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[Galaxy S II General] bazzag:
Some crashes here and there, a few slowdowns in cutscenes, but otherwise it's definitely the highest quality Android game I've played. Shadowgun might be graphically better but otherwise it's mediocre.
[Galaxy S II General] tychoma:
Yep this is what I'm getting. When looking in the market place piace from the phone there aren't multiple entries, just one ("purchased"). I've emailed R* so I'll just have to wait and see.
[Galaxy S II General] Andy2.2:
Got the game working with a different ROM

Compared it with my mate's iphone 4s, and his graphics looked so much better, for example there aren't even lights on our cars :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] darkchazz:
True..

It even looks like it's running on a resolution lower than the native 480x800, which results in the horrible blur and visible jaggies all over the place...

It's a shame to see such a powerful and popular device get shafted by the developers :o
[Galaxy S II General] kangaxx:
that's right
[Galaxy S II General] petsasj:
I'm having an absolute nightmare completing "bomb da base: act ii". Using a sniper riffle with the analog pad is so so so slow. One would think that Rockstar would have made the sniper rifle move with touch scrolling, no?
[Galaxy S II General] markhd:
Anybody who lost it after updating or changine rom you can take the apk from app-private in a nandroid (if you made one) and install like a normal. Apk.

It runs and asks to redownload. Seems to work but don't know if its gonna ask me to download files every startup. Ill confirm when its finished as I'm mobile right now so taking a while. I've. Also emailed and tweeted rockstar no reply as yet
[Galaxy S II General] blueseeker:
Just bought it, it works with freezing in cut-scenes and some random crashes. Chainfire settings don't do a thing. The graphics kinda suck. Low texture quality. And the audio is too compressed.

It looks like this version isn't for high-end devices ...
[Galaxy S II General] r8zer:
GTA works fine for me, suprised how good on screen controls work.
[Galaxy S II General] mora_93:
gta 3 works very fine on beloved sgs2 with only chainfire nvidia plug in not even chainfire pro(not available to buy from market in egypt :mad::mad:)

but i would like it more on xbox or ps3 or pc hope i helped
[Galaxy S II General] fer866:
Works for me too!!
[Galaxy S II General] r8zer:
i dont have chansfire installed and it still works brilliantly.
[Galaxy S II General] davelinders:
Thats exactly the same what I have.

So bad that the nvidia cache freezes so much, I liked the sharp image of that.
[Galaxy S II General] ThatBadAssMofo:
Thats what I'm starting to think. After all Rockstar did say that the S2 wouldn't be supported at launch. And people are reporting that they can't find it on the marketplace any more which leads me to believe that making it available for download on the S2 was a mistake.

But with that said, if you managed to get it and it runs, then enjoy cause it's fun as hell!
[Galaxy S II General] Guantanamo86:
hey guys try this and enjoy!!

download this file: http://www.multiupload.com/92CD99LFSP

copy (with overwriting) archive contents to android/data/com.rockstar.gta3/files/gta3/

Enjoy nice graphics
[Galaxy S II General] petsasj:
Wow DUDE! Thank you so much!

This must be taken from some tablet i think, because the navigation controls were misplaced and they look smaller!

But other than that it's perfect! Guantanamo i can't thank you enough! Lights work and everything!!
[Galaxy S II General] Guantanamo86:
i ike it too:)

i have found it in the hp touchpad forum;)

the controls can you make bigger then ist everything alright:)
[Galaxy S II General] ThatBadAssMofo:
This doesn't seem to work for me. It just causes the game to crash as soon as I move my character.
[Galaxy S II General] blueseeker:
lol, THANKS a bunch. Now it has the proper colors and textures :D

After I replaced the file, there were no controls so: options > controls > restore defaults.

After reset the controls were too small so: options > controls > adjust on foot & adjust driving controls and move them around to make room to double tap it for some huge dimensions

P.S.: Now the traffic lights are there :p
[Galaxy S II General] Winged4Ever:
How can I make chainfire use sgs2's cache? This is impossible to play with those strange annoying lags (whole game is freezing except the map).
[Galaxy S II General] davelinders:
What cache did you use?

Stock or Nvidia?

Ok it worked for me on stock cache but game crashed after a minute of playing.

Textures are very sharp and controls are adjustable.

More people have freezes (only when in car) with that .set file?

