Grand Theft Auto IV

Grand Theft Auto IV



GTA 4 (PC) is based on two engines at the same time - Rage (Rockstar Advanced Game Engine) and Euphoria. The first one is the actual game engine that is responsible for shadows reflections and all the other things. Natural Motion's Euphoria Engine is solely used for the NPCs, their movements and the ragdoll system. Those things are calculated in real-time.

Without a powerful dual or quad-core CPU gamers won't be too happy with GTA 4 - the power of the graphics card is only secondary as long as it is a up-to-date device. This can be seen in the system requirements, too, since as the processor is concerned they beat almost everything currently known. You should also be serious about the Service Packs because without SP1 (Vista) respectively SP3 (XP) GTA 4 will not start. By the way: after some minutes playing with maximal details, the GTA4.exe needs about 1.8 GiByte RAM.

System requirements

Minimal system requirements
• Operating system: Windows XP SP3 or Windows Vista SP1
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz / AMD Athlon X2 2.4 GHz
• RAM: 1,5 GiByte
• Hard drive: 16 GiByte
• Graphics card: Geforce 7900 with 256 MiByte / Radeon X1900 with 256 MiByte
• Internet

Recommended system requirements
• Operating system: Windows XP SP3 or Windows Vista SP1
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz / AMD Phenom X3 2.1 GHz
• RAM: 2.0 GiByte (XP) / 2.5 GiByte (Vista)
• Hard drive: 18 GiByte
• Graphics card: Geforce 8600 with 512 MiByte / Radeon HD 3870
• Internet

Quoted from: pcgameshardware