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Haven't played VC on PC for years but I can't say I ever noticed MP3's being played at a bad quality. I would have thought the game played the file directly and as such it would sound exactly the same as when played in any normal media player. What bitrate are your MP3s? By the way, you can't simply re-encode your MP3s to a higher bitrate, that won't improve the quality. You'll need original source files. So if you actually ripped them off a CD then you'll need to do that again. Or from a lossless format such as WAV or FLAC.

Still not got any GTA games on your PC? Well, good news, today's daily deals in the Steam Summer Sale include the entire Grand Theft Auto Collection, with every game featuring a 75% discount. Furthermore, the already discounted complete package has an additional 75% off. This means you can legitimately own all the PC GTA games for just £4.99 ($12.49 / 7,49€). That is an incredible deal! The Steam Summer Sale is probably the greatest wallet-emptying experience for a PC gamer, but at this price, come on, it's not even gonna put a dent in it! At the time of posting this article you have just over 35 hours to take advantage of the deal.

It'll run it but it won't be that smooth. Upgrade it to a 64bit version of Windows 7 and buy a new graphics card and it'll be much better. That video card is at a low-end model and you're gonna have to use very low settings to be able to play IV smoothly. You need a High End GPU to play smoothly. Preferably one with a score of at least 2000 on that chart if you can afford it. 4GB of RAM will probably be enough.

Yeah we're pretty sure it is. Well I think from now on we can expect to see info start trickling through more often. Maybe every few weeks we'll have something new

Rockstar have given us a nice little surprise today with the release of the first two screenshots from Grand Theft Auto V in the latest Asked & Answered Newswire post. Check them out below and let us know your thoughts on them! Source: Asked and Answered

Patrick Brown is up to his old tricks again. He's been focussing on Max Payne 3 related artwork as of late, but today he's produced this fantastic piece of artwork for Grand Theft Auto, showing all the protagonists of the series. Click the image below to see it in full. From the man himself: We should probably point out that Albert De Silva isn't actually 100% confirmed as the protagonist of GTA V at the moment, it's simply based on some assumptions and a "leak" at this point. You can see more of Patrick's amazing artwork on his DeviantArt page.

Popular GTA IV modding tool OpenIV has finally reached a 1.0 release today. The main new addition in this update by GooD-NTS and the rest of the team is support for opening and viewing Max Payne 3 textures and collision bounds objects. Other changes in this release include: new texture viewer improved GTA IV vehicle rendering simple text-based format for easy WPL editing many other improvements and bug fixes The video below demonstrates some of the tool's features. Download links after the video. [media=] [/media] Download: OpenIV 1.0 [OpenIV.com news post]

To be fair, Rockstar did say they would start the GTA V stuff after MP3 had been released. So, it's out now, yes they've still got DLC to come but for the main part marketing is all done for that game. So we can expect some real information to come in the next couple of months I think. The October release, while still possible, does look extremely unlikely. It only gives 4 months for R* to market it and release new trailers etc. I'd expect them to want to take more time with it. Also, Take-Two have Bioshock Infinite being released then, and although it's not direct competition, they probably don't want the two titles competing.

Making the rounds in the news today and this past week have been stories regarding the supposed release date of GTA V, following the leak of a Rockstar North employee's CV. Understandably this spread like wildfire after the CV revealed GTA V's release date to be October 2012. Why is this a problem? Well, the CV isn't real. We've heard from an actual Rockstar source that it's a falsified document. And upon further investigation this appears to check out. The "leak" appears to originate from a so-called "fansite", which consists mostly of completely made up information on GTA V. The site in question is GTA-V5.com, owned and operated by one Dan Neil. Before moving to this domain, Neil had previously written at least two articles on his blogspot site consisting of fake information and claimed it was leaked from Take-Two [1] and [2]. We should point out that Neil's blogs are plastered with advertising, including promises of a free copy of GTA V, alongside other questionable affiliate based adverts from a UK company called JeebiesFreebie.com, which we would advise you all to stay away from; we don't think you'll be getting any free games. Update: Another site, GTA5videos.com, may also be responsible for some of the rumours being created. Creating a CV containing non-public information and using a real employee's name and details is a downright stupid idea. This could easily land the employee in hot water with Rockstar, who at the time of the leak, may not be aware it's not actually real. Unfortunately given the nature of this information, a number of major gaming news outlets picked it up causing it to spread even more. Rather amusingly, Neil also reported on his blog that Rockstar Games took down GTANet, the largest GTA fansite, following the leak being posted on GTAForums. It is laughable that anyone would believe this - Rockstar would never take down legitimate GTA fansites, especially not those they officially recognise and invite to events. The real reason the network was down was simply due to some issues that occurred from a server migration, nothing more, and at the time of posting this, appears to be back online. The likes of OXM and MCV and indeed a number of other reputable networks don't seem to care much for journalistic integrity these days, and it seems that sadly they'll post anything any random newly created blog gives them. So folks, if you do see some rumours being posted that are reported to have been "leaked" from a Rockstar/T2 employee, please apply some critical thinking and look at who originated the leak. Hint: If it's from some ad-filled blog, it's not going to be real. And one final note, Take-Two are at E3 mainly for the new Borderlands game, not GTA V.

