lags have like vanished.
So just do this thing
1.Go to settings---> developer options and check 'Force GPU Rendering' and restart your phone.
2. Use Ardatdats kernel v4.2 beta 6 *HIGHLY Recommended*
Games tried :
1. Temple Run Brave (15 minutes of play..No lag)
2. World Cricket Championship (10 over game..no lag)
3. Farming Simulator
4. Plants vs. Zombies
5. Stick Cricket
6. Stick Tennis
7. Temple Run 2
8. Race, Stunt, Fight 2
9. Drag Racing 3D
10. Fruit Ninja
Hope it helps
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+1 for this. Didn't try games, but it's good to have this option always set to on. Increases overall performance.

I tried gaming on stock ICS.
Did try unofficial JB on our phone. But then vibration problems.
Actually some nexus version had an ICS lag in scrolling and gaming.
So someone posted it as an answer.
I tried it for gamelags of our device and it worked.
(Obviously the nexus solution did not have include the ardatdats kernel part )
@adam sir: please help us with the vibration problem in Pacrom
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Isn't this more battery hungry?
From my CM10.1 powered galaxy R

vbz89 said:
Isn't this more battery hungry?
From my CM10.1 powered galaxy R
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Didn't notice it, but theoretically yes. It uses the GPU for rendering the UI. However, I have it always turned on, regardless of which rom I'm on.

vbz89 said:
Isn't this more battery hungry?
From my CM10.1 powered galaxy R
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Well the games are too
So wasnt quite evident.
But i couldnt notice some MAJOR chunk of battery % vanishing in thin air
But the lags have finally gone on ICS (Hopes held high)
Rest lets see...
Bdw if you're on root, Antutu Battery saver is kinda good too for saving battery Has helped me
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Yup, ardatdat kernel with performance governor, almost eliminates the Game stutters(I won't call them lags)

The-Droidster said:
Yup, ardatdat kernel with performance governor, almost eliminates the Game stutters(I won't call them lags)
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Hahaha yeahh...stutters
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DeepankarS said:
Hahaha yeahh...stutters
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Great. So 1st thank from my side to you buddy. Hope you will be doing well in future too.

Games still stutter for me, maybe less often but it is still there
Indian ROM & Ardatdat 4.2b6

@Vikesh: Thank you
Yes definitely ^_^ only if i have people like you around me
Helping me out even when i disgust you
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M3r0De4DoR said:
Games still stutter for me, maybe less often but it is still there
Indian ROM & Ardatdat 4.2b6
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On ardatdat kernel use setcpu app to set both the cpu freq's to max(equivalent to performance governor). Then try a game...eg temple run...no lags.

But remember when u select performance then top level of clock will work and hence battery backup goes down.
@deep: buddy its my pleasure if i would suggest or make u understand the thing and become part of ur few moments.
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M3r0De4DoR said:
Games still stutter for me, maybe less often but it is still there
Indian ROM & Ardatdat 4.2b6
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Well if you know how to use SetCpu go ahead it will completely resolve the issue. (Never tried as i am not comfortable..but our senior members do recommend using it )
But if youre still not comfortable with the stutters we have to live with it till official JB arrives (maybe..on samsungs mercy :'( ) :sigh:
Atleast the frequency of the lags seems to go less.
My games even stuttered with PacRom :'( (stick cricket did )
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Guys, One of my friend is working as a senior developer at Samsung in Chennai.. he said there was not even one person voting for jelly bean for our SGR during a discussion about updates thing for all phones in a meeting... Some bulls**t i say for Samsung..!!! Here 1 small group of good buds are doing what a whole company of millions of employees can't do.. XDA u simply rock..!!!

Doesn't work
DeepankarS said:
So yesterday i was researching about gamelags on STOCK ICS.
I found out this solution somewhere.
Initially i did not flash ardatdat's kernel
but
after doing this plus flashing ardatdats kernal lags have like vanished.
So just go to settings---> developer options and check 'Force GPU Rendering' and restart your phone.
Ardatdats kernel Recommended.
Games tried :
1. Temple Run Brave (15 minutes of play..No lag)
2. World Cricket Championship (10 over game..no lag)
3. Farming Simulator
4. Plants vs. Zombies
5. Stick Cricket
6. Stick Tennis
Hope it helps
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Does not work for me

masculinum said:
Does not work for me
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Buddy apply it..and then restart your phone after 2-3 minutes.
If not working use setcpu and clock the minimum to 1000mhz i.e. Max=Min=1000mhz.
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Temple Run 2

Those who r facing error while downloading the temple run 2 from android store due it's large size, here is a direct download link...
http://tool.iapknew.com/2013/01/com.imangi.templerun2-20130124.apk

Playing this game with "better" graphic setting @ 1401MHz is the best setting.
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Does anyone experience slight lag with temple run 2 on sense 4 roms?

I get lags and slow responsiveness on Official ICS 4.0.4

With some tweaks using Kernel Tuner app, I can play this game with "best" graphic setting @ 1401MHz
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Downloads fine from the play store here, on ice cream saga and Andromadus.
Yes, setting the graphics to the highest quality causes lag in the game.
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Getting slight lag on ICS and Andromadus CM 10.1 Build 13 on medium settings at 1510Mhz . I mean it's playable but but sometimes framerate drops. Also I didn't have download issue both on HTC ICS (downloaded through H data) and Andromadus (WiFi).

