GTA3 on PC... any good?

Zardon · May 28, 2002, 10:04 PM

my wee bro has Grand theft auto 3 on the PS2, he loves it and I think its pretty good, whats the PC version like ? much different? I saw it today in Game.....

brc64 · May 29, 2002, 12:53 AM

Over at the PC Gaming forum in Rage3D there's like 5 different complaint threads regarding GTA3 on the PC. I'd hold off for a little while and maybe wait for a patch to be released before picking it up.

- Me

MikeDaMan · May 29, 2002, 03:17 AM

Yes definently wait for a patch, I have the PC version but noticed the memory leaks and choppyness however, its not that bad for me. Other than that its a sweet game!

EvilFoo · May 29, 2002, 05:37 AM

Yeah it's a good game, I actually paid for it (woahh...). Even though it suffers from some graphical incompatibilities, it is still a very good game. I had to go through plenty of procedures to get my game running with adequate performance with full draw distance. If you don't want to spend money now, it's best you wait until a patch comes out which should provide more than enough fixes.

Spookstah · May 29, 2002, 07:27 AM

Its a very fun to play game but you really need to tweak your gfx-card and the game settings to get it run a little smoother and its a real cpu hog.
When running on my pc it uses 100% cpu power, specs below.

dipstick · May 29, 2002, 07:34 PM

Some people have been having a great deal of problems with the game. But for some reason it runs great for me. If I were you I would wait for a patch though, as brc64 said there are just way too many people having probs

Zardon · May 29, 2002, 07:58 PM

ok well ill give this one a miss then,thanks guys

Vaporizer · May 30, 2002, 12:13 AM

hmm...
when i actually do some into the game it works perfect but 80% of the times i cant even start it... it just skips right back to windows after the first movie (when you are about to get to the menus) any ideas?

and does anyone know if there is a nocd crack for the audio cd... it just SO annoying to plop that CD in each time and on top of that my cd-rom (that actually is a CD-rw) sounds like HELL when it spins up due to the cooler in the cd-rw (which i hate).

dipstick · May 30, 2002, 12:49 AM

Check out this sweet page http://www.ipfreelytech.net/gta3fix/. It has helped alot of people out with GTA3.

Vaporizer · May 30, 2002, 12:55 AM

shall do, thx

Andy The Animal · Jun 6, 2002, 07:13 PM

Ok...in my opinion this game SUX

it has very poor atmosphere, poor gameplay, poor control (no true joystick)...basically CRAP and i paid for it...grrrr
I got it to run ok on XP, but just stopped playing it...it is pants of the first order

Zardon · Jun 8, 2002, 07:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Andy The Animal
Ok...in my opinion this game SUX it has very poor atmosphere, poor gameplay, poor control (no true joystick)...basically CRAP and i paid for it...grrrr
I got it to run ok on XP, but just stopped playing it...it is pants of the first order

lol, well im glad I gave this game a miss, ive been hearing nothing but bad things about it ......

Impulse · Jun 8, 2002, 12:40 PM

[SIZE=small]I rather play it on my PS2

[/SIZE]

Jun 9, 2002, 03:59 AM

if they had've waited a couple of months and released a game with decent graphics performance and a network option it could've been one of the best games ever is the sad thing.....

warrenpchi · Jun 13, 2002, 05:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by brc64
Over at the PC Gaming forum in Rage3D there's like 5 different complaint threads regarding GTA3 on the PC. I'd hold off for a little while and maybe wait for a patch to be released before picking it up.

Yes! Most people over there seem to concure that there's a massive memory leak issue. Generally speaking, those with more ram can play longer without issues. So if you've got a gakload of ram (like my gf does - 2gigs), and you really want it . . . maybe its not so bad? Playable in the meantime (while you wait for a patch)?

-Warren

digitalwanderer · Jun 13, 2002, 06:25 AM

For the link to get the radio onto my hard-drive, me HATES needing an f-ing CD in for a game I pirated fair & square!

GREAT game! I just got it today and haven't had any problems with it on a PIII800@944 with a GF3. I'm running 98se w/512MB and I can play for at least an hour and a half
without any problems & it looks & runs very nicely. (Not to mention oodles of fun, I was a big fan of the first game. )

Thank you again for the link, it's appreciated and it helped me a lot!

MiguelSantana · Jun 15, 2002, 05:26 AM

my son plays this game on a celeron 500 , 256 meg sdram , tnt2 32 meg agp ,win98se . runs slow of course but has played it to level 17 -27 without stopping . did anyone read the min specs for running this game on pc ? why wine about it i think it's a good game runs fine on my system 1gig duron<-temp waiting for xp1900+ , 384 meg ddr pc2100 , gf3 , win98se all games run smooth on here

shuki · Jun 16, 2002, 09:34 AM

I hope to give this game a go a little later today. I'll post back my findings.

digitalwanderer · Jun 16, 2002, 04:29 PM

GREAT GAME! Got into a long session last night for the first time and I'm totally hooked. This is the FUNNEST game I've played since the first Serious Sam came out.

