Grand Theft Auto 4 PC Recommended Specs Posted

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• Oh god multiplayer's going to be sick! : TDBird

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  why is that funny? : grifter
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    current is xp3 : Iwannaacura
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      err sp3 : Iwannaacura
      • still don't get it. :( : burning eye
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        it is and I assume these are min-mid range specs. Still no idea why this is supposed to be funny. : two50six
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          There's no way 2GB ram and 512MB video card is minimum spec. That's more ram than all the consoles combin... : pyide
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            It's the recommended spec. Read the article before you post : hamliga
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              Misreply? If not, how about you read the post I was replying to. Thanks! : pyide
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                PC's use RAM differently than consoles. They do many other tasks, and need more RAM. : BorenKets123
                • Of course, and the architecture is different, blah blah blah. That was more of an observational comment a... : pyide
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    Probably because they recommend it over Vista. Though I thought everyone recommends XP for gaming. : pyide
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      I don't. A lot of my games run just as well under Vista. : IndigoAK
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        You arent a publisher posting your min specs : two50six
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          so recommended = minimum now? : pyide
          • I honestly don't know, did something change in the past few years? I'm used to seeing Minimum Requirement... : pyide
          • Well more and more people are complaining that when devs say minimum spec it can't nearly always run at 3... : ClawHammR
      • A lot s not the same as all. : Kristian Joensen
• god you're a fucking idiot! how is that funny? it will still work on Vista. ugh frontpage. : h o s t i l e
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  Errhm you are aware that most large companies are careful with using SP3? /me thinks this recommendation ... : Lukiopimp
  • SP3 fucks up corporate wifi for one : dfz0r
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  Since no one has had the sense to say it, they didn't recommend Vista because it doesn't use DX10. I thou... : SabinRaijin
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    So they don't recommend Vista because the game isn't DX10, yet they still recommend a DX10 card? Huh, ... : pyide
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      They recommend a 10- or 9-compatible card. And why not recommend XP? If the game doesn't have some act... : Chris Remo
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        I don't know! I'm pretty clueless to this whole XP/Vista DX9/DX10 thing. I don't even know why DX10 can't... : pyide
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          It's my understanding that DX10 has completely different paths and methods of doing things with regards t... : Schnapple
          • Someone who actually know something! Christ you're rare. : TDBird
      • Exactly...recommending Vista would be like unecessarily saying to people running XP, "you need to upgrade... : Vorlonesque
    • Those benchmarks don't apply anymore on the whole. Vista gaming is in very good shape these days. Rega... : nudel
• I wouldn't assume that that Vista is "not recommended", just because it says recommended specs are "... O... : clownyman

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• If you hooked your PC up to your TV and slapped your 360 controller into one of your PC's USB ports and r... : TerranUp16
• You don't even have a Pentium D level PC? :] Those things are slooooooow and it's not like a Quad core i... : JackAxe
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  Nice jab at the PC. I've enjoyed GTA games more on my PC after buying Vice City for both platforms. It... : samduhman
  • Oh plus the free mods I downloaded were icing on the cake. ;) : samduhman
  • I remember playing GTA: Vice City on the PC for the first time. After playing a ton of GTA3 on the PS2, p... : TheIneffableBob
  • I've seen 9800GT's for $100 and 9600GSO's and HD 3850's for $60. Hell, even the 9800GTX+ is going for $1... : TerranUp16
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    I dont think its a jab necessarily. Why do PC gamers get so sensitive. I'm still running a barton 2500+ a... : two50six
    • Actually, a $60 9600GSO would last you until the Xbox 720 comes out. I'm predicting that this generation... : TerranUp16
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      Because the difference between a $700 PC and a $2,000 PC is very small...and in 5 years both will be shit... : Jimbo Ro
      • Yeap. : Zolneirz
      • Depends on what kinda $2000 PC we're talking about, but going from an 8800GTS 640mb SSC to a GTX 280 has ... : TerranUp16
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  Actually your video card meets these recommended requirements. : Kristian Joensen
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    Except maybe the Vram requirement. THAT could be a problem. : Kristian Joensen
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      The 512MB isn't required- it's recommended. 256MB at most for minimum. : TerranUp16
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        Read Kristian's post again. He was talking about the recommended requirements, duh. Nice try though. Code... : SabinRaijin
        • There were non 512 versions? Wut? : Zolneirz
  • Recommended specs don't mean shit, though. To be able to run this game smoothly at native resolution on m... : code-e255

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  Well it says you can run it with a Pentium D (conveniently exactly what I have now) - so I'm sure a 50 do... : ElArabDeMagnifico
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    Unless you are one of the many people AMD decided to screw with barbed-wire by needlesslly and suddenly e... : murpes
    • I loved my 939 to death because it was cheap and a workhorse that never complained. The Denmarks are just... : Zolneirz
• saying dual core is probably an easier way for them of saying you need a recent cpu : Chandler55
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  You don't need more than one core to run multiple threads. They just get context-switched, and share the ... : danielbrauer
  • True but the point is their recommendation implies a dual core is necessary for a good playing experience... : S1ing B1ade

