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Tegra 3 optimized Games and apps -- All About Tegra 4

Since Htc One X will feature the Tegra 3 processor From Nvidia , i thought i would share the awesome games and apps which Are optimized for Tegra 3 power
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First The Apps :
​ 1 - Photaf THD Panorama Pro
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rom Oren Bengigi – a new photo-stitching app that allows you to combine a sequence of photos to create a panoramic view of any scenery. This app accelerates image stitching time by using all four Tegra 3 processing cores. That means more time to create cool photos and less time waiting around.
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from Nik Software – one of the easiest, most intuitive photo editors available for your Tegra 3 device. Take a picture, customize it to your liking and immediately send to friends and family. With Snapseed, you never knew your photos could look so professional, so quick and easy with your Tegra 3 mobile device. Coming to Google Play this summer
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3 - PowerDirector Mobile
from CyberLink– this app was once a powerful desktop-based video editing tool. Thanks to the Tegra 3’s high-performance and battery-friendly 4-PLUS-1 architecture, PowerDirector Mobile will give you the power to manipulate and edit videos on your mobile device. Coming to Google Play this fall.
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""I dont know If Splashtop THd will be supported on the One X but in the Google play market it said tablet tegra 3 powered devices only""
This is a video Showing the previous Apps
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Second the Games :
1 - ShadowGun (Tegra 3)
The Tegra 3-optimized version of SHADOWGUN features console-quality water, enhanced rag-doll physics, particle effects, enhanced shaders and dynamic textures. These are only possible using Tegra 3's multi-core capabilities, and they make for a truly immersive and realistic gaming experience.
The year is 2350, and corrupt intergalactic corporations are the rule of law, hiring bounty hunters and mercs to do their bidding. The best of the best are known as SHADOWGUNS.
SHADOWGUN (Tegra 3) puts you into the role of John Slade, the galaxy’s most infamous bounty hunter. Your mission: hunt down Dr. Edgar Simon, maniacal genius and leader of his own mutant army. Infiltrate Dr. Simon’s mountain fortress and fight his personal guard of cyborgs, battle droids, and genetically-enhanced humanoids. Using state-of-the-art weaponry, ships, and the assistance of S.A.R.A.—Slade’s personal android assistant—SHADOWGUN (Tegra 3) combines intense tactical combat with 3rd person action.
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2 - Dark Kingdom THD
Dark Kingdom THD is optimized for NVIDIA® Tegra® 3. It expresses fantastic high quality graphic - realistic normal map, water effect and etc. showing real breathing graphics. Using NVIDIA® PhysX® technology will provide realistic physical engine effect and particle effect created custom skill and strong equipment battle. Coming soon to TegraZone in 2012.
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3 - Golden Arrow Thd
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Arriving for the first time on Tegra 3 devices, Golden Arrow is an action adventure game. We're promised "higher-resolution textures, high dynamic range lighting, soft shadows" along with "lens flares, explosions, and fires galore." Yup, this description was definitely written by NVIDIA. Still, if there's any Michel Bay fans out there who are looking to get the same thrill from their mobile gaming, NVIDIA is coming for you.
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4 - Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II THD
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In a follow up to Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I, available on the Market now, the sequel is bringing a new set of effects and updated graphics to the classic console games. NVIDIA says the new game will run on Tegra 3 devices cranking out up to 720p HD resolution.
Additionally, the game will bring back Tails, fulfilling his usual sidekick role alongside his big blue buddy. True to the original Genesis version of the game, you can even play a co-op mode with a friend controlling Tails. Episode I was already a fun game, so we're looking forward to seeing this new version and arguing with our friends who gets to be Sonic and who has to be the immortal sidekick.
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​ 5 - Eden to GREEEEN THD
Built on the Unreal Engine, Eden to GREEEEN pits you "against alien machines from another planet" (so we can conclude "alien" doesn't mean "immigrant" here) who are trying to steal Eden's natural resources. It's up to you to save Euphoria, the natural energy of Eden. This totally original story comes with the descriptor "freemium", so we can probably count on some sort of in-app purchases, but NVIDIA promises Eden to GREEEEN won't "skimp on the gaming experience." Fingers crossed.
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6 - Hamilton's Great Adventure THD
The last of the new games NVIDIA is announcing for their Tegra 3 devices, Hamilton's Great Adventure is a strategy/puzzle game that actually seems mildly reminiscent of some of the newer 3D Super Mario games. NVIDIA even claims that the "fully dynamic levels" will "rival what you'd experience on the PC version of the game." The game has been adapted from Bitsquid's DirectX 11 engine.
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7 - meltdown thd
The swarm is arriving...get ready for the final encounter! Designed to take full advantage of the graphics capabilities of your NVIDIA® Tegra® powered phone or tablet, Meltdown on Mars THD features realistic particle effects like smoke, gas and explosions, gorgeous high-detail enemies and environments, and real-time lighting effects.
Meltdown on Mars THD is an action tower-defense style game where the player has to defend himself using turrets, barricades and his own weapons. The game is divided into waves and within each wave the player is attacked by more and more difficult groups of aliens. Can you survive the meltdown?
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NVIDIA Tegra Enhancements: Realistic particle effects, real-time lighting.
Highly-detailed enemies and environments
Populary tower-defense style game meets action shooter.
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8 - Demolition Inc. THD
