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post #41 of 76
5/2/08 at 9:17am

GTA IV sells 609,000 in UK on day one

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Gamers around the world are excited about GTA IV, and in Britain they were so excited that they caused a record sales day. On day one of release in the U.K., GTA IV broke records by selling 609,000 copies. This broke the previous record by more than 100,000 units. Interestingly enough, the previous record was also held by a title in the GTA series, GTA: San Andreas. It sold 501,000 copies on a single day.

More interestingly, the sales for the game, split between the 360 and the PS3, did not heavily favor one console over the other with 335,000 for the Xbox and 274,000 for the PS3. Given how many more 360s are in the field than the PS3, the difference is small and may reflect a changing market for Sony's (formerly) troubled console.
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post #42 of 76
5/2/08 at 11:03am
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What is multiplayer like?
GTA IV online play troublesome for PS3 owners

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Earlier this week many reports came in that both the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of GTA IV were experiencing freezing problems, with no comment from Take Two or Rockstar at the moment - Sony just recently did.

The problems keep arising for GTA though. In particular, the PlayStation 3 release is being fingered as more likely to have issues with online play, though with the release so fresh out of the door it's hard to pass judgment.

With so many eager people buying the game and plugging it in the instant they get home, it's possible that Sony servers are having trouble coping with the massive number of connections. This could explain why there aren't reports of the 360 version having similar issues, since Microsoft has had a much longer span of time to mature their online service.
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post #43 of 76
5/2/08 at 1:16pm
Funny I have yet to have a problem but I only play for about two hours at a time so that may have something to do with it. Saw this on a few other boards you should see what TT is telling PS3 owners to do.

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Please run through the following, go through in order.
1) Delete the game's install data. This is done via the PS3 options. Scroll along the cross media bar until you reach the 'Game' tab, now scroll up / down the list until you reach the 'Game Data Utility' Enter this and locate the GTA IV option. Highlight this and press triangle once, from the menu select Delete. This will delete the game's install information.
2) Delete the game's save files. To delete any save files you will need to do the following. Scroll along the cross media bar until you reach the 'Game' tab, now scroll up / down the list until you reach the 'Save Data Utility' Enter this and locate the GTA IV option. Highlight this and press triangle once, and from the context menu select Delete.
3) Disable your Internet connectivity for the PS3. To do this scroll along the cross media bar until you reach the 'Settings' tab, now scroll up / down the list until you reach the 'Network Settings'. Now scroll down to the Internet connection option and press x, now select the disable option. Once this has been done unplug the ethernet cable if you are connecting to the Internet if using this.
4) Disable the console's information board. To do this scroll along the cross media bar until you reach the 'Network' tab, now scroll up / down the list until you reach the 'Information Board', highlight this and press triangle. From the menu select 'Do not display' Press X to confirm this.
5) Disable Media Server functionality. Scroll to Settings, now scroll up / down to 'Network Settings' select Media Server connection. Once this has been done press triangle and change the option Disabled.
6) Delete all of the system's Internet cache. To do this scroll along the cross media bar until you reach the 'Network' tab, now scroll up / down the list until you reach the 'Internet Browser', highlight this and press X. Once you browser opens press the triangle button once, from the new menu highlight the 'Tools' option and press X. Scroll down the menu until you reach 'Delete Cookies' and press X. Confirm the files deletion. Repeat this for 'Delete Cache'.
7 ) Turn off the PS3 screen saver. Use the cross media bar to scroll to 'Settings', select 'Display Settings'. Now highlight 'Screensaver' and set this to 'Do not use'.
8 ) Once this has been done, manually restart you PS3 by holding down the power button for 5 seconds it will beep once and then shut down. Release the power button and re-press it and hold for about 5 seconds. The system will then boot and reset all display settings. You will be prompted to reset your display settings to how you require them.
9) Once restarted please try the game again, you will be prompted to reinstall.
Once the game has started please turn off the following features:
1) The game's auto-save. Press Start, Game, and locate the Auto-save option. Turn this off.
2) Turn off the game's flicker filter. Press Start, Display and locate the Flicker Filter option. Turn this off.
3) Turn off the controller vibration feature. Press Start, Controls and locate the vibration option. Turn this off.
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post #44 of 76
5/2/08 at 2:28pm
Alittle GTAIV Apple humor.
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post #45 of 76
5/2/08 at 2:41pm
Haven't seen that one yet. I LOVE the talk radio shows ingame. F88king UNREAL some of the shit they say.
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post #46 of 76
5/3/08 at 5:41pm
Fresh from Kotaku, PS3 freezing is apparently fixed by disabling PSN or network access.
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post #47 of 76
5/3/08 at 11:38pm
Still hasn't happened to me. (thank god)
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post #48 of 76
5/5/08 at 9:06am
mine shipped yesterday
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post #49 of 76
5/5/08 at 1:31pm
About freaking time. I had a weird rendering issue last night game was running fine but it didn't render the inside of the pool hall.
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post #50 of 76
5/5/08 at 5:21pm
Man I cant get enuf of Liberty City TV!!!
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post #51 of 76
5/7/08 at 8:04am
started the game last night... just beat up two guys in a park... fun so far
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post #52 of 76
5/7/08 at 2:03pm
Steve you wanna try and get some online in this weekend?
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post #53 of 76
5/7/08 at 2:44pm
Sure
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post #54 of 76
5/7/08 at 4:43pm
Sweet shoot me a text when you got the time to play. I am going to be working on the house so I can jump on anytime.
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post #55 of 76
5/8/08 at 10:58pm
Thread Starter 
Man this game is really good (didn't wanna say hella or everybody from Socal would kill me :P). I just finished this really fun mission from Playboy X (would talk about but didn't know there were no spoiler tags on this forum)

There is so much to do in GTA IV. But what really sucks is when you go to a bar that is far away from your safehouse, which I did and got the cops on me twice and I was finally killed. Its so hard to drive when drunk.
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post #56 of 76
5/10/08 at 6:27pm
you should take a can home boom. that what i do...

im 26% done now...
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post #57 of 76
5/12/08 at 1:23pm
I'm kinda pissed that they didn't release this for PC the same time as consoles.
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post #58 of 76
5/12/08 at 2:01pm
Well STeve you passed me. I am at 15% I think.
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post #59 of 76
5/14/08 at 1:53pm
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/arti...-Theft-Auto-IV

Watch the entire Bloody thing wankers.
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post #60 of 76
5/14/08 at 2:04pm
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