GTA NOT SUPPORT MX!

[RCagent]

I'm hoping the topic creator was pulling a hoax, he's probably not, BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I AM HOPING.

[darknyt6]

 

What the hell is Pixel Shading anyway?

 

Hell, I don't know... If I had known a GeForce4 MX would be incompatible with so many games, I would have bought a GeForce3 instead!

Sorry to say this, but you should have done more research as there are plenty of games the Geforce 4 MX won't play at all and many it renders pitifully.

 

Really, every review I ran across warned readers of the pitfalls of buying a G4 MX. It's practically renowned as the Pinto of graphics cards.

 

Sorry man, must be frustrating

 

Good news is that you can get something good for not too much. Heck you could even pick up a 9700 pro for around $110 or a 6600 GT for about $150. Check www.pricewatch.com for good prices. And it goes without saying you should review any hardware purchase very carefully.

 

Hugs his 6800 GT

[RCagent]

Anybody who does have it, does it say "Does not Support MX" on the back?

[Duders]

Well face the facts, me along with a few others are gonna have to get new vid cards or not buy the game. Live with it. I have been waiting just as long as any of you and plus, I have been playing gta since 98' so just accept it.....

 

-duder

Edited June 7, 2005 by duder6131

[GTA3Freak-2001]

Well really the GF4MX is 3 generations behind the current technology so its not surprising that more and more games won't run with these cards. Blame NVIDIA if anyone for slapping the GF4 name onto a older generation card with tiny improvements.

 

Also remember that the MX series is different to the FX which is the last year's generation of cards which all support pixel shading.

[Kernel-32-dll]

Anyone here knows for sure that SA will not work with a gf4mx?

 

I mean i was kinda impressed when soldner worked well on my computer, it requires pixel shading, but it worked pretty well.

 

I just want to know if anyone here has tried SA with a gf4mx.

 

[Duders]

I will make a topic tomorrow after school when I have installed the game.

 

-duder

[GTA3Freak-2001]

You guys could send any email to Take 2 asking it so you can prove if the topic-starter indeed did make it up, either that or wait til it comes out and more people can test it.

[Barbaneez]

Being an Nvidia GeForce 4 MX owner, I hope that this is false.

I'm sure it will only be a matter of hours before the truth is learnt.

Edited June 7, 2005 by Barbaneez

[Kernel-32-dll]

 

You guys could send any email to Take 2 asking it so you can prove if the topic-starter indeed did make it up, either that or wait til it comes out and more people can test it.

It's not that i don't belive what the topic-starter said, it's that the reply from R* is more a "it should not work but we don't know either" reply than a clear statement.

 

In germany the 10th is a friday and i don't want to spent the weekend waiting for a new graphic card. Well, i know i've been waiting so long for this game that these 3 days don't really matter, but i guess that everybody understands if i say i wanna play this game and i wanna play it now

[PresidentKiller]

 

but i guess that everybody understands if i say i wanna play this game and i wanna play it now 

Yes, I want to play it too, but the stupid stores here wouldn't let me!! Can you believe that?

 

And yes, R*'s reply is more like "we don't know". Maybe they'll release a patch or something, like they did with VC.

[RCagent]

Odd, the Geforce 4 MX plays Vice City great on my computer. Now I realize that San Andreas is just a slightly more resource hungry, but does it really need to use pixel shading?

[Zach]

Odd, the Geforce 4 MX plays Vice City great on my computer. Now I realize that San Andreas is just a slightly more resource hungry, but does it really need to use pixel shading?

<shrug> I only played the first three or four missions on the PS2 version before I boxed it up and decided to wait for the PC version, so there's probably a lot of other things that I haven't seen yet, but I imagine for sure they are using shaders to implement tagging for instance.

[GTA3Freak-2001]

Well it maybe for better effects like the weather, fire, water etc is my best guess.

[RCagent]

Man, I'm pretty disappointed, I'm not installing any Video Cards until next year after I take my comp tech classes. I don't want to kill my computer. HOPEFULLY I can still play San Andreas...if not, then well I'll be pretty disappointed.

