Chris

You two both joined here to post this? LOL SO FUNNY. Locked.

Oh I didn't read that. Yeah. Well what happens if you try to install now?

XP: Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Grand Theft Auto IV Vista: Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Grand Theft Auto IV Hit uninstall. Though that just runs the built in uninstaller usually so it'll do the same thing. What do you mean "it wanted me to launch RGSC, so i did, and it was completely pointless" Did you quit out of it halfway through or something? It probably needs to uninstall stuff in a certain order or something weird like that...

Nominations have started for the 2008 awards. You will find the relevant topic in the dedicated forum beneath this one. For the lazy: award nominations and hottest member picture submissions. We'll update you when the nomination period ends. After that a poll will be made for each individual award which you'll then vote on. Until then, think about the nominations and try and get someone down for each one. We don't wanna see people only nominate others for a few awards, we want all the awards have a good selection of members Have fun!

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the official nominations topic for the 2008 The GTA Place Forum Awards. Nominations will happen pretty much the same as they did last year, with members posting the names of members next to the official award list below. Not many rules, just follow these and everything will be just fine: Nominate 1 member for each award You may NOT nominate yourself No discussion. Post once in this topic with your nominations. If you need to make changes, simply edit your post. The topic will be open for at least a week, probably longer. Like last year Hottest Member will run separately to allow for members to submit their pictures. If you'd like to enter for that award, please post your pictures in this topic. Here is the list you should copy and paste into your own post. Please put the display names of the members you'd like to nominate for each award. [b][u]GTA[/u][/b] [b]Most Knowledgeable (GTA3):[/b] [b]Most Knowledgeable (GTAVC):[/b] [b]Most Knowledgeable (GTASA):[/b] [b]Most Knowledgeable (GTALCS):[/b] [b]Most Knowledgeable (GTAVCS):[/b] [b]Most Knowledgeable (GTAIV):[/b] [b]Best Stunter (Vice City):[/b] [b]Best Stunter (San Andreas):[/b] [b][u]Member[/u][/b] [b]Most Respected Member:[/b] [b]Most Respected Mod/Super Mod:[/b] [b]Most Helpful Member:[/b] [b]Most Improved Member:[/b] [b]Most Intelligent Member:[/b] [b]Best New Member:[/b] [b]Funniest Member:[/b] [b]Most Original Username:[/b] [b]Biggest Geek:[/b] [b]Most Random Member:[/b] [b]Best Personality:[/b] [b][u]Graphics, Creativity, Skills etc.[/u][/b] [b]Best Avatar:[/b] [b]Best Signature:[/b] [b]Best Graphics maker:[/b] [b]Best Animator: [/b] [b]Best Writing/Story (creativity forum):[/b] [b]Best Quality Posts:[/b] [b]Best Written English:[/b] [b]Best "About Me" page:[/b] [b]Best Debater:[/b] [b][u]Prestige[/u][/b] [b]Member of the Year:[/b] [b]Topic of the Year:[/b] [b][u]Lolz (fun stuff)[/u][/b] [b]Person Least Likely to Get Laid:[/b] [b]Best Breasts:[/b] NOTES - PLEASE READ Some of the award names might be a bit ambiguous, this should help clear up any confusion you may have: Best New member == a "new member" is someone who registered here during 2008. Most respected member == anyone who isn't staff here at TGTAP Most respected mod == moderators and super mods, NOT admins since you must respect us all anyway Most improved member == members who started out as n00bs but are now actually pretty decent Best written English == member who writes with the best and most consistently good grammar and spelling (Excluding me (Chris) since I'm main news poster etc.) Best Quality Posts == member who consistently makes good/helpful/useful posts, no spam etc. (also excludes me (Chris)) Best debater == member who has provided the best arguments in Serious Chat discussions Most original username == member who you think has put the most thought into their username - Not an abbreviation, quote, their real name, not from GTA etc. Something original. Best Breasts == Male or Female. Whoever you think has the best breasts here, that doesn't necessarily mean biggest. Member of the Year == Member who you think, overall, brought the most to this forum during 2008 (should be a normal member, not staff) Topic of the Year == Just post a link to what you think was the best topic made this year (2008). If anyone nominates the random post topic they will be tortured in front of everyone here. Just so that's clear. I think the rest are all pretty self explanatory but if you need clarification then state what you're not sure about at the top of your nominations post and I'll add a note above. We'd like to keep discussion to an absolute minimum in here so it's easier when we go through collecting nominees ready for the polls. Would you kindly... Please nominate someone for as many of the awards as possible. If you're not sure of who to nominate for e.g. best writing, go and have look through that forum and read a few member's works. This isn't a strict rule but we'd like a decent amount of nominations for every award. So please make an effort. Good job to those of you who got the Bioshock reference. If you got it then you'll have a complete nomination list

