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Tweak the graphics of Grand Theft Auto 3 for Android for best image quality – if your phone has the GPU for it

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So, you’ve got yourself a cool new droid with a beefy GPU but then you find out that GTA 3 was optimized for common Androids and their paltry graphics. Luckily, it turns out that the game supports much better graphics, you just need to enable them through slightly unconventional means.

It’s as simple as replacing the right file with a customized one and you can get much improved visuals from the game if your phone’s GPU is up to it. There are a couple of more before/after pics after the jump.


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Here’s what you need to do: hookup your droid phone (or tablet, of course) to a computer and using a file explorer find a file called gta.set in /sdcard/Android/data/com.rockstar.gta3/files/GTA3 and back up that file in case something goes wrong. Then, just replace it with the extracted file from gta3_full_effects.rar (which you can grab from here) and you’re good to go.


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Interestingly, you can even change the language of the subtitles in the game. A file with subtitles set to German can be had from AndroidNext.de.

Check out the XDA-Developers thread in the source link for more info on the on the mod.

If you try it, don’t forget to post what phone/tablet you’re using and how well the game ran.

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