Grand Theft Auto 3 Patch

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• that's fuckin great! thanks man! : KinetiK
• dude that's great, I must try that heheh!!! Total chaos! : mofo
• give this man a medal or a cup or something - that was SO much fun <g> : inchwide
• +Informative!! : cavalier
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  Uh, that can be done ANYWHERE, doesn't have to be in a specific place, I haven't tried doing that but I ... : kabex
  • Every other vehicle throws you out, that's why I recommend the flatbed. The Aspatria/Rockford area is wh... : Duke Nukem Forever
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  sounds cool! Thanks for the trick idea. Someone mod this guy up ! :) : God_Virus
  • die. : virus

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• It's hard to judge, do you get better performance in other games? A defrag couldn't hrut in any case, ei... : {Venger}

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  I heard it as "rush rush to the yay-yo", I dunno though :) : artillery
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    I'm considering burning the audio to play in my car :) Rise is a cool channel really :) : abrasion
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      rush rush is off the scarface soundtrack. my fav movie. : b00tsauce
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        everything on Flashback is from scarface, to my knowledge. the most fitting thing possible. : Paranoid Android
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          I've never seen scarface - I thought they made all the music themselves. : abrasion
          • nope they credit Scarface for all of the Flashback music in the manual. : artillery
      • considering the yayo would refer to cocaine, it makes sense :) : elementZen
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  I never like the radio stations in game, really, but chatterbox is always good. Actually, chatterbox is ... : timmXXX
  • the Reggae station is my favourite I must listen to it once a week otherwise I suffer from a nervous ... : zenmaster
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    You're kidding? they are all so... damn - radio like which makes it more immersive. What's that damn ... : abrasion
    • I cut that song out of the rest...would you like me to email it to you? I don't even screw with uploa... : Sniper21
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  I'm afraid if I burn it to CD and listen to it in my car then I'll end up doing some crazy GTA3 stunts o... : celerity
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    Hopefully no politicians read this! : nerfherder
    • Heh I was just kidding ;) : celerity

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• You have to run this everytime you play though? : g30f
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  you can fix the start/stop stuff with an nvidia card in the driver properties. : pyide
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    What ya mean? : aggressor
    • http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3737741 : pyide
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  Disabling T&L is not good on GF4s BTW. At least on my AMD 1400 TBird, disabling T&L makes the framerate ... : StimpyBoy-KNoB-
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    Not good on GF3's either from my experience. : Slaykill
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      it worked well for me (athlon 1800+/gf3ti500) : Sniper21
      • Disabling HW T&L worked for me as well. The stuttering is gone, but I do think I get a tad less FPS now.... : aggressor
• This works good. At first I thought it was actually worse, but then I realized my settings somehow got s... : aggressor
• This was true for me until I installed the most recent nVidia drivers. I was using 3D Analyze to run GT... : ThomW

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• Contrary to whats becoming popular belief, not all patches have to add features or things to games. G... : Protodevlin

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  do they mean it takes FOREVER to load a save game? i had that problem, save games would load just fine a... : SPAZER
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    Yep I had the loading time problem, this patch does not seem to fix it unfortunately, but I found a work... : ovrlrd
    • hmmm patch fixed it for me, whats the dealy? : kill3rclown

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  I had one crash, but then I changed the sound driver back to something my computer actually HAD and then... : Do_Or_Die
  • Yeah man this game was about as bug me (to me anyway) like Alice. I love it : ---D1cKy-Mo3---
• Same here. I had to install the XP fix for the menus, but after that it was great. And still is. : Amadan

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• Have fun dood it owns! : celerity
• dirty bastard! now what will we play this weekend? FPC.Weasel : weaselmeister

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  whoops, here is the list. Features to be added (I hope) Just a few things I'd like to see in GTA... : abrasion
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    Ideas 2, 3, 4 and 12 seem kinda lame. Everything else seems like a good evolutionary step. : Magitek
    • I can see 2,3 and 12 being "ok maybe" idea's. but #4? it's an excellent idea. : abrasion
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    well all this is a fine and good but what are the chances that they're actually even gonna consider putt... : archon
    • If they like the idea's, pretty good? (*shrug*) : abrasion
• The Motorbike is 99% sure in GTA3 Vice. : -TKF-
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  Being able to buy/sell drugs on the street as a way to make profit. Kill poor junkies, steal they're sh... : iamgoat
  • not bad at all...hah nice! : mofo

