WTF!!!! GTA3 FUCKUP!!!
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oymd
July 10, 2002 12:58:17 AM
shouldnt there be some kind of law against releasing a game that's absolutely [-peep-] up and full of bugs!!!!
My rig is almost double the speed of the recommended specs...and i feel like i'm playing the old Carmageddon......WTF!!!
So i went to GTA3.com...and checked the forums over there....ALMOST NO ONE is able to run the game really smooth...even with Ti4600s and XP200+ and 512MB on WinXP....
how the hell can this be left like that...50$ and then u go home...start looking for patches...3Danalysers....turning off setting to make the game look even worse....just to get 25-30FPS!!!!!!!
Unfuckin believable...
I used to really trust gamespot's recommendations....but they never mentioned all that...and it's been in first spot for a couple of weeks........
I wonder noone sued their asses yet....Rockstar i mean....guess this game was meant to run on consoles only afterall....the PS2...
DUH!!!!
My rig is almost double the speed of the recommended specs...and i feel like i'm playing the old Carmageddon......WTF!!!
So i went to GTA3.com...and checked the forums over there....ALMOST NO ONE is able to run the game really smooth...even with Ti4600s and XP200+ and 512MB on WinXP....
how the hell can this be left like that...50$ and then u go home...start looking for patches...3Danalysers....turning off setting to make the game look even worse....just to get 25-30FPS!!!!!!!
Unfuckin believable...
I used to really trust gamespot's recommendations....but they never mentioned all that...and it's been in first spot for a couple of weeks........
I wonder noone sued their asses yet....Rockstar i mean....guess this game was meant to run on consoles only afterall....the PS2...
DUH!!!!
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muc0n
July 10, 2002 2:15:16 AM
ejsmith2
July 10, 2002 12:47:52 PM
reptilej
July 10, 2002 6:25:19 PM
i'm not sure what part of my rig is causing my problems but i have have some issues with gta3 as well. sometimes walls don't show up until after i hit them and certain portions of the roads are like all blue and crap. i have a p41.6 with 256rdram and a radean8500 AIW dv 64mb.
repeat after me, we are all individuals!
repeat after me, we are all individuals!
williamc
July 10, 2002 9:06:33 PM
oymd
July 10, 2002 9:50:11 PM
well...i'm glsd for you.....but u see....u should be the common..and not the exception.....
Damn...how the hell can a game be released only to find out that the rule is that its all screwed up on ALMOST EVERYONE'S RIG...except for a few like yourself....
As of now...i support piracy 100%...a friend of mine downloaded the game...a mere 138MBs...from KAZAA...and when he found it buggy...didnt buy it,....another pathetic guy like myself...went out and bought the game...due to all the good reviews he read on game's sites....( sites obviously paid off by the game developers )....that guy feels those bucks burning in his pocket....
well..actually not bucks....dont live in the US....and NO...in case anyone is wondering...once u buy anything over here....u're stuck with it....no return policy....
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!
Damn...how the hell can a game be released only to find out that the rule is that its all screwed up on ALMOST EVERYONE'S RIG...except for a few like yourself....
As of now...i support piracy 100%...a friend of mine downloaded the game...a mere 138MBs...from KAZAA...and when he found it buggy...didnt buy it,....another pathetic guy like myself...went out and bought the game...due to all the good reviews he read on game's sites....( sites obviously paid off by the game developers )....that guy feels those bucks burning in his pocket....
well..actually not bucks....dont live in the US....and NO...in case anyone is wondering...once u buy anything over here....u're stuck with it....no return policy....
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!
reptilej
July 10, 2002 10:00:31 PM
ejsmith2
July 10, 2002 10:20:40 PM
No1kung1
July 11, 2002 12:27:51 AM
the game runs fine on my comp which is a p3 800 with a geforce 256, except for the occasionally low frame rate when I start largely massacreing the civilian population of liberty city with my rocket launcher. heh.
My friend has the same problem as you do, I don't think its XP related because he even switched operating systems to make it work (went to 2000), but it still didn't work.
No matter how hard you don't want them to, Things eventually change.
My friend has the same problem as you do, I don't think its XP related because he even switched operating systems to make it work (went to 2000), but it still didn't work.
No matter how hard you don't want them to, Things eventually change.
oymd
July 11, 2002 12:53:40 AM
Lowlypawn
July 13, 2002 2:14:04 PM
The game is definitely a CPU hog! I’m running a 1gig tbird with a new Radeon 8500 and a 7200 80gig (8mb cache)HD and the game still runs poorly. Get 6 stars and the game comes to a crawl. Totally unacceptable!
