So I know I am new to the fleet and all that, but as a courtesy to you guys, I'm going to let you in on a little secret....

I am a computer tech. i am certified in Windows 7 through Microsft, I have an A+ cert, and am currently study for an associates degree in Computer and Networking Technology at Mount San Antonio College in Walnut, California.

Now I know most gamers, know hardware, and specs, and aren't dumb when it comes to their rigs. But if any of you need help, i will glady help you guys. If you think your infected, want some advice on what card best suits what you do, or what OS does what, let me know.

i can easily remotley connect an dsolve, clean up, cure most infections, and optimize your system

If you don't want me to personally do it, I can offer you some directions.
Just let me know.

Thanks.

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Awesome, welcome to the forums.

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Rickey Garcia
Lt-General
The 12th Fleet
United Federation of Planets
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"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys. Look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death!"

"All your base are belong to us.."

I Heart Nerds


Seriously that is very nice of you. Good luck in getting your degree.

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12th Fleet Intelligence Division
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needing a new sig.. anyone who makes me one will get a free pie

Outstanding to hear. I believe some people could benefit from this and I already had my up for tech support.

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12th Fleet
Moist Bald Tribbles
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Actually, theres something you can help me with

I recently bought GTA IV for the pc, and checked that my pc could run it before I bought it obviously , but I have encountered some rather irritating performance issues. my specs are as follows:

Core 2 duo running at 2.3ghz
4gb ddr3* RAM (*i think its ddr3 anyway)
ATI Radeon 3850 1mb Graphics Card
ASUS P43 Motherboard

now, as far as specs are concerned, I should be able to run the game on mediocre graphics with no real issues. however - The performance, frankly, sucks. When running the game on the lowest settings for everything, including draw distance, i get horrible FPS and complete freeze-ups every 5-6 seconds. I've made sure my video drivers are up to date, checked for corrupted files incase it was a loading issue, Made sure everything was working fine, but still the FPS lagg and freezes. Any ideas?

I'm stumped.

ace just a quick question, have you patched the game?

yep, all up to date

hmm reading some quick forums on sites, its seeming theres a general problem with ati and GTA IV. most of the people are saying the game is cpu heavy, and that running a duo core has some issues. Was reading that the 8.12 drivers lol, but those are over year and half old.

Thing is I don't see why the game is so performance intensive to be honest, I easily run other games that should need a higher performance and only require a pentium 4 or equivalent, gta's performance requirement are steep imo

yeah they are, considering it runs the failbox360. what resolution are you running the game at? only other thing I can suggest is going to a lower resolution in the game and see from there.