shivanandrs Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Rockstars protection is funny, I don't believe they have finished with the pirates yet either, so watch this space.. I think r* should have screwed them over a little more from the release... I like seeing them on the forum b*tch to R* about how their sh*tty cacked game that they downloaded for free does not work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dcrysis02 Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Rockstars protection is funny, I don't believe they have finished with the pirates yet either, so watch this space.. I think r* should have screwed them over a little more from the release... I like seeing them on the forum b*tch to R* about how their sh*tty cacked game that they downloaded for free does not work. Well i think that was the drunk cam effect.Earlier cracks didn't work properly because the camera would go crazy.I'm not sure though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason88 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 you are all busted for using cracks. who the hell said that we used cracks?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megadace Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 (edited) you are all busted for using cracks. who the hell said that we used cracks?? Every single person complaining about not getting past the mission, that's who. EDIT: By the way, to everyone who says this game runs like crap. I can play this game on mostly medium settings with a computer that barely meets minimum requirements, so don't blame R* for your sh*tty-assed computer. Edited February 1, 2009 by Megadace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmad34 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 all you have to do is reinstall the game, copy the entire grand theft auto IV folder in the root folder to another place like my documents, beat the mission, update to patch 2 then keep playing. I do that when i have to go to [email protected] and log on, it is annoying but if there is a way for them to stop people from doing missions then there is a way to fix it. It's all just useless making a game secure from pirating because people will find a way eventually and securom never works lol. If you can't get passed missions like yours for example then that means you have a cracked version or you are using a no cd crack or something. Don't give me the "Oh you are such a loser for pirating" speech everyone has pirated something so stfu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayodeep Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 (edited) this fixes it i had those problems You have already been warned for posting rubbish like this - cc Edited February 2, 2009 by CharmingCharlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[email protected] Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 i swapped back to the original launcher, loaded a newish save a couple of missions before clean getaway and vlad calls me up to take it to the carwash, all back to normal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slamminpus Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 all you have to do is reinstall the game, copy the entire grand theft auto IV folder in the root folder to another place like my documents, beat the mission, update to patch 2 then keep playing. I do that when i have to go to [email protected] and log on, it is annoying but if there is a way for them to stop people from doing missions then there is a way to fix it. It's all just useless making a game secure from pirating because people will find a way eventually and securom never works lol. If you can't get passed missions like yours for example then that means you have a cracked version or you are using a no cd crack or something. Don't give me the "Oh you are such a loser for pirating" speech everyone has pirated something so stfu. so what are u proud to be a worthless pos who cant afford to fork over 40$ for a game, frikin bum. Personally Id rather buy a game and see that the pc gaming industry survives with it properly working, rather than waisting time f*cking around to make it work right. Do what u want, but dont come here bitching cause it aint working properly, f*cking douche bag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmad34 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 all you have to do is reinstall the game, copy the entire grand theft auto IV folder in the root folder to another place like my documents, beat the mission, update to patch 2 then keep playing. I do that when i have to go to [email protected] and log on, it is annoying but if there is a way for them to stop people from doing missions then there is a way to fix it. It's all just useless making a game secure from pirating because people will find a way eventually and securom never works lol. If you can't get passed missions like yours for example then that means you have a cracked version or you are using a no cd crack or something. Don't give me the "Oh you are such a loser for pirating" speech everyone has pirated something so stfu. so what are u proud to be a worthless pos who cant afford to fork over 40$ for a game, frikin bum. Personally Id rather buy a game and see that the pc gaming industry survives with it properly working, rather than waisting time f*cking around to make it work right. Do what u want, but dont come here bitching cause it aint working properly, f*cking douche bag first of all i wasn't the one bitching about it, second of all buying the same game twice is just stupid and the game is not $40 i don't know where you live but where i am it is $60. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
