GTA 4 Requirements

Yeah, customer support is useless, lol. I just post my problem in heaps of forums, and hope that someone else has had the same problem and knows how to fix it.

Well , i got back 2 replys total. The first was a request for my DXDIAG report, i sent that in.... funny thing is though, they marked that message as "solved", hmmm, they didn't solve or even suggest anything..... it would seem they assume a reply from them is as good as solving the problem..... apparently.

Then this morning the last reply is "sorry your system doesent meet the minimum system specs..."

Thank god they told me that, i was totally in the dark....

but why does DXDIAG say theres nothing wrong with my video card and it has the november release of Directx installed, it seems to me my video card is a DX9 card unless MS / MS's software is the one in the wrong with it's DXDIAG software....

Im tending to believe that rockstar is just taking the general path rather than "this and this and this is wrong or needs upgrading"..

PS I can see that if my system was the minimum and didn't work i would really be pissed.... but that said,

Iv been playing with computers, and a former electronics hobbyist, since the days of the COCO2 ( color computer2 from radio shack... circa, 1980's).

Iv had more than my share of computer problems over the years, and know that a problem can be simple or far more complex, your system may have a setting that you adjusted ( graphics wise) that prevents a needed process from working and if you were to set the "defaults" or maybe the "best performance" settings it mite work....

I'm not suggesting that would fix it but who really knows their, or yours, computer and hardware system so well they can say " oh just do this.... that will fix it..", wont ever happen, even the software company's can only use the hardware manufactures specs and their own basic development system(s) to use as a basis for their software requirements ...

If you upgrade or adjust anything, or install some weird hardware and or software and driver, you can cause problems, im fairly sure software company's use basic out of the box systems to develop their software on..

Not like you or i, we always add software or upgrade hardware and / or change settings to "improve" our systems, and that is probably the basic problem right there....

isn't that the basic problem with windows.... use it and it will eventually get screwed up, that requires a re-install of the OS, thats a guarantee, dont just love windows and a never ending repair / upgrade / tweeking process...

I have a 2.8 ghz proc, an 8400gs ( I know sucks) and xp sp3 with a gig of ram (also sucks). Anyway, I plan to upgrade, so this doesn't bother me much. However, Someone nagged me asking me what I wanted for Christmas. So I checked the specs, met them (the specs), and asked for GTA IV. When I installed the game it plays, but you cannot see ANY background! So, you can't play. I don't think this is right because the specs aren't accurate. I'll play it eventually, so I don't care. However I feel for people who buy the game and never will. I agree with the two version idea. I can play Crysis and Crysis warhead on low settings totally smooth. They are more graphically detailed games than GTA IV, I would think. I feel it is ridiculous I can play those, two of the most detailed games ever made, but I cannot play a game made by ROCKSTAR!? Weird. Someone should stop this. Last year, did you think the games you were playing graphics were a $150 worse than the games now? I think not!