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[luka]

Yeah, downloading 35 GB might take me just slightly over 3 hours. Such a burden!

you laugh now, but just wait for gtav! no optical fiber will be spared!

 

[Tokubetsu]

35GB is one of those get drunk for a day and a half downloads for me.

 

[Jibbed]

Hmm... I can download 8GB in 3 hours where I live, so that's... 13+ hours.

Fuck.

 

[Betta Lines]

I can only assume that the cutscenes are plentiful and really high bitrate, with many uses of in-engine scenes that are actually video, in order to conceal a load time.

 

[Jarmel]

Is the 35GB a joke? What the fuck. I can easily fit it on my HDD but that's insane.

Performance with this game is going to be a joke.

 

[Corky]

I can only assume that the cutscenes are plentiful and really high bitrate, with many uses of in-engine scenes that are actually video, in order to conceal a load time.

I really hope not, this shit ends up looking like crap in pc-games without fail. I wish in-engine cutscenes was the law

 

[Haunted]

Yeah, downloading 35 GB might take me just slightly over 3 hours. Such a burden!

:jealous:

Would be ~13 hours for me at full speed.

 

[luka]

if pre-recorded in-engine video is actually the reason i will freak

 

[Card Boy]

I was going to get a UK Gaffer to help me gift this as its 89.99USD on Aussie Steam, but this thread has convinced me to avoid and pick it up in 1 or 2 years when i get a new PC.

 

[see5harp]

You are kidding yourselves if you think the majority of that size is due to some ridiculous size and scope or crazy textures. It's a ton of uncompressed sound and FMV in a crazy amount of languages in both 2d and 3d. That's what KZ3 was anyways.

 

[Aguirre]

wtf man, 35gig? for a linear game?

i was recently taken aback by the 15.7gig install gta4, but 35?

ps3 then it is indeed for me.

 

[Respawn]

16gb ram?! Who even has that?

Not sure if serious? Ram is cheap as a mofo. Now the spec of your ram is a different story in determining the price. I have the space, the power and the bandwidth. Gaming isn't for the poor. Join the Republican rank and game like the 1% dude.

 

[CorkyFromLifeGoesOn]

Been trying to get into building a gaming pc. Those recommended specs are higher then what I was planning on building. Tbh that makes me not even want to bother

 

[Silly.Mikey]

It seems to take a beast for the graphics card to be able to run it max... 360 it is.

 

[SapientWolf]

It seems to take a beast for the graphics card to be able to run it max... 360 it is.

According to those requirements you would need an 8600 GT and a 680 GTX.

 

[Oblivion]

Uh...can someone explain what all of that shit means?

 

[BurntPork]

Yeah, downloading 35 GB might take me just slightly over 3 hours. Such a burden!

Lucky you. I'd be looking at 5 hours on a good day. :/

 

[RadioactiveLobster]

I can only assume that the cutscenes are plentiful and really high bitrate, with many uses of in-engine scenes that are actually video, in order to conceal a load time.

In one of the tech videos I could have sworn they said they used all in engine cut scenes as part of their dynamic "comic strip" generator thing.

 

[Fjordson]

In one of the tech videos I could have sworn they said they used all in engine cut scenes as part of their dynamic "comic strip" generator thing.

Yeah, they are. They look exactly the same as the rest of the game and transition into gameplay without any loading screens throughout.

Of course I don't actually know exactly what they're doing on the development side, so maybe they're using some sort of trick with the cutscenes that make them not totally in-engine, but they sure as hell look identical to the gameplay sections to me.

 

[Thunder Monkey]

Something tells me this is "pr" speak, in other words, I'd be surprised if the game actually uses 6 cores compared to 4. Or "uses" 16gb for that matter.

They'll be lucky if maxed out the game uses more than 4 gigs at any given time.

 

[Kintaro]

I don't care about the size and such. I'm set there. Just hoping for a good port. I'll be waiting for reviews.

 

[Alex]

Not sure if serious? Ram is cheap as a mofo. Now the spec of your ram is a different story in determining the price. I have the space, the power and the bandwidth. Gaming isn't for the poor. Join the Republican rank and game like the 1% dude.

People not having 16GB of RAM for games doesn't have to do with the cost.

 

[Fjordson]

cuz R* and their history of PC ports have been questionable.

That's fair, but I feel like GTA IV and L.A. Noire were pretty different situations than this. GTA IV's PC version was done by a separate team months after the console release. L.A. Noire wasn't even a Rockstar developed game, and again, was done by a different team 6 months after the console release.

For MP 3, there hasn't been any indication that the console team is different from the PC team, and it's coming a mere two weeks after the console release. Add to that DX 11 support and lots of positive impressions about the PC version out of PAX East. All makes me think that this will be a huge improvement for R* on the PC over their previous attempts.

(I'm going to look dumb if the PC version ends up being shite, but oh well)

 

[BeEatNU]

people wanted HD, you GOT HD dammit!

imagine all those high rez textures!

 

[Chuck Norris]

Anyone know of the Xbox version will run at 30 or 60 FPS? Just wondering if I should get it on Xbox or take my chances with the PC version

Is this a serious question?

 

[Xdrive05]

The most worthless specs ever, at least on the high end. What does this even mean?

It's almost like they said "FUCK IT!" and pulled some theoretical bleeding edge machine out of thin air and recommended that one for high settings. That's not really useful info, guys.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

It's going to take me 3-4 days of constant download for MP3.

This is like 56k all over again.