udedenkz Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 $60?! It is $35 on Steam right now. Someone got ripped off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmad34 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 $60?! It is $35 on Steam right now. Someone got ripped off. Im talking about at stores, i already bought the game on xbox im not going to buy it again on pc. I would never buy anything on steam or anything like that unless you can only buy it from a place like steam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunrise Driver Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 RockStar said,OMGLOL.It is a crappy port.They can't even deny that.Look how it runs,look how it looks,look how many bugs it has,look at the sign that says:"Saving.Please do not reset or turn off your machine while the game is saving."!That is a clear sign that this was a direct port from the console versions.Who in his right mind would turn off a PC while the game is saving?This game has nothing new to offer compared to Assassins Creed yet it runs worse than AC on PC's that are far above the reccomended requriments. Crappy port...blah blah...It runs fine. It looks awesome. What bugs? "perfectly optimized" if that was supposed to be sarcasm,than you fail at it. No. These games really runs great on PC but as I said GTA 4 on medium with some minor lags is better than most games on maxs without bugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dcrysis02 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 (edited) RockStar said,OMGLOL.It is a crappy port.They can't even deny that.Look how it runs,look how it looks,look how many bugs it has,look at the sign that says:"Saving.Please do not reset or turn off your machine while the game is saving."!That is a clear sign that this was a direct port from the console versions.Who in his right mind would turn off a PC while the game is saving?This game has nothing new to offer compared to Assassins Creed yet it runs worse than AC on PC's that are far above the reccomended requriments. Crappy port...blah blah...It runs fine. It looks awesome. What bugs? "perfectly optimized" if that was supposed to be sarcasm,than you fail at it. No. These games really runs great on PC but as I said GTA 4 on medium with some minor lags is better than most games on maxs without bugs. Look,i don't want to be harsh,just check out these topics.All these threads are created because of discovered bugs in the game.And under bugs i mean=random bugs,bugs caused by patches,or just something that has been left out,or a bug occured and a certain function fails to load(clocktower maybe) http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=394394 http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=388595 http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=395069 There are more topics about these problems. "These games really runs great on PC" ......I simply can't argue with that. "GTA 4 on medium with some minor lags is better than most games on maxs without bugs." Facts:GTAIV has nothing new compared to other 2008 games.Even Assassins Creed,a 2007 game has better visuals,and runs better on my machine.GTAIV looks and runs worse. "A PC that is 3 times faster than an Xbox360 runs the game worse on lower settings."-someone on these forums What makes GTAIV so demanding that even a high-end PC struggles to run it decently? Edited February 1, 2009 by Dcrysis02 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
udedenkz Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 There is no such thing as a perfectly optimized game. For example a perfectly Optimized Game for a Core 2 Duo should take advantage of, x86_64 support, SSE/MMX, SSE2, SSE3,SSSE3, SSE4.1 as well as Simultaneous Multi-Processing Support Crysis is indeed an optimized game, people can run crysis below minimum system requirements and play it (at least until the more heavy fighting scenes and such)... but Crysis is not a well optimized game by any means although it is ok optimized game... it would run better if it took advantage of more CPU instruction sets for example or some more time was spent on the shaders inside the alien thing... Interestingly Enough, I can say that Crysis is madly optimized compared to GTAIV and it patches actually do a lot of good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megadace Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 NEWSFLASH DIPsh*tS: CRYSIS WAS MADE EXCLUSIVELY FOR PC, GTA IV WAS MADE FOR CONSOLES. Are you people completely dense? You really expect them to have a perfectly optimized port? You idiots need to start living in the real world, companies don't make completely perfect ports no matter what, GTA IV is now one of the best ports I've seen (since the 1.02 patch). Sure when it came out it was unoptimized and ran like dog turds, but I've found little to no bugs in the game and it runs smoothly