VnnAmed said:
Getting slight lag on ICS and Andromadus CM 10.1 Build 13 on medium settings at 1510Mhz . I mean it's playable but but sometimes framerate drops. Also I didn't have download issue both on HTC ICS (downloaded through H data) and Andromadus (WiFi).
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Drop the oc down
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Odp: Temple Run 2
Sadly dropping oc didn't help setting it up to 1800mhz did.
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lag !
yes, little bit laggy

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On JB 4.2, At 1.2ghz its quite laggy...but still playable ....A nice update from the imangi I must say..

Great game and no lag

I didn't have any problem with the downloading and actually it drops frames, not lagging. It doesn't affect the gameplay I think.

no lag ...

maxmax195 said:
yes, little bit laggy
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on STOCK ICS many of my games is running too bad and laggy. f.x. subway surfers is lagging.. I don't know, but it seems to be too much overhead in ICS 4.0.0..

vba00 said:
on STOCK ICS many of my games is running too bad and laggy. f.x. subway surfers is lagging.. I don't know, but it seems to be too much overhead in ICS 4.0.4..
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Please stop spamming the threads with pointless and repeated answers just to make your "10-post" limit. I will place money that your amazing question in the Development Forum will be as pointless as your other posts have been so far

SimonTS said:
Please stop spamming the threads with pointless and repeated answers just to make your "10-post" limit. I will place money that your amazing question in the Development Forum will be as pointless as your other posts have been so far
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I dont think so.. but you can check it out in a few minuts in flinnys thread if you want and is bored since you comment on my post. I just follow the rules....

Gaming Performance on ALL custom JB roms

Lately I've been switching back and forth from Stock Samsung JB rom to Custom JB roms (4.2.2) and notice a huge difference in gaming performance and general smoothness.
For me, I feel like all recent custom roms that I've tried, whether its CM10.1, or SLIM6 or AOKP, seem to be a bit laggy when running games compared to the stock JB feel of the same games. It seems like the only way I can get reasonable performance is if I disable hardware overlays, but its still not quite as nice and smooth as stock.
Is this type of thing purely KERNAL controlled? Or is it just the fact that its 4.2.2 and not really optimized for the skyrocket yet? I mean the Android UI feels smoother on custom roms, but in games it does not... I can't wrap my head around that...
Its bugging me because I feel like all these lightweight custom roms should blow away the stock rom in almost all aspects... but if performance can't be better, its a deal breaker for me as daily driver.
I'm sure all the devs are doing their best to work on performance issues and I do appreciate all the hard work going into all the custom roms by the devs, as without them, we'd have nothing to cure our flashing itch of course... :laugh:
Sorry for my lack of knowledge on this, but does anyone have any proven methods of boosting performance of games?

No lag here on cm10.1 gta3, block story, zenonia, majesty, sims 3, game of life, n64, psx, GBA.
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mtdew said:
No lag here on cm10.1 gta3, block story, zenonia, majesty, sims 3, game of life, n64, psx, GBA.
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Hey sorry for the late response.
Hmm, that's interesting. Are you on 10.1 stable or nighties? Hardware overlays disabled?

10.1 stable hw overlays enabled
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mtdew said:
10.1 stable hw overlays enabled
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Oh ok, well are you running any other mods/scripts/tools that would speed up performance? I tried stable as well but it still stuttered for me "out of the box".
ALSO, I can't even get the free game "Subway Surfers" to load off the Play Store at all... does it work for you? It used to work fine for me, but now I'm just getting a black screen on game load (soft keys are lit and system is not frozen), it never starts. I've always done a full wipe, even tried wiping internal SD, and it still won't run. If I go back to stock JB rom, it works perfectly fine everytime....
Maybe the game developer locked it down to only stock kernals with a recent update?!?... is that even possible?

crazycage said:
Oh ok, well are you running any other mods/scripts/tools that would speed up performance? I tried stable as well but it still stuttered for me "out of the box".
ALSO, I can't even get the free game "Subway Surfers" to load off the Play Store at all... does it work for you? If I go back to stock JB rom, it works perfectly fine everytime....
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Start stock if you want play those silly games.
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crazycage said:
Oh ok, well are you running any other mods/scripts/tools that would speed up performance? I tried stable as well but it still stuttered for me "out of the box".
ALSO, I can't even get the free game "Subway Surfers" to load off the Play Store at all... does it work for you? It used to work fine for me, but now I'm just getting a black screen on game load (soft keys are lit and system is not frozen), it never starts. I've always done a full wipe, even tried wiping internal SD, and it still won't run. If I go back to stock JB rom, it works perfectly fine everytime....
Maybe the game developer locked it down to only stock kernals with a recent update?!?... is that even possible?
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No scripts or performance mods stock cm kernel no voltage mods nothing.
I'm not installing subway surfers sorry bit I don't do games like that.
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mtdew said:
No scripts or performance mods stock cm kernel no voltage mods nothing.
I'm not installing subway surfers sorry bit I don't do games like that.
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No worries man but thanks for the replys. I went back to a 4.1.2 Rom and everything is fast and smooth again.

Does the gaming create graphical glitches?.

Hi
I was gaming extensively yesterday and today morning I found many graphical glitches in my phone....
Reboot fixed the problem but I would like to confirm its the gaming that caused the glitches....
Rom.. Angeeks Ics rom
Game. Real racing 3...
Time played within 5 days. 12 hours...
Any idea?? :what::what:
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Sorry buddy, I've not faced anything such. Do try taking a few screen shots if it happens again.
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I have uninstalled the game.. Now everything works fine... I came to know that that game works on low graphics even on Tegra 3 devices and it utilized too much ram..
It used to run as a background process....
Now everything is fine...
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