Eeeyyy cousin, let’s go bowling

  • Dariusmiles2123
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    2 months ago

    I loved it but I ain’t buying it a second time at more than 10$!

  • @[email protected]
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    82 months ago

    GTA IV is currently backwards compatible on Xbox, so you can already play it on there. If you have your old 360 disc that works you can use that to get the digital version.

  • @[email protected]
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    102 months ago

    GTA IV reoptimized to run in modern hardware with less or at least more reasonable piss filter would be a nice upgrade. None of the visual mods could get ride of the weird haze around everything.

  • @[email protected]
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    512 months ago

    Ok but don’t fix the swing set of doom. A significant portion of my playtime was trying to best my longest launch.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        Played it on Xbox series X last year and have no desire to go back to it. I enjoyed the story and I’m done with it

    • @[email protected]
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      122 months ago

      Been playing it on PC. Performs better at 1440p that 1080p for reasons I don’t understand

      • @[email protected]
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        62 months ago

        Hope you’re running on Vulkan, for me it went from 30ish fps to an illegally high number for some ungodly reason.

          • Victor
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            62 months ago

            Then surely it’s via Vulkan? Is Proton able to use anything else under the hood?

            • @[email protected]
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              Well there is d9vk and dxvk which translates directX 9, 10 and 11 to Vulkan and vkd3d which translates direct3D (directX 12) to Vulkan. So it’s all Vulkan on the Linux side, Proton ‘just’ uses one of these to translate the game into Vulkan or passes it through if the game is already Vulkan.

              I don’t think there is a native (to GTA IV) Vulkan renderer in game though and therefore there isn’t anything more you can or have to do on Linux.

              On Windows, some older games actually get performance improvements from the translation to Vulkan.

              • Victor
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                12 months ago

                Can you use Proton on Windows too? Cool if so.

                • @[email protected]
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                  12 months ago

                  No, not Proton, but the dxvk stuff works on Windows too. You just need to replace some .dll files

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        It’s probably because things get janky on high FPS. I wasn’t able to complete the game until I capped the FPS in the final mission (helicopter scene).

    • Victor
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      12 months ago

      I read this as with a comma: “no fucking, thanks”.

  • @[email protected]
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    142 months ago

    Just keep Grove Street Games as far away from this as possible.

    No one wants to see them butcher another entry in this series with their lazy, AI-upscale slop.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 months ago

        They are still hiring, according to their website - so unlikely they’ve been shut down.

        • MrScottyTay
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          12 months ago

          I must’ve heard wrong then. I swear I saw that they got shut down and then a different team came in to do those extra fixes on the shitty trilogy collection

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      To be fair I don’t think the issue is Grove Street Games. The AI-upscale texture work wasn’t even done by them - that was Technicolor, who Rockstar, as far as I know, still use to this day.

      The issue was that Rockstar gave them a tiny budget, not a whole lot of time, and then moved the deadline forward six months when GTA V E&E got delayed. I think the scope for the project was fundamentally wrong as well, the games needed a lot more than a straightforward port onto Unreal Engine.

      No wonder it released in the state that it did.

  • ChuckTheMonkey
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    92 months ago

    I hope they could re release a PC version as well. Current GTA IV PC version is laughable on modern hardware. The optimization mod works ok most of the time. But sometime it stutters like crazy and I need a hard PC reboot to fix it.

  • @[email protected]
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    42 months ago

    Only reason I haven’t modded HDR for this game is because it’s DX9 and a pain to mod. (I already did GTAV - Enhanced and GTA Trilogy Remastered since it’s UE). If they make a new port for PC it’ll be able to complete the set.

  • I Cast Fist
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    72 months ago

    Meanwhile, PC players can still buy and play it off steam. Or just pirate it