Vice city

[burpbrain110]

Vice city is out. anyone tried it with a 64MB DDR radeon 7500? runs well? i used to have frame rate problem with gta3.

 

[Justintime]

heehe, will have it by tonight

 

[wrathchild_67]

Good idea. I didn't even think of trying it on my All-in-Wonder 7500.

 

[fire]

I would also like to know if they fixed the frame rate problem?

 

[woodman19_99]

Mine will be arriving tomorrow ! I can't wait. I'll let you knwo what I think when it gets here.

 

[kc8uca]

Hopefully it doesn't have the same issues as Gta3. I used to get into the game and the graphics were corrrupted.. I had the go to microsoft.com and search through the many Windows updates to fix it...

 

[Marvt74]

eh justin?
its not out over here until friday

something strange going on there?

 

[coyote81]

Well, I know what I'll be buying just as soon as I get DSL and finish my College Finals.
I almost bought GTA3 yesterday, cause i didn't know when this was gonna come out for PC.
Thx for letting us know Burpbrain

 

[wrathchild_67]

It runs great even on low end systems. With the frame-limiter on it runs at a jerky 30fps and without it, it runs at 60fps+ with the occassional dip. The damn game should run well considering the low resolution and detail of the textures- this game is in serious need of some Truform.

 

[burpbrain110]

wasted...

nice to see so many supporters of Ati cards...

http://66.227.103.238/cyborg/omegaplutonium_xk1118_rr4.rar

anyone mind trying out these unofficial radeon drivers? they said they fix some problem with GTA3.

 

[woodman19_99]

Well, I said I would let you know what I thought when I got it. That happened last week and I have been playing as much as possible every since. In the original GTA3 I found the environment very dark and hard too see with limited movement and awkward moves. Vice City is a HUGE improvement! The lighting is much improved and gameplay is much easier. Good weapon choices, missions and new methods of transportation (i.e. Army Hummers!). My one coplaint is that there is some glitchy sound in the motorboats and with the sniper rifle, but it doesn't affect the game that much.

Lots of fun!!

 

[wrathchild_67]

To answer the original question- it runs fine on my All-in-Wonder 7500 system. It won't maintain 60fps constantly, but if you use the 30fps limiter, it will always stay at 30fps. I'd say that would be your best best bet, along with 4x anisotropic filtering.

 

[Justintime]

Originally posted by Marvt74
eh justin?
its not out over here until friday

something strange going on there?

"LOL"

 

[Justintime]

BTW, its kinda glitchy, even though i set the draw distance to max it dosen't draw at times

 

[Marvt74]

probably your dodgy ass copy mate

gonna buy it as soon as my cheque clears stupid building society 9 working days

 

[Justintime]

lol, no its retail could be a graphics driver problem.

 

[pdemitra38]

i like it! i run @ 1024x768x32 w/ 4x aa and 4x af just fine. Only thing wrong is my stupid AC97 onboard audio is slowin me down im in desperate need of a new soundcard!

 

[slingblade]

Works great for me too, running on Ti4200, 43.45 detonators. I haven't noticed any slowdown, but there is an occaisional pause every great once in a while. Maybe due to frame limiter being turned on.
I think I got mine the same general place justin got his, if I'm reading correctly.
So far it doesn't seem much different from the third game, which is still damn good. Just a few additions here & there. I don't think the movement is improved at all, still takes a few seconds for the dude onscreen to get running after pressing the key.
Someone with the PS2 version told me to find all the hidden packages right off, then you get a helicopter, but if you cheat there's no way to get them. I'll have to look around & see if this applies to our version.