The GTAF Bug Report

[lonelywalker]

Since R* is watching this forum, i think we should make a list to gather all the things we want to see fixed in a patch, wether its bugs or sugestions, post them all here.

I will update this post regularily and add everything thats reasonable.

 

Mods: feel free to edit/add to this, i may not be the person with the most free time to do this, ill update this when i get back from work tomorrow, if you think its unneeded, just lock this, im just trying to make an effort.

 

DONT report crashes here, theyre collected in the sticky already.

 

 

GENERAL:

 

- fix overall game performance

 

 

GRAPHICS:

 

- add SLI support

- add anti aliasing

- allow more control over shaders (ie. shadows, reflections, bloom, etc), so that users can disable what they need to.

- add a frame limiter where users can define the max framerate (a max_fps command would work too i guess)

 

 

CONTROLS:

 

- problems with binding keyboard and mouse buttons

- add suport for all gamepads, we shouldnt have to find a workaround

 

 

MULTIPLAYER:

 

- add suport for dedicated servers

- add more server filter options

- add a direct connect feature (by ip:port)

- display ping in server browser

 

SOCIAL CLUB:

 

- fix login issues

 

 

WINDOWS LIVE:

 

-

 

VIDEO EDITOR

 

-

 

GAMEPLAY:

 

- improve camera adjustment speed when driving (maybe add a new camera mode which turns more with the vehicle)

[Sub12]

- Better CPU usage optimization

- Fix shadows

- ANTI ALIASING!!!

- Fix those other bugs.

[slowrider]

for me, it would be:

 

# Remove instances of memory leaks.

 

and that's my only problem. i'm sure you guys can make a list several kilometres longer than this.

[lonelywalker]

what does memory leak mean---how it affects game performance

 

[Tomern11]

Better FPS

No installation errors

Anti Aliasing [although i think that it's not possible...]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Democrab]

what does memory leak mean---how it affects game performance

Bug that makes it use more memory than it needs.

[Tw1ggy]

 

1-SLi support

2-Fix the damn shadows!

3-AA

4-Do something about the MP! Dedicated servers would be reaaaaaly nice

 

PS, i know, the most i can hope for is #1....

[Devils Dog]

The main things for me at the moment would be

 

Better FPS

Better CPU usage

General optimization

 

Things I would like

Dedicated servers

SLI would be nice for when I upgrade my motherboard

Edited December 4, 2008 by Devils Dog

[corvettelover]

* Fix ATi Problems

* Optimization

* Fix Game Glitches

* Make it so the game is not as demanding as Crysis on High

* Down the requirements a bit (<-- not going to happen, but I wish)

* Fix nVidia Problems

* Add Support for Single Core Machines (<-- not going to happen, but I wish)

* Add Shadow Filtering

[slowrider]

what does memory leak mean---how it affects game performance

i think memory leak is where the game runs fine, but after a brief grace period of around 4-6 minutes, the framerate lags randomly and badly. other people have comparable problems, but i'm kind of lucky because these other users sadly end up with the 'out of video memory' error code crash.

[DAV1D90]

- optimalization (like double FPS as we have now)

- framelimiter

- fixed shadows blinking at buildings

- no more R* spyware (Social club aplication)

[camdean]

1. Memory leaks

2. Fixed shadows

3. AA Options, please.

4. Controller options (I did read its happening)

5. Weird cut scene problems (like no face and just a creepy looking mouth)

 

EDIT: I want some free cookies as well

Edited December 4, 2008 by camdean

[okei]

what does memory leak mean---how it affects game performance

i think it means that it wastes ram and doesn't utilize it properly

[DAV1D90]

- add support for Logitech Rumblepad II

[AussieDave27]

STOP IT f*ckING CRASHING EVERY MINUTE!

[Sarmagedon]

Make it run better on Dual 2 Cores (my optimistic wish)

[KarmaPolice]

- Better CPU usage optimization

- Fix shadows

- ANTI ALIASING!!!

