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    GTA3? Does it work well on the Parhliea?

    Hi all!

    I just wonderd if any of the BBs would be able to comment (or other owners of the Parhelia) about GTA3.

    Does it work well on the Parhelia?

    Thanks!
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    http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34215


    Of course, Parhelia plays awful in Grand Theft Auto 3.

    apearently not.
    This sig is a shameless atempt to make my post look bigger.

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    • #3
      I saw that, but figured I should ask just incase it was an isolated problem...

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      • #4
        GTA3 plays just fine on a Parhelia, smooth sailing here, I don't know what that guy's issue was, but my experience is the exact opposite.

        Rags

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        • #5
          Thats what I like to hear!

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          • #6
            GTA 3 is a coding disaster i believe... it runs shitty on every hardware i've seen. Sure was nice to play though.

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            • #7
              GTA3 isn't the poorest coding job I've seen by any means, but it's certainly not great. I had to ignore the techs over @ Matrox and set my AGP aperture down to 16 or 32 MB (have .5G ram...) to get it to run right. It's smooth now at 640x480x16 on my G400 + dual PIII-1.0 rig. It's sorta playable at 800x600x16 or 640x480x32. I'm looking forward to getting a "P" so I can turn the res up a bit.
              I've heard mucking around with the radio station settings can help as well since sometimes it chops on CD accesses. I haven't noticed this though & haven't played with it, so you'll have to dig around for more info.
              Along with the performance issues, they also do a crappy job with thier screen code. It won't run in a window, and if I have my second head up I can drag the mouse right out of the game and onto my other desktop. Click on screen 2 and the game minimizes. Not exactly tolerable unless you play with a gamepad & don't use the mouse. At least I think it'd be ok w/ a gamepad. I don't have one to try.
              Last edited by zandor; 1 July 2002, 20:38.
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              • #8
                I have a friend with an ATI 7500 running the Catalyst drivers and he hasn't had any probs with the game. Didn't even have to run that GTA3 patch for the fog issues....
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                • #9
                  P5ycho

                  GTA 3 is a coding disaster i believe... it runs shitty on every hardware i've seen. Sure was nice to play though.
                  Hmm... My GF4 4400 oc. 4600 / AthlonXP 1700+ / 512DDR RAM runs GTA3 at 1152x864x32 all settings on max - smoooooth

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by WatchCat
                    P5ycho



                    Hmm... My GF4 4400 oc. 4600 / AthlonXP 1700+ / 512DDR RAM runs GTA3 at 1152x864x32 all settings on max - smoooooth
                    well it betters should, but how many percent of the systems used for GTA3 have your specs? 2%?

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by P5ycho


                      well it betters should, but how many percent of the systems used for GTA3 have your specs? 2%?
                      Superb graphics needs powerful system. I wish I had 3 monitors & Parhelia to run this game. Still waiting for opinions on Parhelia + GTA3.
                      Last edited by WatchCat; 2 July 2002, 21:27.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by BuddMan
                        I have a friend with an ATI 7500 running the Catalyst drivers and he hasn't had any probs with the game. Didn't even have to run that GTA3 patch for the fog issues....

                        FYI that only affected R8500 Owners.
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                        • #13
                          Got my Parhelia today and GTA3 runs awesome on it. 1024x768x32 and runs smooth. Also I put up my view distance quite a bit, had FAAx16 on and my system is only a p3-850 with 384mb of ram. So it doesn't require a super fast system to run that smoothly. Just a PARHELIA! Now if only I could get Neverwinter Nights to work!

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by leech
                            Got my Parhelia today and GTA3 runs awesome on it. 1024x768x32 and runs smooth. Also I put up my view distance quite a bit, had FAAx16 on and my system is only a p3-850 with 384mb of ram. So it doesn't require a super fast system to run that smoothly. Just a PARHELIA! Now if only I could get Neverwinter Nights to work!

                            Leech
                            Told ya so

                            Rags

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by leech
                              Got my Parhelia today and GTA3 runs awesome on it. 1024x768x32 and runs smooth. Also I put up my view distance quite a bit, had FAAx16 on and my system is only a p3-850 with 384mb of ram. So it doesn't require a super fast system to run that smoothly. Just a PARHELIA! Now if only I could get Neverwinter Nights to work!

                              Leech
                              Is it playable in 1600x1200? I mean if I want to use 3 monitors for surround gaming will the game run smooth?

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