GTA IV patch released - but is half-baked

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I bought this game (finally) and have to say it doesn't run too bad on my below-minimum-spec PC (1.6 Core2Duo and RadeonX1950pro) - I'm getting around 20 to 30fps on the lowest settings, which is just about enough to be playable, although it is one of the visually most untidy and ugliest games I've ever seen with holes in the ground, terrible texture filtering and the most god-awful postFX (which I've hacked to turn off).

The gameplay itself however is quite good so far, the city feels nicely alive and the pedestrians go about their business, and the slo-mo action-cam thing you can trigger by holding down a button is brilliant (although I think Driver3 had this ages ago) - I've been playing it for about 2 hours just spinning and crashing the cars in slo-mo.

Looking forward to a new CPU and graphics card so I can at least push some of the sliders up from 0, although it shouldn't be necessary given that my PC can run Crysis etc.. just fine - it's a very sloppy port this one, and I can see why so many people a annoyed with it.