ZombieSupaStar
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thats probably just to run the installer screen.
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Max Payne 3 System Specs [Optimized for up to 16GB RAM, 3GB VRAM; req 35GB HDD space]
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thats probably just to run the installer screen.
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fanciest installer of all time
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While the textures might look better, the PC screens they have released so far haven't shown anything mindblowing in comparison to recent PC releases.
JumpingTheGun
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Saw the TV commercial for the first time last night and literally had chills running up and down. The song, "Tears" by the group Health was so fitting. (Their composing the entire soundtrack) I ended up YT'ing the video and watching it over and over again. So glad I have the Special edition coming. I need that soundtrack NAO.
Metal Gear?!
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Honestly forget the system requirements speculation - GFWL means that it's not worth buying.
Salacious Crumb
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Say what now? When was that announced?
Guerrillas in the Mist
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Joke post?
PC Gamer mentions it in a recent article, but as far as I'm aware its the only publication to do so.
Jaded Alyx
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Sigh...$60 on Steam + huge backlog, and now + GFWL = wait until sale for me.
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LA Noire wasn't and on Steam it actually used some Steamworks features that were nice.
JonathanPower
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It's presumably a mistake. Maybe they forgot a comma, and the real space required would be 3,5gb.
R* is not Capcpom.
LA Noire wasn't a true Rockstar production, so it wasn't bound to have GFWL. Max Payne 3 however is a core R* product and they seem keen on using GFWL.
GTA V on PC will most likely also have it, wait and see.
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The PC port was completed 100% by Rockstar. And I don't get why people are so obsessed with that distinction. These are publisher-level decisions most of the time.
Because implementation of GFWL is decided at a different stage that isn't when a bunch of guys at Rockstar gets told to do a port.
LA Noire wasn't a core Rockstar production, no GFWL.
PC Gamer be trollin'.
Relieved. That + 35 GB + $60, I was getting ready to just rent it on a console. I can stomach the other two but fuck GWFL.
Black_Stride
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Pirates generally have alot of really big harddrives so 35GB isnt much to a pirate.
I'm not talking about the space i mean the time. Not everyone has good internet and wants to dowload 35GB just for one game. So i think this is a good thing.
Wouldn't that also reduce sales on all digital distribution versions? For the same reasons. Hell you'd probably get better speeds on bittorrent than steam.
Assuming your theory is correct in any significant manner of course, which is debatable
Gouda Jouji
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The download probably isn't going to be 35GB. Do we know how many DVDs are in the retail PC box? That should give us an idea.
Even if the download was 35GB, pirates will release a compressed version in no time.
8GB is the baseline these days for a PC intended for gaming. ~$40 will get you a 2x4GB DDR3-1333 kit.
Which is odd, because I can't name a single game that uses more than 3GB of memory.
Unless most PC gamers have two games running in the background, nowadays.
I have 5gb of ram, but it slow [and very expensive] DDR2. So far its more than enough because vast majority of games are made for 32bit windows [i has ~2 gb limit on a application size].
Which is odd, because I can't name a single game that uses more than 3GB of memory.
Unless most PC gamers have two games running in the background, nowadays.
It's not common just yet, although a recent example can be found in Bethesda patching Skyrim to address up to 4GB RAM.
Guerrillas in the Mist
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My rig has 4 GB, and I can run most games smoothly. It's usually VRAM, or my GPU in general, that holds my rig back. I was thinking of bumping that up to 8 GB, but for video editing purposes.
Oh, sure. 8GB isn't recommended due to necessity, but because it's dirt cheap (jumping down to 4GB only saves you ~$15).
Guerrillas in the Mist
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True, it was a daft place to cut corners when I was building mine.
I can't believe you got the time machine to work dude, welcome to 2012.
Black_Stride
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Haha the pirated version is gonna be like 10GB, never heard of repacks huh?
All the extra garbage on the retail and steam version is cut out and the game is compressed into a much neater package......honestly i think devs should hire these pirates to do compression for them, the games will be much smaller on disk(to download).
And if im a pirate im not gonna skimp on my internet.....I might skimp on games, movies and applications, but im not gonna skimp on my internet i need it to pirate all the stuff i usually skimp on.
Further, trust me.....seriously trust me, a large download size is not ever gonna be a barrier to piracy....its probably gonna hurt Digital Sales more than anything.
The legit gamers are the ones who are more likely to not be willing to do a 35GB download.
I do wonder how many disks the retail version is....im probably gonna have to go retail cuz 35GB will take me weeks to download.
A "repack" in the piracy world just refers to a re-release, issued by the same group because its previous release had something wrong with it (e.g. a bad crack). What you're describing (releases with a much lower file size) doesn't really happen anymore, as doing so requires assets such as cutscene videos and music be removed -- there's no magical compression algorithm that these groups are privy to.
In the case of Max Payne 3, if the entire 35GB is indeed due to game files, then the cracked version is going to be the same size; much like the larger games of, say, 2011 (e.g. The Witcher 2 and RAGE).
bloodforge
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I have 6 now and am building a new machine at the end of the month with 8 with plans to upgrade later to 16.
8GB is not that much anymore.
Black_Stride
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I dont feel like arguing piracy terminology here, itll probably just get me banned.
But repacks are usually if not always repacks of one groups stuff by another group that scrubs unnecessary garbage and then compresses everything else to a fraction of what the original is.
P.S: The Witcher 2 and Rage repacks are much much smaller than the retail versions
^Why do i know this....I just do.
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PC Gamer be trollin'.
Hey Sethos, are you still so sure about GTA5?
Nope, since I was basing that off MP3. If that isn't using GFWL either, GTA V might not either.
I have an i3 2100, 4GB RAM and R6850 and I'm predicting I'll be able to play this on mostly high settings & 720p with around 60FPS. The high-end specs are probably there for a people with monster builds, so they would feel that there's finally a game that utilises that hardware power (hint: it actually won't, judging by screens. It's a good looking game, but come on...).
But the last Rockstar game I played on PC was GTA2, so maybe I'm wrong here.
But the last Rockstar game I played on PC was GTA2, so maybe I'm wrong here.
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