GTA IV - Freezes and lock-ups

[danrok]

If you're about to buy this game, you might want to hold fire for now.

See front page:
http://www.aoaforums.com/frontpage/content/view/4171/1/

Comments?

[skool h8r]

Looks like they tried to copy WoW's type of seamless gameplay and did a really bad job of it.

[chrisbard]

That is nasty ....Sooo when is out for PC????

[Favu]

Originally Posted by skool h8r

Looks like they tried to copy WoW's type of seamless gameplay and did a really bad job of it.

wait... what?

[skool h8r]

Originally Posted by Favu

wait... what?

WoW is seamless in that it only has to load new data when you go to a new continent or an instance and the amount of data there is loaded at one time is hugh and Blizzard managed to find a way to load each part as required without adding "Please wait...." screens.

[danrok]

It's a similar situation, except the PS3 only has 256MB of system memory, which would make it quite tricky to pull this off.

Although, it can be done, and I'm sure that I read that Sony recommends using this method, and that developers have had a moan about how much work is involved in learning how to code it.

[fearless joe]

GTA SA, the last one, did this to me, and everyone i know that owned it too

is a shame, cos it seems like a good, if massivly brutal game

[danrok]

Has been working fine for me the last day or so. Have been playing multiplayer without issues as well, which is good fun.

Weird that it would go tits-up then work just fine.

[ccperf721p]

I've only had one instance of freeze up since I started playing it, hung while trying to load a saved game. Other than that it's been smooth.

[danrok]

Tried the multiplay yet? I can't stop laughing whilst playing that.

[ccperf721p]

I haven't tried it yet. I have too much fun just walking around the city cranking people with a bat and watching them drop their groceries.

[Áedán]

Dynamically loading content/code as required isn't a new trick though. It's been fairly hashed through loads of times.

[Favu]

Originally Posted by Áedán

Dynamically loading content/code as required isn't a new trick though. It's been fairly hashed through loads of times.

I was thinking this

[dsio]

Originally Posted by ccperf721p

I haven't tried it yet. I have too much fun just walking around the city cranking people with a bat and watching them drop their groceries.

I like starting fights.

Was walking near the amusement park and all of a sudden a yellow cab ran over two people (NPCs). Then... for whatever reason, these two people that were hit by the yellow cab started fighting eachother.

So I stole the cab, and once the driver was out, beat him up, and got into it with all 3 of them.

But its an interesting occurance... you're walking along side a stranger across the road, when all of a sudden a cab hits you both. When you get up, instead of hitting the cabbie or anything, you start beating the crap out of the guy that got run over beside you, ignoring the cab completely.

I can only imagine when they were run over, the two people landed on eachother, and that contact triggered the game to make them fight? =\

[danrok]

I think it's the little unexpected things, and the vague illusion of it being a real city, which gives the game appeal.

[danrok]

PS3 version has been patched now, dunno what they've changed...