Grand Theft Auto IV (PC)

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GTA 4 Review

By Tom Orry - 05/12/2008 - 11:00am GMT

If you've been waiting for the ultimate version of GTA 4, then this is it, providing you can put up with a fair amount of hassle to get the game running well.

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Posted at 15:26 on 10 December 2008
DD	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post people keep saying Crysis is fantastic and clever.... but it can only be clever if they can get the high visuals onto Joe Averages PC..... only the new cards now can run it v.high... anyone can make top games on top equipment.... ....the skill is doing it for everyone.... Reply

Posted at 17:17 on 10 December 2008
Sir. Michael	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post i don't know why rockstar did this mistake, come on gta4 must be the game on the pc they must use pc tech. to make graphics look perfect like COD4 they give good graphics on all pcs so why didn;t they do such a think here, well i guess EA are better than rockstar. then ea did crysis and it's a shity crap so i guess EA are not better from rockstar after all. And no there won't be a patch for the game to work on pc that are created in the 21st century and bigest example is crysis they didn't do any patch for it Reply

Posted at 18:15 on 10 December 2008
yo	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post i like the game is sex in the game Reply

Posted at 21:05 on 10 December 2008
The_Abbott	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post Are you kidding me. The majority (that don't have quad processors) can't run the game at all and if they can it's so slow it's pathetic. Go read the GTA forums whomever wrote this because. Never in 12 years in IT and even a tester for Microsoft Games back in 2001 have I seen such an incomplete and dissapointing release. Honestly this article couldn't be more wrong. Report Reply

Posted at 12:38 on 11 December 2008
booglaJ	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post The game graphics are amaizing, the game play is good, yet after 10/15 min game play it crashes my computer! Report Reply

Posted at 17:00 on 11 December 2008
UK_John	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post This a a huge turning point in PC gaming. A GTA PC game that has been not cared about unlike it's console counterparts. The first time in gaming history that a GTA PC version is not the best. The first sign that even Rockstar just don;t really care about the PC any more and left this to junior programmers to produce. With fewer PC games being released, the stores around the world empting their shelves of PC games and only 17% of game sales now being on PC, Rockstar obviously feel they can give us any old trash and we will gobble it up. This version of GTA IV and the scores given it so how redundant modern PC gaming and gaming sites have become. If you are a true PC gamer of 20 years, like me, you must be crying into your beer, like I am. My problm is PC gamers WILL gobble this up - and then complain and complain and complain - and with millions in revenues from those sales, Rockstar won't care at all. I'll tell you one thing: This is a sure sign we will not see another GTA game on PC. So as I started out by saying: This is PC gaming history and another nail in the coffin of PC gaming. Reply

Posted at 17:55 on 11 December 2008
Joe	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post Did you play the same game I played? Or did you just play the console version and add "its easier to aim with a mouse" and call it a 10. This game doesn't work! You don't give tens to games that don't work! You have a quad core, 8800 GTX and you can set stuff to the mid twenties. I have a dual core 8800 GTX and 6 gigs of ram and I can't set anything above FOUR, 800x600 low res textures with a draw distance of FOUR! It looks a hundred times worse than GTAIII, even at 800x600 with a draw distance that makes buildings turn to blur ACROSS THE STREET I get less than thirty frames per seccond, I can run crysis fine but this game I try and drive and suddenly I hit an invisible transformer box that only appears randomly after I look at the invisible sparks for a while Reply

Posted at 19:09 on 19 December 2008
Ewok #7	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post Geez.... you know, I bet you they rushed to release the game in time for christmas... its pathetic! And Roc$tar said that they estimate only 1% on PC games are having issues :/ I agree with Joe! Im reading this stuff while my GTA IV is still wrapped up under the x-mas tree... hoping its not as bad as they say it is! Reply

Posted at 19:36 on 21 December 2008
LEsely	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post i have a problem.my computer is:Intel Core quad 2.40GHz ,GeForce 8800 GTX 768 mb SLI, 2GBRAM DDR3 and Windows Vista.I don´t know,if I can play GTA 4 on maximum or medium details. Thanks for early answer Reply