as long as I try not to turn every setting up to maximum like what a bunch of you hurf-durfs are doing. You're computer can't run it, ok, we get it, stop f*cking crying about the port and start looking at your own unoptimized rat puke PCs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dcrysis02 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 NEWSFLASH DIPsh*tS: CRYSIS WAS MADE EXCLUSIVELY FOR PC, GTA IV WAS MADE FOR CONSOLES. Are you people completely dense? You really expect them to have a perfectly optimized port? You idiots need to start living in the real world, companies don't make completely perfect ports no matter what, GTA IV is now one of the best ports I've seen (since the 1.02 patch). Sure when it came out it was unoptimized and ran like dog turds, but I've found little to no bugs in the game and it runs smoothly as long as I try not to turn every setting up to maximum like what a bunch of you hurf-durfs are doing. You're computer can't run it, ok, we get it, stop f*cking crying about the port and start looking at your own unoptimized rat puke PCs. Great.The game runs flawless on your PC.Good for you.No,i don't expect them to make a perfect port.But this game is a bad port.Hundreds of gamers,and reviewers are having problems running it,and some can't even start or play the game without a CTD.Yes,the patch made the game a little less worse,but bare in mind that it caused crashes,and objects in the game world went missing.That patch has been pulled backby R*: http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=395578&st=0 Setting it to maximum?The game won't even let that.You know...restrictions.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pureevil240 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Morrisons £9.99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megadace Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 NEWSFLASH DIPsh*tS: CRYSIS WAS MADE EXCLUSIVELY FOR PC, GTA IV WAS MADE FOR CONSOLES. Are you people completely dense? You really expect them to have a perfectly optimized port? You idiots need to start living in the real world, companies don't make completely perfect ports no matter what, GTA IV is now one of the best ports I've seen (since the 1.02 patch). Sure when it came out it was unoptimized and ran like dog turds, but I've found little to no bugs in the game and it runs smoothly as long as I try not to turn every setting up to maximum like what a bunch of you hurf-durfs are doing. You're computer can't run it, ok, we get it, stop f*cking crying about the port and start looking at your own unoptimized rat puke PCs. Great.The game runs flawless on your PC.Good for you.No,i don't expect them to make a perfect port.But this game is a bad port.Hundreds of gamers,and reviewers are having problems running it,and some can't even start or play the game without a CTD.Yes,the patch made the game a little less worse,but bare in mind that it caused crashes,and objects in the game world went missing.That patch has been pulled backby R*: http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=395578&st=0 Setting it to maximum?The game won't even let that.You know...restrictions.. How can your PC not run the game? Is it too laggy or does it CTD too much? Or does it stutter too much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaPolice Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 you are all busted for using cracks. i'm not using a crack and i have the same problem with this mission. Rockstar, you are like a wife, you get worst every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dcrysis02 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 NEWSFLASH DIPsh*tS: CRYSIS WAS MADE EXCLUSIVELY FOR PC, GTA IV WAS MADE FOR CONSOLES. Are you people completely dense? You really expect them to have a perfectly optimized port? You idiots need to start living in the real world, companies don't make completely perfect ports no matter what, GTA IV is now one of the best ports I've seen (since the 1.02 patch). Sure when it came out it was unoptimized and ran like dog turds, but I've found little to no bugs in the game and it runs smoothly as long as I try not to turn every setting up to maximum like what a bunch of you hurf-durfs are doing. You're computer can't run it, ok, we get it, stop f*cking crying about the port and start looking at your own unoptimized rat puke PCs. Great.The game runs flawless on your PC.Good for you.No,i don't expect them to make a perfect port.But this game is a bad port.Hundreds of gamers,and reviewers are having problems running it,and some can't even start or play the game without a CTD.Yes,the patch made the game a little less worse,but bare in mind that it caused crashes,and objects in the game world went missing.That patch has been pulled backby R*: http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=395578&st=0 Setting it to maximum?The game won't even let that.You know...restrictions.. How can your PC not run the game? Is it too laggy or does it CTD too much? Or does it stutter too much? No.Thankfully my game didn't crash a single time.The stutters present,but you can only notice it for a second or so. My rig: eVGA 8800 GT KO 512MB C2D E4400 2X2.00Ghz OC'd to 2.5 3GB DDR2 800Mhz RAM ASUS P5B Motherboard With Fraps after the second patch FPS