The game runs perfect on a PSII, obviously when they ported it to PC they were more concerned about money then releasing a good product. But what do they care, Rockstar already got their money, no reason to spend it on a patch to improve performance.
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The game runs perfect on a PSII, obviously when they ported it to PC they were more concerned about money then releasing a good product. But what do they care, Rockstar already got their money, no reason to spend it on a patch to improve performance.
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reptilej
July 13, 2002 8:10:08 PM
ok, i'm not sure if anyone saw this or not but i'm going to say it again in hoped that someone will have an answer because this problem is really damn annoying.
infact i am going to cut and paste from the last time i posted it, so here it is: "i'm not sure what part of my rig is causing my problems but i have have some issues with gta3 as well. sometimes walls don't show up until after i hit them and certain portions of the roads are like all blue and crap. i have a p41.6 with 256rdram and a radean8500 AIW dv 64mb."
all tech support told me to do was to install latest drivers and patches and i have done all that and it still doesn't work, any sugestions?
repeat after me, we are all individuals!
infact i am going to cut and paste from the last time i posted it, so here it is: "i'm not sure what part of my rig is causing my problems but i have have some issues with gta3 as well. sometimes walls don't show up until after i hit them and certain portions of the roads are like all blue and crap. i have a p41.6 with 256rdram and a radean8500 AIW dv 64mb."
all tech support told me to do was to install latest drivers and patches and i have done all that and it still doesn't work, any sugestions?
repeat after me, we are all individuals!
Lowlypawn
July 14, 2002 5:37:16 AM
I have a Radeon 8500 and don’t have any image problems, O yea I did have a problem with the fog being so thick the game was unplayable. I posted a link for the fix in another GTA3 thread. But I don’t have any problems you describe, just really slow.
Here is the fog patch for 8500’s http://ati.com/support/infobase/4046.html
My only other idea is try changing the direct X setting (z buffer and other crap) and see if it make a difference.
You might also try reinstalling direct x itself.
Good luck & Cya
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Here is the fog patch for 8500’s http://ati.com/support/infobase/4046.html
My only other idea is try changing the direct X setting (z buffer and other crap) and see if it make a difference.
You might also try reinstalling direct x itself.
Good luck & Cya
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oymd
July 14, 2002 9:44:20 AM
My guess is that the game engine is all [-peep-] up....and it cant work properly on a PC....only sporadically on various machines...and there's NO WAY telling which settings are right for a given rig....
So...either put the CD in your microwave...or try messing aroumd with all the settings...game and DX...till u get the best u can.....though i'd go for the first choice...
GOOD LUCK !!!!!!
So...either put the CD in your microwave...or try messing aroumd with all the settings...game and DX...till u get the best u can.....though i'd go for the first choice...
GOOD LUCK !!!!!!
Hadi
July 16, 2002 5:35:17 AM
I'm FU**ED. I dont have GTA3 but i got "Neverwinter nights" and it's buggy as hell. every day i download some new patches for it and it still has problems and i mean big problems that f*** your a**.publishers should test thier games before releasing them.
and about gamespot:i have the same problem with Neverwinter nights.they said it's score is something like 9.2 and now i've got this. i'll play Warcraft3 for some months and then will look for the latest patches of this cursed game.
and about gamespot:i have the same problem with Neverwinter nights.they said it's score is something like 9.2 and now i've got this. i'll play Warcraft3 for some months and then will look for the latest patches of this cursed game.
Speedfreak
July 16, 2002 11:44:08 AM
Same problem, mate.
This is my spec:
Asus A7V333 with Raid
XP 1900+
512MB PC2100
4 x 40GB HD in Raid 0
Gainward Ti4200
XP Professional
I was pretty dam disappointed when I saw blue roads and buildings appearing out of thin air when you parked beside them.
Maybe instead of everyone complaining about this can we all put our heads together and play around with our various setting to see what we can do to actually resolve this issue.
If I have any joy with this I'll post my findings - good luck everyone.
Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution - irritated wives are!
This is my spec:
Asus A7V333 with Raid
XP 1900+
512MB PC2100
4 x 40GB HD in Raid 0
Gainward Ti4200
XP Professional
I was pretty dam disappointed when I saw blue roads and buildings appearing out of thin air when you parked beside them.
Maybe instead of everyone complaining about this can we all put our heads together and play around with our various setting to see what we can do to actually resolve this issue.
If I have any joy with this I'll post my findings - good luck everyone.
Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution - irritated wives are!
juicebykurt
July 19, 2002 2:20:29 AM
Speedfreak
July 19, 2002 7:19:16 AM
oymd is obviously well and truely pissed off with this game. Maybe his post was a bit on the heavy side but he does have a point.