Don't know about you partner but I can pull 14GB an hour. So no more than 3 hours pending the connection holds up. Normally Steam uses beyond my rated bandwidth too so I almost get 5MB a sec real time.

 

[phosphor112]

Either this game is really well optimized, or it runs like shit and needs all that extra umph.

I'm hoping the former, but I'll expect the latter.

 

[Pimpbaa]

Wait till the PC ports of next gen system games start coming out. All games will be around that or higher.

 

[Silly.Mikey]

Is this a serious question?

COD on console runs at 60 fps, thats a serious answer.

 

[DTKT]

COD on console runs at 60 fps, thats a serious answer.

And it's the only one that can do that. And we can agree that it's not constant 60FPS.

Either way, probably 30 with drops.

 

[vocab]

COD on console runs at 60 fps, thats a serious answer.

Ya, with a visual hit.

 

[Smokey]

Been trying to get into building a gaming pc. Those recommended specs are higher then what I was planning on building. Tbh that makes me not even want to bother

Did it stop you from reading the first page and using common sense to see that the recommended specs are not a 6 core CPU, highest-end GPU, and 16GB RAM. R* is just showing min-max here.

Why people keep thinking a $600 processor, $500 GPU, and $100+ of RAM is the recommended specs is blowing my god damn mind

Use common sense people. OF COURSE the top of the line hardware out would be the optimal setup for ANY PC game.

 

[Akuun]

Please explain why it's 35 gigs.

That's the entire month's bandwidth for some people.

 

[speculawyer]

Not one good rockstar pc port so far...
Why am i hopeful this will run good when they have such a terrible pc history? GTA IV & all the episodes ran pretty awful regardless of how high end your system was.

But this isn't a port. It is being released just a couple weeks later than the console versions. So hopefully that means it is good.

Edit: 7 pages of discussing PC specs? Wow. I didn't think there was much interest in Max.

 

[K.Jack]

I'll bet $10 the Core 2 Duo + 8600 GT combo can't average 20fps at 800x600.

 

[Smokey]

But this isn't a port. It is being released just a couple weeks later than the console versions. So hopefully that means it is good.

Edit: 7 pages of discussing PC specs? Wow. I didn't think there was much interest in Max.

7?

get with the times 100 posts per page son

 

[keltickennedy]

Please explain why it's 35 gigs.

That's the entire month's bandwidth for some people.

Where the hell does it a monthly cap of 35GBs!?

I live in Pittsburgh and have Comcast which has caps at 250-300GB a month.

 

[Longshot]

Where the hell does it a monthly cap of 35GBs!?

I live in Pittsburgh and have Comcast which has caps at 250-300GB a month.

Australia, but luckily I have a 100 GB download cap, soon to be 500 GB hopefully.

 

[keltickennedy]

Australia, but luckily I have a 100 GB download cap, soon to be 500 GB hopefully.

Australia? Can they even play the game? Not joking, I know they have banned mature games in the past.

 

[Pranay]

Where the hell does it a monthly cap of 35GBs!?

I live in Pittsburgh and have Comcast which has caps at 250-300GB a month.

Many places here have have 10gb to 25gb limit with 2mbps speed :|

 

[NullPointer]

Edit: 7 pages of discussing PC specs? Wow. I didn't think there was much interest in Max.

Even if it wasn't Max Payne I'd hope there would be interest in a modern shooter using Euphoria. Throw in Rockstar's painstaking attention to detail without need of the open world overhead, and the actual Max Payne part is just one extra helping of cherries on top.

 

[SparkTR]

Been trying to get into building a gaming pc. Those recommended specs are higher then what I was planning on building. Tbh that makes me not even want to bother

Seriously? You think their recommended specs is a GTX680? A machine anywhere between their min and max specs will run the game fine, If you can't max out the game with 4 gigs of RAM and a 560Ti then I'll eat my hat. Plus I'm sure low setting will be comparable to the console versions (at least, that's how it was with GTAIV).

Australia? Can they even play the game? Not joking, I know they have banned mature games in the past.

Games aren't banned nearly as much as you think, and that's a thing of the past as the new rating system is being implemented.

 

[Octacamo]

Many places here have have 10gb to 25gb limit with 2mbps speed :|

get the disc version then....

 

[Mammoth Jones]

Less worried about if my PC is up to scratch, more worried about Rockstar's optimisation.

This time a billion. I don't want to have a beast machine to brute force my way past their shitty code.

 

[Para bailar La Bomba]

But this isn't a port. It is being released just a couple weeks later than the console versions. So hopefully that means it is good.

Its an indiciment on the developer and their history of PC releases.

Can help to wonder whether the size has been beefed up an extremely lazy anti-piracy device.

 

[SapientWolf]

Its an indiciment on the developer and their history of PC releases.

Can help to wonder whether the size has been beefed up an extremely lazy anti-piracy device.

That would be like killing a fly on your leg with a sawed off shotgun.

 

[gdt]

But this isn't a port. It is being released just a couple weeks later than the console versions. So hopefully that means it is good.

Edit: 7 pages of discussing PC specs? Wow. I didn't think there was much interest in Max.

Batman AC supposedly wasn't a port...

 

[mattiewheels]

35gb over a dsl line......it's crazy, but if there's a steam preload, I'll probably go for it. It'll just take 3 days.

 

[Kogepan]

Maybe download a compressed file 16-20gigs or so then it'll extract to 35gb?

so 2 DVDs MIMINUM or bluray?