[Guide] How to enable Tegra 3 graphics in Riptide GP. - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

EDIT: Okay, although Chainfire 3D is incapable of emulating Tegra 3 hardware, it emulates Tegra 2 hardware quite well. This can work to our advantage, because as it turns out, Riptide GP's enhanced Tegra 3 effects are actually enabled in-game via the options menu. It took some tinkering, but this is what I figured out. Upon launch, Riptide GP does a device check to see what SoC your device is using. If a Tegra SoC is detected, the option for enhanced graphics and effects is added to the in-game options menu. So, while using the NVIDIA Chainfire 3D plugin will not do anything to enable Tegra 3 features, it allows you to enable those features yourself. Following the steps below should get you where you want to go.
1.) Install Riptide GP & Chainfire 3D w/plugins.
2.) Open Chainfire 3D & enable the NVIDIA plugin for Riptide GP, unroll textures, and force 24-bit (Anti-Aliasing is optional if you're using the beta GL driver).
3.) Launch Riptide GP. At this point, no Tegra 3 graphics or effects have been enabled. Open the options menu and go into the graphics options. Max the slider out.
4.) Exit the options menu and start a game. You will now notice glass-like water, and water droplets on the screen when you get sprayed.
I hope that you've found this useful. It wasn't the simple file edit I was hoping for, but it does work. Enjoy!
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Like Dead Trigger, Riptide GP also contains optimizations for the Tegra 3 SoC. These optimizations are not Tegra-only features. The Exynos 4 Quad (Exynos 4412) is perfectly capable of running the game with the enhanced graphics & physics. As a matter of fact, in the case of Dead Trigger, these supposed "Tegra-only" features are handily displayed on my Galaxy Tab 7.7 (GT-P6810), Galaxy Note (GT-N7000), and Galaxy S II (GT-I9100); all of which run a much slower, and much less powerful Exynos 4 Dual (Exynos 4210).
So that being said, what I would like to know is how to enable these enhanced graphics and physics for Riptide GP. There is a guide for enabling these features for Dead Trigger. So is there a guide for doing the same with Riptide GP? I did a Google search and searched XDA as well. I never actually found the guide for Riptide GP; just a reference to it in the Dead Trigger guide.
Can somebody please help me? Thank you in advance.
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app named chainfire 3d
download it and install its pluggins
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vegeta1 said:
app named chainfire 3d
download it and install its pluggins
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Chainfire 3D cannot emulate Tegra 3 hardware. Chainfire himself has addressed this issue on several occasions. Using the NVIDIA plugin in ANY game optimized for Tegra 3 hardware will do absolutely nothing to improve the graphics and/or enable any Tegra 3 features. I appreciate the advice, but Chainfire 3D can only enable Tegra 2 games and/or Tegra 2 features; not Tegra 3 games. In order to enable enhanced graphics for Tegra 3 devices, files usually need to be modified to "switch" those features on. In the case of Dead Trigger, an XML file needs to be opened and two values increased. One value adds features, and the other value increases quality. On a Tegra 3 device, these values are represented as quality settings in the in-game options; but the options are unavailable on non-Tegra hardware. So the values have to be changed manually via the XML edit. This is what I'm looking for in Riptide GP.
So, as I asked before, is there a guide, similar to the XML edit for Dead Trigger, that will enable the Tegra 3 features for Riptide GP?
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Here's an example.
This is what Chainfire 3D w/NVIDIA plugin does for Dead Trigger (Nothing):
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
This is what the XML edit to enable Tegra 3 features does for Dead Trigger:
It's hardly the same game.
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Here's an example.
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It has the same storyplot, weapons and stupid AI. So by my standards it is =)
Tetris has always been the same game too, regardless of how nicely they tried to animate it
Afaik you need to hack the APK to get it to work... but I have no details on what exactly needs to be modified.
Since I don't own the game, have you tried looking into the shared_prefs folder of the game in the /data/data/ folder?
It seems to be Unity-based too so maybe a similar file can be found.

