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[zer0blivion]

Steam versions are the same as retail when it comes to modding, just a different install directory.

In the case of GTA San Andreas, they pushed an update through steam that removed songs from the radio stations and broke mod support. It's entirely possible that could happen again with GTAV. With San Andreas, I was able to restore the missing tracks from my 1.0 physical copy. If that happens sometime down the road, having a physical copy could theoretically make it easier to revert to version 1.0, but with the social club integration, it's hard to say for sure. Rockstar could potentially force patches that way.

 

[Valkrai]

In the case of GTA San Andreas, they pushed an update through steam that removed songs from the radio stations and broke mod support. It's entirely possible that could happen again with GTAV. With San Andreas, I was able to restore the missing tracks from my 1.0 physical copy. If that happens sometime down the road, having a physical copy could theoretically make it easier to revert to version 1.0, but with the social club integration, it's hard to say for sure. Rockstar could potentially force patches that way.

That's most likely how it'll be if you don't own the steam version of the game. I wouldn't have minded San Andreas being updated if it didn't break the game for me. I can't even boot up the game successfully without it crashing.

 

[Ratcabbage]

Probably a stupid question but will I still be able to mod GTA V if I get it through Steam?

 

[Trace]

Probably a stupid question but will I still be able to mod GTA V if I get it through Steam?

Assuming the engine/file layout is the same as in GTAIV, yes.

 

[Van]

What library did you go to? That internet speed there must be sick.

The one in my town....

 

[dEvAnGeL]

is this game steamworks? cause if i buy the retail version at bestbuy i get a 10 certificate and the discount with GCU so id like to know if it can be activated and downloaded with steam

 

[888]

is this game steamworks? cause if i buy the retail version at bestbuy i get a 10 certificate and the discount with GCU so id like to know if it can be activated and downloaded with steam

I believe retail is Social Club.

 

[laxu]

In the case of GTA San Andreas, they pushed an update through steam that removed songs from the radio stations and broke mod support. It's entirely possible that could happen again with GTAV. With San Andreas, I was able to restore the missing tracks from my 1.0 physical copy. If that happens sometime down the road, having a physical copy could theoretically make it easier to revert to version 1.0, but with the social club integration, it's hard to say for sure. Rockstar could potentially force patches that way.

I think R* Social Club will be very much the same. Overall it really depends on what is patched and what is required for modding. GTA IV had some blocks in place (probably mostly for piracy) that turned on drunk mode if it detected modified files. Of course this was completely futile as every version of the game was cracked and also mod support added to whitelist all files.

I hope R* has learned to be more supportive of modding the game and has just put a requirement for the online to be pure. I would be fine with modded being offline only, then I could just have two copies of the game on the hard drive if needed.

But for mod support for GTA IV it was all kinds of injectors that allowed scripting the game in Visual Basic or C++ and various data files replaced to improve car handling, weapon stats, replacing models/textures.

 

[kabel]

GTA V PC |OT| $59.99GB

fixed that for you

 

[DeathGlobe]

Fuck I had my progress reset I was like 52gb done and turned it off for the night now its at 13gb

 

[BLunted]

(via steam)

Think the people having issues are downloading via Rockstar Social Club. Steam appears to be solid.

 

[Ark]

Why is this taking so long for some people to download? I literally have (at best) 2mb download speed and I started the download about 11 this morning, it is now nearly 8 and I have 19 mins left (via steam)

It took me 20 hours to download on Steam, although I spread that out over a few nights.

 

[Snakepit]

My preload is complete, now we play the waiting game

 

[epmode]

is this game steamworks? cause if i buy the retail version at bestbuy i get a 10 certificate and the discount with GCU so id like to know if it can be activated and downloaded with steam

Nothing gets you a Steam key besides buying directly from Steam. There are Steam achievements but that's about it when it comes to Steamworks features.

It's too bad. Full Workshop mod support would have been lovely.

 

[bj00rn_]

I can't wait to play this menu!

 

[Mechanical Snowman]

I can't wait to play this menu!

me and my 680 are dreading it.

:<

 

[feel]

Can you link to the website that said this?

