Take-Two and Rockstar have released the remastered versions of GTA 3, GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas. However, it appears that these remasters have major performance issues on all next-gen platforms, including the PC.
Numerous PC users have reported performance issues in these remasters. Grand Theft Auto 3 Definitive Edition, particularly, appears to be running awful on high-end PC hardware.
Below you can find some videos showcasing all three games running on high-end GPUs. As you will immediately see, GTA 3 Remaster drops at mid-40s on high-end Intel CPUs and high-end NVIDIA’s GPUs.
https://youtu.be/EhClNTjO7zw
https://youtu.be/2V8QtDeJRpk
https://youtu.be/sX5zkiQ6Kpc
It’s also worth noting that GTA The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition also has performance issues on both PS5 and Xbox Series X. This basically means that all next-gen versions underperform. I mean, seriously now… Xbox Series X can run Forza Horizon 5 with constant 60fps but cannot handle a remaster of a really old game? Rockstar, what have you been thinking?
Things got even worse earlier today as Rockstar has disabled the PC sales of GTA The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition. Apparently, there were major issues with its launcher and PC gamers could not download their copies. Ironically, the game has already been cracked, meaning that pirates can already play it.
In short, this is a clusterf*ck and we suggest staying away from it. While we still believe that most of its graphical improvements are great (with the exception of the new 3D character models), its performance is all over the place.
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Huh. I installed GTA III yesterday at lunch (before Rockstar went offline) and it ran well on a 1080ti last night.
>That first picture
HE HAS NO STYLE
All we needed were updates to work on modern OS’s and support modern resolutions and frame rates. Modders gave us that, and T2 sued them for this dumpster fire cash grab. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6b5cba23446fceca6bd49d1b5d916d0b68c1e4f777d87be57cc3d99ed1978cc9.png
They probably have lost their source code and too shame (did they have one … ?) to use the reverse engineered code to create the remaster so they decided to slap the android version on unreal Engine and this crap created
IF modders got a hand in the source code themselves, i doubt Rockstar lost it.
Too lazy then to commit on fully build a new version from the ground up and rather choose a cheaper way by placing a wrapper (UE4 in this case )on an existing android version. And they even leaks their own source in Switch version, probably a desperate attempt to plea to already dissapointed modder that promise not to touch the definitive edition
Karma’s a b*tch
They outsourced 2d texture work to pajeets who can’t even spell right.
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Too busy twisting the lightbulbs, and patting the dogs.
I would praise the demasters if 90% of the work was made by the dog.
Yep, that’s California/Washington alright
everyone buying Amerilard games at launch deserve their suffering. unless they enjoy beta testing
From GTA to Low-Grade Pixar! Still excited about the graphical changes in the re-release, Johnny? Hahahaha! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c3a9fc83010f53ff47a6139523960b2002dda272bbb50903ddcce20baf4132ce.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a4644fe64ad67f0b6a8e908e10f1673dfab2a6fc11eff4a62b8b4ca22b1ba28a.png https://media4.giphy.com/media/wNR8ZhO4fObRu/giphy.gif
Uuuuugh!
What the f they did to Candy Suxxx? They turned her into that guy from Robocop.
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Body positivity.
Anyone with 2 brain cells intact had to see this coming when you take into account the last 2 years at least of “AAA” and “Remasters/Reboots” release disasters…big studios trying to dIvErSiFy and cut on production/testing/and of course least we forget to Not Offend the lunatic 1% mob….here is the result a insult to paying customers,a insult to the older generation who enjoyed these games….sad is the state of gaming industry these days…long time ago i was hyped for a game to be released,these days i am hyped not having to install trash
Rockstar… gonna rockstar.
When GTA V came out, they had a copy protection system so nasty that it decoded the game’s assets on the fly, causing major slowdowns on PCs.
Arxan or some crap like that
The f*ckers are so full of themselves, they only have like 10 relevant games tops and they think that’s enough to justify their own launcher.
That’s 10 more than Epic games.
True, but you are answering to somebody that pretends that the Epic Store doesnt exists.
I don’t know, but it was massive cr*p
and downvote this post.
“In short, this is a clusterf*ck and we suggest staying away from it”
We knew this since the first screens John, but thanks anyway
This was such a well done and thoroughly polished release by Rockstar. LMAO https://twitter.com/infernal_monkey/status/1459090333543763972
This was such a well done and thoroughly polished release by Rockstar. LMAO https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4b634ce385bc9d648c57d647dd7577fe235972110242acf17894e2fd7f971de6.png
Reminds me of modding Morrowind and the removal of the fog…
F*king trainwreck
They outsourced 2d texture work to pajeets who can’t even spell right.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/55e66c3db8778f5179971a1c7beb25e6b5357b370f988e0bcf547c428cd05a56.png
You are saying 30 fps is OK in 2021, that’s enough to not take your opinions seriously.
this demaster is so incredible sh!t, that even the Leftoids NPC SJWs hate it lol. What a clusterfvck of ReMAsTerED.
PD: If any of you doesn’t have physical copies, you can download the isos from myabandonware, that’s where I got them. OG 1.0 Modded is THE DEFINITIVE EDITION PERIOD
For me is hand in hand with the Crysis demasters, probably worse since we are talking about Rockstar money.
I got mine from nzbplanet. I forgot how much I hated the racing in gta 3.
i’m guessing most new Rstar games these days always need updates.
the character models though, sad that they didn’t put enough effort into them.
at the very least the game engine supports mods. yet again mods are what’s saving the GTA games.
it’s as if they used some lazy API plugin between their old RAGE engine and Unreal, and just pressed OK and shipped it with little to no testing. Not to mention there’s 40 tracks f**king missing, because Rockstar couldn’t be f**king bothered to pay the licensing fees.
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If you like games that exist make sure you pirate backups that can’t be updated by digital stores at this point. The game industry as you knew it is over. It’s just (((propaganda))) now and they are burning the games down to the ground to replace them. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e7ed2392f0fd719a00fb621693ca69953b9c3b873e4502800848bb3b7a374dbb.jpg
Imagine being so incompetent that you can’t properly recreate games made 20 years ago.
Friendly reminder that a lot of people here found these remasters aceptable or even good before the release to the point of defending them.
Meanwhile the devs of Mafia 1 took the time and built a proper great game from the ground up, and the Rockstar clowns can’t even make a retextured version of 20 years old games run smoothly on new hardware. I mean, wtf??? I don’t like to hate talk but come on. No one tested it before they released it?
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mUh dIveRshiTy
Probably too busy offending people in twitter than fixing the game and do their job
Gee-whiz, it looks even worse than previous videos.
Not sure modders can save it anymore after all.
Lol the first thing that came to my mind when I saw that first image on the right…
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you’re right. People should not buy or pirate this game and download the mods carefully.