How I stopped playing GTA, for now
So like a lot of my gaming friends I couldn't wait for GTA IV to come out on the PC. When it finally came out just before Christmas I told my wife I'd wait to see if I got it for Christmas rather than buy it, but I was really looking forward to playing it.
To steal a line from My Blue Heaven...
....5 o'clock Christmas morning, I run downstairs and look under the tree and what do I find? Uncle Alfresco, dead on the floor, shot through the back of the head. Plus no GTA IV. It was a dispointing Christmas on many levels
Actually that's not true at all, I did get GTA IV (that movie just has so man grea lines in it), and I couldn't wait to check it out. But what happened when I finally checked it out made me feel like that line.
So a few days go buy before I get a chance to try to install it. I put the DVD in, run the installer and go to play it.
You need to setup Rockstar Live (or whtever its called). Uhmm ok, I really don't want to, but I have to so fine. I register and create an account on Rockstar Live.
Great I'm ready to go! Lets play. Wait you need to get Windows Live configured. Well I'm pretty sure I have it installed already, so I try to set it up, and run GTA IV again.
It crashes upon startup. *Sigh*.
So I do a little more tooling around, and decide its my Windows Live installation. I go to its installer and there was an option to repair it. I do thiat and run GTA IV
It crashes on startup *sigh)
Alrigt no more fooling around. I uninstall Windows Live completely and reinstall it. I go to run GTA IV and it runs!!!
Woo hoo lets go. I go through the first mission, cool, nice little intro. I get a feel for the controls. I'm not sure I like the driving so far, but that could just be the car.I finish the mission and go back to my apartment to save.
I go to save... and the game crashes *sigh*
Screw it, this isn't woth the hastle. Sure it might be a great game, but come on this is just silly. So I uninstall, and wait, it gets better.
I go to play another game that I got for Christmas (Left 4 Dead) and the game won't start, it says it can't find the Direct X dlls. What the hell? All of a sudden my Direct X installation was gone. The last thing I did was.... uninstall GTA IV. You mean to tell me it uninstalled my DX? Yup!
Forget it, I'm done with this.