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  don't expect much, sharper textures and higher resolutions. Unless they add in an option to turn off the... : dangerdoggie
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    You forgot better controls, mods, updates. : Lukiopimp
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      Better controls? lol : ColoradoCNC
      • Yep, better controls. How can you argue with that? : SockMonkeh
  • And I can still use my Xbox 360 controller with it. : Johnnsen

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  Alas, long gone are the days when you could be an gamer on a system made of twigs lashed together with tw... : WaterSign
  • lol : ghostnote
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    Upgrading my PC as well - up till now still running with AMD Athlon 3200+ XP and 2 Gig RAM with a 8600. S... : Lukiopimp
    • I've got the same processor but with an 8800gt and only a gig of ram. hi2u bottleneck. : ghostnote
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    JPB, please, stay your insults- what would I be doing with dental floss? : A Sponge
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      I use it to construct small snares for squirrels and chipmunks. Other suggested uses (and these are strai... : WaterSign
      • Don't forget blindfolding Asians! : SockMonkeh

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• Compression.....it's a great concept. : korruptedone
• Uhm... They released Age of Conan just a few days back. That game takes over 30GB of space. I doubt 18G... : Zips

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• I got 750 gigs for under $100. I guess if I had to pay Xbox prices for my HDDs 18 gigs would seem larg... : Jimbo Ro
• I have 1.5 terabytes. 18 gigs is nothing these days. : baron calamity
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  AoC took 30GB of HD. Then again, it was bloated piece of shit. But, HD is cheap, 18 GB is nothing. : mem
  • yeah it's cheap but it still sucks having to move Windows to a larger harddisk even if said harddisk is c... : yuried

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• its a pretty big game, i feel sorry they had to compress that all to 9gb for the 360 : headbone
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  The enemy of piracy everywhere! I know I'm buying it anyway (its fucking GTA4) but 18gigs would take me a... : Zolneirz
  • ya ya Not the worst move they could have made. : Xenotu
  • 18 gigs uncompressed. This likely ships on a dual layer DVD, so you're looking at 8ish gigs for the disc... : korruptedone
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  That does seem a bit ridiculous. Dont some programs take up a bunch of space during installation or somet... : aznboysix
  • Crysis is supposed to be 12GB or something ridiculous but only takes-up 6GB for me. However, Stranglehol... : TerranUp16

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• Yeah but part of is it cuz the branding numbers are pretty convoluted. They would have to end up making a... : aznboysix
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  Why don't they use the Vista index? Wasn't that the idea behind it? : MrGrindy
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    B/c a 9600GT scores a 5.9 and a GTX 280 scores a 5.9... Got absolutely nothing against the 9600GT- amazin... : TerranUp16
    • The 512MB VRAM requirement could only be for DirectX 10 mode. : code-e255
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  yeah ...this is stupid like hell, the amount of ram is not a major factor, its the speed of the gpu : hanged_man
  • Clearly the texture sizes they use are large, hence the need for VRAM. Speed means nothing if you can't ... : korruptedone

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• Yeah, I've been regretting getting a laptop with a decent video card for these reasons. 50 hrs of TF2 in ... : murray

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  No, 11/18. We use the AMERICAN system of dating here, heathen! : Visceral Monkey
  • ¬¬" sorry sorry ¬¬" 11/18 : PrydsPG
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    yyyy-mm-dd is the nicest. : code-e255
    • As long as the month comes before the day I can stand behind this :) : carbontree
    • Yeah if you want to get picky this is the only way to write it. : DinK
    • Either that or dd-mm-yyyy, so you're either going from largest to smallest or smallest to largest : zooolander
    • It's also the easiest to sort in a list. : Priest77
• 18/11 is the same release as Left 4 Dead, and it's probably going to be region restricted anyway like all... : Mystery0000

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• 1.25 Tb in my media center and 1.25 TB in my desktop. : Jimbo Ro
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  Right now 1TB is only $130. Less than xbox's 120gb for $150. : Sixcos
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    WTF?! I'd love to see the profit margin on those bad boys! : pulse2115
    • I believe the 120 GB drive is a Fujitsu MHW2120BH 5400 RPM. Similar drives are selling right now for $60... : Smitty
  • While I completely agree they're raping, they're also 2.5" drives which are more expensive than 3.5". : Freon

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  They probably meant to say Shader Model 3.0. In other words Geforce 6 Series/ATI X1xx series. : Kristian Joensen
  • Yeah, but they could've been a little more specific seen as that bullet point doesn't actually make sense... : Bitcrush
  • Yeah, I know they probably meant *some* SM, it's just weird that they said it there without the actual ve... : zehh

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  "Doesn't matter to me, I can't run it anyway." I assume you are a console gamer then ? These requirements... : Kristian Joensen
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    There's a huge difference between what's required to merely run the game, and what's required to run the ... : code-e255
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      There's a huge difference between what's required to merely run the game, and what's required to run the : CasbahBoy
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        Oh, I anticipate that just about any current generation processor (i.e. C2D) paired with an 8800GT will ... : CasbahBoy
        • Or even 1920x1080. Maybe not 60fps, but in general a third to twice the speed of what the 360 performs fo... : fffortune

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  Maybe it's a way to brag about how big the game is. You are right - the original DVD spec required all... : Schnapple
  • Probably older drives. I'd say if you own a drive that was made in the last 5-8 years, you're good. : IndigoAK