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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Grand Theft Auto IV PC Patch number 3 Released - Link here

The third patch for the PC release of Grand Theft Auto 4 is now available from FileShack.

Update 1.0.3 brings improved graphics and physics performance, greater user control over graphic settings, and the elimination of remapping restrictions for keyboard and mouse.

Full change notes follow

Version 1.0.3.0 - March 19, 2009

GRAPHICS:

Interior Lights for ATI 1900 series cards:
All light sources appear for users with 1900 series ATI cards. (ie. Pool Mini Game)
ALT-TAB fixed
Graphics Settings:
Added menu option " OFF " for Reflection quality
Added menu option " OFF " for Shadow quality
PERFORMANCE:
Physics optimizations to improve situations with heavy physics calculations (ie. 32 player races)
Graphical Performance Optimizations

MULTIPLAYER:

NAT Type detection
Detect if user has a " strict " NAT and displays message for user
Voice chat is received even if your microphone is turned off

CONTROLS:

Keyboard / Mouse
Remapping restrictions removed
Allow Enter, Backspace, and Arrow keys to be remapped by user
Allow multiple mouse buttons to be mapped
Enable/Disable DirectInput in Menu
Users can now activate/deactivate Direct Input devices from "Controls" menu.
If commandline "-usedirectinput" is active, it will override pause menu setting.
Use 2 direct input devices simultaneously (ie. Wheel and Gamepad)
Users can now use 2 different controllers at once, including 1 XInput and 1 Direct Input device.
Added more Direct Input / XInput device support
Saitek P380/P480/P580/P990
Saitek PS1000/PS2700/P3200/P3600
Gravis Eliminator Shock gamepad

SECURITY:

Detect modified files and prevent users from entering multiplayer if found
Game will prompt with a message after blocking user with modified data files from entering multiplayer
Should prevent multiplayer access from cell phone and GFWL join in progress

VIDEO EDITOR:

Scroll Bar improved response
Tweaked to respond better to keyboard inputs
Sped up load times for users with many clips

TITLE UPDATE 2 FIXES:

Return of Hot Dog Stands and other props
Missing hot dog vendors, fences, gates, pylons should be present throughout the world.
Scrolling signboards
Activate missing scrolling signboard text (ie. highway signs, Star Junction, Clock Tower Sign)
ALT-TAB pauses game during cutscenes
Cutscenes should now pause and resume correctly after an ALT-TAB task switch. Audio remains in sync.

GENERAL ADDITIONS / FIXES:

Mismatched MODO/Perseus Clothing
Fixed a bug when Niko mixes clothing from Perseus and Modo
360 Controller Texture
Controller image should be visible in Controller Configuration screen

Source: ShackNews

Friday, February 20, 2009

Scottish comedian, Frankie Boyle, performs stand-up in GTA IV The Lost And The Damned DLC...

Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle can be found hidden in the DLC for The Lost And The Damned.

Boyle can be found performing a stand-up routine at the Split Sides comedy club. Rockstar even motion captured him for authenticity - you can check the credits at the end of The Lost And The Damned if you don't believe us.

"It's highlights from his live act plus at least one GTA IV in-joke," says GTA IV madman and OXM editor Jon Hicks (in that order). "See him at the Split Sides comedy club on Frankfort Ave, one block over and down a bit from Star Junction."

So there you have it. Frankie Boyle in GTAIV! A pretty awesome idea, truth be told. Let's hope this doesn't mean we'll also get Jim Davidson in Resident Evil 5...

Have Rockstar censored Grand Theft Auto IV - The Lost and Damned?

Rockstar has offered Eurogamer no comment on the apparent censoring of Grand Theft Auto IV after the release of The Lost and Damned.

European gamers noticed, after an update was applied, that pools of blood no longer formed under bullet-riddled corpses and red mist no longer sprayed as bullets found their mark. YouTube has a before-and-after video comparison to illustrate all this.

Also, the update appears to have limited the camera angles used when you frolic with prostitutes.

Meanwhile, over in previously censored Australia, the exact opposite has been happening: blood now flows freely and prostitution can be seen clearly.

We suspect there's been some sort of mix up, but neither Rockstar nor Microsoft has held their hands up.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Grand Theft Auto IV download Lost and Damned costs $20 out February 17th

Rockstar has made it official that the biker-themed Grand Theft Auto IV Download content, titled Lost and Damned, will be going for 1600 Microsoft Points ($20 USD). The DLC will be exclusively available only for the Xbox 360 version of the game.

The Download content is released on February 17th.

This time around you won't be in the shoes of Russian immigrant Niko Bellic, instead, you'll be the shoes of American born biker Johhny Klebitz. The Lost is the name of the

Johnny Klebitz, a member of Liberty City biker gang The Lost. The bike gang made a few appearances in Grand Theft Auto IV, and Niko Bellic is rumored to be making a cameo in the DLC.

The DLC has had high production values, as DLC goes, and Rockstar probably hopes that it'll move more than million units, seeing how GTA IV was one of the best selling games of the year.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Grand Theft Auto IV patch needs patched...

After the release of the long awaited patch for Grand Theft Auto IV was released to fix a number of bugs, Rockstar have admitted that the patch has caused other problems.

The patch has caused problems with controllers (mouse, keyboard and Xbox windows controllers).

Rockstar have posted this on their forum here...

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Grand Theft Auto IV poster to download free

Download your free Grand Theft Auto IV poster here...

Saturday, December 06, 2008

Grand Theft Auto IV on PC more problems reported...

Despite getting a supposedly better GTA IV (complete with video editor, bigger multi-player and improved visuals), PC gamers are complaining about graphical issues, crashes and freezes while trying to connect to the Internet.