No, what have you done then to get it to work properly?
[Galaxy S II General] rozza21:
At the start menu of the gane, instead of pressing resume what you probably did, scroll to new game and start a new game, it should just work from there...
[Galaxy S II General] wicked245:
Working great here really an improvement, but the on display controls are kinda small...

Fixed it :)
[Galaxy S II General] beaver2233:
Thanks heaps, looks much better (after resizing controls as well)... Started new game, froze twice in a row, third time seems to be working just fine now :D
[Galaxy S II General] shaq1907:
Could someone post a screenshot of this patch and original graphics?
[Galaxy S II General] syndragon:
working fine on gs2

no chainfire

but i had some lockups in teh beginning

didnt play much so dunno if they would go on
[Galaxy S II General] tychoma:
I can now confirm that as of 15:00 yesterday it is back on the app store for SGS2 and works like a dream (apart from certain cutscenes' video freezing). Thanks for your help all.
[Galaxy S II General] bentez2003:
I'm on cm7 and can't find android/data so I went to data/data/com.Rockstar.Gta3 and created files/gta3 and extracted it there but I don't see any change, what am I doing wrong?

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] Guantanamo86:
I have the same problem, which start at the first time the game crashes. If I reboot and then begin to play then it runs whotout any problems!

The control you can zoom in settings
[Galaxy S II General] D3_:
It should be in android/data/com.rockstar.gta3 on your internal sdcard.
[Galaxy S II General] gnan10:
thanq buddie........its working much better than before....resolution and texture quality is some what better after doing this....and control bottons size got reduced....anyways what is that mod related to......??????

:):):)
[Galaxy S II General] pollanza:
Thank you very much!

Graphics is really perfect now but I'm noticing some serious lag after few minutes of play. What can determine that? Some ram related problem?
[Galaxy S II General] oupsss83:
me too...:confused:

so we have to choose : smooth without lights or lag with...:mad:
[Galaxy S II General] nitrounit:
i noticed that after a few minutes i get freezes which are very annoying and are at certain locations... they are really strange as the game still runs, the radar and buttons work and if i move i can see the movement on the minimap but the image is frozen also the time keeps going... really annoying since there are timed missions.... tried reinstall didnt work... anyone else got this? :mad:
[Galaxy S II General] tychoma:
Not sure if the gta3.set file Guantanamo posted are the same I got from user Xplay__ on GTAForums, but they really do improve the graphics so much... the lighting adds so much the City feel. It did crash a few times for me initially but once it starts working it seems to be stable enough. Someone asked for comparisons, here's some (not mine) from user Jantsu92 at GTAForums
[Galaxy S II General] oleost:
You got a link?
[Galaxy S II General] tychoma:
http://straubinger-web.de/Android/Downloads/gta3.set

Credit: XPlay__

You will need to change language back from German, and restore controls to default to have on screen controls
[Galaxy S II General] oupsss83:
THANKS !!! seems to be better !

for 5 minutes playing, I've been driving everywhere in the city and just one little lag, great to have beautiful colors and lights !
[Galaxy S II General] russ18uk:
Game keeps lagging when I try and kill the Chinese dude. I freeze, the game doesn't so I can fire away and kill people but can't see where I'm going and he's gone. Pain in the ass :/
[Galaxy S II General] rsm86:
At the risk of sounding like a noob, how can I buy this outside of the us? I'm rooted and thanks to market enabler I can now see the different gta versions on the market corresponding to the US, Japan, Germany and Australia versions or whichever they were... However when I try to buy it, as soon as it says it is authorizing the transaction, a pop up appears saying the item can't be installed in my country. This happens with all of the regional versions as well. Am I sol?

I've tried searching but I haven't come across an answer. Any tips?

Thanks! I'm in Costa Rica by the way.
[Galaxy S II General] ThatBadAssMofo:
That actually exactly what I did :p.

I'll try this out later and give an update.
[Galaxy S II General] BM08:
I got this a few days ago, i noticed it played fine at first, then the following day i noticed it lagging every few seconds, it was basically unplayable, and then abit later i tried again, it played with no lag this time but when i got near the hospital i got a kind of green hue over the whole screen, then when i drove away and around a few corners it was fine again.