DEMOLITION, INC. is a new action strategy game: Assume the role of the daring demolition worker Mike and start a devastating chain reaction on earth, use cool tools and weapons and expand your destructive powers!
You navigate Mike's UFO over cities of earth and unfold complete chaos with your tools and weapons: Cars which drive into tower blocks and let them collapse, high-rises which falls onto other high-rises, exploding cows which let whole streets of houses come tumbling down!
DEMOLITION, INC. is 100% physics technology: nothing is predetermined, and nothing is pre-animated. Only you make a determination what you do and what you see! Because of this, every time you play will be a unique experience and you won't get enough from those explosive chain reactions you make by yourself.
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Car and building physics are fully simulated. Everything is destructible and nothing is pre-animated.
Use the endless possibilities of combining your tools and weapons to make devastating chain reactions.
Use your tractor beam to take control of cars, place anti-gravity ramps to maximize damage, use the huge wrecking ball to make way.
Three cities and 15 districts are awaiting to be demolished by you and lead to their true destination!
Compare your skills with those of your friends and the world-wide steam community.
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9 - Jett Tailfin Racers THD
Jett Tailfin Racers THD brings the exciting playful world of the sea to life with lovable characters, challenging races, and fun gameplay. Join JETT TAILFIN and his friends as they compete for Top Finn in a Magical underwater environment and the right to challenge Tom Tsunami for legend of underwater speed!
In Jett Tailfin Racers THD, the tracks represent marine ecosystems. They are modeled after street race tracks, where the racer is forced to interact with characters and objects which are part of the world in which the race takes place. That makes the race more challenging and the environments more interesting.
Users progress through each race to unlock new tracks. Each new track introduces new friends and enemies.
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Designed specifically for phones and tablets using NVIDIA® Tegra® family of mobile processors.
Support for Bluetooth or USB game controllers and stereoscopic 3D. (USB gamepads only supported on Android 3.1 or higher.)
Features motion-blur shaders and other advanced under-water lighting effects.
Family-friendly gameplay.
"The unbelievable performance and high resolution textures in Jett Tailfin Racers THD could only be experienced with NVIDIA Tegra powered devices."
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10 - The sark Meadow THD
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By incorporating high resolution textures and atmospheric real-time lighting effects, The Dark Meadow offers a haunting experience for your NVIDIA® Tegra® powered mobile device.
By maximizing the graphic and gameplay horsepower of the Unreal Engine 3, The Dark Meadow by Phosphor Games Studio delivers a stunning first-person, action/adventure game where players fight to escape a dark fairytale world filled with fantastical creatures bent on destroying them.​
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Console quality graphics: Built to take advantage of the Unreal Engine 3.
Tegra enhanced: Taps into the multi-core processing power of the NVIDIA Tegra family of processors.
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11 - Renaissance Blood THD
Renaissance Blood THD is a shooting game built on the Unreal 3 Mobile Engine and is based on Renaissance period. Developed specifically for the NVIDIA® Tegra 3® chip, this face-paced shooter incorporates complex geometric environments, high-resolution textures, realistic dynamic lighting effecs and real-time physics simulations.
After Leonard DaVinci’s death, heroes of Renaissance started to fight a battle for capturing ‘DaVinci machine’ which DaVinci designed. Using the heroes’ powerful weapons with various DaVinci’s inventions motif, you will experience thrilling action shooting.
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Designed specifically for devices using NVIDIA® Tegra 3®, quad-core mobile superchip
Dynamic character lighting and gamma correction for more realistic light calculations
Interaction of scene objects using advanced physics simulations
"Renaissance Blood THD will leverage Tegra 3 for its multi-threading capabilities, so we can scale across all four CPU cores and deliver the ultimate console-quality performance."
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12 - bladeslinger thd
This game will come to ios and android and will have a special enhanced tegra 3 version by Luma Arcade.
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Thats And more to come , from what Nvidia said , i will keep this thread posted with new tegra 3 optimized apps , and some games from mega companies like EA , Gameloft if they introduced some new Benchmarks games
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I am getting to post the updates in replies and will post direct link to the replies here , because the First thread letters used mustn't exceeds 30000 letters
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The Updates
The Latest update will have this logo on the left
--- Tegra 3 optimized Games and apps --update 20/3-- Mega Companies strikes
--- Tegra 3 optimized Games and apps --update 21/3-- Battlefield 3 THD anyone
--- Tegra 3 optimized Games and apps --update 23/3-- Tegra devi. are getting all the fun​
--- Phone Arena: Quad-core optimized games that you can play right now thx to hamdir
---Tegra 3 optimized Games and apps --update 26/3-- Gameloft and stuff
---Tegra 3 optimized Games and apps --update 6/4-- htc one x gaming and some news
---Tegra 3 optimized Games and apps --update 8/5-- Some quality gaming
--- Mass Effect Infiltrator On the One X
--- New Tegra 3 Game From MadFinger (( Thnx To chrisjcks ))
--- Tegra 3 optimized Games and apps--update 5/6--Guess what became playstation certified (( Thnx To Hamdir ))
Something for the root users to unleash this beast gaming capabilities​
--- Renovate Gaming Boost App
--- [GUIDE+TOOLS] v9.2 ¦ How To Easily Maximize One X Tegra 3 Game performance - root
--- Tegra 3 optimized Games and apps --update 8/7 -- A Comeback
--- Wild Blood iOS IGN Review Thanks to Hamdir
--- Tegra 3 optimized Games and apps--update 12/9 --Assassin's Creed anyone interested ?
please everyone check this post and vote in the link included in it .
---neuTrue message to the Gaming community
--- Tegra 3 optimized Games and apps -- All About Tegra 4
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Hope you like the new look​

