Carbine23 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 What the f*ck are you smoking? The graphics look amazing in motion! I mean, did you even see the skyline in the leaked video? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917254 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niko>>>all Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 seriously are you all Amish? does the possibility occur that R* shelled out a f*ckload of hush money? That is one possibility... it still doesn't answer the question as to why the leaked videos do not demonstrate any of these problems? actually, theres a vid on youtube right now that shows a car ontop of a road and its floating there for a couple of seconds before the textures pop in. Its a 30 second vid you can find it now I'm sure it's just once in a while like all other gta's tho Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPT JURKOVSKY Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 wow now im looking more forward to June through August Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917322 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trojanfoe Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Sorry but you didnt just "Go out & pick it up" You probably got a leaked version that was screwed up or missing some parts. Only a handful of actual copies have slipped through stores. Rockstar stated this yesterday. I dont have a link, some website had it. Huh? What is the 'leaked' version and what parts could possibly be missing? And you believe everything that Rockstar says? I think you're talking horse feathers Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
doa kappatango Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 If you are running with the HDD disconnected/unused, you will see problems like this. The HDD is used as a cache to pre-load, so without one the GFX will be affected. Not sure about the floating cars though. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917351 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawngasm Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 (edited) seriously are you all Amish? does the possibility occur that R* shelled out a f*ckload of hush money? That is one possibility... it still doesn't answer the question as to why the leaked videos do not demonstrate any of these problems? actually, theres a vid on youtube right now that shows a car ontop of a road and its floating there for a couple of seconds before the textures pop in. Its a 30 second vid you can find it now I'm sure it's just once in a while like all other gta's tho I just saw a picture of nikko on a bike floating in the air. Edited April 25, 2008 by Spawngasm Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917356 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MD_Reptile Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 ive watched hours and hours of gameplay vids (including live feeds), and i havent seen anything like this, thats pretty strange, might wanna try callin up some support people and asking what to do. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917360 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTwister Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Just tried to read every message throughly, but aussiebob hasn't confirmed he started the game again, and installed onto the harddrive. ...i'm 100% sure this will improve it for him. yes, im putting my nuts on the line here. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
werppa Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 (edited) Have you tried playing it with other Xbox360? E: Nevermind, you tried it on other xbox360. Maybe it's the game then, R* might release somekind of a fix or something after release. Edited April 25, 2008 by werppa Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917389 Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeythedemon Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Just tried to read every message throughly, but aussiebob hasn't confirmed he started the game again, and installed onto the harddrive. ...i'm 100% sure this will improve it for him. yes, im putting my nuts on the line here. I don't think you can even install it on the hard-drive for the 360 version, not sure about the PS3 though. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesm Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 After picking up my copy of GTA today, i couldn't wait to get home and play.Loaded the game, then after the intro, it started happening. Very bad problems. The rendering(is that what you call it?) of the buildings and ground took forever to stream. The ground had no textures and the cars floated in the air. The buildings also blurred as i stood right next to them waiting for the textures to load up. If that wasn't bad enough, doing the driving missions i would smash into invisible walls only to find a brick wall pop up 5 seconds later! Don't get me wrong, the graphics are absolutely awesome but theses issues really hamper the gameplay to such an extent, that replaying simple missions are often needed because of them. What could be the problem? I could help you, I would help you, BUT I WONT HELP YOU, cause you got a illegal copy of gta 4, support rockstar and take two by spending 3 in a half years to give this to you! and you just get it illegialy without paying for it! yeah lets all leak the damn game then rockstar wont have enough money to make gta v fa**ot. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917401 Share on other sites More sharing options...
