Pics of the box and the book

[aidan87]

I'm really scared of this:

 

Crossfire game side bugs:

Interior and Night time shadows blink until approached.

When transitioning from interior to exterior the screen will pulse with different

intensities of light for a few seconds.

On occasion the water will jitter rapidly.

Will my HD 4870X2 have any problems?

[TruXter]

I'm really scared of this:

 

Crossfire game side bugs:

Interior and Night time shadows blink until approached.

When transitioning from interior to exterior the screen will pulse with different

intensities of light for a few seconds.

On occasion the water will jitter rapidly.

Will my HD 4870X2 have any problems?

um. probably not.

 

 

Nothing as bad as square leaves.

[ROFL2008]

yes maybe but i dont think all 4800s are gonna have this problem lets hope they fix all those problems

[divinee]

i wanted to everything to be a surpise when i open the box but i clicked the link

[TruXter]

 

i wanted to everything to be a surpise when i open the box but i clicked the link

LOL.

Welcome to the club of "damn I have to get more stuff before I buy this game"

 

 

On another note... this might need to be stickied somewhere.

We all know the questions will come .

We recommend using the latest drivers available.

 

 

 

 

update drivers.

 

 

System/Component Manufacturers Dell    http://www.dell.com/Gateway    http://www.gateway.com/	Hewlett-Packard  	http://www.hp.com/IBM    http://www.ibm.com/Intel    http://www.intel.com/VIA Technologies  http://www.viatech.com/	Audio Hardware Providers/Manufacturers Cirrus Logic (Crystal)  http://www.cirruslogic.com/Creative Labs/Ensoniq  http://www.creative.com/ESS Tech  	http://www.esstech.com/	VIA Technologies  http://www.viatech.com/	Turtle Beach  	http://www.turtlebeach.com/Video Hardware Providers/Manufacturers 3Dlabs    http://www.3dlabs.com/AOPEN    http://www.aopen.com/Asus    http://www.asus.com/ATI    http://www.amd.com/Canopus    http://www.canopus.com/Creative Labs  	http://www.creative.com/Gainward  	http://www.gainward.com/Guillemot/Hercules  http://www.guillemot.com/I/O Magic  	http://www.iomagic.com/Jaton    http://www.jaton.com/Leadtek    http://www.leadtek.com/Matrox    http://www.matrox.com/Micro-Star International (MSI)	http://www.msicomputer.com/NVIDIA    http://www.nvidia.com/PNY    http://www.pny.com/Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation (SiS)   	http://www.sis.com/VIA Technologies  http://www.via.com.tw/en/index.jspVisionTek  	http://www.visiontek.com/

 

Edited November 29, 2008 by TruXter

[ParoXum]

There's a sh*tload of graphics bugs. Sounds to me like Bully PC no.2

[Watinho]

I got a question - isn't Bully for PC on the same engine that GTA IV PC??

[ParoXum]

 

I got a question - isn't Bully for PC on the same engine that GTA IV PC??

Not really. It's on an older Renderware based engine. With tons of wrong effects badly coded. The game wasnt even tested on most sites because it was untestable for 90% of the market's PC specs.

[CharmingCharlie]

No one seems to have mentioned the actual case yet. I think it looks pretty sexy . I was just expecting a bog standard dvd case, but it looks like we are getting a sleeve cover for it which makes it a lil bit nicer.

[YoungGun]

 

BENCHMARKING

 

 

Nice. We can benchmark and get reports.

 

Of the graphic settings, which one adjust the traffic density?

 

Just wondering, my new gtx 260 core 216 im getting in a few days should run it np

[pylb_etajv]

Guess I got lucky, I didn't have a single problem with Bully.

[Watinho]

I got a question - isn't Bully for PC on the same engine that GTA IV PC??

Not really. It's on an older Renderware based engine. With tons of wrong effects badly coded. The game wasnt even tested on most sites because it was untestable for 90% of the market's PC specs.