Following up on the success of Shadowgun, the folks from Madfinger Games have now taken the covers off the latest addition to their game catalog aptly named Dead Trigger. The zombie inspired first person shooter will bring console like quality gaming thanks to its optimization for NVIDIA Tegra 3 devices. So what's it all about? Glad you asked:
The world has collapsed due to a strange infection that turns regular people into zombies, and it’s up to you and your arsenal of weapons to take down the undead masses.
In other words, you shoot the hell out of those friggin' zombies and have a whole hell of a lot of fun doing it! Dead Trigger will be available near the end of June on the Google Play Store and the NVIDIA TegraZone [/I]
(Source: Android Central)
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Console Quality Gaming
Enhanced Ragdoll Effects
Advanced Water Effects
Advanced Particle Effects
Advanced Fluid Effects
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Absolutely excellent mate! Thanks for taking the time to do this.
I am 100% convinced about getting this new, Tegra is going to help Android move forward and surpass Apple.
Now to decide on a colour
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happy that you both liked it , will try to keep the thread updated
for the color
I will wait to the final version for the bkack model since it had some problem in mwc , if it still have some problem , so white it is , if it's became better , so black for sure

Ali_ultra99 said:
happy that you both liked it , will try to keep the thread updated
for the color
I will wait to the final version for the bkack model since it had some problem in mwc , if it still have some problem , so white it is , if it's became better , so black for sure
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Great thread ... very useful
I did not follow MWC much but what are the problems with the black ONE X?

hpacura said:
Great thread ... very useful
I did not follow MWC much but what are the problems with the black ONE X?
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Think he might mean how the finger prints and dirty mark shows up on the back :/
I see a lot of websites offering grey or white but I want black
Anyway sorry to be off topic, this Tegra optimised games and apps look great, would be good if they were Tegra only
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jameslfc5 said:
Absolutely excellent mate! Thanks for taking the time to do this.
I am 100% convinced about getting this new, Tegra is going to help Android move forward and surpass Apple.
Now to decide on a colour
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This has already happened...
Edit: Unless you mean just in terms of gaming

this needs a sticky!!!!!!

I recommend getting the Nvidia Tegra Zone app. All tegra apps and information.
PS. Don't buy apps now that arent thd like shadowgun. You'll have to rebuy the thd version if u want the features later.

Great thread, thank you

Great summary of all games and apps
But am I am the only one thinking that this is belongs in the themes/apps section?!
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happy that you all like it
the black color had fingerprints problem , the best thing is to by the thd version of the game to get the best out of it

Ali_ultra99 said:
happy that you all like it
the black color had fingerprints problem , the best thing is to by the thd version of the game to get the best out of it
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I am getting the grey version though.. White is not my style ^^
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DaveDesire said:
This has already happened...
Edit: Unless you mean just in terms of gaming
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I mean in terms of Apps and games there are too many **** and ugly apps on Android
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how with compatibility with older games from market like asphalt 6 or with games dedicated to qualcom/adreno ? (sory for ENG)

witek_77 said:
how with compatibility with older games from market like asphalt 6 or with games dedicated to qualcom/adreno ? (sory for ENG)
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All tegra 2 games will be playable on any tegra 3 devices , with other games , EA , Gameloft and mony other developers games was playable on the transformer which had tegra 3
asphalt , nova ,dead space , 9 mm and the list goes and goes

excellent work mate, i will link you in my mega thread

hamdir said:
excellent work mate, i will link you in my mega thread
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thank you very much , you are the reason , I am going with the One X

Ali_ultra99 said:
thank you very much , you are the reason , I am going with the One X
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sigh more and more i feel i deserve a free One X for my efforts

I can't wait to join all the Tegra fun
I take it gaming controllers (PS3 pad) can be used with HTC devices?
Thanks
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Videos of some Tegra 3 Optimized Games on Galaxy S3 using Chainfire 3D

