Computer Specs

[Veaney]

I recently bought GTA3 for PC, it sucks. I have the recomended PC specs for it, it lags like anything even if i dont have anything running in the backrgound.

My specs are;

AMD Athlon XP 1300 (1.3 ghz)

376 MB Ram

64MB NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Graphica Card

40 Gig Hard drive

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I have played around witht the settings, it doesnt help much. So i pretty much wasted 30 quid.

Is it work paying for Vice City?

Cheers, Stu

[.:Mouldy Punk:.]

Vice city is a gr8 game I would buy it if I were you

My comp isnt as good as urs in the graphics side of things (only 32 megs) and i have 256 megs of ram my processor is faster though

but my comp can cope with Vice city but it just goes a bit scetchy sumtimes but as u have twice as much graphics power it shouldnt be a problem for you

[Colonel V]

I'm not sure why, but Vice city runs faster than GTA3. i have a P4 2.0ghz processor and almost top of the range sound, graphic and video cards. GTA3 still lags at times - its just made like that. You could buy Vice city and get the full release of GTA-world online: vice city and gta3 in one, with all the missions. It is faster than running GTA3.

[Veaney]

I'm not a fan of GTA 3. I have vice city on XBOX and its superb, although i have been stuck on 'COP LAND' for a while anyway,
i will invest in Vice City and possibly a 128 graphics card, and 512 ram just to be on the safe side. Also getting Broadband in about a week, so will be playing Online soon. Looking forward to it.

[Colonel V]

good good. If your not a fan, why buy it? (Copland is piss-easy) I look forward to playing with u :p remember; you cant use any mods in MTA

[Veaney]

Yea im not a fan of Mods either, only the Bike ones he he. I love bikes i own a Honda VFR 400. I bought GTA3 thinking it was going to be good but Vice City outclasses it to the Max, i have the double pack for the Xbox. Will broadband handle multiplayer vice city?

[Colonel V]

yes it will. even 56k dialup is enough (but it lags or so i've heard) what speed broadband are you getting? i have 512kbps and i get stable pings maximum = 320

[Veaney]

Same - 30 quid is enough for me to spend a month on Broadband. I used 56k on games like rogue spear and it lags like hell!

[Colonel V]

well trust me, when gta-world online is released, it will have both in one WITH multiplayer. you can't say that won't be popular...

[Veaney]

quality - anyway have to go im off to bed. Work tomorow cheers for your help! see you within a month, ill be on my PCJ

[Colonel V]

hehe lol see you there...now what to do with this thread?

[Piggus]

one of my computers has a 32mb riva TNT2 pro and when I had problems with GTA3 I just downloaded the GTA3 Enhancment Collection. It gets rid of stuff like rain and other small stuff to help improve the fps. for me It seemed to help a lot.

Colonel is right though GTA3 does run a lot worse than Vice City. Even on my 128mb card I have problems with fps in GTA3.

[Colonel V]

i got about 10 extra FPS from it...why is it so slow?

[.:Mouldy Punk:.]

I have the 32 meg TNT2 and it runs gr8 it just cant cope with the high resolutions but not all the textures load rite :confused: not sure y but i think its a software prob not a hardware prob and when it does load all textures the fps goes down alot

[Colonel V]

put the draw distance up; it try's to load textures from farther away.

[.:Mouldy Punk:.]

lol I think that other post is coming out in this 1 colonel lol

[Colonel V]

hah lol yeh i noticed that :p lets move over to the other thread...before this one is closed :D