Worst game in the world?

I just bought and now installed Grand theft auto IV, and I absoulutley hate it. Its not optomised propally The graphics card terrible. I played it at All max settings @ 1680x1050 It was terrible extremely laggy. I did the Can you run it test and passed to recomended. Im very disapointed anyone else agree? Even at min settings its a bit choppy I am using a GTS 250 btw
way better than the recomended 8600GT wow I feel ripped off.

I though i already told before... hmm, i forgot.
Anyway, GTA 4 is a BAAAAAD coded game, even HIGH END GAMING PC will still struggle to handle that game...

Also why didnt they optomize well man? Im really not happy that they put time into the console version yet us pc gamers get all the trash.

Double post, also I have the following:

Core 2 Duo E5400 2.7 GHz
4 Gb's of 1033Mhz ram
500GB Hitachi Harddrive
Inno3D GTS 250 1GB

I would think my computer can run a game from 2008 easily. Though the game all together isnt optomized

I should of bought Fallout 3 it was the same price as Gta iv. Rockstar games are retarded for putting a game without optimizing well.

I Can get my cpu upto about 3.4Ghz but i dont wanna overclock it as its summer where i live and my case gets really hot i have a thermaltake v3 and it only have 1 120mm fan.

I can run GTA4, I used to run it on an 8800GTS 512Mb, which is a similar card to yours, just lower clocks. Your bottleneck is your CPU. If you upgraded to a Quad Core you would run the game a lot better. Your C2D 5400 has only an 800MHz FSB and only 2MB L2 cache. Im running it on a C2D e6750 which has 1333MHz FSB and 4MB L2 cache. And Im running my CPU at 3.56GHz. If you had a more powerful CPU you would be able to run this game on "normal" settings just fine.

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I played it at All max settings @ 1680x1050 It was terrible extremely laggy.
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If you max out the settings in GTA4 you will find that it warns you because you dont have 1.5GB of VRAM. You need to lower the settings until you are WELL WITHIN THE VRAM THAT YOU HAVE. It tells you how much VRAM you are using as you change the settings. You need that number in the green or else you will get massive lag due to continuous swapping.

GTA4 is a console game, developed primarily for the XBox 360. If you max out the settings you are running it at a higher setting than the console version. Aim to run it as the "normal" settings, which would be automatically set when you load the game for the first time.

Dont play a game at a setting which requires more powerful hardware than you have, and then complain about the performance. Thats just stupid.

It's your CPU that is the issue(and that you are maxing the settings, turn em down some.) OC the CPU up to 3.4 like you say you can and then it should run decently. You can get an onscreen display of core temps with rivatuner to keep an eye on them. If they get too high at least you tried, it's all you can do.
As for the thread title I believe it is universally accepted that E.T. for the Atari 2600 was the worst game ever.

thanks a lot for the info my brother almost bought one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_R [...] oad_Racing

No, just no,

This is the worst:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbR32VPuiCU