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GTA4 on PC!
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yomamasflavour wrote: »So not worth paying 30 quid for then?
I'll download it and give 2 euro to charity, I'm sure the knowledge that their shoddy port paid for a few bags of rice in Africa is payment enough for them.
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finally got it working guys!!
installed .net framework 3.5, then uninstalled ALL nvidia drivers and apps, including the 3rd party ones such as RivaTuner, installed the latest forceware, getting the game running at mid-high spec at about 25fps. still not great but better than before. i think there may be a memory leak tho, the frame rate gets lower as the game progresses unfortunately
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We bitched that SA didn't have a "high" settings. We now bitch that GTA4's medium settings are too high
How are the people using the pirated version doing? Would SecureRom having to run in the background hog much resources?0 -
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TerrorFirmer
I can't believe you don't have the game yet are making comments than the game barely looks better than the 360 version. Also have you played a console version to know what to compare it too if you do get the PC version?
Yes I have played the console version. I never once said 'the game barely looks better then the 360 version', I said that the grunt that it requires to run the PC version of the Game at the same standard seen on the 360 is much higher then it should be when compared with other ports/multi-platform games which perform far better on even mid-range PCs. For example, to acheive the same quality in Call of Duty 4 as seen on the 360, you would do so with
-2Ghz Core 2
-1.5Gb Ram
-8600GTS
Those same specifications barely meet the minimum requirements for GTAIV on the PC, that is, to run the game at 800x600 low settings. I understand the game at medium settings actually exceeds the console versions, I'm not debating that. But that it requires so much power to even run the game is a clear indication that this is simply not an optimised game.
I've even heard a lot of people on GTA Gaming forums complaining that framerate dips are woeful, and that it appears there's a memory leak - something I find hard to believe they could possibly miss if they had any sort of QC. There's also complaints of not being able to use the mouse in certain menus, only the keyboard, as well as messages stating 'do not turn off your machine' while saving in certain points.Graphics cards do not make 500% performance leaps each generation. Show me consisted benchmarks of GT280 performing 4 to 5 times better than an 8800 series card or a 8800 doing the same to a 7900gtx. If this was indeed the case they would be a lot less upgrading been down and less graphics cards been sold.
I never said that either. I said there's close to a 500% difference between the 7 series and GTX 2x0 cards, I never once claimed the 8800GTX was 500% faster then the 7900GTX. But it is 2-3 times faster in the latest games, though not in older Dx9 titles. And even for the GTX280 being 500% faster.....actually, fire up Crysis at 2560x1600 max settings and you will find that it's actually up to 1000% faster then any 7 series card.
Again as for 1920x1200 nearly being the norm for game euthasists Pog of about I'd say less than 10% of them have a 24" screen going by lan attendance which is also far from nearly. When its at 40% then its nearly
I've no idea of how monitors break down among the gaming community but I do know I wouldn't lug my 24" to a LAN, I'd just bring one of my 17"s. Less hassle, less risk. So I wouldn't say it's an accurate way of determining.0 -
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Rockstar news conference on GTAIV (pc);
R*: Ladies and gentlemen and members of the press. As a representative of Rockstar games, I'd like to take this opportunity to say we at Rockstar are aware of some teething problems and can assure our customers that our team is working hard on patching the plethora of totally unexpected errors encountered by some players. We feel confident that GTAIV will follow the success of previous GTA pc games.
Reporter: Jim Wallace, Associated Press. [clears throat] Is this a
joke?
R*: [cheery] Far from it, Jim. I would like to draw your attention to the many favourable reviews from esteemed gaming sites such as; IGN and eurogamer. In regards to low fps, I restate that this game is designed to run on the best pcs available as of December 2008 on medium settings (slightly better quality than console versions) at a very respectable 40fps if you are lucky. Rockstar have even accommodated grandfathers and grandmothers everywhere by taking the unusual step of introducing an option of "auto aim" into the multiplayer component of a pc game.
Reporter: Toby Hunter, Minneapolis Star. No really, is this a joke?
R*: No, Toby, and no more questions about whether this is a joke.
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my post is a joke, its from the simpsons episode when Homer and Barney are competing to become a nasa astronaut. From all the different user reviews I have come across, it made me think of that scene. "Is this a joke?"
Someone better get it or i'm going to be pissed!0 -
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I just tell it like it is.
I'm not happy at all reading this thread though
Been waiting for this, from a PC gaming multiplayer perspective, since GTA Vice city (or rather, since I played the MP mods for it)
Anyone interested in the MP post here, as I've yet to buy this game, and now I dunno if I will :
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=58161233#post58161233
**edit**
And while indeed its mainly the MP I'm interested in. I do expect something that looks like GTAIV to play and run like a dream on a high end rig.0
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