Why should we have to reduce the settings on our machines to play games that should after all be enhanced by playing them on powerful PCs.
Juicebykurt - sorry to hear your wife bitches a lot ;-)
Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution - irritated wives are!
Why should we have to reduce the settings on our machines to play games that should after all be enhanced by playing them on powerful PCs.
Juicebykurt - sorry to hear your wife bitches a lot ;-)
Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution - irritated wives are!
oymd
July 19, 2002 4:36:40 PM
juicebykurt
July 23, 2002 12:24:43 AM
thats just ignorant. almost every new game that comes out is going to require newer technology to run at its full potential. you are not going to to be able to crank the settings up on a gf2 or even a gf3 so get over it already. thats how it is in pc gaming so if you dont like it buy a ps2 and stop whining already. if you dont know enough about pcs to adjust game settings to the level of technology that you have then you have nothing to complain about.
[edit: just wanted to claify that im not talking about the blue roads, etc. im directly referring to the "this game sux because i cant run it on max settings" complaints...]
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[edit: just wanted to claify that im not talking about the blue roads, etc. im directly referring to the "this game sux because i cant run it on max settings" complaints...]
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Lone
July 23, 2002 11:07:37 PM
interesting...I have it for ps2, got it from a friend just to see, and i downloaded it on kazaa, my machine is
* AMD Athlon XP-2200+ 1.8 GHZ Quantispeed processor
*gigabyte 7VRX VIA KT333 MB 4x APG w/ USB 2.0
* 1024 MB PC333 PC2700 DDR Memory
* Western Digital 120 gig harddrive
* Nvidia Geforce 4 TI4400 128MB DDR With TV OUT and DVI ( MSI)
* Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live 5.1
the game burns on this, and i run windows xp pro. it looks better here then on the ps2, i think. just cuz you have problems with the game, i dont think you should hate rock star, they make good games, or so i think. i think...i think..did anyone know i could do that?
i should use the word think less
* AMD Athlon XP-2200+ 1.8 GHZ Quantispeed processor
*gigabyte 7VRX VIA KT333 MB 4x APG w/ USB 2.0
* 1024 MB PC333 PC2700 DDR Memory
* Western Digital 120 gig harddrive
* Nvidia Geforce 4 TI4400 128MB DDR With TV OUT and DVI ( MSI)
* Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live 5.1
the game burns on this, and i run windows xp pro. it looks better here then on the ps2, i think. just cuz you have problems with the game, i dont think you should hate rock star, they make good games, or so i think. i think...i think..did anyone know i could do that?
i should use the word think less
jiffy
July 24, 2002 12:22:01 AM
It's worth noting that the enhanced graphics come at a price. We tested the game on the "recommended" system--a 700Mhz CPU with 128MB of RAM and a 32MB graphics card--and were required to turn every detail to its lowest setting to make the game playable. And even then, it stuttered enough that the PS2 version seemed like the better alternative. It's hard to imagine that Grand Theft Auto III would run at all on the so-called minimum specs. Fortunately, when we tested the game on a higher-end system, with a newer graphics card and a faster processor, we experienced significantly better results.
It plays good w my Gf4 4400 at 1600x1200x16x 2x, but I don't think it would do much better then this. I don't know what kind of card they used, but it does seem to comfirm what you say.
Hey Baby, want to play with my computer?
It plays good w my Gf4 4400 at 1600x1200x16x 2x, but I don't think it would do much better then this. I don't know what kind of card they used, but it does seem to comfirm what you say.
Hey Baby, want to play with my computer?
10GHZ
July 24, 2002 1:57:01 AM
jiffy
July 24, 2002 2:06:05 AM
10GHZ
July 24, 2002 7:43:27 AM
Lowlypawn
July 25, 2002 4:10:51 AM
If I install the patch will it screw up my No CD fix? I need something to speed up the game! I’m about half way through the 3rd city and it’s just to choppy and annoying. The music is already on my harddrive and I have it turned off anywise so I don't think the patch would help much. What they need is a patch with a new 3d engine!
Thx & Cya
BTY, the no CD patch is at gamecopyworld.com
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Thx & Cya
BTY, the no CD patch is at gamecopyworld.com
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Jes12345
July 25, 2002 2:04:46 PM
Just a bitch session here. You really think that "THE MAN" really cares if that out of 3 million copies only a handful of ppl are expericing some issues (probally caused by the user as well).
GTA 3 runs fine on mine system as well.
