[Galaxy 3 Themes and Apps] :
Hey again XDAers!

I have posted a similar thread before, but it did not comply with some forum rules, so it was deleted. I will try to post it again without the counter-band.

If you tried to play a game and all you could see were white textures, this tut is a solution for that.

* First you need to install a 3rd party OpenGL driver for SG3, download it from the official Google market here:

https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.chainfire.cf3d

* You need to have root priviledges on your phone in order to install the driver and you need at least 500KB of free space in "system/" folder. When you install this app, go to the "CF3D driver" menu and tap install. The CF3D app will reboot your phone automatically.

* Now you need to get additional plugins for your new OpenGL driver (basically shaders from specific manufacturers like Qualcomm, nVidia etc.). You can search the inter-tubes for "libGLEMU_QUALCOMM.zip", "libGLEMU_POWERVR.zip" and "libGLEMU_NVIDIA.zip" to get the shaders from three major manufacturers.

* Place these .zip archives into your SD card (any location will do) and then install them from the CF3D app by tapping the "install plug-ins and shaders" menu, The app will find available plugins and ofer to install them.

* To play NFS Shift, Asphalt5, PES11, Assassins Creed and similar games you need to set up the driver:

- Go to "Default OpenGL settings" - NOT "Per-app OpenGL settings" and check the box next to "Reduce Texture Quality"

and leave other options unchecked

.

- Tap the "Use plugin" drop down menu and choose Qualcomm plugin - if you don't choose this plugin, games will still have white textures (some games work with different plugins, so experiment, but these four games work with Qualcomm).

* To play NOVA, BiA2, MW, Miami Vindication, you need to check both "Reduce texture quality" and "Reduce texture size" in OGL settings.

If you get white text or white textures, you've done something wrong, you have most probably checked the "Reduce texture size" checkbox which is causing the white text or you didn't tick it and you have white textures in specific games. If you still get white textures check if you have selected the Qualcomm plugin! Play with the settings, you can't brake anything permanently, some games require different plugins and different settings.

NOTE: You can't play genuine HD games on SG3 this way, so

don't buy

them from the market, you have to find moded/ported games for SG3's or similar resolution, port is usually done by Noops. These games are considered "Warez" on this forum, even if there are no paid versions of these games - so there will be no links.

Tip: Look for a Ukranian site link below in the posts, it's very educational ;)

You need both the .apk file and the cache archive (КЕШ). The cache needs to be extracted to specific folder in SD card (usually /gameloft/games/). Do not download the files via app from official servers, use the provided cache files.

Thanks to devs who ported these games! Noops, Alelug, max71rus @ 4PDA.ru forums. If there are more, please let me know.

Here is a video of some of these games running on SG3 with this method, thanks to werker123:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBmIywNuU48

This is exclusively an educational thread, mods, if you deem that this thread is not appropriate, please PM me, I will correct anything that needs to be corrected - don't just delete it.