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Patch 5 For GTAIV Is Success

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Grand Theft Auto IV, has had a rocky run since the start. Many of us had a smooth install and smooth gameplay from the getgo. But many people had issue that almost seemed to be unresolved. The forums at gtaforums.com  practically flipped upside down. Many posts had been sent by flamers and trolls but there where lots of real legitimate posts. So for the moderators such as CC (CharmingCharlie) there was a heavy steady task. Regular users such as myself spent hours trying to contribute, by helping the legit and reporting the blatant flamers. That is all important because There where actual Rockstar game programers that would frequent gta forums to get ideas and imput. As we actually found out at the release of patch one.


The first patch was clearly a quick fix to suppress the unruly scream-alots. I totally understand and was happy with the fact that someone was there to hear and  tame the cries of the kids with bad installs. I don’t remember exactly what was shut off in the patches but I do remember  like the hotdog stands disappearing, and then when they came back, deeper detailed  controls for video settings had been enabled. Of course that was at a later patch. Third patch I believe.

The fourth patch well there really was not much to the fourth patch as far as we could see. In fact the guy from Rockstar Torronto informed us it was preparation for next few big moves. Some of us old schoolers suggested it was for Downloadable content for pc..We where slapped down by forum moderators that let us know there was nothing in the statement that suggested DLC, and they locked our posts. They don’t realize that half the game of GTA is speculating what is to come in next game and by reading to much into anything said by R*. That is the heaviest traffic to gtaforums. but what ever. We have since then proven this to be true with the release of the fifth patch we see tlad in the achievement area for pc gtaiv.

Cheats are now nearly impossible, the servers are now used like dedicated servers, meaning the game creator  can now ban anyone on his/her server at any givin  moment, we no longer have to wait for votes. I assume that someone will create a script that allows them to jump servers and bann people at random without being modderator or  creator. until then I am super happy with what is available.

many many fixes with patch five.

Incase you have not found the link to the fifth patch, here you go.

patch 5 for gtaiv

List of Fixes

GENERAL:

  • Convert all region SKU’s into the same SKU.
  • Include support for all languages within single exe.

CONTROLS:

  • Allow controls to be double mapped on keyboard.
  • Added option in controls menu to disable mouse controls in helicopters.
  • Adjust keyboard control sensitivity in hood cam view in vehicles.

MULTIPLAYER:

  • Security Updates to deter cheating in multiplayer.
  • Hosts can now immediately Kick users from their games in Lobby and in game via Cell phone without having to rely on peer voting.
  • Fixed a bug in Cops ‘n Crooks mode where Host would drop out and prevent remaining players from leaving game.

Sad to say, they have it labeled as patch 4, even though it is the fifth patch.

Modern Warfare 2 c.o.d. XBOX360

Posted onAuthorTruXter

Throwing knives 1 at a time. Can scavenge and get more, but not at the same time.. So throw kill, pick up the dead guy’s kniufe, throw kill pick up the dead guy’s knife if he still has one.

infinity ward / Activision produced and manufactured the game.

Olympic deaths- when you die you do flips and twists, kinda cool and funny.

Cash instead of blood- latest patch killed the bloody deaths while in multy player. Instead of blood everywhere you see money fly up.
No cheats no glitch, glitch report feature, and all the cheated Xbox’s have been banned.
Vaseline-eye gone. This refers to the blurry background and scenery area that xbox used for every game that first came out to reduce the amount of imaged teh machine has to render, making it easier to  draw deeper detail in the images it is focussed on. Was a cheap scam if you ask me.  when you die, you get blurry though.

Predator drone missile, lets you do a lock on location while an air strike is performed, you guide the missle.
Auto and barrette at same time, means sniper and machine gun  as secondary weapon, pretty fricken cool if you ask me.
Leader board shows total time. Shows wins.
leader board . Shows accuracy shots. 1v1 with buddy = pad scores. one guy on there had 700+ kills zero misses. He logged in and was 1v1 with his other xbox and shot up the zombie machine.. causing zero misses. Kind of  frooty if you ask me..

Fast pace. Game moved at a rate not seen other than on Soldier Front.

Game was cool, I give it a 8/10.

I no longer have access to the game  or the console. ..

Expect a clear review when it hits PC

Free Online Games That Don’t Suck

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I have to say , ” My hat is off to ijji.com”  These people took some game engines from I have no idea where and made new games. Or they made their own games from complete scrap. But what ever the deal is, they made them good, they made them free. They even have done extensive measures to reduce the cheaters.