Also i tried to go to someones house for work, but i found myself going round and circles as i was right ontop of the house in the map, yet i could not see an entrance anywhere, after a short while i realised there was some graphics glitches that put a wall where there should have been an entrance, so i just walked through the wall and carried on, after the cut scenes the graphics sorted themselfs out and the entrance was there again, but apart from that it runs mint lol.
[Galaxy S II General] freemini:
Comparing this to the iPad 2 version, it runs just as smooth. However, there are no traffic lights, no car lights and the reflections on the cars seem worse on the galaxy s2. I guess that's why it isn't officially supported yet, I hope all the things I can see on iPad 2 will be on my phone too.
[Galaxy S II General] Gebells:
To improve graphics you can do this:

download: This package and unzip -

sendspace.com/file/oz66mc

Now choose 1 file from package :

SGS2 - default SGS2 - no lighting,worst textures, and draw distance

Tegra - better textures , lighting on! ( I prefer this one)

4pda - looks better than Tegra (but it crashes a lot for me..)

If you choose for example tegra_gta3.set then rename it to gta3.set and replace in

\GT-I9100\Phone\Android\data\com.rockstar.gta3\files\GTA3

IMPORTANT : Game could crash a few times, it's normal -( it freeze and crash for 2-3 times) after that everything will be fine.
[Galaxy S II General] fiestec:
The games unplayable. Lags all the time, what a joke. Guessing I have the tergra version as it won't work without that plugin, got unrolled textures, MSAA x16 and the better graphics on still freezes all the time although the map animation carries on.
[Galaxy S II General] blueseeker:
Ok, after playing a little let's just say that this game is unplayable.

Both low res and high res have cut-scenes freezes and random crashes.

In low-res the gameplay works fine but the graphics are lame.

In high-res the game has some points on the map where even if the game works, the graphics freeze every time when the character passes by and you need to press a button to leave the car, enter a car or go to map, etc.

R* needs to sort this out !
[Galaxy S II General] IINexusII:
ive uploaded a version of the tegra settings file, with resized controls like the stock s2 settings.

credits to Gebells, tychoma and Xplay__ :)
[Galaxy S II General] 08r3308:
I brought mine when it was still on market , and after latest samsung update 2.3.6 i did full restore to oem spec.

Now i canot see it on market nor can i download. Was running perfect on my phone
[Galaxy S II General] xaznxplaya:
Just gave it a try tonight, it was smooth.
[Galaxy S II General] elmonen:
This one seems to be working good with no lags! Thank you!
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
Damn i downloaded this game but im never able to download the SD card data whats wrong ? it doesnt start :'(
[Galaxy S II General] elmonen:
Whoops.. Spoke too early.. It does freeze sometimes.. Not quite as bad as with the earlier file i tested..
[Galaxy S II General] beaver2233:
+1... Hopefully there will. Be a lag/crash-free version soon :P
[Galaxy S II General] musashiro:
GTA III works smooth on my s2
[Galaxy S II General] benyamin22:
hi

pda version works great and smooth in my sgs2 but there is no button on the right of the screen :confused: is there any hope ? :D
[Galaxy S II General] tychoma:
The Run/Jump buttons? If you go to Pause > Options > Controls > Restore Defaut, all on-screen controls will return. You can edit the positioning/size of the buttons from that settings screen as well.
[Galaxy S II General] oupsss83:
works fine, thanks
[Galaxy S II General] IINexusII:
first time it lagged for me too, but after a restart it works fine. done a few missions now without any lag :) credits to the people stated in my post, i just modified the controls

make sure youre not running NVIDIA in chainfire, i set it as a per-app setting to not use any plugins
[Galaxy S II General] oupsss83:
where did you got your pda version ?

have a link ?
[Galaxy S II General] benyamin22:
I used 4pda_gta3.set from this thread with chainfire 3D : unroll textures checked

and infected V3 rom

there is problem when car got fast is a bit laggy but totally is playable and graphic much better than tegra version.
[Galaxy S II General] Harsha Raj:
Also here from Sensation forum infazz enabled a effects and stuffs xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1399258

Couldn't read whole of the thread to see if its posted. Excuse me if its posted already.
[Galaxy S II General] DrunkFuX666:
Hey guys I have a question... why are you ppl using chainfires app when you can run the game perfectly fine without it... is there some added benefit I'm missing...??

Iv been playing since this morning after normally downloading the SD files etc... only issue is how the notification always stays in the status bar of if you want to return to the game, even if you exit it...