Below are the videos that I have made myself on my SGS3 running chainfire 3D Nvidia Plug-in.
Riptide GP (Tegra 3 optimized)
This video is to show you how enchanted graphics looked like for Nvidia Tegra 3 games on galaxy S3 without having Tegra 3 processor but a better processor
The advance detailed graphics, the water, water splashing effect and blurring of screen on applying boost is only because of these Nvidia Plugin. Use chainfire 3D on non-Tegra 3 devices to have graphics like Tegra 3 devices for Tegra 3 optimized games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taWqyNpi74Y
N.O.V.A 3 (Tegra 3 Optimized)
This video is to show you how enchanted graphics looked like for Nvidia Tegra 3 games on galaxy S3 without having Tegra 3 processor but a better processor
The fire, smoke and falling object from sky are all because of this chainfire 3D and without this plug you would not get this funtionality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncwiDEDdOdo
Sega Sonic 4 Episode II THD (Tegra 3 only Game)
This video is to show you how enchanted graphics looked like for Nvidia Tegra 3 games on galaxy S3 without having Tegra 3 processor but a better processor
This game works only on Tegra 3 devices and it is not out yet for non-Tegra 3 devices. If you do not have Tegra 4 device then install chainfire 3D drivers and Nvidia Plugin and it would run like a charm especially if you have a beast like Galaxy S3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEvCGpZuA8w
Max Payne (Tegra 3 Optimized)
S3 running Max Payne using chainfire 3D Nvidia plugin. However you can play these game without chainfire but as this game is optimized for Tegra 3 so it should show better graphics with chainfire drivers as this game is also optimized for Tegra 3. This way you would get better antistropic texture filtering and lighting effects.
http://youtu.be/hc5-2W4lfsU
GTA 3 (Tegra Optimized)
S3 running GTA3 using chainfire 3D Nvidia plugin. However you can play these game without chainfire but as this game is optimized for Tegra 3 so it should show better graphics with chainfire drivers as this game is also optimized for Tegra 3. This way you would get better antistropic texture filtering and lighting effects.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=por6KMuul7w
I would upload more videos here if I installed more games and have time to make more videos.

Nice! Can you test if Galaxy on Fire 2 works? Been waiting ages to get to play this game.

I was waiting for this, how does chainfire work? I thought it didn't on the S3 can you make a howto please?

I though that chainfire 3d couldn't do tegra3 games, but only tegra2 with the current nvidia plugin... what changed?

i can't find any tegra 3 plugins, i thought chainfire 3d only support tegra 2 games?

ArbiterGR said:
I though that chainfire 3d couldn't do tegra3 games, but only tegra2 with the current nvidia plugin... what changed?
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Not all Tegra 3 exclusive games work. The Riptide GP, Max Payne, GTA 3 are made for all processors but optimized for Tegra 3 so these games works on galaxy S3 but you can enhance graphics (which they made for tegra 3) using chainfire 3D.
I have tested 2 Tegra 3 exclusive games Sonic 4 Episode II THD and Shadow Gun THD (Tegra 3 only) and Sonic works but Shadowgun does not work and just when you are about to download additional files it gives error that Tegra 3 enable device needed.
So chainfire 3D does work on Galaxy S3 for many Tegra 3 optimized games. Samurai Vengeance THD also works but it is a Tegra 2 game. I would try to test more Tegra 3 only game and I would report if anymore would work.

saadi703 said:
Not all Tegra 3 exclusive games work. The Riptide GP, Max Payne, GTA 3 are made for all processors but optimized for Tegra 3 so these games works on galaxy S3 but you can enhance graphics (which they made for tegra 3) using chainfire 3D.
I have tested 2 Tegra 3 exclusive games Sonic 4 Episode II THD and Shadow Gun THD (Tegra 3 only) and Sonic works but Shadowgun does not work and just when you are about to download additional files it gives error that Tegra 3 enable device needed.
So chainfire 3D does work on Galaxy S3 for many Tegra 3 optimized games. Samurai Vengeance THD also works but it is a Tegra 2 game. I would try to test more Tegra 3 only game and I would report if anymore would work.
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I think you're confusing things. Shadowgun, gta3, max payne and more are tegra2 games, hence the plugin works with them. Sonic 4 episode II might be a tegra 3 game, but it's still compatible to tegra2 devices, hence again why the plugin works. Shadowgun THD is a tegra3 *only* game. It wont work on Tegra 2 devices and so far there's no plugin for chainfire that can work for it.
In other words, the current nvidia plugin can only work for tegra2 games.

can ı do it with the S2... galaxy on fire 2 tegra 3 worked well on my S2 device with chainfire 3d

Is this with the experimental driver or just normal installation?
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pennzoilgtr said:
i can't find any tegra 3 plugins, i thought chainfire 3d only support tegra 2 games?
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I am using same plugin. There is no new plugin. Not all Tegra 3 only games work some work like Sonic 4 Episode II works but Shadowgun THD (Tegra 3 only) does not work. Other games I have tested is not Tegra 3 only and run on other processors also but they are optimized for Tegra 3. Good thing is that these optimizations do work on Chainfire 3D which is good thing. At least you can play games in better graphics (enhanced for Tegra 3)

TheMathMan said:
Is this with the experimental driver or just normal installation?
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I have installed the experimental drivers as well but it should work without experimental as well because experimental drivers are required if you want to change the MSAA settings to 4x or 16x. The Riptide GP video that I have shot is using 16x MSAA however without 16x MSAA it still looks as awesome as this.

Galaxy on Fire 2
zombie112 said:
Nice! Can you test if Galaxy on Fire 2 works? Been waiting ages to get to play this game.
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I am downloading it now and I would report shortly whether it is working or not.

