Samsung Galaxy S III is equipped with ARM Mali-400 MP GPU (overclocked version of Samsung Galaxy S II). So Samsung Galaxy S3 can play Tegra, Snapdragon and PowerVR games with Chainfire3D’s help just like Samsung Galaxy S2. However, Chainfire3D was not updated for quite sometimes. So it does not support the latest NVIDIA Tegra 3 games. Or maybe it does? Anyway, if you have old Tegra 2, Snapdragon and PowerVR games and want to play them on Samsung Galaxy S3. Feel free to install Chainfire3D on Samsung Galaxy S3. Note – root access is required.
Not yet root Samsung Galaxy S3? No worry, just follow this guide to do so ~ How to root Samsung Galaxy S3 with CF-Root? (Video). And be sure to make a full system backup with CWM before install Chainfire3D ~ How to backup Samsung Galaxy S3 with ClockworkMod Recovery (CWM)? (Video). A fail safe for anything bad happen.
Step by Step Installation Guide
- Install Chainfire3D from Android Market here.
- Download libGLEMU_NVIDIA.zip here, libGLEMU_QUALCOMM.zip here and libGLEMU_POWERVR.zip here.
- Put these plugin zip files at SD card.
- Launch Chainfire3D.
- Grant Superuser request access when prompted.
- Select CF3D driver ~ Install / upgrade / install CF3D driver.
- Then select Install ~ Install CF3D driver and reboot.
- After SGS3 rebooted, select Install plugins / shaders ~ Install plugins and shaders from SD card.
- It will scan sdcard and extSdCard for libGLEMU_NVIDIA.zip, libGLEMU_QUALCOMM.zip and libGLEMU_POWERVR.zip plugins.
- Select each of them to install.
- That’s all.
How to use Chainfire3D?
- Launch Chainfire3D.
- Select Default OpenGL settings ~ Configure default OpenGL settings.
- Go to Use plugin ~ Load a plugin.
- Select NVIDIA for Tegra games, or POWERVR, QUALCOMM.
- Exit Chainfire3D.
- Launch the games that you want.
- That’s all.
Hopefully, Chainfire will update Chainfire3D to make it compatible with all NVIDIA Tegra 3 games. Then Samsung Galaxy S3 is the best Android gaming smartphone out there. Better than HTC One X…
