Comments on: GTAgate: How Was It For You?

By: PJ

PJ — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:43:10 +0000

My pc is ‘modest’ in terms of its spec, but according to R* it should play…Skt 939 X2 4800+, 2Gb, XP sp3, BFG 8800GT OC2….from what i’ve read so far, i can forget it and so can R*!
Why would i open my self up to so much frustration?
Another customer lost for the idiots at R*

By: S

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:20:08 +0000

Works perfectly fine on my quite-capable-yet-not-hi-end-PC, never crashed, not a single problem with Social Club. Running Vista SP1. And that’s it.

By: H

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:15:04 +0000

I’m quite despondent about GTAIV. I was so looking forward to it and I only buy a handful of games each year, but I can’t play it due to fatal errors. I spent four hours yesterday evening jumping through all sorts of hoops installing this and that, fiddling this patch or tweaking those settings, and still it’s unplayable. It’s really not a very good show, is it?

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:44:02 +0000

Actually, I’d call GTA IV a rather good port. Here’s why – to me the quality of the port is not related to the quality of the technical coding (which seems to be quite low in this case). It’s a measure of how well they adapted the game to the new platform in terms of things like controls, settings, new content, usability, etc. And GTA IV looks better on PC – I can make out all kinds of details I never could on my SDTV beforehand. Watching fake ingame TV is hilarious and can zoom right to fullscreen. The cops no longer seem to glom onto me the moment I steal any car anywhere. Shooting people is of course easy with mouse aim, and even the notoriously finicky driving seems a bit more user-friendly with PC controls. All in all, I’m liking it a lot better on PC than I ever did on 360. That, and it easily and seamlessly transitions between mouse and keyboard and the 360 controller without even going into a menu. Just use one set or the other as you please. Even the tooltips will immediately shift to the appropriate controls.

Unfortunately, my framerate was slowly dying as I played on and was unacceptably low in particular during high speed driving chases. And the shadows as previously mentioned look awful. The P key produces post-processing that helps mitigate that, but that has its own visual drawbacks. And the game won’t remember that you’ve activated it.

So if they can fix the technical problems, particularly the framerate issues (I’ve had no trouble with crashes, possibly because I don’t log into the Social Club and use a crack to disable the copy protection.), I think they have a winner on their hands.

By: MaTT

MaTT — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:13:21 +0000

Im a big GTA fan, i went out my way to get this game and after all the frustration installing the damn thing, it cant even play smoothly on low graphics! And my machine is a top end machine. They rushed to Release this game, DRM sucks. Kthnxbye

By: noclip

noclip — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:42:31 +0000

I’m still waiting for Rockstar to explain to me why I get a better framerate in Crysis than in GTA 4.

By: Eschatos

Eschatos — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:48:52 +0000

I’m not buying this until I get a “demo”.

By: terry

terry — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:49:07 +0000

Haha, bang on cue I got the aforementioned invisible textures – installing the NVidia Beta drivers sorted that out, at least. The bummer now is that Roman keeps phoning and Nico refuses to answer the phone or put it away again. That patch might be welcome after all :P

By: Aron

Aron — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:39:06 +0000

If you get the “no texture” bug thing, just change resolution and change back and everything should be working.

By: terry

terry — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:03:44 +0000

I was sort of dreading installing this after hearing several-hour-long ordeals but it was pretty quick and painless and the game performs more or less exactly as I was expecting. The only thing I see wrong is the distant scenery dithering being wonkified (technical term) in the same way that distant textures were in Oblivion. Even with my ageing x2 2.01ghz it is more than playable. Mystifying.

By: icabod

icabod — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:23:42 +0000

I’ve just installed the game and the only issue I’ve had was that the login to Rockstar Social Club failed for the first, ehm, 8 attempts or so – not a pain, just minorly uncomfortable for 20 minutes.
Not checked the game much so far – just the intro and some driving around running people over at the dock *cough*, but all seems ok so far.
Perhaps I’ve been lucky, or is it the case that the most vocal people are those for whom it’s not working? Why pipe up if all is going well?

By: adolf

adolf — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:02:44 +0000

in the gta 4 is say:fatal error:rmn40
what i shoud be do?