ArbiterGR said:
I think you're confusing things. Shadowgun, gta3, max payne and more are tegra2 games, hence the plugin works with them. Sonic 4 episode II might be a tegra 3 game, but it's still compatible to tegra2 devices, hence again why the plugin works. Shadowgun THD is a tegra3 *only* game. It wont work on Tegra 2 devices and so far there's no plugin for chainfire that can work for it.
In other words, the current nvidia plugin can only work for tegra2 games.
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You might be correct but Sonic 4 Episode II is Tegra 3 only at the moment. They would release the Tegra 3 version shortly. I am not confusing it and if you read my posts then I am saying that I am testing those game which works on other processors (beside Tegra 3) but enhanced for Tegra 3. So if you play N.O.V.A 3 on galaxy S3 then you would not get fire, smoke, burning objects falling from sky, lighting effects and other cool effects. You get these effects on Tegra 3 devices but with chainfire 3D you can get these effects. Same is true for Riptide GP. You would water splashing effects, better water effects and blurring effect on turbo boost using Chainfire 3D only. If you check both these games are optimized for tegra 3 games. Check the photos and description in the market for both these games. You don't get these effects on even Tegra 2 devices.
Also in GTA 3 the textures and cars are more detailed using chainfire 3D and I am not sure about GTA 3 whether it is optimized for Tegra 2 or Tegra 3.

ArbiterGR said:
I think you're confusing things. Shadowgun, gta3, max payne and more are tegra2 games, hence the plugin works with them. Sonic 4 episode II might be a tegra 3 game, but it's still compatible to tegra2 devices, hence again why the plugin works. Shadowgun THD is a tegra3 *only* game. It wont work on Tegra 2 devices and so far there's no plugin for chainfire that can work for it.
In other words, the current nvidia plugin can only work for tegra2 games.
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I said earlier that I am more interested in games which are optimized for Tegra 3 to get the visual enhancement. Shawdowgun THD is totally a different game to for download for only Tegra 3 devices and the download for additional files is blocked if you are not using Tegra 3 device. I would check other Tegra 3 only game beside Sonic 4 Espisode II as well whether they work or not but to me the visual enhancement for Tegra 3 optimized (not Tegra 3 only) is good enough reason to install chainfire 3D and I give full credit to chainfire and thank him to make it happen for non-Tegra devices as well. I wish if he can update the drivers to fool the shadowgun THD as well then it would be cool. There is no doubt S3 has better GPU than Tegra 3.

How to install and configure chainfire 3D
Mafiatounes said:
I was waiting for this, how does chainfire work? I thought it didn't on the S3 can you make a howto please?
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I can do the how to video but it is already covered here on XDA forum before. Please search on the forum. The installation is same as on every other mobile i.e.
1-Root your mobile phone
2-Install Chainfire 3D from market (buy pro version if you want per app setting)
3-Once installed, download 3 plugins (you can search through google) Nvidia, Qualcomm, Power PVR
4- Put these three file on your SD Card and install them from within the chainfire 3d application by going to install plugin/shaders
5- once installed open default OpenGL settings and click on use plugin. Chose Nvidia and go back. You are done and start playing game.
6-If you have pro-version then you can do per app settings instead of using default GL settings. Per app settings is also needed if any one of your particular game does not work with these drivers and you can setting plugin to none for that particular game.
I hope it helps.

zombie112 said:
Nice! Can you test if Galaxy on Fire 2 works? Been waiting ages to get to play this game.
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I have tested and the game Galaxy on Fire 2 THD works fine Below is the link where you can see this game on Galaxy S3. The video I have made is crappy and jurky but the game works totally smooth. I think it is Tegra 2 game. I am uploading the video on the below link and in 12 minutes it would be up and running:
http://youtu.be/0SHQ_eVb4xk
Thanks for pushing the thanks button. I appreciate that

Shadown Gun THD is not working on SGS2 with chainfired 3d.. it might not work on SGS3 as well, I guess.
Im now deleting the max paynes mali gpu data files and pasting the tegra 3 s data files.. I hope it will work from my last saved game Im just experimenting.
and can you send me the tegra sd files of riptide gp and the .apk file or tell me which version are you using ?.. because I couldnt find the proper thd version of riptide gp.

saadi703 said:
Thanks for pushing the thanks button. I appreciate that
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Thanks to you I can play the greatest mobile game ever!
Guess it's time to root then...

saadi703 said:
I can do the how to video but it is already covered here on XDA forum before. Please search on the forum. The installation is same as on every other mobile i.e.
1-Root your mobile phone
2-Install Chainfire 3D from market (buy pro version if you want per app setting)
3-Once installed, download 3 plugins (you can search through google) Nvidia, Qualcomm, Power PVR
4- Put these three file on your SD Card and install them from within the chainfire 3d application by going to install plugin/shaders
5- once installed open default OpenGL settings and click on use plugin. Chose Nvidia and go back. You are done and start playing game.
6-If you have pro-version then you can do per app settings instead of using default GL settings. Per app settings is also needed if any one of your particular game does not work with these drivers and you can setting plugin to none for that particular game.
I hope it helps.
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Thanks a lot, it is the normal procedure then like it was for the S2 just wanted to make sure I will apply it as soon as i get my blue S3!

will loading the nvidia plugin cause the game to detect a tegra processor and automatically download the files for it or do i have to find them for each game and manually paste them in?