AXP 1900
Asus A7A266 Mobo
512 MB DDR RAM
3 different Video cards
-Voodoo 5
-Geforce 2 MX 400
-TNT 2 (A little choppy in some areas)
(All these cards were used cause of issue in game where I couldnt see text or radar, but it wasnt game issue, was an issue with XP and .DLL file.)
:smile: <font color=red>Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do! :wink: <font color=black> Think outside the box!
GTA 3 runs fine on mine system as well.
AXP 1900
Asus A7A266 Mobo
512 MB DDR RAM
3 different Video cards
-Voodoo 5
-Geforce 2 MX 400
-TNT 2 (A little choppy in some areas)
(All these cards were used cause of issue in game where I couldnt see text or radar, but it wasnt game issue, was an issue with XP and .DLL file.)
:smile: <font color=red>Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do! :wink: <font color=black> Think outside the box!
flamethrower205
July 26, 2002 4:49:45 AM
That's not true at all. I have a Quadro DCC (GF3 but ogl optimized basically) and I crank settings to max (even use 4xAA and Quincux, and 4x 9-tap), and I'm pulling definetly over even 60 fps it's so smooth. Um, what r these hacked gta3 drivers someone mentioned?
Specs:
1.2Ghz T-Bird
AD11
512DDr
WinXP Pro
Quadro DCC
SB! Live Platinum 5.1
13 speakers (5 subs, 8 tweeters mwahahaha)
My frog asked me for a straw...dunno what happened his ass all over the place
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Specs:
1.2Ghz T-Bird
AD11
512DDr
WinXP Pro
Quadro DCC
SB! Live Platinum 5.1
13 speakers (5 subs, 8 tweeters mwahahaha)
My frog asked me for a straw...dunno what happened his ass all over the place
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by flamethrower205 on 07/26/02 00:51 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
flamethrower205
July 26, 2002 5:00:45 AM
Oh, I think I may have found a soltion to yer problems. See I dled FRAPS, and held steady 30FPS, then took off frame limiter, and got at minimum 60, and even in the hundreds. Game runs just fine (as in everything moves at the same speed.....unlike gta1 where frame limiter was necessary).
My frog asked me for a straw...dunno what happened his ass all over the place
My frog asked me for a straw...dunno what happened his ass all over the place
marneus
July 26, 2002 4:36:33 PM
I think I will give that a try... currently got fairly good f-rates with 1.2G Tbird & a Kyro2 64mb with 4-5 on the distance draw scale
(all I ahve to do is remember to add more Mp3s to the folder... it keeps playing 2-3 out of 8 of my current tracks over & over again... annoying after a while)
There are no stupid questions... just lots of inquisitive idiots...
(all I ahve to do is remember to add more Mp3s to the folder... it keeps playing 2-3 out of 8 of my current tracks over & over again... annoying after a while)
There are no stupid questions... just lots of inquisitive idiots...
flamethrower205
July 26, 2002 5:18:05 PM
BTW, reason it's so CPU intensive is look at the physics. The newspapers on the ground will float in an according direction when u ride over them, and if u stop, etc. It caclculates extra skidding for rain, etc, that takes a lot of CPU power to do in real time.
My frog asked me for a straw...dunno what happened his ass all over the place
My frog asked me for a straw...dunno what happened his ass all over the place
UoMDeacon
July 26, 2002 7:04:23 PM
tdean
July 28, 2002 6:03:30 AM
Lowlypawn
July 30, 2002 3:10:30 AM
I’m not sure
I looked in my temp directory and I got 2 GTA3 NO CD patches (one by duck and another one called nocdsetup.exe 1,457KB) I think the second one is the one that worked.
I know a few people have been having problems so this is what I can remember and possible problems.
I heard there is a patch for GTA3 from rockstar and I installed the noCD patch before it came out, I also have not patched the game since for fear of messing it up.
I copied the audio form the CD manually to the audio file, Then I seem to remember replacing the old GTA3.exe with the new.
I don’t know if any of this will help but it did take me a few tries before I got it to work.
Good luck
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I looked in my temp directory and I got 2 GTA3 NO CD patches (one by duck and another one called nocdsetup.exe 1,457KB) I think the second one is the one that worked.
I know a few people have been having problems so this is what I can remember and possible problems.
I heard there is a patch for GTA3 from rockstar and I installed the noCD patch before it came out, I also have not patched the game since for fear of messing it up.
I copied the audio form the CD manually to the audio file, Then I seem to remember replacing the old GTA3.exe with the new.
I don’t know if any of this will help but it did take me a few tries before I got it to work.
Good luck
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juicebykurt
July 31, 2002 3:39:27 AM
Kanaz
August 1, 2002 12:42:39 AM
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