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Yeah, I've noticed that the most complaints about Vista were with computers that couldn't really handle it. Comparatively, my system is a little slower than the ones mentioned here, but still pretty adequate:
It was a pretty good system when I built it, which was August 2008. I have the capacity for 8GB of RAM, which I haven't taken advantage of yet. At any rate, I can run Vista no problem and run lots of programs with hardly taxing the processor. The only thing I've noticed is that GTA IV tends to run a wee bit slow but certainly doesn't hinder gameplay enjoyment.
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Fabrux: For GTA IV, make sure Antialiasing and far-away shadows is either very low or disabled, worked for me. Also, be DAMNED sure to switch off the "automatic movie recording" feature that records the last ten seconds of gameplay all the time, it is the source of more stutter and bluescreens than any other GTA-feature, super-believe me.
I finished it a few months ago, won't be playing it again for a long time, maybe until Rockstar Games comes around to releasing the two expansions for PC, which should be around 2016, or the year communist China falls, whichever comes first.
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Da_bang80
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You should put GTA IV on the shelf and look into Saints Row 2 for PC. It's way better than GTA. Any game that lets you control a septic truck to spray people with high resolution turds gets an A+ in my book.
Oh and OverRon, don't even bother with overclocking, you get a minor performance boost at the cost of shortening the life span of the cpu. My mobo came with a real time OC program and I just leave it as is.
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You assume my copy exists in other than digital form....
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Da_bang80
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Ah I see, well SR2 is still better.
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Saltah'na
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I bought this last December for a mere $500 (of course not counting the gifts I received).
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Intel DP45SG Motherboard 4 GB Patriot DDR3-1333 RAM Antec Sonata III Case with 500W power supply Seagate 500 GB Hard Drive (gift from two friends) Radeon X1950XTX 512 MB Video Card (gift from another friend, he didn't want it, and I didn't want to spring $200 on a video card, hey it still works nicely....) 2 LG DVDRW.
On the wishlist for this machine: Creative X-Fi Sound card (I currently use the integrated sound card at the moment) New Video Card (maybe a Radeon 5850 when it comes out) 1 TB Hard Drive (probably Seagate).
My previous machine which I bought 6 years ago is still around and kicking. It is a P4 3.0C with 2 GB of RAM and now serves as my media centre hooked to my LCD TV. Unfortunately, I can't play Blu-Ray on that machine because it is simply too slow. Once that machine kicks the bucket, I may spring for a new media centre machine with a Blu Ray player.....
One question for anyone: do you know if Windows 7 supports hardware acceleration for discrete sound cards? I know that Vista did not do that (sound processing was handled by the OS itself), was wondering if they went back on the new Windows.
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