GT5 Who has Gran Turismo 5 already?

[Marcel Ascher]

Who has it already?

whats your first impression?

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

I got the PS3 and GT5 here in front of me. All the way home super excited. Called The Wizard when I arrived at the shop and he told me to buy a HDMI cable (check!).

Raced home. Unpacked the combo box. Rapidly fixed the wires/cables and other stuff. Hmm where to plug the sound in my monitor. WHERE!!!?????

Oh no, the monitor doesnt have any sound out, :no:

Okay, back up plan: going to attach this thing to my TV and .... here it comes.... race with a controller (God forgive me, don't revoke my access to sim-heaven please 3x)

The Wizard will send me some speakers with a soundoutput tomorrow so ill should be okay to race on my monitor AND with the G25.

Back to installation / updating

 

[Robin Cook]

Just had a quick blast with a controller too :S feels umm odd.

Looks good so far the only thing pissing me off is the long long loading screens. yes i did install it.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

I just completed my first level. This is the last time ever i play with a controller and on a TV Racing with a controller is like watching women's beachvolleyball where they are fully dressed up, no fun at all.

Ill wait until i have found a workaround tomorrow for the sound. Can't wait to get this wheel connected to the ps3!

First impressions of the game are good

 

[MARS3300]

Bram, the sound should connect to your monitor or TV through your HDMI. HDMI should also be selected in the sound settings of your PS3.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

I know but there is no sound output on my PC monitor

 

[MARS3300]

Robin, I also must complain about wait times. I have loaded it on the PS3(8GB of data) but I still have load time. Sometimes, I think the game forgets that I am there waiting for the next window or menu, like when you are put on hold on the phone and you don't hear anything. It is ABSOLUTELY FRUSTRATING! GT5 must give us a patch!

 

[MARS3300]

Yikes, you will need to hook up your PS3 to an audio device and chose the component/headphone output in sound settings, PC speakers will do for a while.

 

[Ben Buitendijk]

I haven't even installed it yet and I dont think its that bad.... Was at a friend yesterday and it was pretty quick!

Something wrong with your HD?

 

[MARS3300]

I have the "OG". I just think that If it has loaded data material to my HD, then there should be little waiting. In fact, i wasn't waiting for a race to load. I was waiting for the system to save the fact that I had painted my car then return to the GT menu. 90 seconds is a long time to wait when nothing is happening on the screen and the yellow hard drive light on the front isn't flashing.

 

[GAIAjohan]

I got the PS3 and GT5 here in front of me. All the way home super excited. Called The Wizard when I arrived at the shop and he told me to buy a HDMI cable (check!).

Raced home. Unpacked the combo box. Rapidly fixed the wires/cables and other stuff. Hmm where to plug the sound in my monitor. WHERE!!!?????

Oh no, the monitor doesnt have any sound out, :no:

Okay, back up plan: going to attach this thing to my TV and .... here it comes.... race with a controller (God forgive me, don't revoke my access to sim-heaven please 3x)

The Wizard will send me some speakers with a soundoutput tomorrow so ill should be okay to race on my monitor AND with the G25.

Back to installation / updating

Doesn't your monitor have a connector for headphones on the back?
Than buy 3.5mm jackplug male both sides.
One in the monitor, the other in the line-in in the pc, and you got yer sound via the pc. That's how I'm doing it.

 

[Juan Jose Gomez]

I have the "OG". I just think that If it has loaded data material to my HD, then there should be little waiting. In fact, i wasn't waiting for a race to load. I was waiting for the system to save the fact that I had painted my car then return to the GT menu. 90 seconds is a long time to wait when nothing is happening on the screen and the yellow hard drive light on the front isn't flashing.

maybe an issue with the blu-ray reader?

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Ill wait until i have found a workaround tomorrow for the sound. Can't wait to get this wheel connected to the ps3!

Bram, just to be clear, in the settings, you can select what output the video comes from and what output the audio comes from - they don't have to be the same.

I've got mine in my little study/office with my Pc & my hifi. I've set it so video comes down HDMI, audio down the AV out (ie the red/white on the default lead), which plugs straight into my hifi, so loudness rulez.

The red/white will plug into any device with an "Aux In" or "Line In", so a combination of (cheap) plugs will get pretty much anywhere :good:

 

[Stuart Thomson]

As for loading times, it wasn't as quick as a PC, but not too bad

 

[Paul A Smith]

well i had 5 hours on this with my dfgt and boy im not impresed i just cant see where 5 years have gone into this, the graphics are poor most of the time very flat, alot of the cars are ps2 ports cleaned up, dont get me wrong it does look nice in places , (f12010 gfx are better) , but what kills it is the shocking ai its the worst i have seen in a game they just brake so hard aproaching any corner and you bang straight into the back of them they even shove you out of the way to hold there racing line and you end up spining out , the only good thing is the phisics very good for a console game, 6.5 out of 10 for me , back to iracing and rfactor for me.

 

[Oops]

Still no game :frown: definitely the last time I use play for games!
Good job I rented it for a few nights

 

[Turbofreak SWE]

Hi all!
Have a question?

There should be 6x extra cars (black with GT logo on), how can you get them?

Regard

 

[GAIAjohan]

Hi all!
Have a question?

There should be 6x extra cars (black with GT logo on), how can you get them?

Regard

Buy the signature edition.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

So after five hours in a row testing I can say I am a happy man buying a PS3 To get all things working I bought a great new monitor today: Samsung 27" beast. The game looks amazing on such a big screen.

More racing tomorrow

 

[Turbofreak SWE]

Hmm... So it must have Gran Turismo 5 - Signature Edition to get all the cars?
No chance to get them in different way?

 

[Ben Buitendijk]

They are a bonus for the signature edition, the 'normal' versions are in the game, so you can get every car actually...