San Andreas in my PC?

[The_YongGrand]

Well, I'm a great fan of GTA series, but after looking at the requirements for SA, I don't feel oh-so-confident about running it. Is my PC (see 1st PC in signature) going to work in high detail? Or perhaps lagging badly? The recommended is Geforce 6 something.....

[Yuanji]

SA for PC doesn't perform so well because of shoddy coding. you could try but with my setup, on 1280x1024 with high settings and bumpmapping, i usually get around 30-40FPS. It doesn't matter so much as it is not a FPS and is single player so i don't notice it as much but there are definately some slowdown. This is just to give you an idea of how well it should do.

[The_YongGrand]

I'm not so sure about it, but I think the graphics quality is almost comparable to Rockstar's Manhunt. That's my opinion - but I want to put only 800x600 resolution due to my monitor. Maybe in medium settings or medium-high I guess.... What do you think?

[Yuanji]

well i looked up and apparently people running a duron with a 9200SE can get around 30FPS average so it's definately playable. go for it! GTA:SA is a really fun game

[allannabas]

i think your system's good to go. i can run GTA SA on my 1 ghz pentium III dell laptop on lowest settings-- no problems with the ATI mobile 9000. xp was clean installed about 3 months ago, have had ZERO crashes. just have the occasional cannot validate original disc message.

on my desk PC (p4 2.5ghz, 6800u agp) i have windows errors very often but i account for that because i haven't reinstalled XP on it since 2003.

[The_YongGrand]

Wao, sounds great. I've seen the min. requirements - 1GHz Pentium 3, 64MB Graphics accelerator, and of course, 256MB RAM. The recommended is something like Pentium 4 and Athlon XP though they didn't actually specify any details about that. And the RAM - 384MB(+). I gotta 512MB. Is that really enough for all that? Or perhaps need triple the amount of the original recommendations? Please advise....

Edit: Oh man, mine's a 9200SE. Is this going to hurt SA's performance? They said the recommended is Geforce 6 something.... Maybe I'll tune down the Anistropic filtering thingy....

[Spade713]

GTA is a great game especially with all the settings pushed to the limit. Im not sure how great it would be on a system like that. I play mine on a 19 in LCD with Settings ALL HIGH and Highest filtering. Kicks the crap out of the console versions.

Also getting a joypad is great, improves the fun by 90 percent!!! I swear.

I have a Logitech Cordless rumble pad 2, very nice and performance gamepad.

The keyboard for this game sucks. It just doesnt feel natural. I think im getting the best of both worlds, a gamepad and better graphics

Wow while my heads been swollen i forgot about your problem


513 should be fine, it just might run slow on ares where there is alot of smoke (only 1 so its fine)

Your processor amounts to around 2.4 ghz if im right?

I have a 9600XT Radeon and that plays Farcry, SA, and HL2 Like a dream with settings pushed to the max. I dont think you could play with filtering but if you play on lcd then just set your resolution and you will be fine.

[bigandy]

I play it just fine on my 2500+ 512MB PC2700 and a 9600Pro. My settings are on medium. You might think about upgrading your video card a bit, but you should be okay with the 9200SE for now.