Are the alleged minimum system requirements a lie?

[slojahowitz]

Minimum System Requirements

Operating System: Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 or Windows XP with Service Pack 3

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4Ghz

RAM: 1.5GB

Hard Drive Space: 16GB Free Hard Drive Space

Video Card: 256MB NVIDIA 7900 or 256MB ATI X1900 or better

 

 

It was really nice of them to put that on the outer packaging in order to save someone from having to make costly upgrades after buying this game. Unfortunately, the system requirements that they advertise are completely false. If there were any possible way to get my $50 bucks back for this useless disappointment of a failed PC port, I would be on it. Why?

 

Slojahowitz's System

Operating System: Windows XP SP-3

Processor: AMD Athlon X2 Toledo 4800+ 2.4Ghz

RAM: 2GB

Hard Drive Space: 400GB Free Hard Drive Space

Video Card: eVGA GeForce 7900GT OK 256MB

 

After having initial trouble getting GTA4 to run, I decided to go ahead with an overdue reinstall. I freshly formatted, reinstalled, updated, patched and flashed my OS and all of my hardware drivers. I disabled processes and anti-virus, running as lean as anyone could.

 

The results are that this game, on the lowest performance settings, runs like slow crap, crashes, freezes, clips, skips and slips so badly that there should be a class-action law suit against R* for false advertisement. It would make what they did less illegal if they were to show any recognition of the issue and an intent to fix the game so that the advertised and promised "minimum system requirements" have any chance at all of playing this game.

 

I've already read a few horror stories from people with my problem writing to R* and only getting a dxdiag request in reply, and then being completely ignored.