GTA IV is Finally Out for the PC........And its Worse Than Crysis....

[Praxil]

Don't see what is the problem. I've been playing my X360 version without any problems so far. The game is a blast, arguably the best GTA so far. Though Samuel L. Jackson is Samuel L. Jackson, can't beat that.

MUAHAHAAA!!!

[Quirinus]

And I was looking forward to it too. Such a pity that new games are all such monsters nowadays. GTA:VC and even GTA:SA were pretty managable for me.

[TevashSzat]

It's running pretty fine on my PS3, though granted the resolution is a bit low but still.

Otherwise reminds me of Operation Flashpoint, that game was also made for future computers, at least if you wanted long visible ranges and highest terrain details. In a way that is a good thing as it gives you something to get excited about next time you upgrade your computer.

Don't see what is the problem. I've been playing my X360 version without any problems so far. The game is a blast, arguably the best GTA so far. Though Samuel L. Jackson is Samuel L. Jackson, can't beat that.

MUAHAHAAA!!!

And its times like this that I wished I had a console.

The high end computer hardware should beat PS3/XBOX360 no problem in terms of benchmarks, but Rockstar somehow messed it all up..... The thing is, I'm fine if you want to create the next Crysis, but for god sakes, at least support SLI/Crossfire.....Also, if you want a game that rivals Crysis's hardware requirements, at least make the game look as nice as the huge amounts of money needed to buy the hardware to play it....

[CountArach]

How could something that graphics intensive not support SLI? That's insane!

[TevashSzat]

A post I made in the Gaming New Thread regarding this.

Apparently now it seems whenever a big name game goes wrong in some fashion, its off to 1 star Amazon reviews....

[Praxil]

And its times like this that I wished I had a console.

The high end computer hardware should beat PS3/XBOX360 no problem in terms of benchmarks, but Rockstar somehow messed it all up..... The thing is, I'm fine if you want to create the next Crysis, but for god sakes, at least support SLI/Crossfire.....Also, if you want a game that rivals Crysis's hardware requirements, at least make the game look as nice as the huge amounts of money needed to buy the hardware to play it....

I don't know. The last three GTA's released, I have PC versions of them and I have only tried the console versions for less than 30 minutes of each. I think that the game is just not optimized properly as it should have been, this is a lazy sloppy work. Really sends me a message, that they made enough of paper bags on X360 and PS3 versions. And like with previous titles, this is pretty much a straightforward port without too much stress and additional costs, testing. Plus, they are making new content for at least X360, this simply takes valuable resources. So there you have it.

What is funny to me is that as far as I know, these games have been developed in Scotland for ages. Core parts of them anyway engines, coding all that. Excluding soundtracks, maybe art, voice acting and testing (done probably mostly in New York). These are the same PC developers that started the whole franchise. I'm not sure how many of the same people are still there, but some of them definitely are and they are probably senior leaders by now.

[Kekvit Irae]

Threads devoted to specs and performance are better suited to the Software/Hardware forum.
Threads devoted to gameplay go in the Arena.