Grand Theft Auto 3's

ShiWarrior · 9 Nov 2008 at 11:53

I wanted to play GTA 3 again, and i cant find my copy!

so i had a look around, and i just bought GTA 3 Vice City for £2 inc P&P !
BARGIN?

I cant wait to play these again, not played any others apart from 1 and 2

Emlyn_Dewar · 9 Nov 2008 at 11:55

£2...
It's getting on a bit but for such a great game, that's a brilliant price.

iamTakeo · 9 Nov 2008 at 12:50

I bought a whole bunch of PS2 games that I sorely missed for literally the price of chips. =D

iamTakeo · 9 Nov 2008 at 15:05

might be worth adding that GTA3 and Vice City are playable on an eee, very nice indeed.

ShiWarrior · 14 Nov 2008 at 20:34

i got it, and i cant change the res, it just "hangs"

Updated to version 1.1 and it still does it

any ideas?

ShiWarrior · 16 Nov 2008 at 22:03

ShiWarrior said:
i got it, and i cant change the res, it just "hangs"

Updated to version 1.1 and it still does it

any ideas?

grudas · 16 Nov 2008 at 22:18

fix it by changing the compatibility to win98. with the windows compatibility thing you get when you click gta3.exe>properties>compatibility should help...

ShiWarrior · 16 Nov 2008 at 22:22

grudas said:
fix it by changing the compatibility to win98. with the windows compatibility thing you get when you click gta3.exe>properties>compatibility should help...

thanks mate

will give that a go, sounds like it will work

Joebob · 17 Nov 2008 at 17:49

iamTakeo said:
might be worth adding that GTA3 and Vice City are playable on an eee, very nice indeed.

Ooooh - I might need to give it a go as I bought them all on steam

ShiWarrior · 17 Nov 2008 at 21:58

win98 mode works a treat!

grudas · 17 Nov 2008 at 22:52

ShiWarrior said:
win98 mode works a treat!

Joebob · 18 Nov 2008 at 12:36

I installed both GTAIII and Vice City on my EeePC 900 this morning and I can't beleive how smooth they run... didn't think that it would handle them as it only has a 900Mhz CPU :eek:

MR.B · 18 Nov 2008 at 13:08

Joebob said:
I installed both GTAIII and Vice City on my EeePC 900 this morning and I can't beleive how smooth they run... didn't think that it would handle them as it only has a 900Mhz CPU

?? The PS2 has a 300MHz processor and a mighty 4MB RAM and that runs them...

alex24 · 18 Nov 2008 at 13:10

My old P3 did GTAIII on a 450mhz processor with onboard gfx (intel 810 I think) at about 1-2fps in lowest res. Silky.

Joebob · 18 Nov 2008 at 13:11

MR.B said:
?? The PS2 has a 300MHz processor and a mighty 4MB RAM and that runs them...

I know but console architecture is very different to that of a PC and thus you normally need a lot higher specs on PC to run the same games.

TheVoice · 18 Nov 2008 at 13:23

MR.B said:
?? The PS2 has a 300MHz processor and a mighty 4MB RAM and that runs them...

32MB of system memory, 4MB of video memory. As said though, you can't compare the specs to a PC.

MR.B · 18 Nov 2008 at 15:15

Joebob said:
I know but console architecture is very different to that of a PC and thus you normally need a lot higher specs on PC to run the same games.

I know but i was pointing out it shouldn't be surprising that an Eee can run this old game. I mean, even my phone can run Open GL 3D games at 800x480 @ 20FPS+ that almost match PSP level of graphics, and PSP aint far off from PS2.

Joebob · 18 Nov 2008 at 15:38

MR.B said:
I know but i was pointing out it shouldn't be surprising that an Eee can run this old game. I mean, even my phone can run Open GL 3D games at 800x480 @ 20FPS+ that almost match PSP level of graphics, and PSP aint far off from PS2.

Well when you look at the recommended system specs for Vice City you will see that my EeePC is probably on the edge of being acceptible...

http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity/pc/index.htm