It's a scam. Locked.

Also if people are really that paranoid, no matter what browser they use they can just choose to "deny all cookies" in the settings. I don't see why individual websites need to do this on their behalf just because people are lazy.

Since the first GTA V trailer was initially revealed back in November, many users have attempted to recreate it using GTA San Andreas. One of the first to gain popularity was one made by CreativityZone which we posted about last year. The newest effort we have is from GTARLde, check his re-creation out below and let us know what you think. And another one from last year which you may not have seen as we didn't post it at the time, from user coollertmb: [media=] Tell us your thoughts in the forums and let us know if there's any other good remakes we've missed.

Easily one of the most retarded laws the EU has brought about so far. They simply do not understand what cookies are actually used for in the majority of cases, and just because a few uneducated people are paranoid about it, they bring in a ridiculous law that forces website to show obtrusive messages to users. I dunno, the BBC had an article on this yesterday and this part... ...makes me think it's not such a big deal to be in breach of. I haven't actually read the law fully but I don't understand why all this emphasis in the news is specifically being put on UK websites. Why just the UK? If it's an EU law then what about all the other EU countries? Won't they be in breach of it too? My server is actually located in The Netherlands. So if this is just for UK sites then I'm technically exempt. So fuck 'em. Anyway, I haven't done anything about this stupid cookie law on any websites I run. We already have a privacy policy here on TGTAP which tells you exactly how we use cookies. We actually don't use anything ourselves aside from keeping you logged in if you tick the box to do that. Cookies for statistical purposes are handled by Google Analytics, and advertising ones (the ones people are paranoid about) simply serve you more relevant ads but again we don't even use these ourselves. Oh well, all people achieve by blocking cookies is ensuring they see less relevant and thus more annoying ads... I don't get why someone would want to do this, and why they have a problem with being served relevant ads. They seem to think people are spying on them, when in reality all that's happening is an algorithm is analysing data which no human sees. People are idiots.

Welcome back, good to see you around again And thanks, yeah it's had a few upgrades in the past couple of years. Activity having its ups and downs but should pick up again now Max Payne 3 is out and GTA V info should be more forthcoming. Looking forward to it all!

This weekend the US observes Memorial Day, and as part of the holiday, Rockstar Games have put on some of their mobile games on sale, along with the Mac trilogy of GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas. Grand Theft Auto III: 10-Year Anniversary Edition on iOS and Android is just $0.99 (£0.69 / €0.89), and Chinatown Wars for iOS is also just $0.99 until Monday May 28th. Mac gamers can also get 50% off Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City and San Andreas on the Mac App Store until 28th May. Links: GTAIII Anniversary & Chinatown Wars iOS: http://rsg.ms/urpzxX GTAIII Anniversary Android: http://rsg.ms/KgMyAW GTAIII Mac: http://rsg.ms/tnACUz Vice City Mac: http://rsg.ms/vxZwiu San Andreas Mac: http://rsg.ms/oA0bUq

You're a mong.

You definitely should!

No posts here for 3 months. Seems I was right ^

I dunno, I don't doubt some of them being for Agent at the moment. After all, it is set in the Cold War. Some of the locales in the game would surely be in snowy areas making the snow vehicles quite relevant.

Yeah the points thing is new, that's actually what I was referring to with possibly making some rule changes around it. With different types of warning giving different points. And getting a certain number of points automatically suspends/bans you for a given period of time. I think at the moment every type of warning is set to 1 point (or 0) since that's the default. We'd obviously change these values if we did move to a system based on these. At the moment we're still following our old rules around warnings, so currently the points are meaningless. IPB 4 won't be here for a long long time, it's such a full featured piece of software now that I can't see a new major release coming for quite some time. Minor releases with feature additions/improvements are going to be much more likely for the foreseeable future. 3.4 for sure.

Yeah the warning system had a nice overhaul from a moderator point of view. It's a pretty intuitive system now. We may make some rule changes based around this, but for now we're keeping things the same.

An interesting find indeed. Lots of snow vehicles there though, I can't see them being at all relevant in GTA V given the Los Santos setting. Surely more likely for Agent. Also good to see the Rhino mentioned there, and a Hind! Suggests military would be making a return...

The forums have been upgraded from version 3.2 to 3.3 of Invision Power Board. The majority of the new features are behind the scenes stuff. There's some improvements to mod/admin side of things and search engine optimisation - basically nothing new for you guys to see or use. One minor feature that's been added is when posting a new topic, you now have the option to automatically share it to your friends on facebook and/or twitter (if you've connected your accounts). Just tick the boxes below the file attachment area if you wish to do this. Apart from that I don't think there's anything new you should know about. As usual, do post here if you spot any bugs or if something has broken and tell us what's up. I'll try and fix any problems ASAP. UPDATE: I've re-enabled your Gamertag/PSN/Steam profile links appearing in topics underneath your avatar (if you've filled in these profile fields). You can change them if you wish.

Looks good so far, decided to use it. If you, or indeed anyone else wants to create/modify it then go ahead. Maybe we can switch between a few of them before settling on one.