Just wanted to make sure everyone knew as an FYI... if you have a friend or anyone interested in LCPDFR or GTA the GTA complete pack is on sale on steam right now for $12.49 US and GTA IV is $4.99 US.

 

Good luck and happy hunting

Thanks for letting us know.

 

I am sick of taking out and putting back my GTA IV DVD into my drive every time I play and every time I stop playing. It's like the whole of Rockstar's DVDs are gradually defective... I had the same issue with my EFLC DVD too and it was kept in its box and handled with care at all times...

Edited March 31, 201313 yr by Double Doppler

Thanks for letting us know.

 

I am sick of taking out and putting back my GTA IV CD into my drive every time I play and every time I stop playing. It's like the whole of Rockstar's CDs are gradually defective... I had the same issue with my EFLC CD too and it was kept in its box and handled with care at all times...

 

DVD, not CD. Just saying.

 

It's totally understandable for the uninitiated to confuse the two since the drives look identical and so does the media.

CD ("Compact Disc") was created in the 1980's for music - these discs can hold about an hour of music or about 650MBytes of data.

DVD ("Digital Video Disc" or "Digital Versatile Disk" depending on who you talk to) was created in the 1990's for video. These disks can hold about 2 hours of video or about 4700MBytes (4.7GBytes) of data. They also come in "dual layer" versions that hold almost 9000MBytes (9GBytes) of data.

The oldest drives handle CDs but not DVDs.

Newer drives that handle DVDs are almost always backward compatible and work with CDs as well.

Drives that handle CDs will have the CD logo on them somewhere:

Drives that handle DVDs will have the DVD logo:

In addition to drives that read CDs and/or DVDs, there are drives that can "burn" (write data to) special blank CD and/or DVD discs. You generally need special software to do this (it usually comes with the drive) and there are a bunch of rules for how to do it depending on what kind of media you use and whether you want to play/view the disc on a standard consumer CD or DVD player.

DVD, not CD. Just saying.

 

It's totally understandable for the uninitiated to confuse the two since the drives look identical and so does the media.

CD ("Compact Disc") was created in the 1980's for music - these discs can hold about an hour of music or about 650MBytes of data.

DVD ("Digital Video Disc" or "Digital Versatile Disk" depending on who you talk to) was created in the 1990's for video. These disks can hold about 2 hours of video or about 4700MBytes (4.7GBytes) of data. They also come in "dual layer" versions that hold almost 9000MBytes (9GBytes) of data.

The oldest drives handle CDs but not DVDs.

Newer drives that handle DVDs are almost always backward compatible and work with CDs as well.

Drives that handle CDs will have the CD logo on them somewhere:

Drives that handle DVDs will have the DVD logo:

In addition to drives that read CDs and/or DVDs, there are drives that can "burn" (write data to) special blank CD and/or DVD discs. You generally need special software to do this (it usually comes with the drive) and there are a bunch of rules for how to do it depending on what kind of media you use and whether you want to play/view the disc on a standard consumer CD or DVD player.

 

...and you really had to lecture me on that? It's about 1 AM over here and I can't be bothered to type DVD - whats the difference in this case anyway? Any special relevance to add to the situation?

 

I still refer to DVDs as CDs if I'm gonna type something quickly, CDs seem to be alot more 'memorable' a name than DVDs when it comes to computers...

 

Thanks for the information though, this shall really help me with my ICT studies!

Edited March 31, 201313 yr by Double Doppler

...and you really had to lecture me on that? It's about 1 AM over here and I can't be bothered to type DVD - whats the difference in this case anyway? Any special relevance to add to the situation?

 

I still refer to DVDs as CDs if I'm gonna type something quickly, CDs seem to be alot more 'memorable' a name than DVDs when it comes to computers...

 

Thanks for the information though, this shall really help me with my ICT studies!

 

i have to agree... really... was any of that necessary or matter at all in the context of this post... way to waste absolutely everyones time...lol