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GPU is far more important in this case, if you can only afford one thing.

Yes those are all functions of another mod, not LCPD:FR. How you handle the calls is up to you. I try a more realistic approach if I see someone with a gun in game. Draw your weapon, if they point it at you, they die. If they run with it, tase them then detain them.

That's like going to a restaurant, ordering food and telling the waiter you'll consider paying if you're satisfied with your meal, but no guarantees.

That's how the corporate world works, sir. Our innovation in electronics occurs when it's convenient for the big companies to throw us a bone. We could have far better electronics right now than we currently do were it not for broken patent systems, law suits and greed. But we're sheep, and we don't do much about it. We just deal. lol Necessary change depends on the individual. Gamers benefit from performance enhancements. If you don't want them, that's cool. But I'll always take performance or detail enhancements if I can get them. Windows 8 or not.

Most companies use XP for the reasons you listed towards the end of your first paragraph. It's costly to buy licenses and train average-joe employees who aren't tech savvy. Going from XP to the newer operating systems is a huge upgrade in terms of potential performance and convenience of use. The problem is that shit-pile IBM's that large companies use and their proprietary (insert random business) software don't benefit from 64-bit support, multicore CPU's or a slicker interface with faster searching, system monitoring and multitasking. It has nothing to do with XP not being broken. If you follow that motto of yours religiously you'll be left back in the stone ages. Everyone has to let go some time, like it or not. Also I wouldn't say Linux is for professionals. It's just an alternative OS. Some versions of it may be complicated to install and are intended for PC intellectuals, but those aren't the mainstream distributions. A lot of Linux builds today look almost exactly like Mac OS, Windows or a hybrid of both. Regarding Sniper's statements, by the time Microsoft releases a new OS at it's current rate, any person looking to PC game for graphical reasons will have obsolete hardware, and will need a computer upgrade anyway. And whether it comes to the OpenGL API or the DirectX API, the graphics cards change over time, and again; need to be upgraded. API's like GLIDE had speed advantages over DirectX too, but realism is what gaming consumers are looking for these days, and because Windows is the dominant OS, and most people don't know the difference in coding, they don't care how they get it. DirectX still is and for the forseeable future will be a better API when it comes to detail. Unfortunately it's proprietary to Microsoft, but as with their acquisitions of the first big software contracts in the 1980's and 1990's, Microsoft got it right before Apple and the rest did, and they ran with it. Other OS's may reign supreme one day, but they'll have to chip away at Microsoft for the next couple of decades to do it unless there happens to be some magical breakthrough where everything will work as it does today but faster, cheaper, more widely available and compatible with everything in existence. And that wont happen with the U.S.'s broken patent system. Nope, it'll be business as usual in the computing industry. Stifling innovation by hiding behind a team of lawyers.

It's not pointless, the companies do pay attention contrary to popular belief. But as Jay said, if it's not a good business decision to port it to PC, then they'll ignore it.

Learn to coast, you don't always have to be on the gas while you're driving. Same thing goes in real life, for that matter. Practice makes perfect, though. I can drive the CVPI in that game better than most of my friends can drive the faster cars like Lambo's and Ferrari's. They go fast but they lose control and don't know how to take corners or use the hand brake properly.

Check the modifications section of this forum, you're more likely to get replies there.

I've never heard of anyone call the GTA series not open world. There's tons of random things to do.

In the 2nd video white cop was doing just fine, not breaking any protocol and being nice to a little bastard that was resisting arrest. I don't care if he's 17 or not, he can be charged as an adult if the judge wants to make it so. That second cop should get fired, I don't care what the kid did wrong.

Take a look at Windows XP and tell me that again. And going back to the OpenGL/Linux combo comment for a second, if you think OpenGL is in any way sueprior to DirectX, then you've stumped me as to why. The only benefit as far as I'm concerned is that it's open source. It's always a few years behind DirectX in terms of detail level, and a lot of developers don't bother to code for it at all. STEAM is coming to Linux platforms which will help when some devs decide to port their old games over to Linux, but it won't make any significant headway any time soon. Stick with Windows (insert you preferred version here) for games.

It's too bad you missed the fall sales. I'd save it until Christmas. CS:GO is nice but I don't like the hit boxes compared to CS:Source which I played for years in CAL.

We have a thread for this. It's pinned to the top so everyone can see it. Please use it. Mod? Closing time?

Nothing wrong with paying the dev company who made a software product you want to buy. I apply that logic with all games, programs or OS's I get. If you don't wanna pay for it to have it, so be it, I guess. I'd hardly call performance enhancements and extra features ruining your computer. Changing your UI is another story.

I've never heard of an external power supply. Is that a laptop or something? 240W is extremely low, so upgrades to the video card will be out of the question unless that changes. The video card you have isn't very good. Processor is mediocre. I'd say low, maybe medium, no ENB, no recording.

I'm sure it can be made. Ask EVI. You can probably take an existing charger model that's unlocked and add a push bar that's ELS enabled onto it.

tecster: Going back to priorities man. You might have to worry about this mod and GTA IV in general later. House, school or work will definitely be more important. dato: This isn't your thread, don't jack his. Use the support section for any mod related issues.

Better performance and updated Direct X features should be enough for any dedicated gamer to get a $69 upgrade.

Burnour Paradise 2 was like Need For Speed lol. This is the 19th game in the franchise, and yes, it's similar to Hot Pursuit because that game was awesome. The other NFS games have been garbage, as of late. Criterion does it right.