NewsFactory · Jun 16, 2002, 04:55 PM

GTA Scraper mentions of a tool called 3D Analyzer that enables you to force software TNL in GTA3. It actually results to a significant increase in the frame rate (it did for me, I can enjoy the game now).

The 3D Analyzer Tool was created and refined to overcome limitations posed by modern 3D Games and other Applications on several current mainstream 3D Cards. Basic functionality will equip non-T&L cards with a software substitute. Advanced functionality will enable User selectable 3D Features not available in many older Cards. Yet, this is presently achieved not by Emulation but by NUL-Rendering. This means, advanced 3D Features the Card is not capable of, are reported as available in Hardware, but have their calls intercepted and the respective 3D Features will not be rendered. These functions are based upon the premise and ideas, that :
- 3D Games can be launched, that otherwise would fail due to lack of Hardware support.
- No 3D Game should solely rely on a few, isolated rendering features, and therefor loss of image quality by NUL-Rendering 'should' be minimal and acceptable in most cases.

Even, if you are not interested in GTA3, I would recomment to experiment with it in your games or other 3D applications (i.e. 3D Mark2001SE).

http://gta.sky-scraper.net/article.php?AID=292

http://www.tommti-systems.de/main-Dateien/files.html

Ikarus · Jun 16, 2002, 05:07 PM

I have gta3 and i have a lot of problems with it. Graphic bugs under bridges are normal and it runs very often slow!!! The grafik with my Radeon 7500 is bad....

digitalwanderer · Jun 16, 2002, 05:09 PM

I'm downloading it now. It was playing smooth for me up until I installed the newest intel app accel beta last night...

You already have the no-cd patch that really doesn't use the CD, right?

May 28, 2002, 10:04 PM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	GTA3 on PC... any good? my wee bro has Grand theft auto 3 on the PS2, he loves it and I think its pretty good, whats the PC version like ? much different? I saw it today in Game.....

May 29, 2002, 03:17 AM	#3
MikeDaMan DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 874 Rep Power: 0	Yes definently wait for a patch, I have the PC version but noticed the memory leaks and choppyness however, its not that bad for me. Other than that its a sweet game! __________________ DFI Lanpart UT 250GB motherboard. 1GB 2X512 Crucial Ballistix PC 3200. AMD Athlon 64 3400+. Retail ATI Radeon X850XT PE AGP

May 29, 2002, 05:37 AM	#4
EvilFoo DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 94 Rep Power: 0	Yeah it's a good game, I actually paid for it (woahh...). Even though it suffers from some graphical incompatibilities, it is still a very good game. I had to go through plenty of procedures to get my game running with adequate performance with full draw distance. If you don't want to spend money now, it's best you wait until a patch comes out which should provide more than enough fixes. __________________ The MSN8 Butterfly is a pedophile. "For a long time it gave me nightmares... witnessing an injustice like that... it's a constant reminder of just how unfair this world can be... I can still hear them taunting him... Silly Rabbit, Trix are for Kids... I mean, WHY COULDN'T THEY JUST GIVE HIM SOME CEREAL!?!" -C

May 29, 2002, 07:27 AM	#5
Spookstah Global Ops Server Admin Join Date: May 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 37 Rep Power: 0	Its a very fun to play game but you really need to tweak your gfx-card and the game settings to get it run a little smoother and its a real cpu hog. When running on my pc it uses 100% cpu power, specs below. __________________ \| Asus P4S8X-X \| Pentium IV 2.53Ghz \| 1Gig DDR 333 \| Club3D Radeon 8500 275/275 \| SB Live Player \| Promise Fasttrack 66 (Modded) \| Symbios SCSI \| Intel E100b NIC \| Maxtor 1 x 60 + 2 X 20 Gig + 4 X 13 Gig Raid \| Plextor 4x SCSI Burner + Plextor 40x SCSI CDrom \| Plextor 12x IDE Burner \| Aopen 12x DVD \| AGNeovo X-174 TFT \|

Jun 13, 2002, 06:25 AM	#16
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	THANK YOU!!!! For the link to get the radio onto my hard-drive, me HATES needing an f-ing CD in for a game I pirated fair & square! GREAT game! I just got it today and haven't had any problems with it on a PIII800@944 with a GF3. I'm running 98se w/512MB and I can play for at least an hour and a half without any problems & it looks & runs very nicely. (Not to mention oodles of fun, I was a big fan of the first game. ) Thank you again for the link, it's appreciated and it helped me a lot! __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

May 29, 2002, 12:53 AM	#2
brc64 Zeeky H. Bomb Join Date: May 2002 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 826 Rep Power: 0	Over at the PC Gaming forum in Rage3D there's like 5 different complaint threads regarding GTA3 on the PC. I'd hold off for a little while and maybe wait for a patch to be released before picking it up. - Me

