GTAIV PC

[fustercluck]

Sort of a RANT here, be prepared!

Probably spent more time trying to get GTAIV working than actually playing it, and I logged in about 60 hours to the game. It did work for a while, so that's good . The problem is every time they 'patch' the game about 10 new problems arise, usually to do with the control scheme. My guy will either continually walk in circles (even if all devices on my computer are unplugged) or left/right and up/down will be reversed and none of the buttons on the joypad will work. This is the problem with the latest patch. It's been one thing or another with every version of the game though. I will end up finding someway around this problem. I've done it before with other problems, and end up making my own fix knowing another patch will be far down the road.

They couldn't of screwed up the port worse if they tried. I really regret buying it, and not pirating it like the smart people did. The reason I bought it was because I wanted to play it multiplayer online on Live. Unfortunately it's overrun with obvious hackers (maybe not overrun but they are around), and Rockstar is doing nothing about it. Most the people playing online probably pirated the game to begin with. Arg.

Well, at least I know I got a lot of people to back me up on this. Pretty much anyone who has bought it will feel the same.

 

[Barfo]

Yup, there was a big discussion about this a while ago. I'm happy I didn't get it.

 

[Billyzeke]

Worked great out of the box for me. I didn't like the Rock Star social club crap, but it installed and worked fine. I loved the game. I don't know why so many people have problems with it.

 

[Sam25]

Yes, it's not a good port at all. There have many discussions regarding this here as well. I picked this up because it was dirt cheap here where I live.

 

[stnicralisk]

You think it is the worst port? Wow that is saying a lot. I am having some trouble off the top of my head but some ports do not even work at all.

How do you know that the majority of people online pirated?

 

[NYHoustonman]

It sucks as a port but it's still a great game. The patches have made it a great deal more playable for me (used to get insane hard drive thrasing throughout), and the issues brought up by new patches, while ridiculous, haven't been that bad (or, at least, I haven't been hit by them).

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Billyzeke
Worked great out of the box for me. I didn't like the Rock Star social club crap, but it installed and worked fine. I loved the game. I don't know why so many people have problems with it.

Worked fine for me as well. the rockstar social club was annoying and so was the having to take your friends places every 5 minutes, but the game ran pretty well for me.

 

[chizow]

Just to clarify, a fully functional crack for GTA4 still hasn't been released. While the ones available do allow you to "play", Rockstar certainly took a pretty humorous approach in deterring piracy:

GTA4 cracked and "Reloaded"?

I find it hilarious that the cracked game experience accurately simulates what it might be like to ride the high seas.....ARggggh matey! LMAO.

To the OP, they did make some changes to the DirectInput files, make sure you're fully updated and perhaps calibrate your controller and perhaps check your controller's drivers. GTA4 works flawlessly for me with a 360 wireless controller.

Its a very hardware intensive title, with particular emphasis on the CPU. Quad core or better highly recommended, i7 even better. Silky smooth gaming experience on an i7 and a very noticeable improvement over a C2Q at similar clockspeeds.

 

[CottonRabbit]

Originally posted by: chizow
Just to clarify, a fully functional crack for GTA4 still hasn't been released. While the ones available do allow you to "play", Rockstar certainly took a pretty humorous approach in deterring piracy:

Eh, I'll just say that statement was untrue a week after release.

 

[Cheesetogo]

Originally posted by: chizow
Just to clarify, a fully functional crack for GTA4 still hasn't been released. While the ones available do allow you to "play", Rockstar certainly took a pretty humorous approach in deterring piracy:

GTA4 cracked and "Reloaded"?

I find it hilarious that the cracked game experience accurately simulates what it might be like to ride the high seas.....ARggggh matey! LMAO.

To the OP, they did make some changes to the DirectInput files, make sure you're fully updated and perhaps calibrate your controller and perhaps check your controller's drivers. GTA4 works flawlessly for me with a 360 wireless controller.

Its a very hardware intensive title, with particular emphasis on the CPU. Quad core or better highly recommended, i7 even better. Silky smooth gaming experience on an i7 and a very noticeable improvement over a C2Q at similar clockspeeds.

