Why did GTA IV have technical issues on PS3/360?

Why did GTA IV have performance and technical issues when it first came out on PS3/360 when it's supposed to be the most polished GTA game ever? I mean there are texture pop-ins,framerate drops,hitches and sometimes even freezing issues,is that because maybe the PS3/360 bit more than they can chew with this game? Or it's just not that polished?

Thanks.

What are you talking about? Its the most polished open world game this gen!

im not gonna play the blame game *cough(multiplat) but imo the game was lackluster and extremely over-rated.GTA4 comes out on next-gen consoles and fails to rise above san andreas and vice city. i did enjoy the multiplayer though

I have a decent pc, and it struggles with it.

The game ran fine to me on the 360.

What are you talking about? Its the most polished open world game this gen!

PAL360

Yeah but when it was released it was bricking PS3s. I remember that... it was one of the reasons I was about to buy a 360 but then I learnt about the RROD.

GTAIV's performance is horrible, at least on the PS3. I haven't played the 360 version enough for a valid opinion, but it has bad framerate on PS3 which is most unfortunate. It has improved with patches and time, but it is still pretty bad. Its framerate is probably on the same level as San Andreas was on the PS2.

It's funny, I saw many threads on SW when GTAIV had recently been released, and so many people were claiming that it ran "smooth as butter." I guess that's a relative expression.

What are you talking about? Its the most polished open world game this gen!

PAL360

I didn't notice much about these technical issues,although it doesn't work anymore because my 360 scratched it.Thanks,microsoft.

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What are you talking about? Its the most polished open world game this gen!

mr-krinkles

Yeah but when it was released it was bricking PS3s. I remember that... it was one of the reasons I was about to buy a 360 but then I learnt about the RROD.

GTAIV's performance is horrible, at least on the PS3. I haven't played the 360 version enough for a valid opinion, but it has bad framerate on PS3 which is most unfortunate. It has improved with patches and time, but it is still pretty bad. Its framerate is probably on the same level as San Andreas was on the PS2.

It's funny, I saw many threads on SW when GTAIV had recently been released, and so many people were claiming that it ran "smooth as butter." I guess that's a relative expression.

yeah i bought the PS3 version and whenever you drove more than 20mph the framerate started dipping like crazy, when you got up to like 70mph the game had horrible framerate

and the game was super blurry 100% of the time, it just plain looked ugly as hell

compare that with Prototype and Crackdown tho, those games have tons of stuff going on with huge draw distances and solid framerates and no blurring either (albeit both also use more simple graphics but both also require much faster performance levels still)

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What are you talking about? Its the most polished open world game this gen!

88mphSlayer

Yeah but when it was released it was bricking PS3s. I remember that... it was one of the reasons I was about to buy a 360 but then I learnt about the RROD.

GTAIV's performance is horrible, at least on the PS3. I haven't played the 360 version enough for a valid opinion, but it has bad framerate on PS3 which is most unfortunate. It has improved with patches and time, but it is still pretty bad. Its framerate is probably on the same level as San Andreas was on the PS2.

It's funny, I saw many threads on SW when GTAIV had recently been released, and so many people were claiming that it ran "smooth as butter." I guess that's a relative expression.

yeah i bought the PS3 version and whenever you drove more than 20mph the framerate started dipping like crazy, when you got up to like 70mph the game had horrible framerate

and the game was super blurry 100% of the time, it just plain looked ugly as hell

compare that with Prototype and Crackdown tho, those games have tons of stuff going on with huge draw distances and solid framerates and no blurring either (albeit both also use more simple graphics but both also require much faster performance levels still)

I'm the kinda GTA player that likes to go cause as much chaos and carnage in the world. Going on killing sprees and getting as much police etc. after me is how I like to play the game, with artistic use of all the weapons from the shotguns to the grenades. GTA Vice City on PC was absolutely epic for this. Sadly, GTAIV's framerate just can't keep up with how I like to play the game. If it did, it would probably be my favourite GTA game.

PS I'm not a psycho, this is just how the GTA sandbox formula works best. Try it in the online free mode.

it didnt take advantage of the Cell cpu?

It was too ambitios in graphics and in scale. Too much for consoles. PC version runs and looks amazing though after a patch.

It did? If it did, I didnt notice anything. Then again, I did get the game till late 08. Besides, the "problems" didnt hurt the awesome game that i really, really enjoyed. Fuhgeddabouditt

I agree,while it certainly suffered from lots of annoying technical issues,that didn't prevent it from becoming my favorite game of all-time.

All I've noticed is graphics pop-in and some frame rate drops. Never had any major problems.II-FBIsniper-II

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What are you talking about? Its the most polished open world game this gen!

mr-krinkles

Yeah but when it was released it was bricking PS3s. I remember that... it was one of the reasons I was about to buy a 360 but then I learnt about the RROD.

GTAIV's performance is horrible, at least on the PS3. I haven't played the 360 version enough for a valid opinion, but it has bad framerate on PS3 which is most unfortunate. It has improved with patches and time, but it is still pretty bad. Its framerate is probably on the same level as San Andreas was on the PS2.

It's funny, I saw many threads on SW when GTAIV had recently been released, and so many people were claiming that it ran "smooth as butter." I guess that's a relative expression.

I'm still wondering how it got a 10 with all those technical problems the TC listed, I've seen all the ones he listed while playing.

[QUOTE="II-FBIsniper-II"]All I've noticed is graphics pop-in and some frame rate drops. Never had any major problems.normal_gamer

I'm still wondering how it got a 10 with all those technical problems the TC listed, I've seen all the ones he listed while playing.

mitu123

It's not the consoles fault

The pc version got 1.0 lower than the console versions

It is the game itself.

New engine.

I bought it when it was onsale for 5 bucks on steam.

I feel I got ripped off because of the non-existent optimization.

[QUOTE="normal_gamer"][QUOTE="II-FBIsniper-II"]All I've noticed is graphics pop-in and some frame rate drops. Never had any major problems.II-FBIsniper-II

its problems were more on 360 not ps3.PimpMyConsole

it didnt take advantage of the Cell cpu?

ZoomZoom2490

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it didnt take advantage of the Cell cpu?

pip__

10 posts and everyone of them rubbish, kudos :D

What are you talking about? Its the most polished open world game this gen!

PAL360

^this

because niether console has the memory to play gta4 very well.Ontain

The Xbox360 played and performed better then the PS3 version and the PC version was not optimized properly or you needed a a fairly hefty rigg to get the most out of it.

its problems were more on 360 not ps3.PimpMyConsole

no it's not and it was articled the PS3 had the most problems.

[QUOTE="PimpMyConsole"]its problems were more on 360 not ps3.AdmiralBison

no it's not and it was articled the PS3 had the most problems.

its problems were more on 360 not ps3.PimpMyConsole

no it's not and it was articled the PS3 had the most problems.

It is pretty polished. You can barely notice any pop-in.Parasomniac