Comments on: GT…A.. oh who cares?

By: Waste_Manager

Waste_Manager — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:19:50 +0000

By: XxChalkyxX

XxChalkyxX — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:24:31 +0000

Facepalm

By: Arazmus

Arazmus — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:03:19 +0000

my boards go256 MB DDR3 onbored ram… quite nifty

By: Waste_Manager

Waste_Manager — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:33:32 +0000

That is a bit rubbish. DDR3 eh? You running an I7?

By: Renegadesoul

Renegadesoul — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:28:32 +0000

oops and i forgot to add…. “yes it is pritty stupid seeing as a 9800gtx can only run the game on average graphics -.-” grr

By: Renegadesoul

Renegadesoul — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:27:23 +0000

oh yea ^^ i must have overread that biit :P

By: Arazmus

Arazmus — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:06:52 +0000

I know renegade.. i also stated that here:

[quote]I’ll tell you why – The developers, in their infinite wisdom, decided to used GFX RAM instead of System RAM.[/quote]

That is exactly my point. my GFX card is in between the minimum and recommended specs.. still a stupid pholosopy by rockstar

By: renegadesoul

renegadesoul — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:13:54 +0000

the reason it doesnt work with your card Arazmus is because i uses memory on your graphics card. im runnning it on a similar system to yours but mine only has 2GB DDR3 ram and a 9800GTX 512mb, i can only run gta IV on medium for this -.- i would make a “good/mediocure” game if they had acctually utalised your system memmory? and maby a decent physics engine?

By: Waste_Manager

Waste_Manager — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:11:03 +0000

I would be tempted to contact valve and ask for a refund – if you are over minimum specs and it doesn’t work it shouldn’t be your problem.

By: Arazmus

Arazmus — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:54:53 +0000

personally if i could return steam games I would.. I have yet to actually get to play this. I bought it, installed it – then it half ran – missing textures etc. I have decent GFX card and thought it might be RAM related. (only had 4gb DDR) so upgraded to the following:
AMD Phenom 9955 2.6Ghz Quad Core,
1Tb HDD
4GB 1066 DDR2 RAM
same GFX Card (8600GTS 256mb)

the GTA:IV Sys Specs are:
Minimum System Requirements

* Operating System: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 OR Windows XP Service Pack 3
* Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4GHz
* Memory/RAM: 1.5GB for Vista, 1GB for XP
* Hard Disk Space: 16GB Free
* Video Card: 256MB NVIDIA 7900 or 256MB ATI X1900

Recommended System Requirements

* Operating System: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 OR Windows XP Service Pack 3
* Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz, AMD Phenom X3 2.1GHz
* Memory/RAM: 2.5GB for Vista, 2.5GB for XP
* Hard Disk Space: 18 GB Free
* Video Card: 512MB NVIDIA 8600 or 512MB ATI 3870

So with my GFX Card sitting somewhere between the minimum and the recommended and the rest of my system blitzing the recommended, I Still cannot run this game properly…

I’ll tell you why – The developers, in their infinite wisdom, decided to used GFX RAM instead of System RAM. they built in a device that says you are using X out of X amount of gfx ram. this restricts the games GFX…. You can turn this off by adding “-norestrictions” to the shortcut perameters..

My point being is that no game should be made only playable by the defining factor of the GFX RAM.. its just wrong! Thats what your system ram is for!