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Image straight from Rockstar’s website for Grand Theft Auto.

http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/#?page=pc

Now all of the “can you play it”  gamer benchmark sites, can use their cookie gathering techniques of “benchmarking”   and do an update already.

Uses way less machine than first stated.

So in short yes we will probably all be able to play this game.

But if you are not certain and ready to buy it. test your machine out.

Futuremark made this one  ONLINE BENCHMARK

This one really tries well, but needs an update here’s the link

You can however check a messload of other games.. no telling if it’s correctly testing though.

Grand Theft Auto iv here we come.

Well at least the freaks and stalkers did her some justice.
By not stalking her to get more information than what she
wants to release. Like some vigilant Internet Paparazzi.

Sarah Lane Chickapidia
They left out some important facts about her that could
be listed or displayed to further help her career though.
Like the line that says “dudes She’s worked with”
Really needs to list
Kevin Pereira (lol I forgot his name had to google him) From “Attack of the show”.
Adam Sessler From “Extended Play” now known as “Xplay”.
Leo Laporte The backbone to the real “The Screen Savers”.
Alex Albrecht Short term nail in the coffin for “The Screen Savers”

Her whole intermingling with chatrooms while The shows she was on
was probably the biggest reason that all chatrooms show related
that ran during live airing and recording would pack with so many people
who just want to talk to a member of the show. She was the niche
that put it all together. Along with many other reason’s their shows
took off, she was of the largest addiction. (not to give her to big of a head)

The line that says her body of work. needs to say “The Screen Savers” because “screen savers” sounds like she worked for a spam site.

To counter the “Twit” Acronym, It would be amazing if She and amber mac
and Colleen (if you do not know, then you are to far out) put together
a show called “Wit” women in Tech or “Lit” Ladies in tech.
I guess “Chit” wouldn’t be cool.

You can benchmark with a fast easy tool from pcpitstop

Here is my pcpitstop benchmark score

Minimum System Requirements
Windows Vista - Service Pack 1 / XP - Service Pack 3
1.8GHz Intel Core2Duo or 2.4GHz AMD Athlon X2 64
1.5 GB of RAM
16 GB free hard drive space
256MB NVIDIA 7900 / 256MB ATI X1900

Recommended System Requirements
Windows Vista - Service Pack 1 / XP - Service Pack 3
2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Quad or 2.1GHz AMD Phenom X3
2 GB of RAM (Windows XP) or 2.5 GB of RAM (Windows Vista)
18 GB Free Hard Drive Space
512MB NVIDIA 8600 / 512MB ATI 3870

looks like I am above low end, almost at high end, except I am on a dual core duo. not a dual core quad.

Although my processor is a higher rating than the quad core, it is still a dual duo.

See I use pc pistop because it is easy small and fast. not a huge detailed benchmarker for my computer I know, but it also isn’t very taxing on my machine. Some benchmark programs can be to much for your pc and break it by over stressing your components. Pcpistop is a light weight low stress test . it’s over in like 2 minutes. I make the score, I look at it, I tweak my machine I benchmark again and see if I got any faster. It’s great, free and easy…

So if you want to see if you are capable of playing the game, bench your machine and post your link to your score.

The game’s new official release date is December 2 2008.

System specs are officially  :

Minimum System Requirements

• OS: Windows Vista (Service Pack 1) / XP (Service Pack 3)
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 Ghz / AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4 Ghz
• Memory: 1.5 GB RAM; 16 GB hard drive space
• Video card: 256 MB NVIDIA 7900 / 256MB ATI X1900

Recommended System Requirements

• OS: Windows Vista (Service Pack 1) / XP (Service Pack 3)
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 Ghz / AMD Phenom X3 2.1 Ghz
• Memory: 2 GB (XP) / 2.5 GB (Vista) RAM; 18 GB hard drive space
• Video card: 512 MB NVIDIA 8600 / 512 MB ATI 3870

There is a virus sweeping through Grand Theft Auto IV turning many unsuspecting players into Zombies. If you’ve seen the special Zombie-with-yellow-briefs player skin running around during Grand Theft Auto IV multiplayer, then you may already know that the virus can be contracted in any and all multiplayer modes and is spread when an unsuspecting player kills someone who has the infection (note that the infected don’t necessarily have to be wearing the Zombie skin, some show no symptoms!). The signs of infection are: access to the zombie skin and having the Achievement “Let Sleeping Rockstars Lie”. With the all-new Viral Infection feature at the Rockstar Social Club, members can now see whether they are currently infected, the number of total global infections and the number of infections in the last 24 hours. Digging deeper, Social Club members can also browse a color-coded world map tracking the spread of the infection worldwide, including breakdown for all 50 US States. Click here for the Viral Infection feature.

Registered members of the Social Club with a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV linked to their account can click here here to check it out.
The rest of you: register here now.

Rockstar Uk invited a few people from variouse websites to come demo the game. GTa4.net thinks it will be weeks before we see anything. I have seriouse doubts. If I undrstand Rockstar, they will release Video footage and screen shots probably the day of the “Meeting” . I am pretty sure that the very second These people enter the building, flicker accounts will be seeing images, and twitter and jaiku will get bombarded with text snippets.

Then again, not everyone plans to be usefull for everyone else around them.

