GTA IV on PC...

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: homercles337

Originally posted by: Cheesetogo

Originally posted by: homercles337

Originally posted by: Cheesetogo
It's definitely a pain in the ass to get everything working, but in my opinion it's well worth it when you do. There are also ways to bypass Rockstar Social Club and Games for Windows that you might want to look into.

Yeah, i looked for that and dont want Social Club bullshit on my PC at all. I have only found fixes that require installing and logging in once. I actually thought about making a "dummy" RGSC.exe that would run and do nothing.

Do a search for xliveless.

Would this work for Broken Steel? That GFW Live shit is so clunky with Fallout 3. Again i had to jump through major hoops just to get that to work (yes, this is mainly why i didnt want to do the same for GTA). Downloadable Content my ass, more like downloadable PITA. Why is this such a hard thing for distributors to get to work. Its not about getting it to be usable, but its about getting it to WORK at all.

You can start up Fallout 3 directly without using its launcher, but games for windows live is integrated into the game.

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: alm4rr

Originally posted by: shortylickens
This is gonna start a flame war but..........

Overall I think it was actually easier getting DOS games to work properly.

*shudders at soundblaster config hangs & IRQ flashbacks*

Yes, remember looking at your motherboard manual to see which PCI/ISA slots were shared and avoiding putting expansion cards in shared slots? Remember using jumpers to set IRQs on those expansion cards and the FSB for your CPU/RAM for that matter? Ah, the good ol' days!

 

[Madaz]

Originally posted by: ShawnD1

Originally posted by: ibex333

I'm just glad the current DRM is nowhere near as bad as it was in the 80s. In the 80s, PC games would ask you to type a word from a certain page on a certain line. If you bought a used PC game and the retard who owned it before you lost the code card, or the instruction manual was missing pages, you were screwed. DRM was just as crippling then as it is now. At least software cracks are free whereas using the photocopier at the library to copy a friend's instruction manual was expensive.

you mean you dont remember what colour the key was on page 26 of the streetrod manual was?