Prototype

caz32 said:
Just so you know this game isn't a port,

They had 3 teams, 1 xbox 360, 1 ps3 and 1 PC where as GTA IV was a port, hence the bad performance.
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GTA iv looks miles better than this though and this doesn't run too well at all either.

The only difference is that gta iv actually needs a good cpu next to a good gpu, while this only needs a good gpu, this annoyed the people with dual core cpu's.

The bad performance is simply because GTA IV always already had bad performance on the consoles, that was at 1280x720, now people play it at 1920x1200, a resolution TWO AND A HALF TIMES as big as the crap on the consoles, it's only logical to assume it'll run a lot worse. Also, they turn the traffic, draw distance, detail distance, shadows, filtering, etcetc FAR higher than the console crap, again impacting performance. Sure pc's hardware is a lot faster, not THAT fast though.

GTA IV is not such a bad port as people seem to make of it, turn your res down and the details to the console crap, and it'll fly.

At 1280x1024, 15 traffic, 40 detail distance, 20 draw distance, GTA IV ran at 45 average fps ( 58 fps in the benchy), never dropping below 30, that is a nearly 50% higher framerate than you get on the playstation and xbox... That was with a quad at 2.8 ghz and a geforce 8800GTS 512. Not the fastest pc spec by any means.
 
im not sure why people complain about the visuals pretty decent to me , infarct gta 4 should have been like that , to run on most of pc's/ properly on consoles.

and if visuals would have been any better it probably run like a dog(gta4) for most of you.

so developers clearly thought this thing out:

1. Be graphically stunning run like a dog on most machines = less sales

2. Alright Normal visuals and run on most of machines , and create massive battles with no slow down of gameplay = great sales

anyway im sure in a sequel it will look better :eek:
 
psychas said:
im not sure why people complain about the visuals pretty decent to me , infarct gta 4 should have been like that , to run on most of pc's/ properly on consoles.
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It looks quite rubbish if you look closely actually. But it's just about acceptable.
The vehicles are appalling. And lightning effects are boring too.

and if visuals would have been any better it probably run like a dog(gta4) for most of you.
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But gta iv doesn't run worse than this. Still get framedrops to 25 in this just like in GTA, while this looks like a turd maxed ( well except that this has AA luckily) compared to gta iv at medium.
 
probably depends on the taste as i played gta 4 and i actually prefer this rather then gta 4.

and on visuals well gta 4 has more detail and crap shadows and no aa , but then i did not have much time to stay around in one place in prototype , but then Alex details are amazing.
 
Yeah I guess so, perhaps I need to get used to the style I don't know :). The game so far doesn't bore me and I hope it stays that way.
 
I haven't played GTA IV on PC, I have just seen loads of people complaining about bad performance with it so i just used it as an example as i don't know of any other game like prototype with bad performance.

I get fps drops in Prototype but none to affect my gameplay (i swear its related to the audio problems), theres some fix's for like audio problems, black screens etc on the offical activision forums but ive had no luck with it so will have to wait for a patch.
 
Don't get any kind of framerate issues on Prototype. Quadcore and GTS 250.

However GTA4 is terrible, max FPS i get on that is 40fps.
 
Played it yesterday, it's alright nothing special, fun to just go around and mash stuff up.
Graphics aren't anything to talk about, I really don't think it's the talking point of this game and not sure why people think it's "stunning" when it's quite low res textures.

Using a kb/mouse here, I can do crazy mid air movement that a controller won't really let me do I don't think, faster I move my mouse the quicker I turn around, controller = linear? No idea!
 
Managed to finish the download last night. Played the first 3 missions or so then started looking for the shineys around the map i have been trying to get all the movement abilities to help me get around the map. I love how the parkour is very fluid from what i have seen so far.
 
I am having the same problem that a load of other people are having with this game. In about the 1st minute that I start playing the game, I get a BSOD, and then it just restarts, and no matter what I have tried nothing will resolve this issue. I have no trouble playing any other game, just this one :(

All here who have managed to play it without crashes are very lucky!
 
I am playing it fine without any crashes. The only thing that is messed up is the sound in the CGI scenes. Not that I really care too much since I have subtitles on anyway. Runs smooth at over 60fps with vsync on and 16xAA
 
There are a very lucky few who wont occur any problems with this game, but quite a lot, me included, that have faced far too many problems and issues, and I cant imagine being able to get through it until they release a Patch to sort out all the problems that they have released to the general public. When it does come, there will be a lot of fixes with the various problems everyone is getting
 
Bourght it last night, steam downlaoded fine and is running nicely.

It's Spiderman if Spiderman wasn't a complete Pussy. I spent 3 hours running around the city killing thousands of people and then went through a few missions, the one thing that annoyed me about the missions is that it CONSTANTLY repeats instructions like finding the high ranking guy to absorb every bloody time or FORCING you to buy completely needless powers (air dash or whatever is utterly useless) before you can start missions.

The in medias res opening bugged me to hell because I hate being able to play with all the powers and then having them taken away but TBH I'm willing to play through it just for the chance of getting the massive arm sword thing.
 
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