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d4fseeker said:
It has the same storyplot, weapons and stupid AI. So by my standards it is =)
Tetris has always been the same game too, regardless of how nicely they tried to animate it
Afaik you need to hack the APK to get it to work... but I have no details on what exactly needs to be modified.
Since I don't own the game, have you tried looking into the shared_prefs folder of the game in the /data/data/ folder?
It seems to be Unity-based too so maybe a similar file can be found.
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Ya'. I've been digging around. I'm sure I'll find it eventually, but I was just hoping someone could point me in the right direction. I really hate the bull**** deals NVIDIA's made with game developers. The Exynos 4 Quad (Exynos 4412) absolutely spanks the Tegra 3. NVIDIA doesn't put anything special in their SoC's; just a bunch of bull**** marketing. Don't get me wrong. The Tegra 3 is a very nice SoC, but it's not an albino unicorn sprinkled in fairy dust.
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I really hate the bull**** deals NVIDIA's made with game developers.
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You could show them your middle finger as recently did Linus Torvald, the father of Linux and by extension the kernel of the Android operating system.
I doubt they'll notice though.
If you want to, please zip and PN me the corresponding files in the /data/data/GAMENAME/ folder of your phone and I'll have a look at them.
Maybe (hopefully) it's a single value-toggle and you're good to go.

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Same with Xbox they bribe the game developers for quicker DLC when clearly the ps3 or PC are much better.
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Same with Xbox they bribe the game developers for quicker DLC when clearly the ps3 or PC are much better.
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So that's the reason why Valve released the updates free-of-charge on the computers while they were (at least partially) paid on the Xbox? :fingers-crossed:
As for the PS3 being better... it's a nightmarish hell to code for. You only need 3 cores top in a computer game and the PS3 got it's horsepower spread across 7...
Could we please go back to the problem at hand?

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d4fseeker said:
You could show them your middle finger as recently did Linus Torvald, the father of Linux and by extension the kernel of the Android operating system.
I doubt they'll notice though.
If you want to, please zip and PN me the corresponding files in the /data/data/GAMENAME/ folder of your phone and I'll have a look at them.
Maybe (hopefully) it's a single value-toggle and you're good to go.
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I'll make it easier on you. When I get back home later this week, I'll find a way to get you the *.apk; with the explicit understanding that this is to be a legitimate attempt to add functionality, not a way to get a free copy of Riptide GP. I do not support or condone warez.
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If I wanted an illegal copy of Riptide, I'd have it several hours. These things are not hard to come by.
However the Apk has license checks so even if I extract it I cannot be sure if some files are not created during run-time.
So please just upload that particular folder's content.
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d4fseeker said:
If I wanted an illegal copy of Riptide, I'd have it several hours. These things are not hard to come by.
However the Apk has license checks so even if I extract it I cannot be sure if some files are not created during run-time.
So please just upload that particular folder's content.
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I'm sorry. I wasn't clear. I meant that I would send you the extracted files from the apk WITH the files you asked for. Not a cracked apk for installation. That way you could see everything that went into the apk. That's why I was so specific about it's purpose. But if all you need are the /data files, I'll upload those to my Dropbox account when I get home. I won't be able to until then. Just out of curiosity, do you have a Tegra device, or is the I9300 your only device? I was just thinking that a side-by-side comparison would make it a lot easier to tell if you had successfully enabled the features or not. Then again, you don't have the game. Would it just be easier if I bought it for you? I'm cool with just sending the files, but then there still has to be some way of seeing if it worked. It's just a thought. Either way, I'll upload the files as soon as I can.
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Mister_Mxyzptlk said:
Here's an example.
This is what Chainfire 3D w/NVIDIA plugin does for Dead Trigger (Nothing):
This is what the XML edit to enable Tegra 3 features does for Dead Trigger:
It's hardly the same game.
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nice , could you share once find solution ?
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vegeta1 said:
nice , could you share once find solution ?
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Absolutely! Sharing is what XDA is all about.
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Also want to see how this Ian done for riptide!
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Mister_Mxyzptlk said:
Chainfire 3D cannot emulate Tegra 3 hardware. Chainfire himself has addressed this issue on several occasions. Using the NVIDIA plugin in ANY game optimized for Tegra 3 hardware will do absolutely nothing to improve the graphics and/or enable any Tegra 3 features. I appreciate the advice, but Chainfire 3D can only enable Tegra 2 games and/or Tegra 2 features; not Tegra 3 games. In order to enable enhanced graphics for Tegra 3 devices, files usually need to be modified to "switch" those features on. In the case of Dead Trigger, an XML file needs to be opened and two values increased. One value adds features, and the other value increases quality. On a Tegra 3 device, these values are represented as quality settings in the in-game options; but the options are unavailable on non-Tegra hardware. So the values have to be changed manually via the XML edit. This is what I'm looking for in Riptide GP.
So, as I asked before, is there a guide, similar to the XML edit for Dead Trigger, that will enable the Tegra 3 features for Riptide GP?
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I used Chainfire 3D and it unlocked Tegra 3 graphics for me. Perhaps the in-game check just looks for a Tegra chip in general? I then did the XML edit after installing a new ROM (and wiping etc.) and it had the same affect.