[Duders]

Im not getting a new system until a month or so but I am getting San Andreas tomorrow so I'm really desperate for a patch or something to disable pixel shading. Hopefully that will happen since so many people in this topic has described their concerns regarding their video cards.

 

-duder

[Bumper3D]

Man, I'm pretty disappointed, I'm not installing any Video Cards until next year after I take my comp tech classes. I don't want to kill my computer. HOPEFULLY I can still play San Andreas...if not, then well I'll be pretty disappointed.

Ask your friends or something to install a new card for you... You must have at least one friend that is abled to do that.

 

 

Hmm... Yeah, it's really quite annoying when they say a game needs "GeForce 3 or better"...

Same goes for Radeon 8500 or better, 9000's don't usually work.

 

 

Well, I dont care. It should work on my 9600XT.

[Zackzr]

They do say you need at least a GeForce3. The 4MX cards are, for all practical purposes, just overclocked GeForce2 chips. Thereby being under min spec. Furthermore, a DX9 compatible card is needed, and last I checked, chipsets under GeForce3 aren't.

I wish I would have known that before I bought a Geforce 4 MX.

[tearbasco]

Unless there's a hardware check, I don't think it will keep you from playing the game. I was able to play Halo which is shader heavy when I had a Geforce 2u. It looked horrible but it ran. I'm guessing ou just don't get the shader effects.

[GTA3Freak-2001]

Well we know Vice and GTA3 has a gfx card memory check that displayed a "there is not enough video memory" if you didn't meet and and sometimes oddly when people did lol.

 

Anyway I dunno if my post on the last page worked or not(I am having server issues) but I said that most games I have seen that I know do not support the MX series cards actually have it stated on the box meaning it should be in the official specs.

[SimonW]

i have a nVidia GeForce2 MX400

 

vice city and GTA3 worked fine with it

both are still on base install, no 1.1 update or whatever

[Cran.]

Interesting. It doesn't affect me thought, I worst card I've had in the past 2 years is a ATi MR9000

 

/me kisses GeForce 6800 Go.

 

Heh, it will even work on my old desktop which has a 9800 Pro 256

 

 

[jyrks]

Can someone say what's a pixelshader ? And what it does?

 

[Zach]

 

Can someone say what's a pixelshader ? And what it does?

Programmable Pixel Shaders (PDF)

 

In a very abstract, high-level summary, let's just say it gives graphic programmers a means to write code that runs directly on the VPU (video processing unit, i.e., your graphics card).

[RCagent]

I'm just going to take a random guess, but is a Pixel Shader a advanced alternate version of bumpiness textures.

 

( I can relate with the person who said they ran halo with no shaders..yeah , it does look like crap..but its still fun!)

 

I don't think San Andreas relies THAT much on shaders to actually ruin the overall look in the game. I guess cars won't have the added "shaded" appearance.

[xrk]

I had a problem with prince of persia sot when i had an mx 4, it would'nt play at all but theres an app called 3d analize you could use to get it running by playing with the settings

[RCagent]

 

I had a problem with prince of persia sot when i had an mx 4, it would'nt play at all but theres an app called 3d analize you could use to get it running by playing with the settings

I'm guessing it wouldn't run because Prince of Persia has more blurring effects than a pr0n movie.

[Majestic]

If this is true, this is the BEST news i've heard in ages

[JernejL]

 

I had a problem with prince of persia sot when i had an mx 4, it would'nt play at all but theres an app called 3d analize you could use to get it running by playing with the settings

that program is for DX8, san andreas uses DX9.

 

someone has to have the game already so tell us if it works on GF4 mx440

cards or not, my sister has that card and i hope it will work. i have a GF FX 5600 card so i am fine i guess..

 

[Bernard Jazz]

i got a geforce 2 MX.. great..

Although the minimum requirements said 64MB graphics card so i surely must be able to play it with a small screen res and low draw distance