Sitting next to me is 4 PC, I got it for Christmas by a keen-eyed family member who snatched it up at Walmart before it went out of stock. Now I’ve been a big fan of the GTA series for a long time. I even upgraded my desktop computer to run GTA SA when it was released by getting a 256MB Nvidia graphics card. Not cheap when you’re working with no PCI Express slots on an older motherboard.
But it’s not like my computer is super duper old. I built it a few years ago for next to nothing on TigerDirect.com. It’s a single core 3Ghz Intel Celeron D, 1.5GB RAM, 200GB EIDE HDD, and a 256MB Nvidia GeForce 6200. The 3Ghz Celeron in there was one of the first released of that speed, so the PCChips board is maxed out — no room to upgrade the CPU, and since there’s no PCIe, no real upgrade room for the graphics card. Not a cheap way anyway.
It runs GTA SA smooth and a lot of other games I have on there, including Call of Duty 4, some random Simulator games, etc. But unfortunately, and to my surprise, GTA 4 doesn’t run at all. Unless you call 1-3 frames per second “running.” More like dying. Not even in the absolute lowest setting. Hell, just the pre-game menu to configure everything runs slow as fucking shit. I even booted into Windows XP to save on some resources and it still doesn’t move any faster.
What gives, Rockstar Games? Do you think I want to throw more money into my useless Windows PC so I can jack cars, shoot innocent people, and listen to funny radio stations in a virtual world? Maybe later.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:02 AM
Lol, My dad caught me playing GTA3 couple of months back and he freaked out. He made me delete my free copy i downloaded. :(
April 12th, 2009 at 12:02 AM
As you obviously already know, although most others do not, I now own that same copy you were referring to in this article (great trade btw) so as soon as I get it in the mail I’ll let you know how it runs.