IJJI.COM Has a huge set of games. I’m not fond of the racing one. It seems kinda like an old 80s arcade game, always eating and wanting more quarters. all of their games you can add money to your accounts and get more stuff, kinda like the games on myspace. It’s great to not pay for anything and be able to slaughter the people who spent tons on the extra equipment. On another note, to have the ability to slaughter them people without buying, but go ahead and buy anyway because you just have to see what it does, must be natural because I really want to try everything. I know, you might not have an idea what i am rambling about, no worries.. You will soon. Very soon.

My favorite IJJI game is

Soldier front Fast paced Capture the flag type games in a small area so the battles can go nuts and be loud almost seem chaotic at first. Once you settle into the game, it is so addictive you get 8 hours consumed and not ever notice.

Another game like soldier front is called

A.V.A. Extreme graphics on a free game

Man you can crank the graphics up really well on this one, be sure and check the “manual” check dot. If you do not have at least 2 g processor and an nvidia 9 card with  2 gigs mem, I would not suggest you  crank anything up. By all gaming means these days, those are low low low specifications.   from what I see, the better settings they have are at 720p. it may go higher but I didn’t push a whole  lot of my Rig.

AVA screenshot

AVA screenshot

The fire looks crappy, will remind you of grand theft auto III, with a crappy gif looking flame in the middle of it.

Now a good game that will remind you of doom and quake

Gunz just not enough people on it.  looks a bit like  anime . If you have a network of computers at your house and a bunch of friends over to play a game, this one is perfect for that. because it is a great game, but not enough players for anything fun to happen of it. Not to be played alone.

Ok for the nvidia

Warmonger These guys need to take a tip from ijji and clean and lean up the game a tad bit. a bit to taxing for a freebee.

Then there is Huxley.

This game is the game to make halo look like pacman, to make grand theft auto play like doom1.

The in game looks like cutscenes from starcraft II. if you know anything about stracraft cinema , you know there is major extreme detail in their characters and images. The  terrain looks amazing.The skin has pores, the hairs are all single images and dimensions, instead of one blob with  hair drawn in. IJJI has out done everything there is to play. and the fricken game is free.

Kills me that while I was in my game testing phase, the game was still in beta. and I  only have videos to go by. The smoke looks like smoke, the explosions are  unruly real explosions.

These have to be the best of the best free first person video games. The internet needs more of these.

If you know any video games that are totally free and legal to download, please leave some information here in a response

Myspace Street Racing By Zynga

Posted onAuthorTruXter

This game is great, it’s exercise for the brain. The instructions if they exist, are so many clicks deep in a f.a.q. page I will not bother locating. Better exercise for the brain figuring the stuff out. I hate Faq pages. How can you have predetermined frequently asked questions? If you had issues in beta, that’s bugs!

I love the game, I am a car nut and I know this is all text based with cutesy pictures, but jeese this is addictive. and i know it’s all about advertisements, keep you coming back keeping adverts served fresh and new to you every day.

I have so many level one clutches, you can’t even see the rest of my clkutches, they go below what the frame will show in their  embed code.. Gay. that is a stupid bug. I have even gone and bought every car available just so I could install clutches level-5 on each car until i dig my way out. Not a chance. That stupid magic box game is pointless, why would you pay to play that? you can’t get to you recent clutches..

Racing is fun, but upgrades do not come like they look.  a 5power on a clutch does not equal your score plus five, it is you original score before last clutch plus five. kind of lame

One Year World Of Warcraft Free to Me

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My buddy is going away for a year(to  well let’s say he is going away to a camp  and not going to be able to log in for one year) and has left me responsible for his World Of Warcraft Account. He has a level 79 something or other and a level 80 something or other, his account will bill him once a month and he says the payments are all taken care of, So I am not responsible for anything other than logging in and keeping his friends in his clan/guild/gang/family/nerd farm. I have no idea what I am in for .

but as of right now I am 60% in the way of downloading game 3 of 3. Wrath of the Lich king.  Now I do not know what anything is so I am not super excited about this but, I will try and tell you guys how it goes, as it goes.

I have already received the password and user name for his accounts so, I will be logging in, sad thing is, his friends might not know that I am not him. LOl that will be fun. I awill not be typing messages until I know what’s all up and get a good understanding of the game. I hope there aren’t little things he does regularly that they expect me to do.. No matter what they say, I’m not giving aay his crap because I have no idea what’s good and what’s not good… somethings might be lame at first and then later I might need it… really I do not know.

He is my buddy so I am not going to screw up his stuff.

Well right now the game is being installed on my secondary drive,  I know it sounds dumb, but the drive is empty and has 350 gigs of storage is on sata, my main drive is 160 on ide.

processor is amd 5600+ dual core

vid card is evga nvidia  9500 gt 512 mb

3 gigs pc 6400

I believe I can handle the game, he has been playing for the last three years with his onboard nvidia 7100 video card, single core 1.8 g cpu and 512 mb memory, If he can do it, I should be ok… I am not going to upgrade just for this stupid game..  unless I really get into it… I doubt that. I really would hate to get to much into the game and bamm… he comes back early and I have to give the crap back away.

