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Gta IV – The story so far

As I mentioned in my last post, GTA 4 is out for PC and I decided that I should probably buy it for myself if the price is right.

Yesterday I did just that and got home at about 9pm happier than I've been alone in ages and started to install. I figured from the off that it was going to take some time so I kept installing.. and installing.. and installing.. and installing.. and after 45 or so minutes had registered to the two websites the installer asked for, installed the game, verified the key, and verified that it was past the release date.. Phew..

So, I fires up the game on my not-below average machine (Amd Athlon X2 3800+ 64, 2gig DDR400, HIS ATI x800GTO) and gets a "Fatal Error: DD3D50"

After some research, I find out that this is a "DirectX 9 required error" which I thought was a little odd considering AFAIK the x800 is a DX9 card.

So, to cur a long story short, aside from costing me £27.99 for the game, I have also ended up yesterday night buying a new graphics card in an effort to bring my PC up to some sort of modern standard which now has the following vitals:

Socket 949 AMD Athlon X2 3800+ 64bit
2GB ddr400 RAM
500+ GB hdd space (I forget exactly how much)
[url=http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards/PCI-E/ATI+Radeon+4000+Series/ATI+Radeon+HD4670+1GB+DDR3+PCI-E+?productId=34137]ATI Radeon HD 4670 1GB[/url]

So now the most valuable and modern part of the PC is probably the gfx card, sad really.. I will probably be getting a Core2 or Core quad in the new year though so it's ok for now

Regards
A Groomi who's itching to play his new game which has so far cost him £110

ps. Anyone want to buy a radeon x800?