GTA V

[Cyrrex]

I have been salivating over this PC release for some time, but I have to admit now that release date is close that I am a bit worried about how well this thing is actually going to run (and even more now that I see how great it actually looks).  I am over the recommended specs, but that was true with GTA 4 as well, and that didn't prevent it from being a disaster. 

[apocrypha]

I have been salivating over this PC release for some time, but I have to admit now that release date is close that I am a bit worried about how well this thing is actually going to run (and even more now that I see how great it actually looks).  I am over the recommended specs, but that was true with GTA 4 as well, and that didn't prevent it from being a disaster. 

Wait a few months for patches, mods & price cuts. It's the PC way 

[Sky]

The only problem with GTA 4 was the graphics sliders were able to be set beuond what current hardware could handle. If you looked online, you could find a guide to setting it to the then-current gen (360?) console level graphics use that as a baseline to tweak things upward, as it still looked significantly better on a middling PC at the time while playing smooth. I know because I played the shit out of it when it came out.

But yeah, if you didn't look into that and just cranked all the options up, it was a hog (at the time, runs great now, heh). But you have a PC master gaming race card for a reason. Do thy due diligence (and I probably talked about or linked it on f13 at some point).

Half the reason I bought a 970 was to play this game :p

[Sky]

I believe pre-loading starts today.

[Sky]

59GB. 

[Teleku]

Just remember back to when a game being 10 MBs took up a huge amount of your HD space, and take a deep breath.   

[Maven]

Dat assets. 

[Rendakor]

The HD space isn't as big of a deal as how long 59GB will take to download.

[Sky]

Just over 8 hours for my cheap time warner connection.

[Falconeer]

59GB. 

Nothing compared to Star Citizen's 100 GB.

[WayAbvPar]

59GB. 

Nothing compared to Star Citizen's 100 GB.

Nothing besides an actual completed game to play.

[Sky]

Details.

[MisterNoisy]

God help me, I'm going to triple dip this game.

[Sky]

Yay! I hope they integrate Steam friends.

I'm all messed up today because I had to come in Sunday and work a full shift to prep for yet another new installation, so all day I thought it was Monday and that tonight I'd be playing GTA when I get home. Dammit.

On the upside, the old lady is healed enough to be back at work on light duty this week and tomorrow is her late day, so it's all GTA all evening. Yeeeah!

[WayAbvPar]

I'm afraid this is going to melt my GPU to slag. Just got my tax return so I can float the $60 without a problem, but adding another $300 onto that for a proper video card might be stretching it.

[Sky]

I'm afraid this is going to melt my GPU to slag. Just got my tax return so I can float the $60 without a problem, but adding another $300 onto that for a proper video card might be stretching it.

Avatar is relevant.

[Cyrrex]

God help me, I bought it.  Like have time for this.  I wisely started my download yesterday.  I then unwisely put my PC into sleep mode last night when I went to bed.  I mean, it was at like 55 gigs or something so, no biggie.  Only, it is a biggie, because it has now over the last 10 hours only managed 2 more gigs and is stuck at downloading at a rate that would not have been okay 10 years ago.  I seriously wonder if it will even be ready for me to play in 24 hours.

[Sky]

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/31vco4/gta_v_on_pc_will_take_place_on_7_dvd_discs/



Also, nvidia driver release today with some optimizations for the game.

[jakonovski]

7 cds, pfft. 30 floppies is more like it.

[Maven]

I played GTA Online for a couple hours. I don't plan to pick it up again. Grind set in early and my low level made me a liability in Heists. Heists WERE the most interesting part.

[Sky]

7 cds, pfft. 30 floppies is more like it.

DVDs.

So north of 22,000 floppies.

[Rendakor]

I bought it too; I kinda want to play it, but I really want something new and shiny to test out my new and shiny PC.

[Tannhauser]

Yeah, same here.  Want to check it out on my new PC.  Nice of the card makers to put out a new optimization today for it.

I think I'll focus on stealing high end cars like my idol Memphis Rains from the epic movie "Gone in 60 Seconds". 

[Khaldun]

Huh, won't install for me, and my user name has nothing but characters on the "approved list".

EDIT: Whoops, there it goes, on the fifth try. Kind of weird.

[Tannhauser]

I've tried about twenty times and the launcher crashes every time.  

Not a good start Rockstar.

Edit:  Apparently I do have the bug.  Still won't run.

[Rendakor]

Mine is still downloading; I miss FIOS.

[Sky]

That was a pleasant surprise, thought it was going to unlock tomorrow. Took almost an hour and a half to decrypt/unlock/whatev, but damn does it look nice. Nice to be playing CJ I mean Franklin...

[MisterNoisy]

Finished the rest of the install and played just enough story to get to where I could transfer my online character from the console version.  I think it may be time to swap out my 670 for something beefier finally - it plays smoothly enough, but I can't max everything out.  

Unfortunately, I think it uses R*'s own Social Club hooks for adding friends/multiplayer.  Add MisterNoisy if ya wanna screw around online or do some heists.

[luckton]

[Sky]

I more or less maxed it out and it put my memory usage bar one notch into yellow (locked at 60fps/1080p). It had me pretty close to max by default, I added the advanced options and MXAA/yada. I spent an embarassing amount of time looking at Franklin's car.

Seems cops might be harder to avoid, but some of that might be me getting used to the new system + learning a new map. Also, I was in a tow truck at the time...

Biggest disappointment initially is the lack of Steam integration. Devs need to accept that Steam is our PC gaming social network and get over themselves.

The 1st person camera in car (or in my case tow truck) reminded me a lot of playing Euro Truck, with the same issue that I found it awkward to use the right thumbsitck to look around/check mirrors/etc. I was actually tempted to play with the kb/m, but I like my GTA 3rd person with lock-on targeting. Maybe for my second run...

Oh, and really digging the callback in the random event missions to give two robbers a ride and they're the Irish gang from GTA 4.

[MisterNoisy]

Pretty much that, yea.  Even on my 2-3+ year old hardware, it shames the current gen console versions.

[Sky]

http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/member/thecashwiley

[Khaldun]

As someone who grew up in So. California, first person on my current-gen PC definitely feels like I just climbed up the other side of the uncanny valley and arrived at near-reality.

[cironian]

http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/member/cironian

[Montague]

Just ordered this off Amazon because yay bandwidth caps. Waiting for the UPS guy to deliver a PC game is going to make it feel like 1993 all over again.