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• i agree : podizzle

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  No but i always beat them with a bat though. : Utopia
  • hahaha i haven't done that yet. man so much to do, so little time. : Do_Or_Die
  • Until blood flows out of the corpse and forms a puddle. That means they'll drop their valuables for you ... : booyaka
• Definately not./ : abrasion

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• heh i could see them doing one of those demos where it has like a 15min time limit or something kinda li... : wetard
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  even at maximum settings it doesn't look all that different from the ps2 version : archon
  • Higher res textures, 32bit color support, high resolution support. It's pretty identicle other than t... : blackhawk
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    You're kidding right? For one its not all pixelated like the PS2 version. And they have 32 bit textures.... : ---D1cKy-Mo3---
    • Oh yeah and the drawing distance is like 10 times farther than the PS2 version. You can see so much ahea... : ---D1cKy-Mo3---

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• the monkeys have it! : -TKF-
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  like there wasn't cracks for it already.. : timmXXX
  • I just thought it was funny that they fixed the saved games bug. I'm pretty sure that it only showed up ... : Magitek
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  It's more like...: "We're sorry we included a sorry piece of shit 'protection' that didn't stop warezing... : Stage
  • if I remember correctly, there was a lot of problems cracking this, with multiple fixes and patches bein... : timmXXX

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  Pardon my foolishness.. is this an attempt at a sarcastic joke? DON'T TOY WITH MY EMOTIONS : freshview
  • Sorry, it was a kneejerk reaction. : Do_Or_Die
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    He's talking about GTA 1 and 2 (I think) They both lagged in MP. : abrasion
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      not on my null modem cable! : Degenerate
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        Ugh those things sucked. : abrasion
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          I know I was kidding. I hated them too. : Degenerate
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            I used to play War 1 and Doom 1 etc via null modem - was great! (well it was back then) Then we all g... : abrasion
            • My experience exactly- except we had 2 phone lines in the house so we called each others on the PCs, but... : celerity
• Dude, you're breaking the NDA! : jschuur

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  what browser/OS/etc ? : Maarten Goldstein
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    WindowsXP, fresh install, with all of the default Windows Updates. npq3plug.dll plugin installed, but ot... : timmXXX
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      weird, but i'll look at it. : Maarten Goldstein
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        it happens when someone else logs in as you from somewhere else and downloads a file : land
        • I have a remote server and when I DL stuff from shack, I have to wait five minutes till I can do anythin... : land

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  No, hardware tends to do that. :) : kek
  • No! It's the game! :( : kabex
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  i believe performance was effected partly by the copy protection checks. might be faster now that thats ... : Maarten Goldstein
  • Cool. Thanks. : kabex
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  I haven't tried it, but I think most of it is related the FPS sync options. I wish they would let us ... : timmXXX
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    Which 4200 did 4600 speeds? : abrasion
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      MSI's 64mb version. It's still 17MHz shy on the RAM, but I'd say that's close enough to call it a 4600, ... : timmXXX
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        I got an EVGA full retail 4200, it's doing 275 / 560 at the moment, and to be honest I think this SDR / ... : abrasion
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          That's 4ns ram and 128mb btw, so it's 60mhz over factory rating for the ram already. I'd like to do 300... : abrasion
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            I opted to go for the 64mb version, mainly due to the fact that 95% of the games out there don't need th... : timmXXX
            • I opted to go for the 128mb version, mainly due to the fact that 5% of the games out there do need the e : abrasion
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  I was having HUGE problems with my 1GHz/512MB/WinXP/GeForce2 machine and the thing that made it work in ... : ThomW
  • can ANYONE get 90fps in this game? Like I said in my previous post, it's always kind of slow, but stable... : timmXXX

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• All I wanna do is knock the boots : mofo

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  dude same here. Portland was way better. And it had ramps and stuff where you can jump. And I'm dissapoi... : mofo
  • I hate Portland...It's so boring. : rossimo

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• You uninstalled GTA3? OMFG ! :( : kabex
• going back to v1.0; : Silent1