GPU Overclocking & Tegra 3 Graphics?

Is there anyway to overclock the GPU on the SGH-i747M?
It uses the Adreno 225, which I've found a tad laggy on a few games (notably Ultra-High Graphics on Dead Trigger).
Also is there anyway to get Tegra 3 Graphics on all games? I know about Chainfire and how it won't work. But is there a way to say, get Riptide GP to have Tegra 3 Graphic effects, like Motion Blur and Water Splashes?
The Tegra 3 doesn't handle the game very well :/
Anyways, that's it. Let the "A"'s begin!

Jeez...I am surprised that no one has responded! After my tests, I feel that CF3d killed the graphics performance, even after using multiple plugins, settings and dumps. The game I am mainly testing it on is Asphalt 7 as I am looking for a battery friendly setting.

Nova 3 > slow and laggy

Hello, i palyed nova on my desire hd and it was ok, a bit laggy. Now i started plaing on nexus 7 and its... more laggy with hiper ultra graphic.... is there any way to turn graphic a bit down? I know on order and chaos its enaught to change optimozation=1 to optimizaton=3 in phonelist.txt but i have no idea for nova. My nexus is all stock.
Smexi-Nexi

What battery life you got when playing? As I find all my games lag under 25-30% really strange
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Its the same with 80 as 25 or 50. Just bad. OR gameloft didnt optimized yet nova 3...
Smexi-Nexi

Gameloft did not optimize the game for Tegra3.
Combine that with the fact that tegra3 has an abysmal memory bandwidth and a weak GPU.
The only reason google chose tegra3 for N7 is because it's the cheapest quad core SoC available.

So i hope in nexus 10 with S4 quad...... but forn now.... didmt gameloft said they will optimize nova3, mc3 and few other games specificly for n7?
Smexi-Nexi

Tarhaomenapuu said:
So i hope in nexus 10 with S4 quad...... but forn now.... didmt gameloft said they will optimize nova3, mc3 and few other games specificly for n7?
Smexi-Nexi
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you gotta root your N7 and install the clemsyn kernel to get the most out of gameloft titles. you don't even need to oc the cpu it's what he has done with the gpu that matters. clemsyn has two different versions a 650mhz gpu that i use and a 700mhz gpu just released either one will make nova3 play with no issues. you can also play asphalt7 with the high rez maps enabled which are off by default. trust me the clemsyn kernels are gaming kernels and they WORK.
cheers

The tegra 3 isn't slow by any means. Its that the game is not optimized at all. Its specifically related to Gameloft games. Phones with weaker gpus run it fine. The tegra 3 has plenty of power to run it.
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runs fine here with any kernel ive tried with the stock, aosp, or rasbean jelly roms. try redownloading the game data.

Sorry but i dont mean changing kernel or rom.... not on freash fully supported device...
Smexi-Nexi

Tarhaomenapuu said:
Sorry but i dont mean changing kernel or rom.... not on freash fully supported device...
Smexi-Nexi
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no, dont change the kernel or rom, try redownloading/reinstalling the game/data.

blackhand1001 said:
The tegra 3 isn't slow by any means. Its that the game is not optimized at all. Its specifically related to Gameloft games. Phones with weaker gpus run it fine. The tegra 3 has plenty of power to run it.
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+1 my gs2 runs it like a champ as well as my buddys metropcs esteem

Ok, ill redownload, i have to change tab due to omfg screen lift anyway.
Smexi-Nexi

darkchazz said:
Gameloft did not optimize the game for Tegra3.
Combine that with the fact that tegra3 has an abysmal memory bandwidth and a weak GPU.
The only reason google chose tegra3 for N7 is because it's the cheapest quad core SoC available.
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ok for memory bandwith,but i don't think the tegra3 gpu is "weak".i can play good games with a power vr 540 on mine 2 gnex,with the tegra3 gpu i have wonderful graphic,especially with tegra optimized games.honestly s3 mali apart,i think geforce ulp is the best ATM .don't think adreno 225 is better that ours..only a rivisited 220 with directx support.and the fact of have tegra optimized games for me it'a good think.i was totally unsatisfied with tegra2 Soc,but with tegra3 in a device like n7,i'm good to go.i play nova without problem,not have like op sad