Unless they've changed some things in newer patches, the swaying was fixed by another crack a very long time ago.

 

[Piuc2020]

Originally posted by: Cheesetogo

Originally posted by: chizow
Just to clarify, a fully functional crack for GTA4 still hasn't been released. While the ones available do allow you to "play", Rockstar certainly took a pretty humorous approach in deterring piracy:

GTA4 cracked and "Reloaded"?

I find it hilarious that the cracked game experience accurately simulates what it might be like to ride the high seas.....ARggggh matey! LMAO.

To the OP, they did make some changes to the DirectInput files, make sure you're fully updated and perhaps calibrate your controller and perhaps check your controller's drivers. GTA4 works flawlessly for me with a 360 wireless controller.

Its a very hardware intensive title, with particular emphasis on the CPU. Quad core or better highly recommended, i7 even better. Silky smooth gaming experience on an i7 and a very noticeable improvement over a C2Q at similar clockspeeds.

Unless they've changed some things in newer patches, the swaying was fixed by another crack a very long time ago.

The irony though, is that the link to a working non-sway patch is right there on the youtube link he posted!

 

[Rifter]

I agree, i own a PC and a PS3 and have played GTA 4 on both systems and the PS3 is way better. The PC does look better but has way to many crashes/glitches/slowdowns. It runs alot better on my PS3.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Rifterut
I agree, i own a PC and a PS3 and have played GTA 4 on both systems and the PS3 is way better. The PC does look better but has way to many crashes/glitches/slowdowns. It runs alot better on my PS3.

Was the PS3 version not a 360 port in of itself? IIRC, the PS3's version is not 720P like the 360 and seems to be less smooth than on the 360.

 

[exar333]

Works great for me; fun game. You either have a crappy computer or don't know how to use it correctly.

Good idea to buy it and not pirate it, considering the latter is illegal...

 

[NYHoustonman]

Originally posted by: ExarKun333
Works great for me; fun game. You either have a crappy computer or don't know how to use it correctly.

Good idea to buy it and not pirate it, considering the latter is illegal...

There's quite a bit of wiggle room between the PC in your sig and a 'crappy computer.' I love the game, but it's horrendously coded for what it is. If you don't have more than two cores / more than 2GB memory, you're going to barely scrape by (as I have).

 

[error8]

For me it works pretty crappy. I have all the settings put so that it won't go over 1gb of video memory, the number of cars is at 50% ( don't like the traffic jams ) and it stutters here and there, like I'm missing some ram, or like my hdd is severely fragmented, which of course it isn't. Maybe it all has to do with the lack of two extra cores. I don't know, but really, the game should have worked faster or perfectly, on a system like mine. Having a game that asks for a quad core as a minimum, in 2009, is a bit too much, IMO. I have the impression, that if the producers had worked harder, they could have made the game use less resources.

 

[skace]

Works fine for me out of box, I play w/ KB&M

 

[TidusZ]

Originally posted by: ExarKun333
Works great for me; fun game. You either have a crappy computer or don't know how to use it correctly.

Good idea to buy it and not pirate it, considering the latter is illegal...

Even better idea to do neither, since we shouldn't be supporting coding disasters of this magnitude.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: fustercluck
Well, at least I know I got a lot of people to back me up on this. Pretty much anyone who has bought it will feel the same.

Guess I got lucky, worked out of the box with my xbox360 controller and looks superior to the ps3 even with medium settings. Just ordered a gtx260 up from an 8800gt so hope to make it even prettier.

My only problem is the whole GTA series is starting to get stale. I love this game, but there needs to be a giant refresh or something, b/c we're doing pretty much the same stuff since GTA3, it's just prettier now and you don't drown.

 

[chizow]

Originally posted by: Piuc2020

Originally posted by: Cheesetogo

Originally posted by: chizow
Just to clarify, a fully functional crack for GTA4 still hasn't been released. While the ones available do allow you to "play", Rockstar certainly took a pretty humorous approach in deterring piracy:

GTA4 cracked and "Reloaded"?

