Quote Originally Posted by JohnZS View Post
Hahah Priceless

Well I was given GTA IV for a Christmas present. And......I'm enjoying the actual game when it works, but it was a right old pain in the backside these were the problems I encountered.

1) During Install I was prompted to Create a "RockStar Social Club account"

2) I then had to register for some Games for Windows Live account which was pretty difficult to setup as I was confused because the site seemed like I was creating an X-Box Live account.

3) The game then wanted to update to the latest version... so I let it do this...

4) I started the game but was then greeted by an erratic camera the view kept pointing down and the menus kept pointing down. I then went to Rockstar's website were it says (and I quote).



It turns out the ONLY joypad which will work with this game is the X-Box joypad! To get the game to work I had to disable my Joypad in device manager and then reload the game.

5) Started to play the game, it plays ok 57fps in the benchmark at reasonable settings however I keep getting the odd random crashes to the desktop (no pattern or reason behind the crashes).

FSAA is badly needed as there are so many jagglies. You can reduce some of the Jagglies by pressing "P" on your keyboard (this applies some sort of soft post processing filter)

Sometimes the game randomly crashes with an error saying I have ran out of VRAM. This game DOES eat VRAM so I have my draw distance set to 34.

System specs.

QX9650 @ 3.4Ghz (400x8.5)
4GB OCZ DDR3 1600Mhz
BFG GTX 280 OCX
P5E3
Vista Ultimate 64 with SP1
X-Fi Fatal1ty

I sent Rockstar support an e-mail about the issues I experienced and also politely asking them to patch the game so it was not required to be signed into Windows Live to actually play the game as it is only needed for multiplayer.

This game plays like a poorly coded port and what stinks the most is that Direct Input devices are not supported yet X-Input (the X-Box joypad) is FULLY supported (even the force feedback feature).

X-Box to PC port? I think so...

Fingers crossed Rockstar DO more than their usual 1 patch....

John
ive got a gtx260-216 and couldnt even get the game to run you need 8gb ram run this thing