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Cyb3rGlitch said:
I used Chainfire 3D and it unlocked Tegra 3 graphics for me. Perhaps the in-game check just looks for a Tegra chip in general? I then did the XML edit after installing a new ROM (and wiping etc.) and it had the same affect.
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If it unlocked anything, it unlocked Tegra 2 features. It's been able to do that for a while now. For example, the only way I can play Galaxy On Fire 2 THD, is with Chainfire 3D via the NVIDIA plugin. But if a game and/or feature is explicitly for the Tegra 3, Chainfire 3D won't do anything for you. This is because the ULP GeForce GPU on the Tegra 3 SoC is a closed and proprietary platform. While other devices, such as the Mali GPU in the I9300, are more than capable of running the same content as the ULP GeForce, it cannot emulate it in any way. So where the NVIDIA Chainfire 3D plugin can make games believe they're running on Tegra 2 hardware, it cannot make games believe they're running on Tegra 3 hardware. This is why XML edits and other modifications are necessary. Since there's no way to coax the features out with emulated hardware, the features have to be forced out with modifications.
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dilzo said:
Same with Xbox they bribe the game developers for quicker DLC when clearly the ps3 or PC are much better.
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OFF TOPIC: Dont bring in 360 vs ps3 here mate. I've had enough of ps3 dudes saying it's supre duper, 120fps 1080p, super computer. It was a lie all along, like ps2 days when sony claimed toy story graphics were possible on ps2. Ps3 is just a number crunching machine, good for [email protected] kind of apps. The nv based gfx on board was put in at the last moment since cell coudn't handle the graphics, initially thought to be. So in the end both 360 and ps3 are same when it comes to games. If you want a super giant expensive calculator than ps3 is the machine. For me, it's been 360 since 2006 jan and i never believed the lies/hype of sony.
ON TOPIC: I wish Samsung could also provide incentives to devs to enhance their apps for SIII but since it's gonna sell millions of units anyways i doubt they'll be bothered to do it.

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sak500 said:
OFF TOPIC: Dont bring in 360 vs ps3 here mate. I've had enough of ps3 dudes saying it's supre duper, 120fps 1080p, super computer. It was a lie all along, like ps2 days when sony claimed toy story graphics were possible on ps2. Ps3 is just a number crunching machine, good for [email protected] kind of apps. The nv based gfx on board was put in at the last moment since cell coudn't handle the graphics, initially thought to be. So in the end both 360 and ps3 are same when it comes to games. If you want a super giant expensive calculator than ps3 is the machine. For me, it's been 360 since 2006 jan and i never believed the lies/hype of sony.
ON TOPIC: I wish Samsung could also provide incentives to devs to enhance their apps for SIII but since it's gonna sell millions of units anyways i doubt they'll be bothered to do it.
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Wow. You told dilzo "Dont bring in 360 vs ps3 here mate." and then you did it yourself. And besides, the PS3 has more GFX horsepower than the 360. It's not an opinion or matter for debate. It's simply more powerful. It's tragic flaw is that it's such a ***** to develop for. The market has already shown that top developers prefer to write titles for the 360. And in the end, content is king. So the 360 may be more successful, more fun, and have more/better titles, but it is nowhere near as powerful as the PS3.
Anyway, back ON TOPIC. Let's get this Riptide GP crap figured out.
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Mister_Mxyzptlk said:
Wow. You told dilzo "Dont bring in 360 vs ps3 here mate." and then you did it yourself. And besides, the PS3 has more GFX horsepower than the 360. It's not an opinion or matter for debate. It's simply more powerful. It's tragic flaw is that it's such a ***** to develop for. The market has already shown that top developers prefer to write titles for the 360. And in the end, content is king. So the 360 may be more successful, more fun, and have more/better titles, but it is nowhere near as powerful as the PS3.
Anyway, back ON TOPIC. Let's get this Riptide GP crap figured out.
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There is a video on YouTube of a galaxy s3 running riptide with the terra 3 graphics. The description says he just used nvidia plugin . Wish he gave more information ... I don't have the link but just Google
Riptide thd galaxy s3 i believe !
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