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    GTA 4 Coming to Steam/pre pruchase

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Red_Dragon, Nov 21, 2008.

  1. Red_Dragon

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    hmmm great! looks like gta 4 will be here for steam thats great news this is probably one of PC's biggest title cant wait! Thoguh i have it for 360 hopefully online will be as good as GTA4 on live.
     
    Red_Dragon, Nov 21, 2008
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  2. MastaMarek

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    16Gb download :D
     
    MastaMarek, Nov 21, 2008
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  3. tianxia

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    great new! I want the box though. and I need to know whether I can run it well before hand.
     
    tianxia, Nov 21, 2008
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    I get like 1500+ KB/s downloads from Steam...about 3.11 hours to download 16GB if I did the math right.
     
    I♥RAM, Nov 21, 2008
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  5. tianxia

    tianxia kitty!!!

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    definitely retail version for me then lol. I got crappy bandwidth.
     
    tianxia, Nov 21, 2008
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  6. Red_Dragon

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    man i heard that they on "say" 16gb i heard in reality it is only like 8gb or so..
     
    Red_Dragon, Nov 21, 2008
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    i dont think i would buy gta from steam. isnt there problems with the other gta's with modding and steam?
     
    xxERIKxx, Nov 21, 2008
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    ...is there? i never knew that...I hope gta4 has some crazy mods after seeing goku, sonic, pikachu, spiderman, and mario is san andreas the bar is set high :D
     
    Red_Dragon, Nov 21, 2008
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    I think this sums up the performance part.

    Official requirements posted on steam for GTA4

    System Requirements
    OS: Windows Vista - Service Pack 1 / Windows XP - Service Pack 3
    Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz, AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4GHz
    Memory: 1.5GB Vista / 1GB XP
    Graphics: 256MB Nvidia 7900 / 256MB ATI X1900
    DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c Compliant Card
    Hard Drive: 16GB of Hard Disc Space
    Sound Card: 5.1 Channel Audio Card

    So service Pack 3 on XP is required? that sucks! SP3 kills performance, and causes some other serious issues on my PC's.
     
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    unknown555525, Nov 22, 2008
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  10. redda2

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    Is that minimum or recommended?
     
    redda2, Nov 22, 2008
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  11. plasma.

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    minimum. recommended gets scarier
     
    plasma., Nov 22, 2008
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    I dont know if Im going to get this game because I would like to play it at a fairly decent setting... Ahh well... Looks awesome though
     
    potentv, Nov 22, 2008
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    What's your laptop's specs?
     
    plasma., Nov 22, 2008
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  14. redda2

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    Thats minimum?? ***

    This game will become the next crysis. 90% of laptops wont run it decently from the looks of it.
     
    redda2, Nov 22, 2008
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    Yep. Recommended is an ATI 3870. And keep in mind all the mentioned cards are desktop cards, substantially better (in most cases) than laptop GPUs.
     
    plasma., Nov 22, 2008
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    i dont think it will be that bad. might not be able to max out everything but i think i will be able to play it just fine.
     
    xxERIKxx, Nov 22, 2008
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    the recommended requirements are quite simply stupid for this game; i would guess less than 5% of the notebook community could run this game with the recommended requirements! its a fairly bad marketing move by the developers, as im sure the requirements will put quite a few people off buying this game.

    Hopefully, as speculated elsewhere, the requirements are only that high if you turn the traffic/pedestrian depth right up. I mean.. a quad core and 3870... its just insane.
     
    Tenspeed33, Nov 22, 2008
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    I played it on a friends 360, honestly I wasn't impressed, was choppy at best. But I'm a big fan of the GTA series, so I'll see how others laptops run this game, and make a purchase decision from that. I'd go with the box, d/l 16gb, no thx :cool:
     
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    i still dont see how the minimum video card is a 7900 but the recommended is an 8600.
     
    xxERIKxx, Nov 22, 2008
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    ****, first game i was going to buy in ages and i dunno anymore, how do you guys think my MBP will hold up? (info in sig)
     
    sheldon77, Nov 22, 2008
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    Oof, those requirements look killer on the CPU. I just get by with my 2.0ghz dual core.
     
    the_flying_shoe, Nov 22, 2008
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    dang, i gotta 2.4 single core, it would probably still run, but really poorly...
     
    tangent, Nov 22, 2008
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  23. Red_Dragon

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    no it can run good just make sure you arent running AYNTHING while playing
     
    Red_Dragon, Nov 22, 2008
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    Wowzah! Now is the time to seriously consider that 500gb upgrade :D .
     
    Ayle, Nov 22, 2008
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