Color us impressed. Although Rockstar stated that they’d offer us a proper PC version of Max Payne 3, we had our doubts. You see, after the awful GTA IV port, we couldn’t help but be suspicious about it. And even though some gamers claimed that there were gains with a quad-core, we can confirm today that most of them saw a performance jump due to moving on to CPUs with a better architecture. GTA IV runs the same on a dual-core and a quad-core CPU of the same family, proving that it does not actually take advantage of the extra cores. And we are delighted to report today that Max Payne 3 is the most optimized PC game of 2012. Continue reading Max Payne 3 – PC Performance Analysis→
Good news for all San Andreas fans as the third beta version of the amazing GTA IV: San Andreas mod will be released this month. Grand Theft Auto IV: San Andreas is a total conversion mod for Grand Theft Auto IV and The Episodes from Liberty City, that promises to bring back the good old San Andreas map into GTA IV, using the powerful RAGE Engine. Continue reading Grand Theft Auto IV: San Andreas Mod – Beta 3 Coming This Month→
Rockstar has released the first patch for the PC version of Max Payne 3. This patch addresses the ‘0MB of video memory’ issues, resolves stuttering on some video cards, fixes reported issues of game locked in incorrect aspect ratio, fixes issues of mouse acceleration affecting aiming and adds a commandline option to disable mouse acceleration. The patch will be auto-downloaded next time you start the game and you can view its complete changelog below. Due to E3, our Performance Analysis was pushed slightly back, but it’s coming so stay tuned for it. Enjoy! Continue reading Max Payne 3 – First PC Patch – resolves stuttering, adds commandline to disable mouse acceleration→
Rockstar has released the official PC trailer of Max Payne 3. In addition, the game is – finally – available for preload on Steam, so make sure to open your Steam client and preload it as it’s around 35GB in size. The PC version of Max Payne 3 features DX11 features and higher resolution textures and will be unleashed this Friday, in June 1st. Enjoy! Continue reading Max Payne 3 – Official PC Trailer Released; game is available for pre-load on Steam→
Following yesterday’s PC screenshots, we are happy to inform you about some new features of Max Payne 3 PC. A lot of gamers wondered whether the PC version would feature higher quality textures and what was the reason behind the 35GB of disk space requirements. Will it be as unoptimized as GTA IV was or will Rockstar really take care of this version? Well, goot news guys as the PC version will feature higher quality textures (about four times higher), as well as higher quality audio. Continue reading Max Payne 3 – PC version features ‘four times higher’ quality textures than its console counterpart→
Rockstar has revealed three new screenshots for the upcoming PC version of Max Payne 3, and as we can, it does look sexy and up-to-date with lots of modern-day PC titles. Max Payne 3 is currently slated for a June 1st release and will take advantage of DX11 and tessellation. Let’s just hope that Rockstar’s third person shooter won’t perform identical to GTA IV. Enjoy the screenshots after the jump. Continue reading Max Payne 3 – Three New PC Screenshots→
The PC version of Max Payne 3 will be released in a couple of days and most of you are wondering how this bad boy will run on your machine, right? Well, time to find out. Rockstar and Nvidia have released the official benchmark chart for Max Payne 3 that can be viewed below. As we can see, an Nvidia 8800GT will be enough for a ‘console’ experience (with even better graphics), whereas a GTX560Ti will get you 60fps overall in 1080p with High settings and FXAA. Enjoy the chart and stay tuned for our Performance Analysis! Continue reading Want to know how Max Payne 3 will run on your Nvidia GPU? Official Nvidia Benchmark Chart Released→
Great news for all Skyrim and GTA IV fans, as the talented modder ‘Dpeasant33’ and iCEnhancer’s creator, Hayssam Keilany, have joined forces. This basically means that iCEnhancer will get even better, as Dpeasant33 is one of the best GTA IV modders out there. In fact, we’ve featured a huge number of screenshots from his work in our weekly GTA IV galleries, so that says a lot. Continue reading Dpeasant33 and Hayssam Keilany join forces, GTA IV iCEnhancer 2.1 coming in the following days→
Now this is amazing. YouTube’s member ‘taltigolt’ has uploaded a hilarious video, in which the lovely robot from Star Wars (R2D2) invades GTA IV’s Liberty City and causes street chaos. This video is great and those interested can download the mod from here. The R2D2 mod was created by ‘jmoorfoot4 ‘ and ‘STRgtamodder’ helped with it, while the Star Wars ships were made by ‘quechus13’. Enjoy! Continue reading Grand Theft Auto IV Mods Highlight – R2D2 causes street chaos in Liberty City→