werppa Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Just tried to read every message throughly, but aussiebob hasn't confirmed he started the game again, and installed onto the harddrive. ...i'm 100% sure this will improve it for him. yes, im putting my nuts on the line here. I don't think you can even install it on the hard-drive for the 360 version, not sure about the PS3 though. There is mandatory install in PS3. No idea about the 360 install though. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
werppa Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 After picking up my copy of GTA today, i couldn't wait to get home and play.Loaded the game, then after the intro, it started happening. Very bad problems. The rendering(is that what you call it?) of the buildings and ground took forever to stream. The ground had no textures and the cars floated in the air. The buildings also blurred as i stood right next to them waiting for the textures to load up. If that wasn't bad enough, doing the driving missions i would smash into invisible walls only to find a brick wall pop up 5 seconds later! Don't get me wrong, the graphics are absolutely awesome but theses issues really hamper the gameplay to such an extent, that replaying simple missions are often needed because of them. What could be the problem? I could help you, I would help you, BUT I WONT HELP YOU, cause you got a illegal copy of gta 4, support rockstar and take two by spending 3 in a half years to give this to you! and you just get it illegialy without paying for it! yeah lets all leak the damn game then rockstar wont have enough money to make gta v fa**ot. He just said that he has the real copy, I don't see any reason why he would come here with his problems if he had downloaded copy of it... Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinky Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Does it really make a difference if i use a hardrive or not?I mean it really shouldn't, but if that is the case that is a bit dodgy. Either way tried using a hardrive still no luck. Data on the hard drive is accessed far faster than possible by the DVD drive, makes a very big difference to games. Also it gives an extra memory cache for when your RAM and GFX fill up, if your hard drive is full or old and been used a lot it probably needs maintenance even for the cache to work properly. Why gaming rigs run two or four high speed hard drives, it can dump info at two or four times the rate of a single drive if or when the RAM is full. It's all about speed. Try doing the maintenance thing someone posted a few posts back and see if that helps. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917471 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimpsonFly Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 After picking up my copy of GTA today, i couldn't wait to get home and play.Loaded the game, then after the intro, it started happening. Very bad problems. The rendering(is that what you call it?) of the buildings and ground took forever to stream. The ground had no textures and the cars floated in the air. The buildings also blurred as i stood right next to them waiting for the textures to load up. If that wasn't bad enough, doing the driving missions i would smash into invisible walls only to find a brick wall pop up 5 seconds later! Don't get me wrong, the graphics are absolutely awesome but theses issues really hamper the gameplay to such an extent, that replaying simple missions are often needed because of them. What could be the problem? I could help you, I would help you, BUT I WONT HELP YOU, cause you got a illegal copy of gta 4, support rockstar and take two by spending 3 in a half years to give this to you! and you just get it illegialy without paying for it! yeah lets all leak the damn game then rockstar wont have enough money to make gta v fa**ot. He just said that he has the real copy, I don't see any reason why he would come here with his problems if he had downloaded copy of it... You really don't see a reason? But to me it sounds like his copy. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverick808 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Even if he did download it, and I don't think he did, the game still has a problem. I played the game on Tuesday 22nd at my mate's when he downloaded it and posted about the exact same issue, but of course I just got flamed as a liar. I've played every GTA and the pop-up issues I saw in GTA4 were more severe than any other. Remember San Andreas on the PS2? You went fast in a plane and you could hit invisible buildings and trees easily... well it's exactly like that in GTA4, but it happens in cars. And it is a regular occurrence, get in any car (even a slow one) and drive in straight line for about 10 seconds and the stores you are going past won't have loaded their textures and even the road texture becomes poor. Drive longer and the road just becomes solid grey color. I've watched the gameplay vids and seen the odd object pop-in. I believe the textures are turning into the poor versions when people are driving in the gameplay vids but you can't really tell because the videos are such poor quality. If you find a really good gameplay vid and watch the road while they are travelling fast and keep watching it when they stop you often see a change in the texture. I think there are three textures; highest quality, poor quality, and awful quality (which is basically a solid color). Believe me, this is a major problem because unless it's the fully loaded high-quality texture then even the next one down looks absolutely awful and you'll see it any time you are driving for more than 10-20 seconds. At the end of the day I know this is a problem and have experienced it first hand. Flame me as much as you want just now but I know on Tuesday there will be a flood of threads about this issue when people start experiencing it and complaining. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorjones7961 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 After picking up my copy of GTA today, i couldn't wait to get home and play.Loaded the game, then after the intro, it started happening. Very bad problems. The rendering(is that what you call it?) of the buildings and ground took forever to stream. The ground had no textures and the cars floated in the air. The buildings also blurred as i stood right next to them waiting for the textures to load up. If that wasn't bad enough, doing the driving missions i would smash into invisible walls only to find a brick wall pop up 5 seconds later! Don't get me wrong, the graphics are absolutely awesome but theses issues really hamper the gameplay to such an extent, that replaying simple missions are often needed because of them. What could be the problem? Why are you asking us? We dont have the game yet! xD Only thing I could think of is that you skipped the optional install for the 360 if thats the one your using. Thats all I got. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiebob Posted April 25, 2008 Author Share Posted April 25, 2008 I've just cleared the cache, no difference. I spoke to a guy who fixes 360's and said it sounds like a DVD drive problem. The loading times of missions take a bit of time to load up to so he thinks it could be the problem. He also said that if a game is known to have pop up problems a dodgy DVD Drive can enhance the issues even further. I'll take it to him and see what happens. By the way i also have the floating cars problem to, but that's because of the ground not loading up quick enough. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917663 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sazzle Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 ive not had any of those problems so far, although i did have major problems on one mission where my friend dissapeared completely only to leave his shadow which kept dissapearing. Nearly had to replay the mission because of it. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917883 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TenEightyOne Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Hmmm... I think you'd better send me your disc and I'll have a look at it for you Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machinehead155 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 your full of it i just watched live streaming video for 5 hours and noticed nothing like that. I did how ever notice some times peds can take bout 10-30 seconds to show up in an area. Question. Did the peds just start popping-in right there (like 5 feet in front of you) or did they spawn normally off in the distance? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057917957 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamius Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Just want to clarify: My copy came in the post today, and i've just had a good go on it for the last hour. I have a 360, and NONE of the problems this guy is going on about have happened. It is perfect, just perfect. When you see it playing right in front of you (not via a stream etc) there is so much more going on, graphically. It really does have to be seen to be believed. Right...back to work! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057918477 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konoko45 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I've watched a pretty good quality live stream from someone I know that pirated it, and even then I didn't see these problems. My opinion is that the OP downloaded GTA4 and burned it too fast, thus degrading the quality of the image and it's ability to load, because I am quite certain the retail disc will NOT have this problem, or at least not as horrifyingly drastic as he makes it out to be. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057918673 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aimee Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 After picking up my copy of GTA today, i couldn't wait to get home and play.Loaded the game, then after the intro, it started happening. Very bad problems. The rendering(is that what you call it?) of the buildings and ground took forever to stream. The ground had no textures and the cars floated in the air. The buildings also blurred as i stood right next to them waiting for the textures to load up. If that wasn't bad enough, doing the driving missions i would smash into invisible walls only to find a brick wall pop up 5 seconds later! Don't get me wrong, the graphics are absolutely awesome but theses issues really hamper the gameplay to such an extent, that replaying simple missions are often needed because of them. What could be the problem? From that description, it sounds like you're playing Second Life. Anyway i heard yesterday that IV nearly got delayed for another month, there's been problems with it right up to it going gold. So it's all our own faults for being so damn impatient Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057918762 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niko-Claude Vercetti Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I know that this is all total BS. I have seen lots of GTA 4 footage on 360 and the problems people speak about have never happened, quit being such assholes and trying to spoil this for people Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057918772 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtro Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I've just cleared the cache, no difference.I spoke to a guy who fixes 360's and said it sounds like a DVD drive problem. The loading times of missions take a bit of time to load up to so he thinks it could be the problem. He also said that if a game is known to have pop up problems a dodgy DVD Drive can enhance the issues even further. I'll take it to him and see what happens. By the way i also have the floating cars problem to, but that's because of the ground not loading up quick enough. Hey man... sorry to tell you that but your DVD drive is dead or dying. I had the exact same problem you describe with Forza 2... no RROD but textures not loading (flying cars), game super slow to load. etc... When I read your first post I was remembering my first 360 dying. This sucks for you. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057918814 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo_33 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I DONT BELIEVE YOU! NO PROOF... Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057918838 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanFreit Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 UNLUCKY, Thats all i can say... Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057919073 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royal55 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Isn't there an optional install for the Xbox360 version? If so then you might want to try the install then see what that results In. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057919344 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gatto Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 This can only happen on an xbox360 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/332470-wtf-is-wrong-with-my-gta4/?do=findComment&comment=1057919365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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