Sent from my Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S II General] IINexusII:
yeah its already up look at the last two pages lol... but your link seems to have better controls layout..

thread opener could you please post these setups on the first post so that everyone can see it?
[Galaxy S II General] samoz83:
I use it just to unroll textures and to add 12x MSAA to improve the look that little bit more
[Galaxy S II General] diminishdim:
it usually goes off if you kill it via task manager,long press home button-task manager
[Galaxy S II General] David Horn:
Found another gta.set file from GTAForums.com. This has all the effects, high resolution, and doesn't exhibit the green cast or freezing that the others do. Good performance on SGS2 underclocked to 1GHz. Chainfire 3D set to "Unroll Textures" only.

You'll need to change the language back to English and reconfigure the controls as normal.
[Galaxy S II General] freemini:
So the Gta.set file is the video config file? If I copy it from my iPad 2 it should enable all the effects and reflections I see on it?
[Galaxy S II General] DrunkFuX666:
This is giving the green hue and its also not giving all the lighting effects etc... the post a few posts up gave all the effects but the terrible green hue...

Tho yes restoring to defaults fixed the controls as did changing the language...

Sent from my Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S II General] DrunkFuX666:
On cm7 so don't have a task manager that way unfortunately...

Sent from my Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S II General] freemini:
the patches here make the game crash until you reset default in controls. That makes it look just like my iPad's controls. A few moves and resizes later, works like a charm. It's even playable with MSAA at 16x but I'll keep at 4x. The only weird things are some yellow lines in the distance..
[Galaxy S II General] dervomsee:
But going to settings->apps->gta3 and kill it ist very fast too...
[Galaxy S II General] matee89:
GTA 3 has been updated to version 1.1. According to Rockstar Games post on Facebook and their homepage, Samsung Galaxy S II is now officially supported :) !

/source:

http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/19911/grand-theft-auto-iii-10-year-anniversary-edition-for-android-upd.html
[Galaxy S II General] AJ.Rockwell:
Jup, updated and tried to play a little... Game doesn't freeze in cutscenes and works smooth now ;-)

Sent from outer space by aliens on tapatalk using SGS2
[Galaxy S II General] pplcallmeGOD:
The game is not showing up for me on the Market. Running MIUI 1.12.16. Anyone here know how to get the game to show up on the market with MIUI or am I going to have to switch ROM's?
[Galaxy S II General] AJ.Rockwell:
You could perhaps try a different kernel? I'm using Siyah and everything is fine and dandy :-)

Sent from outer space by aliens on tapatalk using SGS2
[Galaxy S II General] diminishdim:
Oh ya , just install adv task killer , a really handy tool in cm7 or every other rom for that matter
[Galaxy S II General] maddada:
for task management i recommend an app called multitasking pro. i've been using it since i first flashed miui and its Awsome. :D
[Galaxy S II General] ThatBadAssMofo:
Excellent news! And who thought it would take them months to support it? :o

Any word on how it performs with this patch? Does the S2 get all dem graphiks goodness?
[Galaxy S II General] xmfpdlemalnz@hotmail.com:
i'm thinking of purchasing this app.

With 1.1 version, how's the graphics?

Do i still need to replace set.file to get good graphics?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] matee89:
Going to update soon. Will post you some info about a graphics then :)
[Galaxy S II General] superleeds27:
Cant really tell the difference tbh!
[Galaxy S II General] petsasj:
I wasn't suggested to redownload anything from the market. I am using the gta3.set from the pda version where graphics are super good, and i had a crash. Thinking of redownloading game data.

Judging from that changelog, it says they added PowerVR support, not Mali-Arm support, perhaps they mistyped the Galaxy SII for the Galaxy S I which contains the PowerVR GPU. But I hope that's not the case.

For those that do not get any crashes, how are the graphics compared to the pda version?
[Galaxy S II General] matee89:
Well .. I am kind of dissapointed of this release. Graphics are low (without lights, low textures, etc.) like it was on stock 1.0 for SGS2.. Now I cannot even find gta3.set file to improve graphics manually and see if it works without lagspikes on 1.1 release. Bad :(

/ putting the gta3.set file into the same place works. It's generated when you save the game i suppose. Will tell you if there is still lagspikes with 4pda gta3.set file or not after a longer gameplay
[Galaxy S II General] bentez2003:
should we reapply gta3.set after updating?