Rockstar have already suggested a few possible solutions and these have been added to by various sites.

These include:

Defragging your hard drive after installing the game
Signout of Rockstar Social Club online
Instal the latest service pack for Vista or XP
Instal .net Framework 3.5 (and making sure you’ve got 1.1 already on there)
Use Beta drivers for nVIDIA 7900 cards.

ATI card owners aren’t getting any better results!

On GTAForums’ poll on the issue, currently, of 198 people who own Grand Theft Auto IV on PC, 14 per cent can run the game smoothly, for 32 per cent the game runs, but “horribly” and 12 per cent can’t get the game to run at all.

Thursday, December 04, 2008

Rockstar to patch GTA IV after PC problems

Players are reporting that Grand Theft Auto IV on PC has some major reliability problems - but Rockstar is on the way to the rescue.

"We are aware that a small number of fans are having problems running GTA IV on their PCs and we would like to assure them we are working to help solve these as quickly as possible,"

a Rockstar spokesperson told GTAGaming.

"We would ask anyone that is encountering difficulties to contact their local technical support helpline for advice and recommendations. These telephone numbers can be found in the game's manual. "There is also a regularly updated technical support page available on the Rockstar Games website where there are many useful FAQs, and information on how to resolve some common problems being encountered,"

added the statement.

The problems appear to revolve around lengthy validation and astronomic graphics settings that not even the best PCs can utilise. One Steam forum member summed the problems up eloquently.As Kotaku points out, the Steam forums are not the only ones awash with floundering fans: GTAForums and the GTAGaming boards both exhibit large mobs of disgruntled purchasers.

This is a shame, because Grand Theft Auto IV remains a classic game, although the PC conversion - as Kieron Gillen highlights in his review - has a few too many technical hiccups.

Source: EuroGamer

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Grand Theft Auto IV on PC includes SecuROM 7 install

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The upcoming PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV will install SecuROM 7 on customers' systems, although the game maker claims its properly de-fanged the detested DRM technology.

Rockstar told the gaming site IGN that GTA IV's flavor of SecuROM won't limit the number of installs of the game, nor will it restrict the number of machines it can be put on.

Those were arguably the most reviled SecuROM checks previously used on games such as EA's Spore, which have put many gamers up at arms. EA later backed down on the number total Spore installs, but kept the PC limit capped at five.

A Rockstar spokesperson told IGN:

GTA IV PC uses SecuROM for protecting our EXE until street date has passed, to ensure the retail disk is in the computer drive, and is used for Product Activation of the title. Product Activation is a one time only online authentication when installing the game.

The anti-DRM crowd will still have the rest of SecuROM's questionable repertoire to wag a finger at. It had been known to cause hardware problems for some, and even after a game has been removed from your system, uninstalling SecuROM is no easy task.

The latter point explains why the Rockstar rep added that even if a customer uninstalls and re-install GTA IV, it won't require re-authentication. (Unless a customer changes to "major" components on the PC, such as CPU and video card). "Active functions" of SecuROM are removed on the game's installation but "some traces will remain," according to Rockstar. The company said it's presently "working" with SecuROM just to post information on its support pages on how to remove the DRM completely.

Although an internet connection will be required for activation, the game maker said it will provide for rustic customers to activate the game using someone else's machine with web access.

To ward off those looking for the inevitable pirated version of GTA IV with SecuROM removed, the Rockstar spinster went with the angle that property theft isn't as easy, profitable, and amusing as each and every game in the GTA series would suggest:

Aside from the fact that warez are a great place to pick up a Trojan or key logger, using a cracked copy of GTA IV PC will result in varying changes to the game experience. These can range from comical to game-progress-halting changes.

It sounds a bit like the company is leaking bugged versions of the game on file-sharing sites. That may even keep freetards from getting their paws on a stolen digital copy for one — maybe two days tops by our estimate.

Source: The Register and IGN

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Grand Theft Auto IV The Lost and Damned download content available in store

US retailer Gamestop will make the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV - The Lost and Damned - Download Content (DLC) available in store, according to its website.

Grand Theft Auto - The Lost And Damned, will be bundled with a GTA IV poster and comes in the form of a promotional code rather than a disc.

The move is thought to be an attempt to encourage more consumers to purchase the download as well as subscribe to Xbox Live.

The Xbox 360 exclusive content will be available on February 17, 2009 at a cost of $19.99 that's £13.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Grand Theft Auto IV PC video editor - what can you do?

So we know there's going to be a video editor for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV (PC), but what can you do with it, and how do you do it?

Rockstar has dropped details on the versatile little app that will allow just about anyone to easy create and share game clips with the Social Club TV website. To start, all you have to do is hit F2 and the previous 30-40 seconds of gamezplay are dumped into a clip.

Open up the video editor from your in-game cell phone, and from there you can view the clips, use the editor to string them together, adding music, special effects, titles, and transitions, and then head to the upload section to post them directly on the Rockstar Games Social Club TV site for everyone's viewing enjoyment.

More from Kotaku here ...

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe knocks GTA IV of top slot in Japan

According to data from Media Create, Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe sold 266,000 units in its first week of sale.

The full top ten for Japan, week ended November 9, follows:

01. Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe (DS)
02. Rhythm Tengoku Gold (DS)
03. Wagamama Fashion Girls Mode (DS)
04. Pokémon Platinum (DS)
05. Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3)
06. Valkyrie Profile: Toga o Seoumono (DS)
07. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP)
08. Personal Trainer: Walking (DS)
09. Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spec III (PS3)
10. LittleBigPlanet (PS3)

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