GTA IV: Can You Run It?

moses - 416 days 8 hours ago

It says my 1GB GTX 280 is 1.7GB, but you're right, it used to say my E8400 was 10.4GHZ.

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SaiyanFury - 416 days ago

With my Core 2 Duo e6850 clocked to 3.5GHz, my RAM 4GB clocked to 933MHz, combined with my 9800GTX clocked to 9800GTX+ standard, I can run it easily. No worries here.

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superaktieboy - 415 days 23 hours ago

but then its usually shared ram, systemrequirementslab checks for the shared ram and the dedicated ram, in my case it says 1.5GB, my laptops specs say 'up to 1.5GB vram with 256 dedicated' so it sounds just about right ;)

AND YAY!!! mine can run it on minimum specs 8)

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kevnb - 415 days 21 hours ago

its showing the available shared ram, but it seems to know how to rate the video card correctly anyway.

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mabreu - 415 days 19 hours ago

Can you PC run it better than PS3 and X360?
For me the answer is yes! And my PC cost under $400. Got it on craigslist.

Dell 530 Inspiron
Q6600 2.4 Ghz
4gb ram
GeForce 8600gts

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SaiyanFury - 415 days 16 hours ago

Haha someone actually disagreed with me over something? I didn't even offer an opinion. I guess some people just disagree for no reason at all.

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velaxun - 415 days 13 hours ago

That 8600GTS is gonna do nothing for you....

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El_Colombiano - 416 days 7 hours ago

Quick question, is 1920x1200 a 4:3 or a 16:9 aspect ratio?

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PikkonX - 416 days 7 hours ago

16:10.
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kevnb - 415 days 21 hours ago

unless its a 4870, 260 or 280.

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superaktieboy - 415 days 23 hours ago

systemrequirementslab reports the shared and dedicated ram, not just the dedicated ;)

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superaktieboy - 415 days 23 hours ago

in fact you can run at MAX settings!!

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Charmers - 416 days ago

I have a PC so I will be able to run GTA 4 with better graphics and features than your "wonderful" PS3. Let me leave you with this quote from one of the PC previews :-

"After spending a fair bit of time with GTA IV for the PC, we can say there's no doubt it looks absolutely incredible. But it was only just now, going back to the Xbox 360 version for comparison, that we realised how superior it actually is. It's not just sharper and higher resolution textures - it's a more solid, more tangible and vast Liberty City. We're talking leaves on detailed trees that are individually visible, and it's only just now when I turned on the console version for the first time in months that I said to myself: "Wow. This looks dated by comparison".

See where it says "the console version looks dated by comparison.

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Charmers - 415 days 21 hours ago

Tell me can your PS3 run the PC version of the game ? Oh no it can't which is what this story is related too the PC VERSION. So no your PS3 cannot run the PC version.

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superaktieboy - 415 days 23 hours ago

i gotz 4GB ram, but x86 OS.. windows/linux (both x86 version) can see 4GB but can only use 3GB :( soo unfair !!!

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Ricdeau - 415 days 20 hours ago

What's the point of asking a question like that? Most people that have 4GB of RAM know beforehand that they can make use of it. And I'd hardly say it's unfair you can't use the full 4GB of RAM it's a limitation that's been well known for quite some time.

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THE_BATTLERAGER - 415 days 19 hours ago

Why splash out on what I am going to assume is a high end PC if you don't know how it works. Also you should be able to recognise 3.5 GB ram, and even if it doesn't show whats left over, I read somewhere that it still helps and 4gb is still better than 3.5gb in a 32bit system

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superaktieboy - 412 days 16 hours ago

the architecture can't handle over 3GB (probably little more than that) .. so there is no way you can 'make use of the rest' unless you use an architecture that can handle it.. and no it doesn't help, it may see it.. but if it can't handle it, it can't use it.. it's like saying my stomach is 100% full, but it'll help if i had a bit more..

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Charmers - 415 days 20 hours ago

Yeah erm okay you keep thinking that if it makes you happy after all they do say ignorance is bliss.

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Ricdeau - 415 days 20 hours ago

Some people consider PC building a hobby. Those of us that do like to mod things, overclock, and tweak things on our PCs. Don't knock PC gaming or builders because you're not into it. I have an Xbox 360 and a PS3, but I spend the most time on my PC because I find it to be fun to see how far I can push it.

You can easily go buy a prebuilt PC that can run all the games that come out at or near max for a good while (there will always be the random game like Crysis which isn't meant to be played at max upon release). So you would NOT have to get anything in bits or mess about for hours.

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Charmers - 415 days 20 hours ago

Excellent post Ricdeau and sums it up very nicely. I get incredibly annoyed when I see people come in here going "ha ha my console can run this". This is the PC section if you have nothing constructive to say like Ricdeau then go back to your relevant 360/PS3 sections and beat your chests there we don't care for it much in the PC section.

But you definitely deserve to be bubbled up for that comment Ricdeau.

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baum - 416 days 7 hours ago

I don't like pop-in.

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Delta_FX - 416 days 7 hours ago

I sure do love those pop-in textures, jaggies, and iffy frame-rate!

/sarcasm

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ambientFLIER - 416 days 5 hours ago

If you don't like pop-in then install the game to the hd, thanks to the nxe.

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Delta_FX - 416 days 5 hours ago

Installing it won't fix jaggies and frame-rate.

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ambientFLIER - 416 days 4 hours ago

There are no jaggies or frame rate problems. Remember, the Xbox has hardware anti-aliasing, and a xenon processor.

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San anto - 416 days 7 hours ago

yeah same with my laptop is there anyway to upgrade a laptops video card sorry for such a nooby question.

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ReTarDedFisHy - 416 days 7 hours ago

It's not easy, but not impossible. But Quite frankly, it's next to impossible. I wanted to upgrade my old laptop but all the shops I went to said that it was impossible. My friend claims he upgraded his, but I don't know how. You can upgrade RAM easily though :}

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Kleptic - 415 days 14 hours ago

it can be done...but the issues is not so much that its impossible, and more as to what will 'fit' in the laptops case...

the general rule of thumb is that it can only be upgraded to whatever other card options ship with your specific laptop...if you have an integrated graphics chip (like an Intel GMA XXX or something), its probably hopeless to try for any dedicated sets...however if you have an Nvidia go card of some sort, and didn't opt for the most powerful gpu available when you purchased the system (or one came available after purchase, yet is for the exact same laptop), chances are you can upgrade to that...

the other shatty part though is that most of the time these cards are built on a proprietary basis for the laptop maker, as they are designed to fit in very tight conditions for that laptop only...they can be based on the normal PCI card's architecture (like a G70, 80, etc.), but are one of a kind for your specific notebook..making them extremely overpriced to replace or upgrade to...

the real rule of thumb...don't buy laptops for gaming...unless of course you go for a seriously overweight alienware or voodoo that uses standard desktop GPUs...

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Sarah Palin - 415 days 13 hours ago

You can scrap EVERYTHING in your laptop and build up from scratch. Anyone who says otherwise just wants you to PAY them to do so----unless its a MAC. Other than RAM and HDD, those arent really upgradable---not easily anyways.

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