GTA IV - Quad or Core i7 needed!

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Exactly.

This surprises so many people? Yes the game is a poor port, but the fact that it uses quad-core decently is just a sign of the times. Quad-core was going to be used, it was only a matter of time, and it will continue to improve. All those people who insisted that dual-core 3GHz is SOOOOO much better than quad-core at 2.4 because current games run better on the C2D are realizing they weren't actually looking ahead. Doesn't matter so much around here, people upgrade every few months, but others in the outside world have to live with their purchases for at least a year.

yea but this game is completely cpu dependent...theres no balance not enough weight on the gpu...almost no difference in frame rates between 1200 or 1900 resolutions...its almost a joke....and trust me im not crying i have a dual but i could get a quad next week if i wanted it...besides the game looks like it came out in the year 2002 it shouldnt be this demanding...but since they didnt optimise it..most pc,s are having a hard time running it...whats rockstar supposed to tell people that are running $525 cards but only have a 3ghz dual...dear valued customer were sorry but you need a quad core cpu and you need to overclock it to 3.8+ghz as well to run our game...lmao...now im all for quad core optimisation but again this game should not need a quad to run it..."and by the way"...from all the bench marks it looks like it runs like crap on a quad to...proving even more so that rockstar messed up on this game.....no more excuses for lazy game makers.....only if this game had some revolutionary grafx like crysis would they have an excuse for it running so poorly