skavenhorde
Little BRO Rat
Anyone get this game?
I got hooked to GTA when I decided to actually try San Andreas, it was a lot more fun than I thought.
I bought GTA 4 for the PC and like a lot of other people I'm unable to play it right now. There is a graphics glitch that makes rendering anything in front of you invisible. There is a work around using Nvidia's 180 beta drivers, but you still get odd glitches like the lights/radar not showing up, or everything in the menu not showing up. According to Rockstar the problems have to do with the Nvida 7900 series, but mine is 7600GT.
On top of that the FPS rate is horrible. Funny thing though, is that I do a benchmark test in the game and it runs smoothly, but when I try playing it it's choppy as hell. Maybe I get 12 - 19 FPS and that is a big maybe.
I just got a new motherboard about a few months ago. It isn't the best but you would think that a AMD dual core 6000+ with a little over 3 gigs of ram would be able to play this.
On top of all that you have to jump through a million hoops when installing the game. You need to have a windows live account, a "social club" account and you have to be online to play (or you can't save your game), even though I have no intention of playing multiplayer. I guess people like me are going to buy it anyways and Rockstar wanted to see how much DRM they could put into their game without causing a major revolution in the public. It sorta sucks because I was rooting for them when EA was trying to take them over, but it turns out that what they did is a lot worse than anything I've seen EA do. Spore wasn't even this bad.
If you think I'm overexagerating here then lets put it this way even Steam is offering a refund to anyone who bought the game through them.
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/43399/Grand-Theft-Auto-IV-PC-How-To-Get-A-Refund
If you like the series and are planning to get this I would wait until at least the first patch comes out or you can take your chances and like me and keep checking their forums for any workarounds or news on the patch, but for now I give up. I'm going to play SOZ for awhile and maybe in a month or so they'll have a fix.
I got hooked to GTA when I decided to actually try San Andreas, it was a lot more fun than I thought.
I bought GTA 4 for the PC and like a lot of other people I'm unable to play it right now. There is a graphics glitch that makes rendering anything in front of you invisible. There is a work around using Nvidia's 180 beta drivers, but you still get odd glitches like the lights/radar not showing up, or everything in the menu not showing up. According to Rockstar the problems have to do with the Nvida 7900 series, but mine is 7600GT.
On top of that the FPS rate is horrible. Funny thing though, is that I do a benchmark test in the game and it runs smoothly, but when I try playing it it's choppy as hell. Maybe I get 12 - 19 FPS and that is a big maybe.
I just got a new motherboard about a few months ago. It isn't the best but you would think that a AMD dual core 6000+ with a little over 3 gigs of ram would be able to play this.
On top of all that you have to jump through a million hoops when installing the game. You need to have a windows live account, a "social club" account and you have to be online to play (or you can't save your game), even though I have no intention of playing multiplayer. I guess people like me are going to buy it anyways and Rockstar wanted to see how much DRM they could put into their game without causing a major revolution in the public. It sorta sucks because I was rooting for them when EA was trying to take them over, but it turns out that what they did is a lot worse than anything I've seen EA do. Spore wasn't even this bad.
If you think I'm overexagerating here then lets put it this way even Steam is offering a refund to anyone who bought the game through them.
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/43399/Grand-Theft-Auto-IV-PC-How-To-Get-A-Refund
If you like the series and are planning to get this I would wait until at least the first patch comes out or you can take your chances and like me and keep checking their forums for any workarounds or news on the patch, but for now I give up. I'm going to play SOZ for awhile and maybe in a month or so they'll have a fix.