DigitalD Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 News: Confirmed PC System Requirements They are as follows: Minimum System Requirements Recommended System Requirements 1GHz Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon Processor256MB of RAM 8x DVD-ROM Drive 3.6 GB of free Hard Disk space for a minimal install 64MB Video Card with DirectX 9 compatible drivers ("GeForce3" or better) DirectX 9 compatible Stereo Sound Card Keyboard & Mouse Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon XP processor (or better)384(+) MB of RAM 16x DVD-ROM drive 4.7 GB of free Hard Disk space for a full install 128(+) MB Video Card with DirectX 9 compatible drivers ("GeForce4" or better) DirectX 9 compatible Surround Sound Card Game pad with twin axis analog controls (USB or Joystick Port) Keyboard & Mouse Thanks to The GTA Place for getting these confirmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murph_fan51 Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 How many GHz for the recommended processor? But yeah, as we all expected... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cran. Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 It means any Pentium 4 processor or AMD Athlon XP processor. Nice to see these finally confirmed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opius Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 Oooh! Minimum DirectX 9? Does that mean we get awesome DX9 shader support? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm. Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 Looking good, both my brother's and my PC meet the requirements so I can see many hours being dedicated to the PC game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue_steel Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 News: Confirmed PC System Requirements They are as follows: Minimum System Requirements Recommended System Requirements 1GHz Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon Processor256MB of RAM 8x DVD-ROM Drive 3.6 GB of free Hard Disk space for a minimal install 64MB Video Card with DirectX 9 compatible drivers ("GeForce3" or better) DirectX 9 compatible Stereo Sound Card Keyboard & Mouse Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon XP processor (or better)384(+) MB of RAM 16x DVD-ROM drive 4.7 GB of free Hard Disk space for a full install 128(+) MB Video Card with DirectX 9 compatible drivers ("GeForce4" or better) DirectX 9 compatible Surround Sound Card Game pad with twin axis analog controls (USB or Joystick Port) Keyboard & Mouse Thanks to The GTA Place for getting these confirmed. Whoa, thats confusing. I don't know why I came in here since I own Xbox but all i know is that xbox is easier. Eject it, Stick it, Play it...vice 'n' easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salibaba Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 W000t im so glad that my PC is way way better than i need to play, not that I had any doubts but i thought it would only be way better not way way better AMD athlon xp 2500+ Asus A7n8x mobo 768MB DDR3200 RAM GeForce 6600GT *128MB**AGP* 200GB sata150 7200RPM DVD-ROM Drive 16x Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2 - exactly the same as the PS2 controller, hope SA had vibration support only thing bringin me down is my stereo creative audio card, and i have onboard 5.1 is that not silly, i keep the card cos it has a good midi synthisizer, daft eh? unlucky for folks who have not passed the bar, will u be buying new parts if you need them now or will you just not buy SA (u may have it on ps2 already) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menzothabest Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 (edited) F*ck, I have a Geforce 2 MX and it says Geforce 3.. :S Vice City worked at all settings high! Will it work? Edited April 23, 2005 by Menzothabest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murph_fan51 Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 If VC worked fine, then probably yeah. Is it 64MB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shada Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 GeForce 3 is not a DX9 card. It is like a Radeom 8500 a DX8.0 or 8.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menzothabest Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 If VC worked fine, then probably yeah. Is it 64MB? Eehm, where can you see that? Everything works fine with my PC, except for this I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salibaba Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 if you need to see how much RAM is on your graphics card then right click on desktop>properties>settings>advanced>adapter its under memory size Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_porshe Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 (edited) THats really good. I think my pc would run that fine. Field Value Computer Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition OS Service Pack Service Pack 2 Motherboard CPU Type AMD Athlon XP, 1473 MHz (11 x 134) 1700+ Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-7VAX (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM, Audio, LAN) Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8377 Apollo KT400 Display Video Adapter RADEON 9800 SERIES - Secondary (128 MB) Video Adapter RADEON 9800 SERIES (128 MB) 3D Accelerator ATI Radeon 9800 SE (R350) Disk Drive Maxtor 2F040L0 (40 GB, 5400 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)5.92 Disk Drive HDS728080PLAT20 (76 GB, IDE) 39mb free Optical Drive ATAPI CD-RW 52XMax Optical Drive SONY DVD-ROM DDU1621 (16x/40x DVD-ROM) Edited April 23, 2005 by red_porshe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menzothabest Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 If VC worked fine, then probably yeah. Is it 64MB? Eehm, where can you see that? Everything works fine with my PC, except for this I think Yes, it is 64 Its a Geforce 2 MX/MX 400 64 MB.. So u think it will work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salibaba Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 It will run but IMO it wont run very well because if i remember its only a 2x card. You will need to keep the settings low 800x600x32 or 800x600x16, and always keep AA and AF off i even had to turn those off with a geforce 4 so it is a definate that you must do it with yours. Hope this helps. Oh and it will also matter about your other spec with your PC that will depend how well it will run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cran. Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 (edited) Oooh! Minimum DirectX 9? Does that mean we get awesome DX9 shader support? Maybe. They said something about better shadows at gtasanandreas.net Graphics look f*cking amazing for GTA from what i've seen. @Opie ? Edited April 23, 2005 by Cran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCagent Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 4.7 Gigs? DAAAAMN! =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davew2040 Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 Oooh! Minimum DirectX 9? Does that mean we get awesome DX9 shader support? Maybe. They said something about better shadows at gtasanandreas.net Graphics look f*cking amazing for GTA from what i've seen. @Opie ? I doubt it's shadows that would cause that. Shadows usually aren't implemented in terms of shaders. It's probably things like the heat shimmering effect or the speed blurring effect... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmSixTeen Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 4.7 gigs is f*cking huge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalD Posted April 23, 2005 Author Share Posted April 23, 2005 4.7GB requirement also basically confirms that the game will be on a DVD-5 single layer disc as opposed to a DVD-9 double layer disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samutz Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 But do we know for sure that the radio stations are going to be included in the 4.7GB that goes on your harddrive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VC Hacker Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 They probably will be since that was an option for VC. I don't know if the full install means you can run it without the disc. The audio was the only data read from the disc in VC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murph_fan51 Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 Yes Im sure it is included in that 4.7GB. The minimal install is slighly lower, 3. something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTAKhaoZ Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 They probably will be since that was an option for VC. I don't know if the full install means you can run it without the disc. The audio was the only data read from the disc in VC. I did a full install for GTA III and VC and I still needed the play disc to run the game. Then I would find a No-CD crack so I wouldn't need the disc (and yes, if you're wondering, I bought the game to begin with). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flitcroft101 Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 My computer runs half life2 great and each loading screen takes about 5 seconds so it should be able to handle san andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PresidentKiller Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 They probably will be since that was an option for VC. I don't know if the full install means you can run it without the disc. The audio was the only data read from the disc in VC. I did a full install for GTA III and VC and I still needed the play disc to run the game. Then I would find a No-CD crack so I wouldn't need the disc (and yes, if you're wondering, I bought the game to begin with). It asks you for the CD in order to "verify" that the game is a legitimate copy. Of course, as you've stated, if you did a "full" install the CD is totally unnecessary. Back on topic: I'm glad that my computer is able to handle San Andreas, but I still need to perform some hardware upgrades so that it runs as smoothly as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murph_fan51 Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 and each loading screen takes about 5 seconds heck, what specs do you have? Mine takes a little longer than that.. but i was looking at the VC PC system requirements, they are pretty similar: Vice City Specs: minimum: 800MHz Intel Pentium III or 800MHz AMD Athlon or 1.2GHz Intel Celeron or 1.2GHz AMD Duron processor 128MB RAM 8 Speed CD / DVD Drive 915MB hard disk space (+ 635MB if video card does not support DirectX texture compression) 32MB video card with DirectX 9.0 compatible drivers Slightly higher processor and memory and graphics card, and of cause DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA3Freak-2001 Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 Yep around what I thought it would be, shouldn't have any problems running it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCagent Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 I'm kind worried about something. I'm pretty sure I can run it, as my video card is the "at least" card in the recommended setting. But I'm worried about the Real Time World Reflections on the cars. You see: When I play The Sims 2, I have the option for "FULL REFLECTION' and it works great. But as for Half-Life 2, I have no REFLECTIONS at all. I think I should get real time world reflections on San Andreas, as Half-Life 2 is slightly biased against low budget cards. There is something I know I probably won't have is, and thats the speed "blur". I have Need for Speed Underground and it doesn't allow me to have the NOS blur. But then again, all games uses different engines... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sillyhed2000 Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 Half-life 2 is considerably more resource-hungry than the Sims 2, I believe. Anyway, it looks like I'll be able to run it no problem. Thing is, I don't have a DVD drive yet; what's the difference between 8x and 16x or more? I know it's the speed at which it reads the CD, but what does that translate to in terms of performance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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