Oh really? I've actually completed Bully on PC and had no problems at all.

[ParoXum]

 

Yeah I guess you were. Since you're french : http://www.jeuxvideo.fr/test-bully-buggue-...ctu-177620.html

 

 

 

The worst point here is Rockstar never patched this until now. It's been a month already.

[vachon644]

Oh please! Lock that thread! It's not a megathread!

[gamerzworld]

 

I got a question - isn't Bully for PC on the same engine that GTA IV PC??

Not really. It's on an older Renderware based engine. With tons of wrong effects badly coded. The game wasnt even tested on most sites because it was untestable for 90% of the market's PC specs.

The 360, Wii, and PC versions of Bully don't use Renderware, they use GameBryo. The bug you see in that picture is caused by computers with more than 2GB of memory. To fix it, you have to limit your memory in msconfig.

Edited November 29, 2008 by gamerzworld

[TruXter]

I got a question - isn't Bully for PC on the same engine that GTA IV PC??

Not really. It's on an older Renderware based engine. With tons of wrong effects badly coded. The game wasnt even tested on most sites because it was untestable for 90% of the market's PC specs.

The 360, Wii, and PC versions of Bully don't use Renderware, they use GameBryo. The bug you see in that picture is caused by computers with more than 2GB of memory. To fix it, you have to limit your memory in msconfig.

I wonder if this will help in some cases with gtaiv.

[DOUDOU]

I don't know if it improves the performance of the game much, I would have thought it actually makes it a bit worse

indeed, windowed mode decrease the performance

[Watinho]

I don't know if it improves the performance of the game much, I would have thought it actually makes it a bit worse

indeed, windowed mode decrease the performance

I didn't knew that.

[gamerzworld]

I got a question - isn't Bully for PC on the same engine that GTA IV PC??

Not really. It's on an older Renderware based engine. With tons of wrong effects badly coded. The game wasnt even tested on most sites because it was untestable for 90% of the market's PC specs.

The 360, Wii, and PC versions of Bully don't use Renderware, they use GameBryo. The bug you see in that picture is caused by computers with more than 2GB of memory. To fix it, you have to limit your memory in msconfig.

I wonder if this will help in some cases with gtaiv.

GameBryo and RAGE have nothing to do with each other so this bug won't be in GTAIV.

[Smiler-Online]

Graphics:

-renderquality:  Set the render quality of the game. (0-4)

-shadowdensity:  Set the shadow density of the game. (0-16)

-texturequality: Set the texture quality of the game. (0-2)

-viewdistance:  Set the view distance of the game (0-99)

-detailquality:  Set the detail quality of the game. (0-99)

-novblank:  Disable wait for vblank (No Vsync)

-norestrictions: Do not limit graphics settings

-width:  Set width of main render window (default is 800)

-height:  Set height of main render window (default is 600)

-safemode:  Run the graphics in the lowest setting possible

-frameLimit:  Limit frame to interval of refresh rate

    (ex If refreshrate is 60HZ –frameLimit 1 = Locks down to 60HZ)

-refreshrate:  Set the refresh rate of main render window

    – Warning - Monitor must support (ex. –refreshrate 60)

-fullscreen:  Force fullscreen mode

-windowed:  Force windowed mode

-availablevidmem:  Set amount of physical Video Memory(ex. –availablevidmem 0.9)

-percentvidmem:  Percentage of video memory to make available to GTA

 

Audio:

-fullspecaudio:  Force high-end CPU audio footprint

-minspecaudio:  Force low-end CPU audio footprint

 

System:

-noprecache:  Disable precache of resources

-nomemrestrict:  Disable memory restrictions

Ahh...

 

this will be nice... So luckilly, there will be no requirement for "Deep Hacks" to enable us to get the extra stuff (like Windowed Mode - I also like windowed mode, because I can monitor my CPU usage while my games are windowed... and since it will use all 4 of my cores, that would make it more usefull!!)