May 29, 2002, 07:34 PM	#6
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	Some people have been having a great deal of problems with the game. But for some reason it runs great for me. If I were you I would wait for a patch though, as brc64 said there are just way too many people having probs

May 29, 2002, 07:58 PM	Thread Starter #7
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	ok well ill give this one a miss then,thanks guys

May 30, 2002, 12:13 AM	#8
Vaporizer WTF Join Date: May 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 174 Rep Power: 0	hmm... when i actually do some into the game it works perfect but 80% of the times i cant even start it... it just skips right back to windows after the first movie (when you are about to get to the menus) any ideas? and does anyone know if there is a nocd crack for the audio cd... it just SO annoying to plop that CD in each time and on top of that my cd-rom (that actually is a CD-rw) sounds like HELL when it spins up due to the cooler in the cd-rw (which i hate).

May 30, 2002, 12:49 AM	#9
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	Check out this sweet page http://www.ipfreelytech.net/gta3fix/. It has helped alot of people out with GTA3.

May 30, 2002, 12:55 AM	#10
Vaporizer WTF Join Date: May 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 174 Rep Power: 0	shall do, thx

Jun 6, 2002, 07:13 PM	#11
Andy The Animal DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 10 Rep Power: 0	Ok...in my opinion this game SUX it has very poor atmosphere, poor gameplay, poor control (no true joystick)...basically CRAP and i paid for it...grrrr I got it to run ok on XP, but just stopped playing it...it is pants of the first order

Jun 8, 2002, 12:40 PM	#13
Impulse l33t Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 248 Rep Power: 0	[SIZE=small]I rather play it on my PS2 [/SIZE]

Jun 9, 2002, 03:59 AM	#14
douver Guest Posts: n/a	if they had've waited a couple of months and released a game with decent graphics performance and a network option it could've been one of the best games ever is the sad thing.....

Jun 15, 2002, 05:26 AM	#17
MiguelSantana DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Location: Cohoes ,NY Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	my son plays this game on a celeron 500 , 256 meg sdram , tnt2 32 meg agp ,win98se . runs slow of course but has played it to level 17 -27 without stopping . did anyone read the min specs for running this game on pc ? why wine about it i think it's a good game runs fine on my system 1gig duron<-temp waiting for xp1900+ , 384 meg ddr pc2100 , gf3 , win98se all games run smooth on here __________________ AMD XP1900@1600Mhz Ecs-k7s6a 384 meg PC2100 Geforce 3 200/460 WinXP Pro/Plus

Jun 16, 2002, 09:34 AM	#18
shuki DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: in the hidden place Posts: 1,975 Rep Power: 0	I hope to give this game a go a little later today. I'll post back my findings.

Jun 16, 2002, 04:29 PM	#19
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	DO IT!!! GREAT GAME! Got into a long session last night for the first time and I'm totally hooked. This is the FUNNEST game I've played since the first Serious Sam came out. __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

Jun 16, 2002, 04:55 PM	#20
NewsFactory News Guru Join Date: May 2002 Location: UK Posts: 1,400 Rep Power: 0	3D Analyzer and GTA3 GTA Scraper mentions of a tool called 3D Analyzer that enables you to force software TNL in GTA3. It actually results to a significant increase in the frame rate (it did for me, I can enjoy the game now). The 3D Analyzer Tool was created and refined to overcome limitations posed by modern 3D Games and other Applications on several current mainstream 3D Cards. Basic functionality will equip non-T&L cards with a software substitute. Advanced functionality will enable User selectable 3D Features not available in many older Cards. Yet, this is presently achieved not by Emulation but by NUL-Rendering. This means, advanced 3D Features the Card is not capable of, are reported as available in Hardware, but have their calls intercepted and the respective 3D Features will not be rendered. These functions are based upon the premise and ideas, that : - 3D Games can be launched, that otherwise would fail due to lack of Hardware support. - No 3D Game should solely rely on a few, isolated rendering features, and therefor loss of image quality by NUL-Rendering 'should' be minimal and acceptable in most cases. Even, if you are not interested in GTA3, I would recomment to experiment with it in your games or other 3D applications (i.e. 3D Mark2001SE). http://gta.sky-scraper.net/article.php?AID=292 http://www.tommti-systems.de/main-Dateien/files.html

Jun 16, 2002, 05:07 PM	#21
Ikarus DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 15 Rep Power: 0	I have gta3 and i have a lot of problems with it. Graphic bugs under bridges are normal and it runs very often slow!!! The grafik with my Radeon 7500 is bad.... __________________ Sorry for my bad english!!!

Jun 16, 2002, 05:09 PM	#22
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	Tanks! I'm downloading it now. It was playing smooth for me up until I installed the newest intel app accel beta last night... You already have the no-cd patch that really doesn't use the CD, right? __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?