We want an MMORPG For The Next Grand Theft Auto Game

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The votes had been tallied up and we see that  77.78% of the users want to see an MMorpg for the next Grand Theft Auto Game

5.56% said no way

16.67% Said They want a donut (lol)

Now the new vote is what city we want to see for The Next Grand Theft Auto

I am not aiming super high, I am hoping for Vice City again. But if this will be an mmorpg then we want a whole country, so we can sit in whatever city we want to.

New WINDOWS LIVE Breaks GTAIV even worse

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Today April 21st, Microsoft released a new update to WINDOWS LIVE . The forums at GTAFORUMS.Com goes crazy.
Looks like Microsoft bundled some lines of code that totally trashed what few users and players of Grand Theft Auto IV, that Rockstar Games had left. The game seems to work fine in Multi- Player , but has traumatic effect on Single player mode. You can no longer tweak and adjust your game. The game stutters so bad and hangs up, that no one can get even four minutes of play time to test out said tweaks. It kind of looks intentional.
Picture this:
Rockstar games might have actually put the screws to Microsoft, for allowing cheats in thier online community, and well, looks like they might have barked up the wrong tree. Sad part is, they are contracted to them, so they can’t just drop the windows live program.

This of course is where the modders and tweakers need to come together. MTA-IV and Iv-mp need to band together and make something quick to save Rockstar in this.

Now this is pretty much speculation, but man it would be scary if it was true.
Xliveless is the way to go, but patches are hard to get and use once you do that.

If you feel that Microsoft needs to Address this, Sign below with a response.
Let our Text be read, we need to prove there are more than just a hand full of out there.

Call it a petition. Call it a group effort. I just consider it a gathering of upset customers.
We are customers of Microsoft, we are displeased.

Even if you do not agree with my opinion, let your’s be read and lets let Microsoft hear from us.
Just reply to this with your opinion on the matter.
Digg it for me

GTAIV issues, what works for me.

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Playing Grand Theft Auto IV I was having the issue of images vanishing after just minutes of gameplay. The more the stuff I had going on, the worse it got. I looked online for the capacities of my motherboard. I found that the native memory I was using, What the manufacture says on the box that my motherboard came with is 667mhz. No where on the box did it signify that I could go any further. So I Googled my motherboard. What I found was lots of people like myself did what I did. We all bough what we thought was the max memory for the board. 2 Gigs of 667mhz ddr2. but others experimented and found that it can handle greater than 800 mhz ddr. So I headed to the electronics store and bought 4 gigs of pc 6400 800 mhz ddr2 memory. Then when I got home, I tried to find teh forums that I saw earlier. By that time I found a handfull sites selling the same motherboard, the specs they had on those sites showed greater than 800 mhz..Dang. but I did the install.
You would not believe the speed increase I gained from this. The game has no lag issues. I stay at 30 fps min, and never have any stutter, never have any vanishing items. just that small step up and doubling my memory, the game plays like a gem.
The canned air in the heatsinks didn’t hurt me . So I think I am well on my way. See you online. I will be at gtaclans.com when I am not actually in game.

Gaming Convention Hit by Recession?

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TEC_GAME_CONFERENCE_ECONOMY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-03-22-13-05-26

Might be fear mongering on the side of “aP” but who knows.
I am quite sure the gaming industry will stay fine, unless electricity costs go up.

Bolstered by an ever-expanding audience that is turning to games for cheaper entertainment, video games are benefiting in some ways from the economic turmoil. Yet the industry is not completely immune, with layoffs and closings of studios that produce games. Electronic Arts Inc., the game publisher behind the “Madden” football series, is cutting 1,000 jobs, most by the end of this month.

A Glitch Within a Glitch GTAIV

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Decided to drive to the swingset in Gtaiv on a motorcycle.
I pulled up to the leg of the swingset and bam.. my wheels disappeared. I kept trying to ride away, but that wouldn’t happen. It was as if I was stuck to the swingset. So I got off the bike and was about to just run away, but decided to see if the game sees the bike as being a dead bike. What I mean by that is , sometimes when you trash a vehicle, exit the vehicle and try again to mount/enter, the game will act as if it isn’t there. So I wanted to see what the game  saw it as, it let me on. The bike rolled backward about a foot or so then it froze. I exited again to see if it would happen again. Cool it did, but I was still stuck to the swingset. I kept doing it till the bike disconnected from the swingset, I then rode away with no wheels. On a hover craft like Harley bike thingy lol.

Of course I tried to save it to see what it is like next time I boot the game up. we’ll see when I reboot.

Images are found here at original post

http://gtaclans.com/index.php?topic=112.0