was between 16-35 and i'd say avarage was 25. Video Mode(Res)-1280X1024 Texture Quality-High Reflection Resolution-Medium Water Quality-Medium Shadow Quality-High(If i set it to medium every shadow starts to flicker and it hurts my eye.Seriously) Render Quality-High(Makes the game a bit smoother) View Distance-30 Detail Distance-30 Vehicle Density-25(Out of the 10-20 cars on screen 5-9 are cop cars,lol.) Shadow Density-1(A killer,set to minimum) Definiton-On Vsync-OFF If i remember it right with these settings my VRAM usage is around 400-410 The game has major slowdowns at some places.I wouldnt mind all of this if it would stick to a playable frame rate(like 25 or so)bit it constanly goes up and down. But you failed to see the point.Read the forums here.A lot of people are complaining.With better machines.Hell i saw a guy complain with a Q6600 and a GTX260 and 4GB of RAM.Check the other threads as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chngdman Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 (edited) Your processor is *probably* the culprit for you. Maybe that 8800, but I highly doubt it, that's a really good little card... And your ram might be rated that, but I doubt it is running that. More half that (200mhz each stick) e4400 only has a small 2MB L2 cache and 800mhz FSb. Yea, it's supported I think (is there an official list) and you also overclocked, but I have a stock speed e6320 (1066FSB, and 4MB cache - a big factor is the cache for IV) I have a HD3850 that is only utilized at 38% according to the benchmark, and I think you can compare that 8800 to my 3850, especially cause I lose performance (I have compatibility issues in my hardware and I need to downclock my ramz :'() BTW, my game runs smooth at all times except during higher wanted levels with a lot of cops (lights) or being invincible and not letting the game kill niko before it does get overloaded. Some don't run their machine right, some don't realize their GHZ dont mean sh*t against their busses, some are listing specs and you don't realize they really have a sh*tty laptop - and specs are a joke on Every laptop. etc. Its not a bad game... I am living proof of that... Minimum specs aside from GFX and I'm killin it. Old e4400 (my 6320 is old, let alone your 4400) cannot be expected to do well at all with highly CPU intensive rendering techniques (future proof game in IV, for the win, that's why (I assume) sony used Cell and a sh*tty GFX card, and why PS3 was bragged it will last "12 years" and 360 almost need another new sku altogether, because we are (gaming/gamers) FINALLY breaking free from addon GPUs - bring on xbox720 (Xbox1080, actually...) I say, light fire under sony lazy ass and show ATi/Nvidia we dont need them extorting us by holding back their tech and making us upgrade often! Thanks for the bridge in the gap of CPU speed and heat dispersion and the jump to multi core to combat it, assholes, but it's over soon and you wont rob us anymore! Go ahead, now start your own Operating Systems that run on your mini-boards, I know you're planning it!) Edited February 2, 2009 by chngdman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dcrysis02 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Your processor is *probably* the culprit for you. Maybe that 8800, but I highly doubt it, that's a really good little card... And your ram might be rated that, but I doubt it is running that. More half that (200mhz each stick) e4400 only has a small 2MB L2 cache and 800mhz FSb. Yea, it's supported I think (is there an official list) and you also overclocked, but I have a stock speed e6320 (1066FSB, and 4MB cache - a big factor is the cache for IV) I have a HD3850 that is only utilized at 38% according to the benchmark, and I think you can compare that 8800 to my 3850, especially cause I lose performance (I have compatibility issues in my hardware and I need to downclock my ramz :'() BTW, my game runs smooth at all times except during higher wanted levels with a lot of cops (lights) or being invincible and not letting the game kill niko before it does get overloaded. Some don't run their machine right, ..... Like i said,i don't mind all of this.I'd offer performance for quality anytime.But this game just laughs at you.You forgot that GTAIV behaves perfectly the other way around on every machine.Some have problems,some do not.My buddy with a good computer has problems.And i know him.He cares about his machine like it was his own son.(Creeps me out sometimes,lol)He defrags,runs anti-virus programs,he is a huge PC fan and buys the games,but still,somethings bugging GTAIV on his config.And we don't know what it is.But like i said,Assassins Creed is visually over GTAIV,more than 100 peds are on screen at the same time,they have better AI than GTAIV's pedestrains,Assassins Creed has large areas,draw distances.....GTAIV shows nothing new,(even less)visually and still it is the most demanding game of 2008,maybe even 2009.That's why i think that it's an unoptimized port.Don't get me wrong but the game deserves this title as much as Saints Row II and Bully.