I find it hilarious that the cracked game experience accurately simulates what it might be like to ride the high seas.....ARggggh matey! LMAO.

To the OP, they did make some changes to the DirectInput files, make sure you're fully updated and perhaps calibrate your controller and perhaps check your controller's drivers. GTA4 works flawlessly for me with a 360 wireless controller.

Its a very hardware intensive title, with particular emphasis on the CPU. Quad core or better highly recommended, i7 even better. Silky smooth gaming experience on an i7 and a very noticeable improvement over a C2Q at similar clockspeeds.

Unless they've changed some things in newer patches, the swaying was fixed by another crack a very long time ago.

The irony though, is that the link to a working non-sway patch is right there on the youtube link he posted!

And the comments to the crack still show significant issues like random crashes, inability to save, broken quest lines etc.

 

[QueBert]

About to play on my GF's X2D system, it runs great. While it has it's share of port problems, "worst everrrrr" isn't even close to the truth. I don't think I could even come up with the worst port ever, but one that easily surpasses GTAIV in my mind was Guitar Hero III. Honestly the game should have been able to run butter smooth on a low end computer, but you need a super computer to play it without lag and stuttering. The game has next to no animation and very simple, low resolution graphics.

Even then, GHIII isn't the worst port ever.

 

[coloumb]

Pre last patch - the port was pretty bad. But I think they resolved a lot of issues with the latest patch [like letting us disable those stupid shadows!].

 

[Rifter]

Was the PS3 version not a 360 port in of itself? IIRC, the PS3's version is not 720P like the 360 and seems to be less smooth than on the 360.

I dont believe the PS3 version was 360 port as they were released on the same day for both systems, also the PS3 versions has 720P and 1080P.

 

[Piuc2020]

Originally posted by: chizow

Originally posted by: Piuc2020

Originally posted by: Cheesetogo

Originally posted by: chizow
Just to clarify, a fully functional crack for GTA4 still hasn't been released. While the ones available do allow you to "play", Rockstar certainly took a pretty humorous approach in deterring piracy:

GTA4 cracked and "Reloaded"?

I find it hilarious that the cracked game experience accurately simulates what it might be like to ride the high seas.....ARggggh matey! LMAO.

To the OP, they did make some changes to the DirectInput files, make sure you're fully updated and perhaps calibrate your controller and perhaps check your controller's drivers. GTA4 works flawlessly for me with a 360 wireless controller.

Its a very hardware intensive title, with particular emphasis on the CPU. Quad core or better highly recommended, i7 even better. Silky smooth gaming experience on an i7 and a very noticeable improvement over a C2Q at similar clockspeeds.

Unless they've changed some things in newer patches, the swaying was fixed by another crack a very long time ago.

The irony though, is that the link to a working non-sway patch is right there on the youtube link he posted!

And the comments to the crack still show significant issues like random crashes, inability to save, broken quest lines etc.

As far as I know, the save was fixed by another crack and legal consumers also get random crashes and broken quest lines

Anyways, for that other posted and because I'm too damn lazy to look up your name and quote your post. The PS3 version of GTA IV was developed in line with the 360 version, neither are "ports" of the other version, it's just that the PS3 and 360 have different hardware so games turn out different. I believe the PS3 version is 720p but has no AA and the 360 version is a little lower but does have AA.

 

[duragezic]

I don't think it's a great port but it is acceptable; certainly nowhere near the worst ever.

But it is a little disappointing that it nearly demands a quad core. It seems to me and from what I've read that resolution and graphic settings, and your video card, don't matter much. I play at 1440x900 on the system in my sig and it is fine but still slows down more than I'd like on occasion.

Of the recent games I've bought, it and Stalker Clear Sky run the worse. Even Crysis runs better.

I wonder how many people pirate the game and the cracked game has problems of some type, so you get them filling up forums and tech support with bogus complaints. I'm not talking about people here, but just reading about the various cracked problems for this game I'd have to imagine that it is happening a lot.