Spaz The Great Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 You don't need an insane amount more than the minimum requirements. I've never heard of any game that REQUIRED a 64-bit processor..... Since when are games 64-bit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 Never And Command and Conquer is a good example. You can play it with a budget PC (with terrible graphics) but to really get it like in the trailers you need a mid-range to high-end PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alistair Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 (edited) I don't actually think that GTAIV will require the ultimate specs. I mean, yes it does look awesome, but GTA has never been a computer-demanding game. I can run GTA:SA just fine on my Laptop, with specs: AMD Turion 64 1.8GHz 512MB RAM ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 64MB Which I'm sure you'll agree, aren't exactly good specs. My only concern is if GTAIV HAS to be DirectX10 or not - I do not want to buy Vista, I like XP. But my guess it'll work fine with DirectX9.0c anyway - I've heard there is software out there that will allow directx10 games to work on XP. No, my guess is more like this Minimum: Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz 1GB RAM GeForce 7600 256MB 8 GB HDD Space WinXP/Vista Reccomended: Quad Core 2.6GHz 2GB RAM GeForce 7800GT 512MB Edited May 5, 2007 by Alistair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Quad Core as recommended? That's a little high don't you think? A E6600 should do fine. And ATM all Quad Cores above 2.9 GHz cost above the 600 USD. Only 'ultimate' PC's have that. And I doubt that GTA IV would require DX10. Like I previously stated, it most lightly will run on DX 9.0 c but you'll just miss a few effects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaz The Great Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 I don't actually think that GTAIV will require the ultimate specs. I mean, yes it does look awesome, but GTA has never been a computer-demanding game. I can run GTA:SA just fine on my Laptop, with specs:AMD Turion 64 1.8GHz 512MB RAM ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 64MB Which I'm sure you'll agree, aren't exactly good specs. My only concern is if GTAIV HAS to be DirectX10 or not - I do not want to buy Vista, I like XP. But my guess it'll work fine with DirectX9.0c anyway - I've heard there is software out there that will allow directx10 games to work on XP. No, my guess is more like this Minimum: Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz 1GB RAM GeForce 7600 256MB 8 GB HDD Space WinXP/Vista Reccomended: Quad Core 2.6GHz 2GB RAM GeForce 7800GT 512MB Can you see the contradiction in your post? How many "lower-end" PC games REQUIRE a dual-core processor? The RAM, GPU, and HDD space look fine. But a dual-core processor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 A P4 running at 3.2 GHz should be fine to. Or a Dual core P4, but those are even more expensive then Intels Core Duo2 and doesn't even have such good performance. For minimum specs the bit lower-end Duo Cores should be ok. As long as all settings are low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alistair Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 What you've got to remember is that no PS3 games (that I'm aware of) have been released on PC yet. The reason I came up with the specs was looking at the specs of the Xbox360 and PS3. XBOX has 3 cores running at 3.2GHz, hence why I said at least a dual core. And the PS3 has (I think) 7 cores, so surely a quad or even octo core (I think they'll be around soon) might be reccomended for top graphics. We are talking about PCs in a year here, and a core2 duo isn't going to be so high-end in a year when we probably have the octo (eight) core CPUs out. Quad-cores are only expensive because they've just been released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 Having a lot of cores doesn't mean it's more powerfull. I actually think that cell-CPU is a big mistake they made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alistair Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Why? I don't claim to be any kind of knowledge on CPUs, but I thought two cores meant double the pace? four cores quadruple the pace, etc...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaz The Great Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Well, not exactly. I know in terms of GPUs, if you have two of the exact same card, you don't exactly have DOUBLE the power of the GPU.... Might be different for CPUs but I doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Well you're right. And the program also has to be optimized for it, otherwise a Quad core will useless (unless you're having things running on one PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alistair Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Oh!!!! Is it like one core can run one program dedicated, and one another, etc? So like, on my dual core, if i ran a single-core compatible game, my OS will run on one, and the game on the other? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 Can, yeah. Even though almost no programs use duo cores atm, for multy tasking it still works and stuff like rendering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
made man Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 You people who think that GTA4 will run on Windows XP with directx 9c really are a bunch of wishful thinkers. Last time I checked the game will only come out in October on the consoles, which means that only then will they start working on the pc version, so it will be at least two years before the game is released on pc... This leaves a lot of time for the dust to settle around Windows vista and directx10 and for XP and dx9 to become a thing of the past. Why would R* or even any other company for that matter consider bringing a game out on XP in +- 2 years time that they havent even started developing yet? And here is another bit of info for you: R* have already made some sort of strategic alliance with Microsoft and the XBox360 by bringing out exclusive content for this console. What makes you think that Microsoft will not influence them to make GTA4 a Vista exclusive title, like it has already done with at least a dosen other game titles? And who knows, maybee we may see some exclusive content on the pc version too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaz The Great Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 You people who think that GTA4 will run on Windows XP with directx 9c really are a bunch of wishful thinkers. Last time I checked the game will only come out in October on the consoles, which means that only then will they start working on the pc version, so it will be at least two years before the game is released on pc... This leaves a lot of time for the dust to settle around Windows vista and directx10 and for XP and dx9 to become a thing of the past. Why would R* or even any other company for that matter consider bringing a game out on XP in +- 2 years time that they havent even started developing yet? And here is another bit of info for you: R* have already made some sort of strategic alliance with Microsoft and the XBox360 by bringing out exclusive content for this console. What makes you think that Microsoft will not influence them to make GTA4 a Vista exclusive title, like it has already done with at least a dosen other game titles? And who knows, maybee we may see some exclusive content on the pc version too... Um, none of the others have taken two years to port to PC........ And just because it will be the mainstream when it's RELEASED doesn't mean it will be the mainstream when it's being DEVELOPED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrzax Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 I don't think a avarage Athlon will be enough for GTA IV though. Unless you have a high-end Athlon.BTW, does anyone think GTAIV is NOT going to support Duo core? I don't know any games that actually do. Theres cod 2 and also a quake 4 patch for dual core. and i think this thread is pretty stupid, no one knows what sort of system will run GTAIV, all this thread is doing is letting ppl have their say then have it shot down by someone else who thinks they know better. Maybe we should all just wait and see what the requirements are once the game is actually released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 @Mademan: You fail. There are quite some people who don't want Vista. So not making it compatible with XP would be stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mpilk901 Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 @Mademan: You fail. There are quite some people who don't want Vista. So not making it compatible with XP would be stupid. RAAAH down with Vista! Watch this video about it, very funny But maybe thats because I just prefer Mac's.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 Mac's? Gaming? WTF? I lol'd, but I don't think it's that bad. At least they copied it right. Not like how Sony copy's motion sensing. I like Vista, but ATM it's not yet time to switch. And BTW, Mac really sucks.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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