Hi everyone.
So bad news if you were waiting for Grand Theft Auto 5
on PC. It has been pushed back to March 24th.
Now you might remember a couple of weeks ago there were rumours
that it was going to be delayed and Rockstar's community moderators
were absolutely adamant there had been no delay, everything was on track
there would be no delays etcetera. They even
reaffirmed their street date going as far as to say
no it will definitely be released on the date we intended.
Turns out that was just a lie because it has now been pushed back.
So there does seem to be a big disconnect here between what was going on in Rockstar from a
development point of view and what their PR marketing spin masters
are up to. It does strike me that this was a case of quick
deny everything we need a few more pre-orders delay delay delay
and it actually turns out to be true. Now
at the end of the day Rockstar are on slippery slopes here. Whilst I appreciate
delaying a game to make sure it is absolutely perfect, what I
absolutely cannot forgive is PR and marketing people essentially lying to
everybody
just so they could bump those pre-order numbers for another couple of weeks.
Obviously if they'd have been honest at the time and said Oh actually yes, it's going to be delayed
they would've seen those pre-orders drop off quite dramatically. Yet more
dodgy behaviour from the video games industry unfortunately.
This is the kind of thing that has to stop or you are going to destroy
a lot of goodwill Rockstar and other companies.
So whilst Rockstar have delayed the game till March 24th
what we do now have is the official specs required
to run Grand Theft Auto 5. Now the minimum specs are actually pretty good,
an Intel quad-core processor specced as the Q6600, at 2.4 Ghz,
or AMD Phenom 9850 quad-core
at 2.5Ghz, 4gig of ram, Nvidia 9800 GPU or a 4870 from AMD,
a sound card and 65gig of hard drive space.
65gig. That is massive. The only thing I can think there is we are very much dealing with
the online component as well as the obviously single player game
component there as well and that is a very, very large size.
It seems to me that's much larger I think than we would see even on the next gen
consoles
from an install point of view. Now the recommended specs and this is
really where we want to be drawing our line in the sand are a little bit more
uber. So we are looking at an Intel Core i5 3470 clocked at 3.2Ghz
with four CPUs or an AMD
8 FX 8350 at 4Ghz which
effectively has 8 CPUs in there. Now if you happen to be running a core i7 don't
worry
that is essentially an eight core system, four cores plus four hyper
threaded. It will still more than compete with the AMD
8 FX 8. They're also recommending
8gig of video memory. Now 8gig of video memory was pretty much the standard
last year
for systems on sale but that does mean that
8gig of memory plus what Windows is taking may mean you do not have
8gig
of spare memory. So it could be that we will see
8gig systems will work but may not perform
absolutely to top performance, in comparison to a system with say with 16 gig of ram
where you've just got that little bit of extra overhead for Windows to take and the
game can have as much as it needs.
Video card wise, we're looking at a GTX 660
with 2gig of video memory or an HD 7870 from
AMD also running 2gig of memory and also 65gig of hard drive space being
required. Now these are pretty beefy specs.
Across-the-board you need a 64-bit operating system to take advantage
of Grand Theft Auto 5. No surprise there when it's requiring
8gig of ram. Essentially the game engine needs to make full use of 64-bit
mode
if it wants to be able to move around all those textures and allocate memory
correctly.
So with those specs now available what are you thinking?
Will you be picking up Grand Theft Auto 5 on PC when it finally launches on March
24th
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