Here is what I got, pay close attention there are two links in taht post.

http://www.gta4.net/news/4131/pc-previews-due-soon/

Jobacle - Helps relaxe you in your job, but helps you keep a level on head on self respect, no more working on your knees for little pay. you don’t have to take it. Jobacle can help.. oh yeah and the occassional favorite song from indies, excelent. MAKE WORK BETTER

Slashdot review - This week was a bit messed up though. The feed died out and showed the same stuff as last week.  On the spot steady fire of tech news. Usually informative enough to be plenty for you, but you can always google it and read about it when you get home. by then it will be out in the main wild. you will hear stuff here a day ahead, sometimes a month.

The linux action show - These dudes are fun to listen to. I have some of the people in the office saying  “ON THE LINUX ACTIiioON   SHOWWWWWW” just like the dudes on the podcast, as they walk past me. Funny stuff.

The tech guy - Excelent show, nothing could make it better than just leo sittingthere breaking news to the main stream tech community and helping by answering their questions or giving them a usefull link to somewhere usefull.

See every day I listen to these guys, some times I mix it up and listen to a whole other batch of rss feeds. but these guys I have at the top of my list of feeds. I have to hear them as soon as they come out. It beat sitting around listening to the same  15 songs all week on public radio. I hate when I listen to a fricken song  that I do not like, and find myself singing along like 2 months later. Feel like I’m being brained.

So I come to talk internet media  AKA “NEW Media”. This stuf is really good talent and great media..

If you have a work computer with speakers, you might want to look into rss feed media. wild how you get graduated into a higher level of apreciation.

Grand Theft auto, the very first grand theft auto was up for trial or demo for months before and years after it’s official release date. GTA2 did the same thing. People soon figured out how to crack the demo so you could get the full game. Why did they put the whole game in the demo? end result, the game actually played smoother and faster and better, from teh cracked version over the full install.

Gtaiii did not, nor did any pc version after.

I am quite sure the searches for torrents are probably taking down the pirate bay. But rest assured , it will be better if you buy this game from Steam . That is of course if you really must download the game. In situations like you are waaaaay to far from any store that will sell it. I myself want the full package, I want the map, the case, the disc the whole nine yards.

I will fully install the game from the disc I purchase. I will also purchase the game on steam, I will play both.

I will surely have to crack the game to get it to work on linux. I will help others in making gtaiv work on their linux box.

There is a large community of us, about 2000 user from gtaforums.com who will do anything and everything to stop torrents from distributing compies of GTAIV. We will make every effort to report the people who seed illegal copies of the game, and in doing that, the people who download while the seeders get busted, will get caught also. So it is strongly advised that you wait your time like the diehard gta fans are doing. If you have to have it sooner than others, or any other reason you must download it, go to steam.

Good luck have fun, happy gaming

The first movie of grand theft auto was done  with Ron Howard as the star actor. It was done in 1977 writen and acted  and directed by Ron Howard. Here is the Imdb link to the movie.

With that said let’s get to what you are looking for. Someone at a website titled ” Cinematical” Wrote a story that leads to a hopefull movie starring Eminem, the singer (?) Rapper (?) > I myself am not sure how that would work out. He isn’t much of an actor. I guesse he could play the role of the guy from GTAIII. No talking no speech. I could better see Christian slater playing the role of Tommy Vercetti. I could see YOUNG MAYLAY (the guy that did the CJ voice in San Andreas) Playing carl Johnson in The part three of The movie GTA . Yes I would assume it would have to be called  GTA Because of copy rights and stuff with Ron Howard’s movie. I totally respect that. Heck I could see Ron Howard Playing Donald Love. Lazlow would surely have to play Lazlow.

See I ran across those links trying to find a place on the internet with best story behind the whole GTA games to tie it all together. I would love to print it out and set it on the back of my father’s toilet. He would have no choice but to read it, and then he could join in the conversations between my son and I around him.

Of course I came up with no find so I started searching to see if anyone has taken the time to put all the cutscenes together and some how put the whole story together, even if it means a brief description of the ingame between. again no find. So here I am giving you guys a couple links I found with the same hope I have to see a movie or a book come up.

Additional Entertainment Videos

From CharmingCharlie at GTAFORUMS.COM

I got some more stuff, in his words

Gamespot did a “video history” of GTA shortly after GTA SA came out so it is “almost” complete and is just missing GTA 4, you can find that here :-

http://uk.gamespot.com/ps2/action/gta4/video/6112034/history-of-grand-theft-auto

Then there is the IGN article that did a pretty comprehensive write up of the history of GTA and the some of the back story to people like David Jones, Sam and Dan Houser, here is the link :-

http://uk.retro.ign.com/articles/863/863037p1.html

Returning to videos, this is a f*cking cool video history here :-

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/76710.html

I love the music in it and I also love the starting credit “In October of 1997, Grand Theft Auto was born, first on the PC ….” I love that bit.

Specs to be:

- Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2 (from 5000 +)
- Grafikkarte mit mindestens 512 MB Speicher. - Graphics card with at least 512 MB of memory. Mit allen Details der höchsten Qualität ab der 8800 GT bzw. HD 3870 spielbar. With all the details of the highest quality from the 8800 GT and HD 3870 playable.
- 1 GB RAM bzw. 2 GB unter Vista - 1 GB of RAM and 2 GB under Vista

Looks like the game is gonna weigh quite a bit on the pc.

The updates seem heavier now.

Here is a German site translation