 

Cant wait to see some of this stuff in the PC version!

[Tomern11]

Guys, what if i have ATI Radeon HD 3870?

It will have problem or it's just on the 3870X2?

[Johnny_rasta]

Guys, what if i have ATI Radeon HD 3870?

It will have problem or it's just on the 3870X2?

Who knows at this moment??

 

Wait for the game, and try it...omg...

[CharmingCharlie]

Guys, what if i have ATI Radeon HD 3870?

It will have problem or it's just on the 3870X2?

I imagine the single 3870 will be okay, it sounds to me as if the issue is purely X2 cards. This is nothing new developers have always struggled to make their games bug free when it comes to X2 cards or crossfire/sli systems.

[riahc4]

What's with the second disc?

This Game is 18 gigs!!

Bullsh*t.

 

 

Post your source.

[Neon25]

What's with the second disc?

This Game is 18 gigs!!

Bullsh*t.

 

 

Post your source.

Rockstar's site?

 

http://rockstargames.com/IV/#?page=pc

[CJ_Vercetti]

Man, this large image of Liberty City on the sleeve is great, I haven't seen it before, but I would like to have it in high res to put it as my desktop walpaper...

Two/three more days...

[Jackmackg]

-windowed:  Force windowed mode

 

Thank GOD for that, I was really worrying there wouldn't be a windowed mode. I like to play games on my PC sometimes with the ability to see what is going on elsewhere ie irc that kind of thing. So I was hoping against hope that GTA 4 would support windowed mode.

did you just upgrade from ms dos? its called windows for a reason. so that your applications can run in them. you'll always have windows mode. even if the program try to force its self into windows mode there always a program or a way to set it back.

 

now don't get made at me. its just hearing some one's happy about a program running in windows mode on a os called windows really gets to me.

[riahc4]

What's with the second disc?

This Game is 18 gigs!!

Bullsh*t.

 

 

Post your source.

Rockstar's site?

 

http://rockstargames.com/IV/#?page=pc

Another f*cking moron...

 

So for recommended it's 18GB and for normals its 16GB right?.......

 

 

The game itself (disc) is possibly just a dual-layer DVD; There is something called "compression". Look for it and you'll understand how the disc itself problably just say 8.30GB (more or less). A second disc with about 2GB might not be strange but think before posting.

[jesushumper]

I don't know why so amny are getting their panties in a knot from teh bugs list.

 

EVERY game has a list at least that large, and as long as you meet teh requirements there's very very little chance of anyone having one of those problems. I read those bug llsts all the time and even when i DO have the right OS/hardware/drivers listed i still never got ANY bugs listed.. it's like the side-effects from medications. THey all have many, but the chances of YOU showing signifigant signs of any are fairly weak.

 

Using authenication, i assume no one woudl be able to play it until the release day for whatever region they're in.

 

 

The more i read about the activation/save/MP methods i see, the more i hate them... i'm starting to think i may not buy it at all, so as not to encourage that sh*t in the future.

 

 

 

It's as if the EA Games deal went through adn no-one told anybody. This is the kind of sh*t EA would put in.

 

And once again, it'll be beaten within days.

[Neon25]

What's with the second disc?

This Game is 18 gigs!!

Bullsh*t.

 

 

Post your source.

Rockstar's site?

 

http://rockstargames.com/IV/#?page=pc

Another f*cking moron...

 

So for recommended it's 18GB and for normals its 16GB right?.......

 

 

The game itself (disc) is possibly just a dual-layer DVD; There is something called "compression". Look for it and you'll understand how the disc itself problably just say 8.30GB (more or less). A second disc with about 2GB might not be strange but think before posting.

While the game installed is not exactly 18 gigs, it's been reported it's 14.9 gigs(read review from Gamestar).

 

And insulting without reason got old since kindergarten.