GTA: V

[FUBAR]

Quoting: ianjpage

gunna be doing a bit game buying sess soon methinks!!

Steam Summer Sale now on

[ianjpage]

purchased a few things today ;)

[Roadkill]

Quoting: FUBAR

Steam Summer Sale now on

I'm not even gonna bother looking . . . I've got about half-a-dozen games I haven't even taken the metaphorical wrapper off, yet !

[ianjpage]

Ho hum delayed again to mach:

http://www.pcgamer.com/gta-5-pc-release-date-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.pcgamer.com/gta-5-pc-release-date-2/

Specs there as well, not too bad requirements though:
Minimum Specs
OS: Windows 8.1 64 Bit, Windows 8 64 Bit, Windows 7 64 Bit Service Pack 1, Windows Vista 64 Bit Service Pack 2* (*NVIDIA video card recommended if running Vista OS)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs) / AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs) @ 2.5GHz
Memory: 4GB
Video Card: NVIDIA 9800 GT 1GB / AMD HD 4870 1GB (DX 10, 10.1, 11)
Sound Card: 100% DirectX 10 compatible
HDD Space: 65GB

Recommended Specs
OS: Windows 8.1 64 Bit, Windows 8 64 Bit, Windows 7 64 Bit Service Pack 1
Processor: Intel Core i5 3470 @ 3.2GHZ (4 CPUs) / AMD X8 FX-8350 @ 4GHZ (8 CPUs)
Memory: 8GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB / AMD HD7870 2GB
Sound Card: 100% DirectX 10 compatible
HDD Space: 65GB

[FUBAR]

Fair doos, better move those 2 days I booked off work then...

nice to see the PC is up to spec but 65GB of HDD!!! wow

[ianjpage]

Quoting: FUBAR

Fair doos, better move those 2 days I booked off work then...

Yeah, lets hope they don't move it again!

Quoting: FUBAR

but 65GB of HDD!!! wow

Yeah 'tis a fair old amount!!

[ianjpage]

Interesting 'advert' on steam tonight:

Quoting: Steam

PRE-PURCHASE BY FEBRUARY 1 AND GET $1,000,000 IN-GAME PLUS A BONUS $300,000 AND A BONUS GAME
Pre-purchase and get $1,000,000 in-game ($500,000 for Grand Theft Auto V and $500,000 for Grand Theft Auto Online).

Pre-purchase by February 1 and get a bonus $300,000 for Grand Theft Auto Online and a bonus digital download of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on PC.

Grand Theft Auto V for PC will be available for pre-load prior to release.

Makes me kinda interested in pre-buying it, as doubt the price come down much between now & then.....

[FUBAR]

Sorted mine yesterday

[Roadkill]

Quoting: ianjpage

Interesting 'advert' on steam tonight:

Will my P.C run it without upgrading ?

[ianjpage]

Hmm can't remember what exact CPU / Gfx card you got - if you go into device manager (click start and then type in device manager), then expand the processor section, what does it say and how many, then same for Graphics.

[Roadkill]

Roger, will check.  

[FUBAR]

You remember what playing LA Noire was like?

Its a more complex, detailed game built on a similar engine, so It'll be like that but slower.

[Roadkill]

L.A Noire was O.K - There was a funny bug that I Googled and changed a setting for to sort out, but apart from that it was O.K.

Probably passed time for an upgrade, though, anyway.  

[FUBAR]

Quoting: Roadkill

Probably passed time for an upgrade, though, anyway.  

Yeah, someone was planning to buy a shiny new PC making a newer one available but that doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon now

[ianjpage]

Quoting: ianjpage

Makes me kinda interested in pre-buying it, as doubt the price come down much between now & then.....

Well just bought it so lets hope between now & then the money comes in so i can get new pc to play it on lol!!

[Roadkill]

Quoting: ianjpage

Hmm can't remember what exact CPU / Gfx card you got - if you go into device manager (click start and then type in device manager), then expand the processor section, what does it say and how many, then same for Graphics.

AMD Phenom II X2 560 Processor

AMD Radeon HD 5700 Series

48.7 GB free (!!!)

Suggestions on upgrades welcome . . . I'm thinking 2 TB HDD as I'm rapidly filling up the existing one with pictures . . I could lower the file size but, ah, f*ck it !

[ianjpage]

Quoting: Roadkill

AMD Phenom II X2 560 Processor

That's prob need upgrading as even teh Min spec wants Quad core and yours is dual core cpu.

Graphics card might be OK, not sure what memory yours got, but possibly might need upgrade as well.

Quoting: Roadkill

48.7 GB free (!!!)

wow not much there - have you gone through and deleted the old saved stuff from when i rebuilt your PC, think it somewhere on the C drive, and there was a fair amount of Gb in there....

Quoting: Roadkill

I'm thinking 2 TB HDD

Yup definately, possibly CPU upgrade IF the system board can take a higher CPU (will have a look when next over at the system board make/model), if not then poss new CPU & m/b combo (there are some good deals on OverClockers at the min for mobo / cpu / ram combo deals)

[Roadkill]

Quoting: ianjpage

have you gone through and deleted the old saved stuff from when i rebuilt your PC, think it somewhere on the C drive

No . . Is it all duplicate stuff in there ?

I can't see any stuff I'd want to keep . . .

[ianjpage]

I think it's mostly old stuff, that i wasn't sure if you ( A ) needed it or ( B ) we'd copied elsewhere, probably worth a 10/15 min go through and check and delete if not.

ALso, somewhere in that folder will be the Steam Library of all teh old games, if you have re-downloaded them all, delete this old directory as that'll free up a fair amount straight away!!

[Roadkill]

There's over 200 GB in there . . . couldn't see anything I wanted, and yes, I've downloaded any games I'm likely to play again - I assume any new save data from steam is going into another folder ?

I did delete a few bits last night but it was telling me they're registry files so I got scared and stopped.  

That said, again, these should all be duplicates, right ?

[ianjpage]

Quoting: Roadkill

There's over 200 GB in there . . . couldn't see anything I wanted, and yes, I've downloaded any games I'm likely to play again - I assume any new save data from steam is going into another folder ?

Yup steam should be saving to either C:\Games\Steam, C:\Steam or C:\Program Files\Steam - if so then you should be fine to remove the folder in the 'backup' folder location.

Quoting: Roadkill

I did delete a few bits last night but it was telling me they're registry files so I got scared and stopped.

Hmm, so long as you are defo in the old / backup folder should be fine - think it complaining as i will have backed up the windows files for safety so it probably doesn't like you deleting them, but again so long as you in the backup folder, should be fine.

Quoting: Roadkill

That said, again, these should all be duplicates, right ?

Yup

[Roadkill]

Deleted most of that lot, but the windows stuff needs authorisation from "TrustedInstaller" . . . . . !  

[ianjpage]

Cool, will sort that out when we got a min and your PC is on

[FUBAR]

Just checked on Steam and the release date has been pushed back to April 14th

[Roadkill]

and the release date has been pushed bac

Shocker . . . is that 2016 ?  :smirk:

Not that my machine is ready for it but it really does p!ss me off them keep delaying it . . . I can't believe it's not ready - they're just doing it now for effect.