(Although i heard that Saints Row II has been fixed) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megadace Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Like i said,i don't mind all of this.I'd offer performance for quality anytime.But this game just laughs at you.You forgot that GTAIV behaves perfectly the other way around on every machine.Some have problems,some do not.My buddy with a good computer has problems.And i know him.He cares about his machine like it was his own son.(Creeps me out sometimes,lol)He defrags,runs anti-virus programs,he is a huge PC fan and buys the games,but still,somethings bugging GTAIV on his config.And we don't know what it is.But like i said,Assassins Creed is visually over GTAIV,more than 100 peds are on screen at the same time,they have better AI than GTAIV's pedestrains,Assassins Creed has large areas,draw distances.....GTAIV shows nothing new,(even less)visually and still it is the most demanding game of 2008,maybe even 2009.That's why i think that it's an unoptimized port.Don't get me wrong but the game deserves this title as much as Saints Row II and Bully.(Although i heard that Saints Row II has been fixed) lol trust me, saints row 2 is a long way from being "fixed". I would say try setting everything down to medium (leave shadows on high if it flickers). I don't really understand why shadow density is messing your game up so bad, my specs are LAUGHABLE but I can play GTA at around a 30 FPS average. There's probably a problem with the game running on Nvidia video cards, I haven't heard many complaints about ATI.... but the important thing to remember is to leave CPU intensive settings low since this game's reccomended requirements call for a quad core =\ But your specs should be able to eat the game out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dcrysis02 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 lol trust me, saints row 2 is a long way from being "fixed". I would say try setting everything down to medium (leave shadows on high if it flickers). I don't really understand why shadow density is messing your game up so bad, my specs are LAUGHABLE but I can play GTA at around a 30 FPS average. There's probably a problem with the game running on Nvidia video cards, I haven't heard many complaints about ATI.... but the important thing to remember is to leave CPU intensive settings low since this game's reccomended requirements call for a quad core =\ But your specs should be able to eat the game out. ATI cards have/had bigger trouble running the game(Nvidia is their partner)When the game got released it would not even start on ATI cards(not all of them though)The first patch fixed that issue.Yes a Quad core is reccomended but the game is not even optimized for a Quad core.Sure,it runs the game better,but that does not mean that it has been properly optimized for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
npjnpj Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 (edited) After a heated discussion, back to the problem, perhaps: Still have the Clean Getaway problem, and pirated copies or cracks are NOT the cause. My copy is 100% legit, no messing about in the slightest. Windows Live and Social Club, all as they should be. Bought the retail package in a shop. One thing though: My game worked perfectly until I had to reformat the PC. After then reinstalling GTA, this problem cropped up, WITH and WITHOUT the update! A connection there, perhaps? This problem persists with both online and offline accounts. I'm getting a bit fed up about having to restart the game from scratch each time I test this because I want to avoid the problem being caused by a 'broken' savegame. By now I know the streets in LC better than the ones where I live, but for the wrong reason! Oh: Vista 32-bit Quad PC with GeForce 9800GT. Good performance, by the way, and no crashes whatsoever, even after hours of playing session time. Edited February 6, 2009 by npjnpj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunrise Driver Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Did you revoke your license before reinstalling Windows. Maybe it's the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
npjnpj Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 @ Street Mix: Thanks for the reply. No, but I set up completely new user accounts with both Windows Live and Social Club, got myself new e-mail addresses specifically for this purpose. Unless they cross-check IP-addresses, everything is completely unrelated to my previous install, just to be absolutely on the safe side. Strangely enough, I haven't been asked to enter the key from the back of the manual anywhere (not in either case). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Cheese_Man Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 the license revoke is associated with securom and not GWFL or RGSC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djwid63 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Well, I guess pirates can now be thankful... somebody just released a patch 1.0.2 crack which made the drunk cam, Clean Getaway mission and all other bugs disappear... what a world we live in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunrise Driver Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 But pirates can't still activate the game and play MP even with Securom NoDVD. And patch 1.0.3 will uninstall pirate game and reformat C: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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