I'm on my phone, let me see if I can find it on the reddit app.


edit:

here we go
http://www.reddit.com/r/GrandTheftA...ar_reworked_some_places_for_the_pc_version_d/

 

[Dinjoralo]

I'm on my phone, let me see if I can find it on the reddit app.


edit:

here we go
http://www.reddit.com/r/GrandTheftA...ar_reworked_some_places_for_the_pc_version_d/

Hmm. I looked up the mansion they were talking about, and the pool there seems to have the cave in the console version, when they're claiming it's a new thing for PC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMhmBfNS1Us
Edit: Grammar is hard.

 

[etta]

Triple dipped! Hopefully my 4.6GHz 2500K, 16GB 1600MHz, and 2GB GTX 680 can do medium-high-very high combination at 1080p/60fps.

 

[Joey Ravn]

me and my 680 are dreading it.

:<

Why? The recommended GPU is a 660. A GTX 680 should be able to run this game at 1080/60 with a few bells and whistles enabled.

My 680x2 SLI is ready.

 

[Kezen]

Has this been posted today: PC Gamer - Rockstar talk 4K, PC performance and more

They seem to indicate that the PC version was in parallel with the original console versions but the bulk of the work focused on those consoles. However the work they had on the PC version around 64bit and DX11, informed the work on the new console versions which then ramped up the work on the PC version. So basically the PC version was it's own thing

Interesting, and great to see the PC version may have helped consoles in some way.
I really hope GTA 5 sells well enough so maybe, just maybe we could get a R* game relatively soon after the console releases.

I can already see the next AAA game of theirs not announced for PC and it depresses me. ;_;

 

[kabel]

Triple dipped! Hopefully my 4.6GHz 2500K, 16GB 1600MHz, and 2GB GTX 680 can do medium-high-very high combination at 1080p/60fps.

Man....you people are all like:
"God damn, I hope my new Porsche can reach 50mph."

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

Forget it, RSC is a pos that isn't working at all. Going to torrent it then log in and have it all verify and whatever.

 

[Kezen]

Forget it, RSC is a pos that isn't working at all. Going to torrent it then log in and have it all verify and whatever.

Why do you have to torrent it ? The piracy rate on PC is high enough as it is.

 

[Bl@de]

Man....you people are all like:
"God damn, I hope my new Porsche can reach 50mph."

Haha perfect one. I often wonder if it's sarcasm though. All these people with good setups asking if they can get ps4 quality ... Smh

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

Why do you have to torrent it ? The piracy rate on PC is high enough as it is.

Well RSC is broken and won't correct itself even after deleting the duplicate files and restarting the application. I can probably torrent the files faster than RSC can fix itself and then I can just log in to RSC from there.

R* should fix their shit. Edit: and as I type this, the installer is stalled at 0 bytes/sec.

 

[zer0blivion]

Why do you have to torrent it ? The piracy rate on PC is high enough as it is.

He's talking about torrenting the preload data instead of downloading them from Rockstar's seemingly over-burdened servers. One would still need a valid key to activate it on the social club before it's playable. I don't think that counts as piracy. Rockstar should actually consider using torrents to deliver content (opt-in of course). It would help relieve the stress on their content delivery network.

 

[SliChillax]

I don't understand why some of you bought the game through Rockstar's client and not Steam.

 

[fluffydelusions]

I don't understand why some of you bought the game through Rockstar's client and not Steam.

cheaper at some places apparently

 

[LilJoka]

cheaper at some places apparently

Steam was £10 more than the next cheapest in the UK.
And it's still the most expensive game I bought on PC.

 

[zer0blivion]

I don't understand why some of you bought the game through Rockstar's client and not Steam.

It can be found cheaper in some places. There was a thread about using a VPN to buy it from Nuuvem for much cheaper than Steam. It's a Rockstar Social Club key like any other non-Steam key reseller would have.

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

I don't understand why some of you bought the game through Rockstar's client and not Steam.

It was either I buy it for $30 or not until way later on a sale. I wasn't going to buy it for $60 anywhere.

 

[Hip Hop]

I don't understand why some of you bought the game through Rockstar's client and not Steam.

Because prices on those copies ranged from $30 to $45 compared to Steam's $60.

I myself did manage to get a Steam copy a while back for $45 though.

 

[demented waffle]

Over $13 cheaper with GMG. The download is much slower, but it's not like I have it now. I guess achievements and other things are available through steam as well. But for, me I can't see paying extra.