Posted at 18:50 on 25 December 2008
ffs	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post Ohh i can't even run with 3gb ram ATI because it says "Error %P cannot complete instalation" And i payed 50$ for the damn thing. Reply

Posted at 19:29 on 26 December 2008
Love_GTAIV!	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post I was excited to receive this game for xmas. I rushed to my PC to start the install process.... then the frustration set in. I knew my PC would handle it (AMD 64 x2, 4 gb OCZ ram, 8600GT 256 Videocard, Vista 64bit) After being forced to update to vista service pack 1, updating my videocard drivers (180.XX), it was smooth sailing, sort of. I was only able to play the game at low settings at 800x600. Kinda crappy for such a beautiful game. So forced quit explorer, ctrl+alt+del and ran the game from the 'run' prompt, I can get it to 1024 x 768 with med settings, even higher res with low graphic settings.... And yes I got the 'Error %P' when i first tried to install, you must update to vista service pack 1 or XP service pack 3. I love this game.... after the installation process..... Reply

Posted at 18:27 on 30 December 2008
What the...	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post The reviewer either simply have NO idea what he is talking about, or he is on the payroll at R. Gta4 is one of the worst ports the PC have seen for a while, since bully (another R title) actually. For those who have quads and octa+ mahines, force turn off one core at the time and see if the game scale, it doesnt. Only when you go below 3 cores (the number that happens to be in the Xbox) will you start to see worse performance. But...But...didn't Rr say that this version was programmed from the ground up for the PC: this is quite clearly A LIE! (yet another one). Next. a 10? what on earth makes this game deserve a perfect character? It can't be justified, and the article wirter flat out fails to explain why 10 is a valid character, or why it ever was in the first place. take some anti-hype pills, valium, whatever, and sit down and give it another go will you. The city that causes so much technical hardship, is treated merely as a backdrop. It is the star of the game, it always was, now it is some nutter from Balkan that I can't relate to really. He is not trustworthy as a "hard guy", nor is he particularly pleasant as a person, The choices you are forced to make made me feel forced to make the decisions and thus, unlike in games like fallout 3 (a real 10 character game), I don't relate to what I did. I had no choice really, and whatever I chose made little difference. Then there is all the social hogwash the game forces you into, then there is the DRM bloatware, socials clubs, windows games....I was awestruck when the FAIL of this game started to dawn on me. Now im just disgusted by the way R treat their PC costumers. Lies, deception, coverups, blaming all and everyone (pirates, their costumers, kids, you name it, R* took a swing at them) for their own FAIL and then...defening silence. yyeah R* **** you too. Good think that I'm a regular at my Gamestop, so they gave me a refund, no questions asked. And the clerk told me that I propebly would'nt be the first. He wasn't happy with his copy either. Reply

Posted at 18:32 on 30 December 2008
What the	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post Just to cut this out, so the article author can understand what I'm saying. This will not become a benchmark for anything, it is too unstable and it's steep requirements has nothing to do with what is going on on screen, but the fact that it prefers to handle most graphic through the Cpu (preferbly 3 cores like this code was written for) leavingour (by console standards) monster GPU's hardly breaking sweat, and it doesn't scale very well. Gta4 for pc = really embarransingly shitty port, rushed out the door in Beta state (perhaps even late alpha), for the Xmas sales and jolly season. That's the truth, and I would regain some respect for R* if they just came out and admitted what most programmers who tried the game allready knows for a fact! There is only limited shame in making even terrible mistakes, but not to admit them and correct your behavior is to commit new even worse ones. Reply

Posted at 06:20 on 11 January 2009
I love it free	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post Plain and simple, get A better pc.Then GTA will be 10-10 I have GTA and love it so...I have A monster P-CLast edited on Sun 11 January 2009 by FantasyMeister Reply

Posted at 20:50 on 17 January 2009
lololol	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post Geeze what's the point in making a game if half or more of the regular gamers can't play it Reply