Whats the best looki gta3.set at the moment? is it still the Tegra version?
[Galaxy S II General] matee89:
bentez2003: the best looking is 4pda version, but I don't know how's it's stability. I will test it later in a longer gameplay and give my feedback. You can try it yourself. I have re-downloaded all the stuff to avoid any issues (just to be sure). I did re-apply the gta3.set (4pda).
[Galaxy S II General] bentez2003:
Cheers matee, you got a link to the 4pda version?
[Galaxy S II General] matee89:
Here it is my friend:

http://sendspace.com/file/oz66mc

It's a rar package with original *set file, tegra and 4pda.
[Galaxy S II General] petsasj:
Shouldn't there be a new .set file for PowerVR and Mali Arm now?
[Galaxy S II General] matee89:
petsasj:

No idea. The original one from the 1.1 was without lights, low resolution, etc. like the 1.0 version, so I don't think that Rockstar Games made any significant changes into SGS2 set file. You still do need to replace this file to get better graphics.
[Galaxy S II General] petsasj:
I still do think that they made a typo. I think they added Samsung Galaxy S 1 support, which has the same PowerVR GPU as the Galaxy Nexus, instead of the S2. I do get some crashes with the 4pda set file, i was hoping that'd be gone.
[Galaxy S II General] bentez2003:
thanks matee I will try the PDA version now
[Galaxy S II General] tychoma:
Sigh.

I''ve updated to 1.1, didn't notice much difference because the gta£.set with the lighting effects was still present.

But damn, I'm on the mission "Salvatore has called a meeting", and as soon as the Triads attack, the game freezes (controls still active). And I just can't get out of there. It seems as soon as there's any action at all the game freezes up, effectively making anything other than cruising around impossible. There's no way I'd be able to complete the game if it freezes like this. Might have to try again with the default gta3.set and see if it still crashes at the same point in the mission...
[Galaxy S II General] bentez2003:
Same, updated to 1.1 using the Tegra gta3.set and on most missions with lots of action im getting lag/freezes, its not crashing though and I'm getting through the missions because I know this game so well but either we need updated .set files or that update was rubbish..
[Galaxy S II General] walidbang:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wmNfpTVBfo&list=UU2aVtEgFA_ZKN4dIbyVW5dQ&index=1&feature=plcp

another video of me playing it with sixaxis controller
[Galaxy S II General] tango280581:
I bought from market and lights and everything working spot on. It crashed twice initially but after that runs perfect. No lag or freezing at all
[Galaxy S II General] Elistheman:
mine does that too..... + after 10 sec i can play but the mission itself is too stupid since those trucks crashing at you lol
[Galaxy S II General] tychoma:
I want to complete the game again but if it's crashing with this level of action, I am hesitant to go any further because as the missions become more involved and frenzied, it will be more and more frustrating if I fail a mission because of a freeze...

I'm going to try the mission again later with the default gta3.set and I will report back.
[Galaxy S II General] Harsha Raj:
Oh glad that the post is useful in some ways :D
[Galaxy S II General] fro5tie:
That is awesome! Which MHL adapter do you have? Do you need a certain TV or will it connect to any via HDMI?
[Galaxy S II General] DrunkFuX666:
An mhl should connect to any tv or monitor that supports HDMI input... I have the original Samsung one which works... unfortunately am running cm7 which doesn't support HDMI mirroring...

Sent from my Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S II General] fro5tie:
Ah crap I've got CM7 too, how come it doesnt support it, is it a Samsung thing? Do you know if ICS / CM9 will support it?
[Galaxy S II General] Harsha Raj:
This is pure pure awesomeness!! How much does sixaxis controller costs? Its connected to S2 via Bluetooth?
[Galaxy S II General] DrunkFuX666:
Not sure why it doesn't support... rather I actually had read it... just don't remember... but on the bright side... I did read cm9 should support it hopefully... fingers crossed :)

Sent from my Galaxy SII

That's a normal PS3 Controller... can get it from any videogame shop... maybe around $30-40...??

Sent from my Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S II General] BigMrB:
GTA is crashing on my S2... but a good game :D
[Galaxy S II General] quincy6688huang:
damn, gonna try it soon.
[Galaxy S II General] Guantanamo86:
Version 1.1 works fine! no crashes anymore
[Galaxy S II General] quincy6688huang:
n64 works well for me.
[Galaxy S II General] oupsss83:
try to reflash in 2.3.5

---------- Post added at 10:24 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:22 AM ----------

on a S2 ? which ROM do you have ? does the lights works ?
[Galaxy S II General] Guantanamo86:
on a s2 with a stock rom (XXKL1), yes everything works fine!
[Galaxy S II General] hooozy:
You can get far better graphics from that crap apple phone, you just need to install those effects separately. Link :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1399258

Update : I have seen afterwards that this thing is already discussed.... ;-)