sert00 said:
ok for memory bandwith,but i don't think the tegra3 gpu is "weak".i can play good games with a power vr 540 on mine 2 gnex,with the tegra3 gpu i have wonderful graphic,especially with tegra optimized games.honestly s3 mali apart,i think geforce ulp is the best ATM .don't think adreno 225 is better that ours..only a rivisited 220 with directx support.and the fact of have tegra optimized games for me it'a good think.i was totally unsatisfied with tegra2 Soc,but with tegra3 in a device like n7,i'm good to go.i play nova without problem,not have like op sad
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Yeah, and the tegra 3 does a great job with the 2d rendering of android 4.0+. The adreno accelerates very little of the interface and the Mali (friends epic 4g touch) while fast was never as smooth as my nexus on cyanogenmod even with that low res screen.
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Nova 3 and most other Gameloft games have always run like dodo on my N7 and Prime (both tegra 3 devices), its not your hardware, custom kernels do help a little but not nearly enough to provide an enjoyable game experience, I'm gonna assume most who say Nova 3 runs fine with no lag, are more casual gamers rather then hard core gamers, this group generally accepts that anything over 15 FPS is "smooth gameplay to them", which is hardly smooth to me, as i'm in the group labelled hard core gamer. To me smooth is 60 FPS and above, the higher the FPS the smoother the gameplay is gonna feel, also micro stutters/freezes and pauses is not smooth, the term smooth is subjective...granted there isnt a FRAPS type utility for android however if you are a experienced hard core gamer you can generally estimate the FPS your getting, Nova on my N7 along with most other Gameloft games I'd say runs anywhere between 15- 40 FPS, if it was optimized it would alot smoother much like shadowgun dead trigger run, or Dark Meadow on the Unreal 3 engine.

casual gamers or hardcore gamers like you,when a person play a games and say that it's smooth,it's smooth and stop,i don't know why we should be hardcore gamers only to see if a games lags or not.Anyway i'm triyng few games of gameloft (not tegra optimized) and i admit that nova 3 it isn't perfect,need a bit of optimization yet.on mine gnex instaed runs very well,with power vr sgx 540 overclocked at 512 mhz

New Anti-Lag Apk
djkinetic said:
Nova 3 and most other Gameloft games have always run like dodo on my N7 and Prime (both tegra 3 devices), its not your hardware, custom kernels do help a little but not nearly enough to provide an enjoyable game experience, I'm gonna assume most who say Nova 3 runs fine with no lag, are more casual gamers rather then hard core gamers, this group generally accepts that anything over 15 FPS is "smooth gameplay to them", which is hardly smooth to me, as i'm in the group labelled hard core gamer. To me smooth is 60 FPS and above, the higher the FPS the smoother the gameplay is gonna feel, also micro stutters/freezes and pauses is not smooth, the term smooth is subjective...granted there isnt a FRAPS type utility for android however if you are a experienced hard core gamer you can generally estimate the FPS your getting, Nova on my N7 along with most other Gameloft games I'd say runs anywhere between 15- 40 FPS, if it was optimized it would alot smoother much like shadowgun dead trigger run, or Dark Meadow on the Unreal 3 engine.
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I recently put together an Anti-Lag mod of this game which you can download form here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L40UZCTDC0

[Q] GPU-heavy Android games to test Adreno 305

Dear fellow S4 Mini guys,
I have bought this wonderful device a week ago, and since then it gave me nothing but usability comfort and modern smartphone awesomeness (I think its part High-end and part Middle-end (namely PPI and GPU are of the middle-end. You are welcome to discuss this though).
Being a mobile gaming junkie, the first I did is fire up a latest PPSSPP and playing some PSP titles, and I am still amazed at how the ARM cores have matured over time, Qualcomm Krait 300 (and 400 that started to appear just right now) and ARM Cortex A15 currently being state-of-the-art.
However, my grudge is against the GPU, which is less important to platform emulation than it is to native Android games. While it is enough for any game I actually play on S4 Mini, it is showing its middle-end teeth on the games like Iron Man or even Vice City. And I started to wonder what this Adreno 305 GPU is actually about. I've been for quite some time apart from recent 3D Android titles, and have seldom spare time for checking anything that is downloadable to figure out for myself.
So I wanted to know what games are the most GPU-intensive and demanding so I could test them and get a grip on the general GPU performance of S4 Mini. Not that it would change anything, but once the curiosity starts to spread... From Youtube videos I know that N.O.V.A. 3 runs quite good.
Thank you in advance, and you are most welcome to discuss the general performance of our device and your notes on performance of specific games.