Medium settings, no recording unless you want it to lag. Those computers you posted before were all from Walmart. Wake up, man, seriously. lol I'll say this once and for all: A reasonably powerful gaming machine would be around $700 for starting price point. The graphics cards you had in each link were garbage, everything else would have been "good enough", but a good GPU can cost a couple hundred dollars or more, hence the $700 starting area in most cases. No, the motherboard would do that for you. The 600 series runs on PCI Express 3.0, your board runs 2.0. You might get a small boost in performance, maybe 5-10%, but it's not worth the money you'd be spending.

Anty-piracy detours casual pirates, people who don't know what they're doing. I don't particularly like Origin a whole lot, but it's a necessary evil for developers like EA, just the way is STEAM is for Valve. Anybody who's graduated out of their teen years probably remembers how much people hated STEAM when it first came out. Now it's a service most people love because the game selection is huge, the pricing is great, downloads are quick, customer support is decent and it integrates other features like a chat, screenshot and news system. Realistically, I'd like it if ALL vendors used STEAM so we don't have to have a bunch of competing services like Origin, WeGame, GameStop, Amazon, etc. but they all want to make as much margin on their products as possible, and there's nothing quite like self-distribution to get that done. To the people who asked "What happened to the days when you could pop a disc in your CD drawer and be playing in 20 minutes with no CD key or DRM?" Those days went after about 10 or so years of you giving your software to friends and family for free and not making them buy their own copies. And now with the popularity of the internet, distribution of ripped software or cracked software is incredibly wide spread. We created this problem ourselves. Lets think of it this way: If there were a few farmers on the planet who could sell you an apple that could feed you or your family for years, but they were expensive, and incredibly hard to grow. It takes years to grow. And lets say none of your friends could afford it. You'd probably share it with them if you could, wouldn't you? Especially if there were no ramifications at first. Then lets say there's a law created that says you can't do that anymore, but no police officers watch you do it. Knowing that you probably won't get in trouble, you'd still share it wouldn't you? Let's say they take some extra precautions to make sure it's only you who can eat that apple. Maybe they put it in a bucket that requires your hand to pass through the rim of the bucket, and nobody else's. You'd just simple take it out of that protected bucket and then hand it to a friend, wouldn't you? This is piracy as we know it. When there is a will, there is a way. Despite the increasing difficulty of sharing software that's intended for one user, there are always work arounds. I don't think that means software vendors should give up. I think they have the right to protect their property and sell it their way to make sure the company stays in business. What society really needs are honest people. There are very few of those people on this planet, I've found, and the only way to ensure people who might pirate software stay honest these days would be to threaten them with prosecution from a realistic perspective. IE: Getting a cease and desist letter, disconnecting your internet connection or taking you to court. Punishments like that are very real, and they are going to become increasingly frequent with the major US ISP's until the tide is stemmed, or people resort to a basic level of human decency and stop stealing things. While I understand that a program like Adobe Photoshop going for $800 isn't exactly an average-Joe consumer cost, the software's potential power justifies the expense. And for people who need the editing power but still can't afford it, you have alternatives like GIMP. If there's enough consumer demand, alternative apps and game demos will appear. But instead of developers investing money into those nice solutions, they're investing that money into DRM instead. And if those programs are still too expensive, when customers stop buying it, they'll know why. It's not affordable, and the pricing will adjust accordingly.

'Nuff said. lol Good luck, man.

Where there might be one person boycotting, there are 100 more 14 year olds with XBOX's to replace you. Boycotting may make you feel better, but it won't work. I boycotted Modern Warfare 2 with my friends due to the fact that there are no dedicated servers. Black Ops 2 appears to be the same, and is one of the two main reasons I will not buy it, but wasn't the only thing that affected my decision. Activision & Infinity Ward called the PC community a "very loud minority" when questioned about the PC community's uprising against the lack of dedicated servers. They are extremely disrespectful in saying that, but also absolutely correct in saying that. Such is the way of consumer demand. They could cast us aside completely and still make billions. Where did you get that statistic? I've never had a game take 5 hours to install, ever, even an MMO I downloaded from STEAM. Most games take about an hour or so. And when the games are downloaded they are being downloaded in a way that requires no setup. There's less compression so that is why it may take longer. Being lazy isn't a valid excuse to pirate. If anything, saying that just makes people who pirate look like scumbags. I played ripped games when I was a little kid before I was old enough to have a job. And do you know how many of those games I went out and bought after in a noble effort to give the developers money for their hard work? Zero. Even when I had a job. Zero.

I'm about 80% sure the images are legit. Pre-orders of the game are supposed to come with a poster from what I heard, and the artwork style certainly matches. Regarding the PC version, Rockstar hasn't confirmed nor denied that they are working on one. They probably will. I have no idea why they haven't converted Red Dead Redemption over. Max Payne is pretty popular for modders on PC's, so it makes sense in that regard. GTA V would make sense as well, but it depends on Rockstar's take on it, and probably whether or not Max Payne 3 made any money on PC or not. I haven't seen any sales figures. I myself haven't bought it, purely because I have obligations to other video games, and I can only buy so many at once. Some games I'd like to have but don't currently include but are not limited to Max Payne 3, Sleeping Dogs, Forza, NBA2K12, Madden2K12, Need For Speed Most Wanted, Halo 4, Assassins Creed III, Far Cry 3, and Hitman Aboslution. And these are just the ones that came out this year, most of them in the past couple of months. And for those curious, I DID leave Call of Duty Black Ops 2 out of the listing on purpose. But you can see the point I'm making. Everyone has different priorities of what games to spend their money on. And several of those franchises I hold very dearly in my heart, even more than Grand Theft Auto, namely Hitman, Need For Speed and Max Payne.