 

[LilJoka]

I thought RSC would be ok by now since I downloaded it all at 4MB/s a day after preload released.

 

[Memento Mori]

Currently averaging 20KB/sec on the RSC downloader. This is painful.

 

[Piers]

There's a 58MB day 1 patch I think, which compared to the 60GB you would have just downloaded should be no problem.

Ah, great, that's not bad.
Inevitably more patches will pop up but it should be okay if I play it off an external drive. (Which isn't recommended of course, but most games seemed to do fine)

 

[Shadowplay1979]

I worry more about HD space these days , i mean is till have 1.2 TB left on my steam drive but more and more games are gonna start pushing 60 and eventually 100 gbs.

My internet shoots up to about 120 on steam downloads

Now imagine if this game came on floppy disks

 

[etta]

Haha perfect one. I often wonder if it's sarcasm though. All these people with good setups asking if they can get ps4 quality ... Smh

Man....you people are all like:
"God damn, I hope my new Porsche can reach 50mph."

I wan't being sarcastic, and I wasn't trying to use some of that elitism that you describe, I hate it too. My question was serious because after all, the 680 is two generations old and it only has 2GB RAM, and this is an open world game.

 

[zer0blivion]

I thought RSC would be ok by now since I downloaded it all at 4MB/s a day after preload released.

Consider yourself lucky. I've seen a lot of reports of downloads restarting partway through.

I feel bad for anyone with metered bandwidth. My connection was limited to 60GB/month and the only way I could get unlimited is by threatening to switch providers. After 60GB, the connection was automatically throttled. Ugh, Canadian broadband needs more competitors.

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

Currently averaging 20KB/sec on the RSC downloader. This is painful.

My speeds went back up, but now I have a game that's apparently going to be 57GB and idk what to do.

 

[LilJoka]

Consider yourself lucky. I've seen a lot of reports of downloads restarting partway through. I feel bad for anyone with metered bandwidth. My connection was limited to 60GB/month and the only way I could get unlimited is by threatening to switch providers. After 60GB, the connection was automatically throttled. Ugh, Canadian broadband needs more competitors.

Mine did cut off at 24GB @ 200kbps during the night, but in the morning it continued on at 4MB/s after restarting the client. Maybe it's getting hammered in USA peak time?

 

[Saiyan-Rox]

Currently averaging 20KB/sec on the RSC downloader. This is painful.

Feel your pain and this is the second time I'm downloading it.

 

[demented waffle]

My speeds went back up, but now I have a game that's apparently going to be 57GB and idk what to do.

Ya, that isn't right. Hopefully, it works out for ya. :/

 

[LilJoka]

My speeds went back up, but now I have a game that's apparently going to be 57GB and idk what to do.

Now that is weird

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

Ya, that isn't right. Hopefully, it works out for ya. :/

Now that is weird

And this is why I'm probably just going to torrent the pos.

 

[demented waffle]

Mine did cut off at 24GB @ 200kbps during the night, but in the morning it continued on at 4MB/s after restarting the client. Maybe it's getting hammered in USA peak time?

6pm EDT here in the states. Although, it's been slow since about four hours ago. It started off with 6 hours to go, 24gb later, still has 6 hours to go. And I'm thinking they're calculating this at average speed. Still over 2 days to go, as long as I'm ready for likely shit fest at launch, I'm good.

 

[etta]

Consider yourself lucky. I've seen a lot of reports of downloads restarting partway through.

I feel bad for anyone with metered bandwidth. My connection was limited to 60GB/month and the only way I could get unlimited is by threatening to switch providers. After 60GB, the connection was automatically throttled. Ugh, Canadian broadband needs more competitors.

Which provider are you using or how much per month? Are you in a remote location of some sort, because I think ISP's in Canada have improved quite a lot in the last year or two. My Bell Fiber is pretty cheap for unlimited bandwidth and 27/10 Mbps.

 

[LilJoka]

And this is why I'm probably just going to torrent the pos.

Yeah may as well. Will be faster and more reliable.

 

[zer0blivion]

Which provider are you using or how much per month? Are you in a remote location of some sort, because I think ISP's in Canada have improved quite a lot in the last year or two. My Bell Fiber is pretty cheap for unlimited bandwidth and 27/10 Mbps.

I'm in a rural area in Ontario and my choice is between DSL providers that all lease lines from Bell.