Chris

Forum Awards time! Well, not quite yet. Just wanted to get any suggestions for any new categories to have awards for this year, or, remove any ones we think are shit. Below are last year's, and I've of course added in one for GTA IV already. Let us know your opinions, if you think some categories are pointless then tell us, likewise if you have a good idea for a new one, tell us. Most Knowledgeable (GTA3): Most Knowledgeable (GTAVC): Most Knowledgeable (GTASA): Most Knowledgeable (GTALCS): Most Knowledgeable (GTAVCS): Most Knowledgeable (GTAIV): Best Stunter (San Andreas): Best Stunter (Vice City): Most Respected Member: Most Respected Mod/Super Mod: Most Helpful Member: Most Improved Member: Best New Member: Most Intelligent Member: Funniest Member: Most Original Username: Biggest geek: Most Random Member: Most unique member: Best Avatar: Best Signature: Best Graphics maker: Best Writing (creativity forum): Best Topic Starter: Userbar Whore: Weirdest Looks: Removed Medal of Honor since we no longer have the infamous warzone. I myself am tempted to remove Userbar Whore, it was funny the first year until a few people tried putting every userbar they could into their sigs...

Microsoft launched a mini-site for Grand Theft Auto IV's downloadable content for the Xbox 360 last night. On it they included three screenshots of The Lost and Damned which we haven't seen before. Unfortunately they aren't high resolution but we'll update them if get some better versions. Link: The Lost and Damned screenshots Source: Microsoft Credit to }{oT~dEv1L 666 for finding these.

Just a short note to inform anybody here looking one of Switch's many mods. Switch has decided to leave The GTA Place for personal reasons. Many users will be sad that his mods are no longer here, but he has informed me that he does plan on starting up his own website for distributing his mods from now on, so best of luck to him with that. To end this short post on a more positive note, I just want to let everyone know that the changes we're planning on making to TGTAP are still on track, we hope to get everything done ready for new year, so look out for exciting new things including a new layout after the Christmas period.

To everyone supporting Switch Designs Switch has decided that in protest of me moving this post from our front page to the General GTA forum, he would edit ALL 156 mods of his mods hosted here and replace the file with a text file with a big "fuck you" to me, Chris, and this website. This is coming from a famous GTA modder, well respected in most corners of the GTA community. Presumably happily married with children for over 10 years, he commits this childish, immature act. I don't understand why he's done it, but he has. I can only apologise on his behalf to everyone who genuinely enjoyed his mods, and now, thanks to this, can no longer download any of them. First GTAGaming, now TGTAP. And with him not being liked by much of GTAF, I've no idea where he's going to go now. Switch has left TGTAP now for personal reasons.

Well you managed to last almost 30 minutes before getting banned. Nice one. Not a lot of members manage that. Good job spamming all the latest news and pinned topics with your crappy video. Hope it was worth it because all your posts are deleted now. Good job reinforcing the stereotype that all Eastern European Internet users are spamming/hotlinking cunts. Doing your country bloc proud right there. Idiot. On a lighter note, a big warm welcome to all the new members that have joined recently, enjoy your stay here. Unlike that silly boy above.

Holy shit I didn't even realise that until you just mentioned it, pretty obvious as well. But that's actually awesome. So does that mean I'm awesome too? I write in black font and I have black hair

Ah... so influential I am... What does the Japanese text say? I get all my brushes from DeviantArt. Search for terms like "abstract" or "grunge" and find ones you like. So many decent ones there to choose from. The one used in my sig, and apparently azn's is from a set called Winter Breeze. I don't care if you all start using them, I only put it in my current sig for the sake of actually using the brushes I download

Moved off the homepage. Don't take this the wrong way, but I can't really allow modders like yourself to use my website's homepage to get donations. We don't even do it for the site server costs, not directly anyway, we have ads for that purpose like most other sites. I read through a fair bit of your GTAF topic, and most people there seem just to be taking the piss, and you just came back with retorts, even when they brought your wife into it. You mention that your job barely supports your wife and kids... now I'm in no place to comment on your situation, but man, it sounds like you'd be better off looking for a better job. Easier said than done I know, but you have 3D modelling skills. I'm pretty sure you could get a well paid job in the industry that would better support your family, as well as your gaming habits, which are secondary to your family let's not forget. You've made 100's of mods that have been downloaded millions of times so you have fans, sure there's a lot of people out there who want you to continue your work. I mean I don't know how much money you've received through this donation stuff, but the main demographic you're talking to are 13-20 year olds - the sort of people who aren't really in a position to be donating money. P.S. link to your mods through the link on your author page, the one with the number of files. Due to the scale of the database and number of searches done per day, it's impractical for us to keep them for long periods of time. Searches therefore are only kept for 24 hours.

If you killed them it's fine, you won't need them for the achievement. It's actually easier that way.

Nice, I actually prefer those to red

As promised by Rockstar and ATi last week, ATi have today released updated Catalyst drivers (version 8.12) that should give gamers with ATi graphics cards improved performance when playing Grand Theft Auto IV. Head over to ATi Catalyst drivers to download the latest version. It's recommended all ATi users upgrade. For those of you with nVidia cards who might have missed last weeks update, nVidia put out some beta drivers which many gamers report improves the framerate when playing GTA IV, you can get those at nZone.com. Let us know if these new ATi drivers improve your game performance.

Lol @ the poll. You missed off pretty much every single popular make, except Marlboro and Camel, for which you put just about every flavour that exists. Fucked much? I don't smoke anyway.

Approved. Sorry for the delay, was busy

*First non-Aussie to post in thread* Dunno if it would be that good tbh And you HAVE to have stereotypes, that's what makes it fun. Especially for us in England, everyone knows Australia is where we sent all the criminals and that you're all descendants of them But no your country is actually pretty cool and I'd like to go there someday, would be nice seeing it in a GTA but I don't think it'll ever happen, just wouldn't fit the whole theme of the game IMO.

Yeah there's no way you could comfortably play at 10fps, that's absurd. Anything below 20 is, that's the bare minimum.

TIME magazine has named Grand Theft Auto IV as the number one video game of the year 2008. The well known magazine has a "Top 10 of Everything" each year, and I think it comes as no surprise to many people that GTA IV topped the video game list. Well done to Rockstar Games and all the studios that worked on the game. Here's the full list: Grand Theft Auto IV Braid LittleBigPlanet Rock Band 2 Gears of War 2 Dead Space Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Hunted Forever Fieldrunners Spore Source: TIME

Just wanna say, the game looks fucking awesome on medium, so much better than the console versions. I think low is the equivalent of the console version, at a resolution near 720p, we'll say 1280x800 as that's the nearest res in 16:10.

I dunno. Maybe adding features such as being able to leave comments. And possibly displaying the files in a different way, or having an option to at least.