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Why hasnt M$ revealed details of the GTA IV DLC yet ?  

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nash Newbie

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So I was browsing the GTA IV forums and I came across some (not too comforting) info on the PC version:

 

Here goes the epic vent/rant.

 

So, game arrives, I install, go do something else while I wait. When it's done, it tells me all these things about Windows Live IDs and gamertags and needing to link them. So I research this stuff, though I don't want to, and end up accidentally creating a Live ID account I didn't want, and a gamertag I did, but can't figure out how to link them. (I still can't).

 

Then I try to run the game. Error dialog. Ok... run launcher. Error dialog. Erm. That's not good. I try compatibility modes, closing all but essential programs, and no change so I make notes of the errors I'm getting and call Take2.

 

After hours. So all I got to do was leave a message on their answering machine. I send an email to a contact there listing the issues, hoping he'll check his work email at this time.

 

I decide to install on my XP machine, as my main runs Vista 64 and I figure that's the issue. Once the install is done, I can't play because the review key has already been activated. Grrr.

 

Searching around in the game folder I find a readme with a recommended program for XP x64. I figure what the hey, give it a whirl, to no effect. Upon my searches however, I find a key reclaim facility, so I use that, register the key again on XP and the game loads on that box.

 

Sweet!

 

Title sequence looking good, gets halfway through before crashing to desktop. Reload, and this time manages to get to the bit where I take control before crashing. Awesome. Third time's the charm. I skip the intro, having now seen it all, and start driving to first checkpoint. The game comes to a grinding halt when I face certain directions, but is OK when I'm looking elsewhere. But I make it to the first checkpoint. The checkpoint doesn't register.

 

So the game is now stuck in limbo, I'm in cutscene mode, unable to control anything, but the cutscene has not progressed and therefore I have to kill it, and start again. I manage to get to the checkpoint, progress through the scene and then I come to save.

 

Simple, press F. Only I can't do this without a Live ID. So I put in my Live ID, and buh-bow, can't find it. So I try my existing live ID. Nuh. I got back and check my emails - hadn't activated the new live ID, so after that's done, I try again. No dice.

 

Getting a little frustrated at this point (no way I'll be able to play this without saving) I create a new live ID from the in-game option. Turns out it's just a profile name, and that's all I need to continue playing. Hooray!

 

So out I go after my save, and the game crashes.

 

I try again, but crashes are frequent and slowdowns are horrible. I decide to call it a night, and go and play Left 4 Dead (Epic stuff Crappers), fearing I won't ever get to play.

 

Towards the end of the heroic L4D session (truly, Crappers is my hero) I get an SMS from the Rockstar contact saying the UK office has provided a fix for my Vista 64 problems, and to check my email. Finishing up the game (over five thousand zombies harmed during the making of), I check my email.

 

Apparently there was the incorrect version of some software installed, so after an unstall and reinstall of the right one, I was good to go.

 

Now I get horrible slowdown - around 2fps, and it's really unplayable. It takes tens of minutes to get simply to a destination, and I quit to see what I can do. I change graphics settings, draw distances, nothing seems to help

 

Latest graphics card drivers later, and it's running as smooth as a very smooth thing.

 

I can only hope and prey R* aren't giving PC gamers the shaft with a p*ss poor port.

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Somebody Newbie

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Grand Theft Auto IV: Lost & Damned

 

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$19.99

Pre-order Ships 2/17/2009

 

* Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned packaging will include a 2 sided poster and an Xbox LIVE Marketplace token card. The token card will contain a unique code to purchase The Lost and Damned over the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.

* Runs with a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV on Xbox 360

* No disc included in packaging – Downloadable Content Only

* Must have an Xbox LIVE account

* Consumer Return Policy: Enclosed in each package will be an Xbox LIVE Marketplace token. This token will have a tear off strip that reveals a unique code to download the content over the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Once this code has been exposed, the downloadable content has been potentially accessed and can no longer be accepted for return.

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Thats just superb. I cant believe I paid over 4 times that amount 6 months or so ago for what was an inferior version. I mean I got to play it early and I suppose thats a big deal but come on that price is just insane.

 

And I bet that DLC will come to PC soon as well. Unless MS dont want it to, I dont see why they wouldnt. PC is another console for them anyway. Kinda like a smarter, more successfull and more intelligent brother of Xbox.

 

So yeah one PC version for me as well. I traded away my 360 copy and I quite fancy messing around with it at some future point.

 

BTW the EG review of the PC version is up. 9/10

 

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=322028

 

Mentions some cool stuff. I esp like the bit that you can effectively make your own radio station. Just put your MP3 files and the game will put in a radio DJ and some ads. Thats sounds really neat.

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