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Will You Computer Play GTA IV

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

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

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

gtaiv pc stats

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.

Will Your Computer Play GTAIV ?

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

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.

GTA IV PC delayed, with specs

Friday, October 31st, 2008

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

Gtaiv Propaganda new mailing list update

Friday, October 24th, 2008



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.






Special Downloadable Formats: High Definition Windows Media (WMP10+)
Regular Windows Media (WMP10+)
Quicktime iPod PSP

New GTAIV On Pc Media coming real soon

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

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/

Scary Truth About Myspace Mobsters

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

I really love the game, it’s great time killer. Sad part is, there is a dark side to it. The underlying reality.

The only way to get people added to your mobster list, is to invite them to be your friend on myspace. Why is this bad? Well, My generation has done everything we could to protect our kids when they chat on myspace. The scary part is, everyone is trying to get as big of a mob as they can. The kids are inviting anybody and everybody to join their mob. Again their naivety is taking front stage. The qualified sense of security because of the simple thought ” well they just want more mobsters, they can’t be stalkers” convinces them to just invite like crazy.

See you go to someone’s profile on myspace mobsters and type in their message box your link to your myspace profile and say “add me”. Well they add you and now your mob is bigger by one person. I myself have spammed for an entire three hours. The thing is I have been been a little more different about it. I say “.com/truxter add me if you are an adult” . Typically they respond with a laugh ” I’m 50 does that quallify?”. Which is cool to me. I always check their profiles for age and appearance of being the age they claim. There have been about 5 or so that looked like they changed their age just to get more mobsters. One changed their age and fooled me. Then they changed their age back the very next day to be a minor. I quickly deleted them and started writing this.

Myspace needs to change the format in wich people can have friends in Myspace AND Mobsters. This could get some children pretty well hurt and it needs to be addressed.

Now the rest of the truth. The game is very boring and everything is set on a time base. Ex: it takes like 3 minutes to get stamina 3 minutes to get energy and so on. With a refresh button. This of course keeps you being fed an ample supply of advertisements. Paying myspace and the game creators. Really if you are going to think so hard on how to make money on an addictive mindlessness, you have to think of the safety of the users.

Myspace Mobster Tricks

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Level up fast.

One simple trick, is refresh the hitlist and attack as fast as you can. Get a few bounties under your belt. you will get a few losses though, because there are allot of people on there above your rank.

Have a friend hitlist you, and tell you exactly when. Before that friend lists you, have your “hospital” open and yourself healed. as soon as your buddy says you are listed, hit the heal button repeatedly. Some times it’s buggy so you have to hit refresh repeatedly and heal repeatedly. If it isn’t being buggy, you just sit there and heal yourself until you are out of money. You will lose a few fights, but you will knock out about 50 fights a minute. Much faster than picking them from the fight list. You might even level up two or three levels this way. hold out till you die. Don’t give up. you will see that you might have killed a couple people along the way.

To gain money.

Go to the fight list and fight people lower than you in friends count, attack. If they drop money hit em again.. That is if it’s enough money. If they drop no money, move on. You are not trying to level up. Leveling up is bad. (kinda). When you run out of stamina, save that persons numeric code, and make them the first person you attack when you get more stamina until they are in the hospital. This will upset a few people and they will hitlist you. Good refer back to the “have a friend” . really though it’s much harder this way. They don’t tell you when . It’s usually when you are watching tv or eating or on the pooh. So when you are done, make sure your health is either all the way down in the single digits, or full. if you are in the hospital long enough, most people just move on.

What to do when your buddies post the numeric code.

Highlight and copy that code. Drag your mouse over the number in the “parenthesis” left click and drag from one end to the other till it is highlighted. hold control button and press the letter C. Now click on the link of your buddie’s name when the new page opens, look at the web address, at the end is a numeric code. Highlight that code and press control V that will paste in the code over your buddy’s. Press enter. The new page should open. If it gives you a bad page go to the beginning of that numeric code you just pasted in, if there is a 22 at the beginning , delete the first two digits, but only if they are the numbers 22. If there is no number 22, put one there and press enter. That should fix it. dunno why some people have a 22 and others do not. who cares.

Distribute your power well.

What that title means is:

You have to focus on your head count. If you have  10 people in your mob (yeah low number but easier to play with when I am describing stuff) you have to think of what weapon defends your mob the best and buy ten of it. Next think of what weapon is best to attack with. Buy ten of that one. So now you have 20 weapons for 10 men. Sounds like over kill but really, It’s for the highest defense highest assault. When you are attacked, you will, by default defend with the highest ranking defense material you have. When you attack, the game by default will attack with the weapon of the highest attack stats. I know, you would assume  5/5  by default. WRONG That is why I keep beating you.

Become bait.

Sell all of your weapons ( preferably when your health is way to low to be attacked) and just buy only one type of weapon. Try and get a weapon that has a good defense and good attack. Buy one for each of your mobsters. This will increase your strength. This will increase your defense. You will only show one picture of a weapon in your list, so these freaks will think you have squat for weapons. There now you level up easy while at work minding your own business.

The fill in.

Once you have all of your mobsters accounted for weapon wise, you have to  distribute your power well with all the fill ins. 10 of the car with highest attack, ten of the car with the highest defense. and so on with all other fill ins.

Good luck have fun.

.com/truxter

GTAiv PC vs Console Comparison

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

http://gtaclans.com/index.php?topic=27.0

You have to login to participate  though.

Somethings look great on the PC version, but allot of things look left out for the pc

The explosions do not look as detailed on the pc as it does on the console.

A lot looks better on the console, and again allot looks better on pc. the whole draw distance, I don’t see it.

The guys at gtaforums.com have yet to cover this , Maybe it’s because they turned linking off and it just looks god awefull when you post a link and it does not get refferenced. Don’t get me wrong with gtaforums I love the site, but they might be poopooing on something usefull in the search for gtaiv on pc content.

Grand Theft Auto On pc Videos.

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Over the years I have created a few videos of myself playing variations of gta on my pc.

Today while in the gtaforums threads I was reading about how each person wants to creat videos to play on the net.

So I put together a  scrambled callage of my Grand Theft auto Videos

http://truxtertech.com/news/gta.html

Something to hold me down till the release of official news about GTAIV.

EA Buys Euphoria engine? Rumor?

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

There is talk all over the net right now that EA games bought GTAIV game engine Euphoria.

Just Google it

What does this mean for the future of GTA ?

What does this mean for the future of Ea’s video games?

Are we about to see some really good EA games coming up? Does this mean the next True Crimes is actually going to be good?  Does this mean that Rockstar has a whole new better engine in mind?

Or is this a rumor?

Seems it broke on the 15th August 2008. So far all I see is people asking if it is true. As I amd doing.

Is It true?