Roguenova said:
Dear fellow S4 Mini guys,
I have bought this wonderful device a week ago, and since then it gave me nothing but usability comfort and modern smartphone awesomeness (I think its part High-end and part Middle-end (namely PPI and GPU are of the middle-end. You are welcome to discuss this though).
Being a mobile gaming junkie, the first I did is fire up a latest PPSSPP and playing some PSP titles, and I am still amazed at how the ARM cores have matured over time, Qualcomm Krait 300 (and 400 that started to appear just right now) and ARM Cortex A15 currently being state-of-the-art.
However, my grudge is against the GPU, which is less important to platform emulation than it is to native Android games. While it is enough for any game I actually play on S4 Mini, it is showing its middle-end teeth on the games like Iron Man or even Vice City. And I started to wonder what this Adreno 305 GPU is actually about. I've been for quite some time apart from recent 3D Android titles, and have seldom spare time for checking anything that is downloadable to figure out for myself.
So I wanted to know what games are the most GPU-intensive and demanding so I could test them and get a grip on the general GPU performance of S4 Mini. Not that it would change anything, but once the curiosity starts to spread... From Youtube videos I know that N.O.V.A. 3 runs quite good.
Thank you in advance, and you are most welcome to discuss the general performance of our device and your notes on performance of specific games.
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I'm not sure which game will really stress the 305, but the games I have tested work flawlessly with steady fps:
-Battlefield Bad Company 2
-Asphalt 7
-Asphalt 8
-Dead Space
-Modern Combat 3
-Modern Combat 4
-Riptide GP2
-Shadow Gun
-GTAIII
-GTA Vice City (works but got car/screen freezing though)
-Gangstar 4 Rio
-Gangstar 5 Vegas
-Need for Speed Most Wanted
-Mass Effect
-Street Fighter IV HD
-Sim City
-He-Man
-Kairo
-N.O.V.A 3
-Drastic NDS emu
-ePsxe PS1 emu
-Sine Mora
-Sonic 4 Episode 1 & 2
-Robot Unicorn Attack 2
-Respawnables
-CSR Racing 2
-----update Sep/01/2013-----
-The Room
-Virtual Tennis - World Tour
-Puddle HD
-Call of Duty Black Ops - Zombies
--- Update Sept/29/2013 ---
FIFA 14
-Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded
-Rayman Jungle Run
-Carmageddon
-Worms 2 Armageddon
-Breach & Clear 2
-DosBox Turbo incl. various dosgames and Windows 3.11 Enterprise.
-Don't run with a Light Saber
-Ravensword
**Test purpose only, i do not play these games**
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Thanks, I'll check out some of these games tonight.
However, from my experience with 2011 Xperia Play I can state the following:
Dead Space, Shadowgun, Mass Effect and Need for Speed Most Wanted will run flawlessly on anything even remotely more powerful than Adreno 205, which is considerably behind Adreno 305.
Btw, I forgot to add that Carmageddon, GPU-accelerated mode of FPSE and N64oid run flawlessly as well. But I believe they are not GPU-demanding enough to push the limits of S4 Mini.

Take a look at a game called "The Room". Quite fun as a puzzle game and looks quite nice.
Seem to hit some snags here and there. You determine if it's poor optimisation or if it's just GPU-intensive.
Another game that looks quite good from the screenshots (don't really play fast-paced games on my phone) is a game called Galaxy on Fire 2 HD (it's free).

Galaxy on Fire 2 HD isn't supported on the I9195 though

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Galaxy on Fire 2 HD isn't supported on the I9195 though
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Oh really, well that sucks. I'm able to download it on my I9190.
Edit:Just finished downloading. Confirmed working on I9190.
I wonder why it isn't supported on the I9195.

Eradica said:
Oh really, well that sucks. I'm able to download it on my I9190.
Edit:Just finished downloading. Confirmed working on I9190.
I wonder why it isn't supported on the I9195.
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Yes it is indeed weird. I've emailed the developers and their reply:
Thank you very much for the report, that Galaxy on Fire 2 HD is not available for your Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini LTE, we'll forward it to our development team in order to let them check this issue and whether the game should be compatible with this device.
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nova 3 does not run
JMailuhu said:
I'm not sure which game will really stress the 305, but the games I have tested work flawlessly with steady fps:
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Asphalt 7
Asphalt 8
Dead Space
Modern Combat 3
Modern Combat 4
Riptide GP2
Shadow Gun
GTAIII
GTA Vice City (works but got car/screen freezing though)
Gangstar 4 Rio
Gangstar 5 Vegas
Need for Speed Most Wanted
Mass Effect
Street Fighter IV HD
Sim City
He-Man
Kairo
N.O.V.A 3
Drastic NDS emu
ePsxe PS1 emu
Sine Mora
Sonic 4 Episode 1 & 2
Robot Unicorn Attack 2
Respawnables
STR Racing 2
nova 3 says device not supported
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That is in "your case" through the playstore yes. If you get the APK from other sources, you can install it. Basically most games that say "Not Compatable" are compatable anyways.. it's just the playstore that thinks your device is not supported.
Beware that if you have editted your build.prop and your DPI, playstore can also have compatability issues because its 240dpi for this device.
Also I'm not listing games if they do not work, obviously!
NOVA3 just works fine.
note: My list has been updated!
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Try out Ravensword. Runs on the unity engine but graphics are pretty good! It's been described as skyrim for Android, minus the largeness.
P.S. it should still be available as part of the humble bundle. humblebundle.com

Dungeon Hunter 4
is dungeon hunter 4 running fine? some reviews say it lags
edit: and dark knight rises as well

I'm playing galaxy on fire 2 hd without any lag
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305
I have Xperia M (Can't afford more than that) , it also have Adreno 305 , i can run games like Dead Trigger , Shadow Gun , Real Racing 3 ,Asphalt 7 and 8 and the game runs pretty smooth , too bad i can't play games like MC4 and NOVA 3 cuz of its internal size . Nevertheless , its a good GPU :good:

iKlutz said:
I'm playing galaxy on fire 2 hd without any lag
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Yes! They finally removed the restriction on the GT-I9195!

Whosat said:
Yes! They finally removed the restriction on the GT-I9195!
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Yeah but note that you need to force 4x MSAA in developer options to make it play.
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