[Raynos]

QUOTE (Nero1024 @ Wednesday, Jul 18 2012, 06:10)

Is my specs good enough? Intel Pentuim II @ 450 MHz 384 MB RAM 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 Windows 98SE It can run Quake 3 decently.

lol voodoo3, dang, I remember those!

Awesome setup!

[Duplex]

Lol some people with their 16gb of RAM! I have built and maintained corporate servers with less RAM.

As a game developer myself, I seem to have a fairly modest setup, although it's due an upgrade.

Intel i5
4GB DDR3 RAM
nVidia GTX260

I can tell you now when you see people with 16GB of RAM and you're like "me want", don't waste your money. Unless you encoding and rendering video or 3D animation all the time, there is no point.

From experience, 6GB is the best amount, 2GB for the operating system in the backgroud and 4GB left for the game, seeing as VERY few games are coded to use any more than that. Most games have a function for refreshing the memory and removing things from memory, so you are very rarely in a situation when more than 4GB of information needs to be loaded at any one time.

Seeing as 6GB can be a pain to get, you would have to get a single 4GB stick and a 2GB stick, you might as well just buy a 2X4GB bundle and have the extra breathing room.

As I keep saying, I'm a developer myself, I create 3D environments, work with multiple high resolution textures at the same time, placing them into a game engine, etc. All on the setup I posted above.

[noid449]

i look at my task manager alot and see my performance tab i use well over 8gb alot of the time many programs and games including gta iv will use 6-12 gb of ram and all 4 (8 virtual cores ) so im happy with my 16 gb also my 2 sticks of 8 gb each are the cheapest way to buy this amount and still have 2 slots for future upgrade if needed
if i choose to encode a movie or run some music sampling /dj software i can and then switch back to gaming all is good.
just because you have run stuff with less doesnt mean you have to my car does over 120 mph but the max speed limit is 70 mph

[Dilapidation]

After playing Max Payne 3 and seeing all the hard work R* put into that game it would be a complete failure of them if they didn't do a better job coding this time around. IV was one of the most unoptimized pc games ever made in my opinion and I honestly don't see R* making the same mistake twice. Having said that I think GTA V will run better on lower specs than what IV could, albeit not with all the eye candy or ultra settings galore but with a better and more playable fps.

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
AMD Phenom II x4 965 @4.1ghz
12gb DDR3 Ram
1tb HDD /240gb SSD
Radeon 7970 3gb

[theworldfamous]

16gigss..wimps. Mine is bigga!

But it doesn't matter. I can't game behind a desk. So consoles and couches it is.

[Raynos]

QUOTE (noid449 @ Wednesday, Jul 18 2012, 06:51)

i look at my task manager alot and see my performance tab i use well over 8gb alot of the time many programs and games including gta iv will use 6-12 gb of ram and all 4 (8 virtual cores ) so im happy with my 16 gb also my 2 sticks of 8 gb each are the cheapest way to buy this amount and still have 2 slots for future upgrade if needed if i choose to encode a movie or run some music sampling /dj software i can and then switch back to gaming all is good. just because you have run stuff with less doesnt mean you have to my car does over 120 mph but the max speed limit is 70 mph

Yeah, plus ram is cheap and there is no harm is having too much compared to not having enough.

16gb IMO isn't that drastic, I had to go for that, didn't really have a choice.

[Afusensi]

Yes, im sure my pc is powerful enouf.

But if its a bad port like GTA IV, then i need to upgrade my cpu.

My specs:
MBO: ASUS M4A77T
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE 3.8 GHz
RAM:Kingston 12 GB DDR3
HDD: 2TB
GPU: Saphire HD 7970 3GB
Monitor: AOC E2243Fw 21'' (x3) Eyefinity
OS: Windows 7 64bit

This post has been edited by Afusensi on Wednesday, Jul 18 2012, 16:40

[Basical25]

QUOTE (Ryanbashaw @ Wednesday, Jul 18 2012, 03:46)

Xbox 4 lyfe

Great contribution.

