dragonfliet, are you suggesting users need to fix memory leaks themselves? Are you imagining we're all industry-level programmers or something? At least make the game half price if I have to finish it myself.
The point here exactly is that there are oddities about the game that make it run like **** for some people while it runs acceptably for others, even when both haven't done any tweaking. For instance, on my roomie's PC (which is slower than mine) the game doesn't have the stuttering every second or so, caused by the memory leak, while on mine it does. We both did the exact same patches.
Let's just put it this way, until Rockstar manages to figure out what is wrong with their game, you can't expect us to do it for them.
Also, what's with this whole 'open world' excuse for poor performance?
If there was any decent LOD system implemented, as there should be for a game of this type, this shouldn't be an issue. You don't go cramming the screen full of detail that the engine can't handle. Why I mentioned Crysis is that even in scenes where you can see half the island in a panoramic vista, the framerate only by about 30-40% for me. That's because the developers actually implemented distance scaling systems that work. This is in stark contrast to GTA4, where a simple shot of 10 cars at once can by bring my whole system to a halt.
San Andreas was a sandbox game and I hardly had performance problems there. Sure, the game had high requirements, but once you met them you were good to go. I am well clear of GTA4's recommended specs and I still get stuttering, even after patching and lowering settings. That's a different kind of beast right there.
In short, it's sh*t. No game, no matter how fun, is worth this level of troubleshooting, forum browsing, patching and bugfixing.