If you want to get yourself in the voting for the forums hottest member, you first need to provide some pictures for us. Male or female, it would be fair if you posted pictures of yourself where you're clothed. We don't want people gaming the system by posting scantily clad pics of themselves... so don't be too revealing If you do have nudes, please PM them to Chris who will be happy to accept them Now if you don't have any new pics to post and need some already here, then feel free to grab them from post your pics topic. RULES You MUST post the pics here to be entered for voting. You may post a maximum of 3 pictures of yourself Other stuff I mentioned above Please keep discussion to a minimum, this is just for submitting your piccies.

NFS series ended at Underground 2. Everything after that was just shit. Which was a shame, was one of my favourite racing series. Time to move on IMO.

No you don't need to save it as interlaced. If you're in Photoshop, just go File -> Save for Web and choose PNG, from the presets choose PNG-8 or PNG-24 and make sure the transparency box is checked. PNG-8 uses colour palletes like GIFs (maximum of 256 colours) and are good for creating files of small size. However, if you have a sig with lots of colours (i.e. more than 256... likely if you're using gradients and such) you should choose PNG-24 as it'll look better. JPEGs are actually fine if you have few colours since the compression algorithm will recognise this and will be able to produce quite small file. The sig shown in the first post is a good example of when NOT to save as JPEG though, that's definitely a better option for PNG. I don't know where you took this tutorial from since you didn't link back to it, but it's not very good IMO, and to me it just looks like a lame way of trying to advertise Irfan View. People are better of reading the replies here

We have a nominations topic first of all, which I'll make either later on tonight, or sometime in the next couple of days. In that topic everyone nominates one member for each award (you can't nominate yourself). We leave the topic open for a week or two to make sure everyone who wants to has their opportunity to nominate. After this I make a poll for each award, with the options being each member who has been nominated. Everyone votes in these polls over another 1-2 week period and then the forum is hidden away. We then award the winners the week after, usually mid-late January.

The official Chinatown Wars website underwent a minor change last night, with updates to the release date and the addition of some new artwork. Rockstar's latest broadcast email confirmed this was the box art and included the Nintendo DS box surround. Link: Official Chinatown Wars website

Guys this isn't for posting pictures of guns you'd like. It's for posting pictures of guns you own.

Rockstar have released 8 brand new screenshots showing off scenes from episode one of the Xbox 360's downloadable content, The Lost and Damned. Click the thumbnails below for the high res versions. More: GTA IV DLC screenshots

Topic closed now. Nominations topic will be made later on tonight, quite later on, most of you will see it tomorrow I guess. Working on v4 at the moment

Yeah you're right Artur, that's a different gun and it does look like a Sawed off shotgun. Cool.

Rockstar have announced the release dates of Chinatown Wars for the Nintendo DS by way of press release earlier. The game will launch on 17th March in North America and 20th March in Europe.

The one with the circular magazine? I just looked it up, called a "street sweeper" or Striker 12. Here's a video of one in real life: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IwC85njIE0k

Earlier tonight the first trailer for The Lost and Damned premiered at the 2008 Spike TV Video Game Awards. Grand Theft Auto IV won three of the seven awards it was nominated for, "Game Of The Year", "Best Action Adventure Game", and "Best Performance By A Human Male" for Michael Hollick as Niko Bellic. The action-packed trailer gives us an insight in what to expect from the DLC. Watch below via YouTube.

Lol wut?

Make those tyres fatter

Lol, did you guys seriously not get the reference? I mean, we're in December, and the title pretty much gives it away

Nice work you've done there. Gonna be modding anything for GTA IV?

Yeah I actually checked the graphics forum and realised hardly anyone bothers doing animation. Might actually remove it from the list.

Pretty soon after yeah.

Merged all the new posts that were in that ancient topic to this one since it's newer and bigger. Nice Dragunov btw, (spelt like that on Call of Duty 4, even though I'm English ). One on CoD4 looks way bigger though, guess it's a different model. So when you're out killing all the baddies in America, how far away from your targets do you lay prone with that thing?