Grand Theft Auto 4

[TW]Fox · 1 Dec 2008 at 18:55

dirtydog said:
If it doesn't despatch today though, it probably won't arrive on release day. Duh.

Good point. Duh (at me).

southy1978 · 1 Dec 2008 at 18:56

D'oh looks like i might finally need an upgrade to play this

. Been running my old faithfull p4 3.06 @ 3.8, x1950 pro 512, 3gig of ram. It plays bf2, pr, cod4 fine even at 1920x1200 with the goodies turned on. is there not a chance my old decrepid rig would run this even at low res, at least till payday after xmas?!

Goldfingers · 1 Dec 2008 at 19:02

southy1978 said:
D'oh looks like i might finally need an upgrade to play this . Been running my old faithfull p4 3.06 @ 3.8, x1950 pro 512, 3gig of ram. It plays bf2, pr, cod4 fine even at 1920x1200 with the goodies turned on. is there not a chance my old decrepid rig would run this even at low res, at least till payday after xmas?!

Should be ok, cpu may be an issue though /parishilton "single core i mean that's soo last decade" \endparishilton

Minimum System Requirements:
OS: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 / XP Service Pack 3
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4Ghz
Memory: 1.5GB, 16GB Free Hard Drive Space
Video Card: 256 MB NVIDIA 7900 / 256 MB ATI X1900

TheVoice · 1 Dec 2008 at 19:06

SkeeterPSA said:
I dont have sp3 either so i hope its ok, i mean i have all ms updates from over the years so should be fine since all sp3 is really is a update package which has all the small updates in.

SP3 contains updates other than the individual ones you've downloaded.

dirtydog · 1 Dec 2008 at 19:08

southy1978 said:
D'oh looks like i might finally need an upgrade to play this . Been running my old faithfull p4 3.06 @ 3.8, x1950 pro 512, 3gig of ram. It plays bf2, pr, cod4 fine even at 1920x1200 with the goodies turned on. is there not a chance my old decrepid rig would run this even at low res, at least till payday after xmas?!

The old P4 3.06 from 2002? I wouldn't hold your breath. It is much slower than even a Pentium dual core 1.8GHz.

QlimaxUK · 1 Dec 2008 at 19:19

dirtydog said:
The old P4 3.06 from 2002? I wouldn't hold your breath. It is much slower than even a Pentium dual core 1.8GHz.

true, i got rid of an old P4 3GHz, it had... what sounded like an OC'ed HSF

'4500 RPM' :eek:

i call it the Pentium 'buzzsaw edition' it was ok when first brought but over time it wears down and gets faster

my Q6600 is MUCH better i couldn't go back lol

peter212693 · 1 Dec 2008 at 20:01

My copy has just starting "packing" from jersey

dirtydog · 1 Dec 2008 at 20:07

QlimaxUK said:
true, i got rid of an old P4 3GHz, it had... what sounded like an OC'ed HSF '4500 RPM' i call it the Pentium 'buzzsaw edition' it was ok when first brought but over time it wears down and gets faster

my Q6600 is MUCH better i couldn't go back lol

I also upgraded recently from a P4 3.0C to an E2180 (2GHz) which was massively quicker. Soon after I got a Q6600. The P4 3.0C was great in its day but that has long since passed.

Good luck to Southy but I think it is time to upgrade if he wants to play GTA IV.

willhub · 1 Dec 2008 at 20:09

I think my E8500 might just pull through on this one tbh in the end, you watch!!!

SkeeterUK · 1 Dec 2008 at 20:10

peter212693 said:
My copy has just starting "packing" from jersey

Mine too

dirtydog · 1 Dec 2008 at 20:13

Mine says "Item pre-ordered - not yet issued by supplier" ;o(

Luxor · 1 Dec 2008 at 20:40

Can't wait for this and it's one of the main reasons I upgraded my trusty Athlon 64 3200+ to a Phenom 9950.

Well this game and Empire:Total War in the new year

paradigm · 1 Dec 2008 at 20:41

I'm just annoyed that its not available for pre-load on steam.

I can just see them only allowing you to download once released, and as such, getting 12KB/s transfer rate

It's been sat there for days... waiting

TheOtherOption · 1 Dec 2008 at 20:47

Going by the size of the download yea it's going to be a pain for those who bought it via steam - how big actually is the download because it says 16gigs of space needed ... but is that the actual download size or is it slightly smaller ?

QlimaxUK · 1 Dec 2008 at 20:47

a gta iv demo would be nice

Keyser Soze · 1 Dec 2008 at 21:08

TheVoice said:
SP3 contains updates other than the individual ones you've downloaded.

I'll be quite surprised if it doesn't run on SP2 though. as long as you've updated .NET and such.

Goldfingers · 1 Dec 2008 at 21:24

QlimaxUK said:
a gta iv demo would be nice

I dread to think how large the file would be :eek:

mmj_uk · 1 Dec 2008 at 21:30

QlimaxUK said:
a gta iv demo would be nice

Unlikely really, it would probably lose more sales than it generates.

SkeeterUK · 1 Dec 2008 at 21:41

Well was bored so updated to sp3, so far nothings really changed that i can tell.

GJ02 · 1 Dec 2008 at 21:50

lol theres panic across the internet on forums just like this on topics just like this. lol
will it run on my p3 lol some guy asked.