Thats why i said you got it wrong. Actually i was not complaining but confirming a truth from the past. As i had no idea how it looked or performed in consoles.The main reason behind it was TBoGT ran slower than a tortoise in my system.It was a complete mess. It really annoyed me when i compared GTA IV’s performance with this game. Though both were build using the same engine.
Yes you are right about GFWL too. Its just fckin stupid. Origin & steam are far better.
About visuals then yes earlier titles of this series have weird textures but compared to them GTA IV looks a lot better. Lets not bring mods here because this title do have some awesome mods which takes this game to a different dimension (and that will be a bit of offtopic).
6600GT was an awesome card in its time i think you may know that. Btw i completed san andreas on a intel onboard 910 gma. By bad port i not only meant performance issues there were various other issues too.
GTA 1 and GTA 3 had some major performance issues GTA vice city and GTA san andreas had some texture problems etc etc.
Yeah thats why the TBoGT got me interested. Will report here after finishing the game.