[JAJ]

The GTAIV Chain Game Lounge



A BIG thanks to Unlimited for letting me use some of his 'content' from <The GTASA Chain Game Lounge>

The GTAIV Chain Game Lounge topic is for players who have questions or wish to talk about the GTAIV Chain Game.
Players could post something funny that happend during a turn, a new mission strategy, problems they had/glitchs, ideas for a future mod'ed save file, etc.

-Please keep the general topic related to the GTAIV Chain Game.
-Please use the this topic for your question or comments about the GTAIV Chain Game.

Here's some helpful links:
<Frequently Asked Questions, by CharmingCharlie>
<GTA4.net Liberty City map collection>
<GTA4.net Liberty City mission guide>
<GTA4.net Liberty City Assassinations guide>
<GTA4.net Liberty City characters>
<GTA4.net Liberty City friends and girlfriends>
<GTA4.net Liberty City random characters>
<GTA4.net Pigeon location map>
<GTA4.net Liberty City Stevie's Car Thefts>
<Storyline Choices by en.wikiGTA.org>

If you have any questions about the Chain Game, you could make a post, or PM one of the Chain Game officers.

The GTAIV Chain Game Officers:
aFinn
girishb
JAJ

This post has been edited by JAJ on Sunday, Sep 6 2009, 23:08

[sharan_basava]

yes im using xliveless but it fails to load
other savegames load normaly

[Girish]

But then how did you manage to do 'First Date'? If it loaded then, it should load now too. You must be doing something wrong. Did you place the savefile in the new location specified by Xliveless?

[mkey82]

What the hell are you guys talking about?

[Girish]

QUOTE (mkey82 @ Sep 8 2009, 14:19)

What the hell are you guys talking about?

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=424647

Read, understand and play.

[mkey82]

Yes, but how does the second post relate to the opening one?

[JAJ]

QUOTE (mkey82 @ Sep 8 2009, 05:56)

Yes, but how does the second post relate to the opening one?

The discussion was directed here from <this topic>. This is the topic for GTAIV chain game discussion.
Do you have any other questions or comments - perferably about the GTAIV chain game?

[Girish]

Oh, this is just a general topic for all CG related discussion. This is so, so that we can keep all discussion/issues related posts away from the main CG topic.

sharan_basava is having an issues loading the CG save and I asked him to post in here rather than the pinned CG topic.

[Ryan]

I'm hoping to join you guys soon. I'd like to finish the game on single player first though.

I need to figure out how the save file sharing stuff works before I can play.

[CharmingCharlie]

Ah I will give this a bit of a bump at girish's request I did a bit of a news posting on GTAnet about the chain game to try and drum up some interst. You can read the news post here :-

http://www.gta4.net/news/4312/gta-iv-chain-game-now-running

[RYO_91]

JAJ is that your dog? he is cute

[Girish]

Erm, this topic is indeed for chatting/talking, but not general, random chat; only Chain Game related chat.

[RYO_91]

i know its just that i love dogs, no more off topic sorry

[JAJ]

QUOTE (CharmingCharlie @ Sep 14 2009, 13:43)

Ah I will give this a bit of a bump  at girish's request I did a bit of a news posting on GTAnet about the chain game to try and drum up some interst.  You can read the news post here :- http://www.gta4.net/news/4312/gta-iv-chain-game-now-running

Thanks to CharmingCharlie for the wonderful write-up! It's very much appreciated!

@RYO_91, The one in the sig is my girlfriend's dog Daisy & she is very old now - about 19/20, we don't know for sure.
The one in the avatar was mine but she died about a 15 months ago. It was a very sad time for me.

Here's my new dog, he's almost 2 yrs old:

[RYO_91]

QUOTE (JAJ @ Sep 14 2009, 22:59)

QUOTE (CharmingCharlie @ Sep 14 2009, 13:43) Ah I will give this a bit of a bump  at girish's request I did a bit of a news posting on GTAnet about the chain game to try and drum up some interst.  You can read the news post here :- http://www.gta4.net/news/4312/gta-iv-chain-game-now-running Thanks to CharmingCharlie for the wonderful write-up! It's very much appreciated! @RYO_91, The one in the sig is my girlfriend's dog Daisy & she is very old now - about 19/20, we don't know for sure. The one in the avatar was mine but she died about a 15 months ago. It was a very sad time for me. Here's my new dog, he's almost 2 yrs old:

they are very similar ,are they family?

[radioman]

Alright, I figured out how to download the saves for IV for PC, but I cannot find where the saves are located? I have used the search feature in Windows, and I have searched the entire IV section of the forum, but no help there. I have Vista Home Premium laptop and do not use compatibility mode, if that helps. I have 2 saves right now, the Auto save and a save in the first slot. Also, is it a known problem for the mouse to be slow responsive? I have that problem. I play on a laptop with the following specs, if it helps: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual core (2.10GHZ), 3GB DDR2 RAM, Nvidia Geforce 8200M w/1407MB VRAM. I can play the game fine, except for the slow mouse response problem, and texture slow at loading sometimes, is this a known problem?

Thanks JAJ for pointing me to the IV Chain Game Lounge from the SA topic.

Also, why does the Safari browser work for downloading the saves, but IE 7 and 8 will not download the saves?

[Girish]

Since you're Vista, you can locate the saves this way:
Start > Games > Right-click on Grand Theft Auto IV > Saved Games.
This will take you directly to the savegames folder.

But in order to load saves from the Chain Game or any other downloaded save, you'll need Xliveless. This will change the savegames folder location to: %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA IV\savegames\
You'll have to copy the saves to this location.

As for the mouse issue, try increasing the sensitivity from the Control options. Note that, Niko does not move/turn as swiftly as the protagonists from the previous GTAs. So, maybe that's why you find it a little odd.

And regarding the GTA4SnP site, it seems that the website is not optimized to work on IE. I'll contact Gangsta Killa about this and see if it can be corrected.

[JAJ]

QUOTE (girishb @ Sep 15 2009, 03:59)

And regarding the GTA4SnP site, it seems that the website is not optimized to work on IE. I'll contact Gangsta Killa about this and see if it can be corrected.

Gangsta Killa continues to work on getting his site to work with IE8.

QUOTE (Gangsta Killa @ Sep 17 2009, 15:35)

For those of you who use IE, and IE seems to open it in the browse, right click the link and choose save target as, make sure its set to all files and remove the .txt extension.

Samutz has added the GTA IV saves to his site http://www.gtasnp.com/ I've tested it & it works fine.

[Girish]

I had meant to post this but I forgot. Check out the screenshot taken during the mission 'Dust Off'.



I had no idea about the AI hanging onto choppers too. I thought it happened only with cars. It was awesome though until the poor guy lost grip and fell.

[Girish]

QUOTE (JAJ @ Sep 29 2009, 04:00)

Completion %: 65.55% Did the rest of Stevie's Car Thefts

Completing Stevie's car thefts should give us a 2% increase. Are you sure that is the right completion percentage?

Just asking because I haven't checked it myself and if we didn't get the percentage, then there might be something wrong.

Edit: Ok, scratch this. You hadn't exported the 'Patriot' yet. I finished it off.

This post has been edited by girishb on Tuesday, Sep 29 2009, 14:56