Not the experience I was hoping for anyway. I supposed any port is likely to work less perfectly than the original. I am going to download it and try it out, but I am not overly optimistic. But at least give me my own guitar, and not one that has Xbox symbols on it.Īpparently Aspyr has released a patch for the game, patch #1.1, and it is supposed to resolve certain issues. I can (sort of) understand using a wired guitar on the first version, probably simplified a few things. In fact, the guitar for PC is actually the Xbox 360 guitar for Guitar Hero 2, right down to the little Xbox logo. The guitars for all other versions of Guitar Hero 3 are wireless. I have seen stutters on GH3 even on the Wii, though not as bad as what I experienced with the PC.Īnother bone I have to pick is the controller. The new company coded it up pretty fast, and perhaps they didn’t do as good of a job. Red Octane contracted with a different company to code GH3 – that’s part of the reason that it looks significantly different from previous versions. Harmonix (who is now making Rock Band, a Guitar Hero competitor) did all the coding for GH 1 and 2. It is also possible that Red Octane did not do as good of a job with GH3 as they did with GH 1 and 2. I think it much more likely that Aspyr did not make a very good port. That tells me that the problem is probably not my system. My new computer meets or exceeds all the other system requirements in addition to the graphics card. However, I think it is totally lame that it was necessary to lower the resolution to the minimum. Now Guitar Hero is not really a graphics intensive game, and truthfully I don’t really notice the difference all that much. This did not wipe out all the stuttering, but it did help enough so that the game is playable. The only way I could find to mitigate the stutter was to lower the graphics resolution in the game options to the minimum setting. Mine is a 512 MB card, and it still stutters. The minimum system requirements for the graphics card list a “Video Card: 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required – 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 128 MB Video Memory.” They recommend 256 MB video card. When you are playing a musical game that depends on your being able to follow the rhythm of the song, stuttering present a pretty big issue. It’s not terrible, but I have some deep concerns. How does it all stack up? Not that great. So, now I have a sweet machine and the video game I’ve been drooling over. Better yet, on my routine visit to Costco the next day they are selling the PC version. So, 1 or 2 Google search results later, lo and behold there is a version of GH3 for the PC.Īspyr, a gaming company, contracted with Red Octane to port a version of GH3 for the Mac and the PC. Since I already built the computer anyway, this seemed like a cheaper and more reasonable alternative. Wouldn’t that be cool? Maybe it’s nicer to rock out in front of your television, but I do have a 22″ widescreen LCD monitor, so that’s not too bad. 2, 7200 rpm Seagate 500GB hard drives in a RAID 1 (hardware RAID)īeing as I have a brand-new bad-ass mother-jammer (three hyphenated double-words in a row, yes!) I figured maybe I should search for whether there is a PC version of Guitar Hero 3.Nvidia GeForce 8400 Graphics card w/ 512 MB dedicated video memory.Corsair XMS2 240-pin DDR2 memory (4 x 1 GB).Antec Tru-Power Trio TP3-550W power supply.I bought all the components, installed everything, the works. This was my first time building my own machine. My buddy Jeff helped me put together a custom computer. I had a lot of fun, but I didn’t want to sink $400-$700 into owning a console so that I could play one game. I’ve played GH2 on the Xbox 360 with friends, and played GH3 on the Wii. Nevertheless, I don’t own a gaming console. For a techno-weenie geek-boy to not own a gaming console is like a Kansas City holy-roller only owning one bible. Instead I am going to review, specifically, GH3 for the PC. So I am not going to review Guitar Hero in general everyone already knows that it rules. I think Guitar Hero, the series of games from Red Octane, kicks motha-flippin’ ass.
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