Anyone want to try get a big GTA4 game going for fun?
We tried to at v11 but it was pretty short notice and was during cod4 comp.

anyone up for it?

Major killing fest ftw.

I guess I'm up for it.

I'd better start installing now.

Did I say that out loud?

GTAIV comes on computers now?

Has done since Nov 22 last year.

Tell me about it...

Last time i saw a whole bunch of people playing, and i started to install it.

It's almost finished now...

Copy paste from a chat log of what I said last night to a mate:

[12:35:01 AM] (12:35 AM) S: fkn hell I hate GTA: IV
there was mention of playing it at an upcoming LAN
so I installed it, since I knew it takes like.. an hour
to install
[12:36:00 AM] (12:36 AM) S: I finish installing it
[12:36:00 AM] (12:36 AM) S: I isntall the pre-downloaded updates to
GTA I already had
I click on teh icon
it opens up rockstar games social club
sorry, required update before you can continue
oh, fuck you. It's a games for windows live patch
[12:36:00 AM] (12:36 AM) S: I install it
launch GTA
[12:37:05 AM] (12:37 AM) S: "Warning:not signing in to the social club
means you wont be able to <some useless shit here>"
ignore
GTA opens
two big fat fuck off messages saying I cant' save
withotu signing in to GFWL
[12:37:05 AM] (12:37 AM) S: I swear I have before
so I ignore it
I open the game up, skip cutscenes through to the first
checkpoint
[12:38:03 AM] (12:38 AM) S: "you need to log in to gfwl"
<ignore>
same thing again
ok, so I open GFWL
log in
[12:38:03 AM] (12:38 AM) S: You must update GFWL before you can save
this may restart your PC in the process
so I reluctantly click ok
and it crashes GTA

THIS IS WHY I HATE YOUR STUPID GFWL AND SOCIAL CLUB SHIT. fkn waste of time, the lot of them.

I feel your pain!

I just installed GTA4 on my new i7 machine and can't get the piece of shit going. I had it running fine on my dual core.

Thought GTAIV was supposed to run better on multi core CPU's... since it's a game that can actually use 4 cores.

Not sure, I get an error which is very misleading from rockstar. so going to fresh install.

Tale your woes here! We may be able to help you. I know that at least myself spent quite a bit of time trouble shooting both my and a few mate's installations of GTA. I even discovered an undocumented fix for one of the errors! (Huzzah!).

And yes, TechL, it runs *much* better on >1 core. It rapes my q6700. But at least I can play it, unlike one of my mates with a single core. Damn, that runs badly.

I got it working within 2minutes of posting my last message in this thread.

Created a folder for with all the patches (1.01 etc) to help some friends fix theirs.

I AM DEFINATELY DOWN FOR THIS

make sure you install GTA4 and update to patch 1.0.4.0

if you do not have this patch and crack search savage on DC++ and you can leech it off me!

i plan to start playing this with some mates after the css and cod4 tourneys are completed!

it will be sweet as if we can get a whole bunch of people to join!