Btw we should have a single PC spec/build thread.

[r34ld34l]

MB: Asus R3E
CPU: i7 950 @3.72GHz
RAM: 12GB @1866MHz
GPU: GTX 470 SLI
SSD: 128 GB
HDD: F3 Spinpoint 1TB x2 in Raid0

Dunno on which disk I will put GTA V. Depends on size. If 20GB or less, then SSD, else on HDD.

[MinnieMan121249]

QUOTE (Brendino333 @ Tuesday, Jul 17 2012, 22:45)

Huh? I didnt ask if your computer was powerful enough to run it. Nice hardware By the way

QUOTE

Yes you did, you dunce.

[Crimson Flam3s]

QUOTE (mrawoodcock @ Wednesday, Jul 18 2012, 06:12)

QUOTE (Nero1024 @ Wednesday, Jul 18 2012, 06:10) Is my specs good enough? Intel Pentuim II @ 450 MHz 384 MB RAM 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 Windows 98SE It can run Quake 3 decently. lol

Damn what a supercomputer you got there

[jackass2009]

QUOTE (Ryanbashaw @ Tuesday, Jul 17 2012, 19:46)

Xbox 4 lyfe

You're what's wrong with the world.

OT: The computer I'm on right now isn't the one that can run it and I can't remember it's specs, so I'll check back later when I know for certain. I know it has a two TB hard drive at the moment, though.

[esvi]

specs in my sig

run bf3 IV EFLC skyrim smoothly, and maxed out

I don't worry much about V
it'll be well optimized they learn their lessons from IV looking at MP3 apparently

[Garfield 2]

Laptop #1:
- Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 @ 2GHz
- 4GBs of RAM
- ATI Radeon X1800 256MB Graphics Card
- 20.1" built-in screen
- 32GB SSD

Laptop #2:
- Intel Core 2 Duo @ 1.6GHz
- 1GB of RAM
- Intel GMA X3100
- 320GB HDD
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Desktop #1:
- ASUS M5A78L-M LX Motherboard
- AMD Athlon II X3 460 @ 3.4GHz with the 4th Core unlocked
- Corsair 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM
- AMD Radeon HD6770 1GB GDDR5
- Samsung HD103SJ HDD
- LG Blu-Ray Drive
- Corsair 650W PSU
- Xigmatek Asgard Case
- 17" LCD Monitor by LG

[ATastyCookie]

Mobo:ASrock z68
GPU: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970
CPU:AMD FX-8120
CPU Cooler: Coolermaster Hyper 212
RAM:GSkills Ripjaws X Series 8 GB
PSU:OCZ Fatal1ty 750W 80+bronze (red led)
HDD: Samsung 1tb
Case:XION Cyborg black mid tower gaming case (with red led's)
Case fans: 1x 120mm red led fan and 1x 140mm red led fan
Also using a Microsoft Sidewinder (red backlight) gaming keyboard and a gaming mouse that I forgot the name of, but also lights up red.

Getting that setup in a few months, for now I'm using an HD 6770 (which can still hold its own)

[krspkbl]

Specs:

3.2Ghz Cell Processor
256mb RAM
nVidia GeForce 7800 256mb
60GB 5400RPM HD

Console peasant here!

This post has been edited by krspkbl on Wednesday, Jul 18 2012, 13:19

[GTA-Fanboy]

ready as hell !

[Smaaske]

On my PC, GTAIV didn´t run, anyways i´ve got the xbox, xbox for lyfe

[NateShaw92]

maybe upgrade my cpu and graphics to eliminate any doubt, but they should be adequate, they are fine as of now running fallout on very high flawlessly.

PS - set detail distance to 100 for gta 4, shud remove a good portion of the problems

[Dandere]

Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition 3.3 GHz
2x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 4Gb
64Gb DDR3
4x 3Tb SATA 6Gb/s