- Fix those other bugs.

same here, dunno why the game is just using just one core.. the shadows SUCKS, looks even better with shadows off

[smooth-orpeal]

if someone of the rockstar team really looks in here:

 

FIX ALL GRAPHIC PROBLEMS (NVIDIA AND ATI)

BAD SHADOWS, NO TEXTURE PROBLEM and so on...

 

MAKE IT RUNNING SMOOTHLY AT 25-30 FPS WITH THE MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS YOU TOLD US. OTHERWISE ITS JUST FRAUD

 

AND REMOVE WINDOWS LIVE sh*t, REMOVE SOCIAL CLUB AND NEVER TRY TO ESTABLISH STUPID COMMUNITY REGISTRATION sh*t AGAIN.

 

i nearly cause of you!

[medfreak]

Scrape this entire launch and make a new proper port, similar to "The Witcher: Enhanced edition". Obviously it won't happen though.

[Devils Dog]

I also think R* should ask us the forum what need fixing, but I can't see that happening.

 

But most of it not all could of been fixed if they pushed the release date back to next year, but I think they was thinking more about the money with releasing it in December

[Byku]

Fix this (!!)

http://www.vimeo.com/2428564

Edited December 4, 2008 by Byku

[bishman82]

* Dedicated servers

* More than 10-15 FPS for people with decent hardware

[Rickpetrusmaria]

- It's REALLY important to fix the graphic issues first ( no textures ) ATI / NVIDIA

- NO RESTRICTIONS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- More support for PC's which are not HIGH END

[wysockisauce]

textures

textures

textures

textures

textures

textures

textures

textures

 

are missing.....FIX IT!!!

[unsynaps]

* #*(@&$ controller support! Not some list of controllers... ALL controllers... kinda like EVERY OTHER GAME OUT THERE.

* Ditch GFWL

* Ditch Social Club, or at least make the god damned thing not autorun on system start and make it close on game exit.

 

Surprisingly a large amount of the other issues people are having I have not ran into.

[iRocco]

- AA support!

- LOGITECH rumplepad support

- better performance

- keyboard key for a jogging mode (currently its only possible to walk and sprint)

[Boris87]

optimizations!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gamesguru]

http://www.gtagaming.com/news/comments.php?i=1512

 

 

Thankfully back in the old Liberty City days a patch was swiftly issued and performance was improved drastically. Whether we'll get a repeat performance this time around remains to be seen, although SLI support will be coming according to Rockstar.

[GTAMonkey2012]

- Optimisation of stream engine utilizing our good GPUs instead of stressing CPU and expecting us to run out and get a quads no questions asked before you have tried anything that we are proving is the case

- Actual AA support

- Dedicated servers support

- A few bugs in the video editor needs to be ironed out

- Add a game play update which brings back the sub missions to make money like taxi driver, ambulance medic etc.

 

 

In that kind of order.

 

 

- It's REALLY important to fix the graphic issues first ( no textures ) ATI / NVIDIA

Above all.

 

When you bring us a patch for SLI make sure off the back of it you open usage of GPU over CPU while your at it.

Edited December 4, 2008 by GTAMonkey2012

[Dreakon]

what does memory leak mean---how it affects game performance

It means that somewhere in the code, there is a neverending loop (code that just repeats over and over again) that will just continually eat resources until either the game or the computer is restarted. Thus how games with memory leak problems start out running okay and get progressively worse over time.

 

Memory leaks are fixed by somehow putting an end to that loop, finishing the current segment of code that was causing the leak and clearing the memory and CPU for the next segment of code.

 

I think anyways... I could be wrong. Perhaps I'm just looking at it to simplisticly as im sure a game like this is much more complicated than a simple loop.

 

 

 

On topic: All I want are optimizations. ATI optimizations, Nvidia optimizations, CPU optimizations, general optimizations. If I see that word anywhere (hopefully multiple times) in the patch notes for any future patches, I will be quite happy.