Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec

Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec

NTSC-U cover Game general and emulation properties: Languages supported: Region NTSC-U: Serial numbers: SCUS-97102 SCUS-97512 (Greatest Hits) Release date: July 9, 2001 July 9, 2002 (Greatest Hits) CRCs: 85AE91B3 Windows Status: Playable Linux Status: Playable Mac Status: ? Region PAL: Serial numbers: SCES-50294 SCES-50294/P (Platinum) Release date: July 20, 2001 March 1, 2002 (Platinum) CRCs: B590CE04 Windows Status: Playable Linux Status: ? Mac Status: ? Region NTSC-J/C/K: Serial numbers: SCPS-15009 SCPS-72001 (Mega Hits!) SCPS-55007 Release date: April 28, 2001 December 13, 2001 (Mega Hits!) Windows Status: Playable Linux Status: ? Mac Status: ?

Developer(s): Polyphony Digital
Publisher(s): SCEI (JP), SCEA (US), SCEE (EU)
Genre: Racing
Wikipedia: Link
Game review links: Eurogamer: 10/10, IGN: 9.8/10, Metacritic: 95/100, GameSpot: 9.4/10
Game description: Some say there's nothing finer than a well-crafted automobile. Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, which brings the series to the PS2, features over 150 of the world's top performing sports cars, luxury autos, modified street runner, rally racers, and prototype evolutionary automobiles. Each car looks and handles exactly as they should, thanks to the detailed graphics and realistic physics. Choose your favorite car from a large group of manufacturers including Nissan, Ford, Toyota, and Mercedes-Benz. Race head-to-head with another player or up to six players via iLink. Gran Turismo 3 is a true car-lover's dream.
Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec is a 2001 racing game, the first in the Gran Turismo series released for the PlayStation 2. During its demonstration at E3 2000 and E3 2001 the game working title was called Gran Turismo 2000. The game was a critical and commercial success and it went on to become one of the best-selling video games of all time.

Test configurations on Windows:

Environment			Configurations			Comments	Tester
Region	OS	CPU/GPU	Revision	Graphics	Sound/Pad
?	Windows 7 Home SP2 x64	Intel Core i7-2630QM OC @ 2.40 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GT555M	1.0.0 (r5350) INTC Spin: ✓ Wait Loop: ✓ mVU Flag: ✓ MTVU: ✓ EE Cyclerate: 2 VU Cycle Stealing: 1	GSdx (r5334) Renderer: Direct3D11 (Hardware) 8-bit Textures: ✓ Internal Resolution: 4x Texture Filtering: Bilinear (PS2) CRC Hack Level: Full Edge anti-aliasing: ✓ Hacks: MSAA: 4x Alpha: ✓ Half-Pixel Offset: ✓ Sprite: ✓ WildArmsOffset: ✓ Aggressive-CRC: ✓	SPU2-X (r5324) LilyPad (r5282)	BIOS: Europe v02.00, 8 GB RAM, PCSX2 Resolution: 1280x720. Sound is okay, just horrible on loading screens and menus, sounds fine in races.	Fightapilotdean
NTSC-U	Windows	Intel Core i7 @ 3.40 Ghz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 @ 768 MB	1.1.0 (r5517)	GSdx SSE41 (r5464)	SPU2-X 2.0.0 LilyPad 0.11.0	Runs above full speed.	General-Plot
NTSC-U	Windows 7 Enterprise	Intel Core i5-2450m @ 2.50 GHz Intel HD Graphics 3000	1.2.1 INTC Spin: ✓ Wait Loop: ✓ mVU Flag: ✓ MTVU: ✓ EE Cyclerate: 2	GSdx AVX (r5875)	SPU2-X 2.0.0 (r5830)	BIOS: USA v1.60. Software mode appears to run significantly better than hardware mode even at native resolution. Note to everyone, PCSX2 can use hyperthreading to its advantage; set extra threads in software mode to "3" ("7" if you have a HT-capable Core i7) if you have a laptop. Even desktops are useful for this. Around 38-50 FPS on Test Course.	Dan Castellaneta
PAL	Windows	Intel Core i5-3330 AMD Radeon HD 6850	1.3 Git (29th of April)	GSdx	SPU2-X ?	USA v02.20(10/02/2006)	DESTRUIDOR
PAL	Windows 7 pro x64	Intel Core i3-3240 @ 3.40 GHz AMD Radeon R7 250	1.4.0 INTC Spin: ✓ Wait Loop: ✓ mVU Flag: ✓ MTVU: ✓ EE Cyclerate: 0 VU Cycle Stealing: 0	GSdx AVX 1.0.0	SPU2-X 2.0.0	Run on full speed at 50 FPS on GSdx internal resolution 2x native.	Ljubinko
PAL	Windows XP SP3	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 3.00 GHz nVIDIA GeForce GTX 560	1.5.0-dev (2016-01-26) EE/IOP: All default VUs: All default Speedhacks: INTC Spin: ✓ Wait Loop: ✓ mVU Flag: ✓ MTVU: ✓ EE Cyclerate: 0 VU Cycle Stealing: 2	GSdx SSE4 (2016-01-26) Renderer: Direct3D9 (Hardware) 8-bit Textures: ✓ Internal Resolution: 2x Texture Filtering: Bilinear (Forced) CRC Hack Level: Full Logarithmic Z:✓ Alpha Correction: ✓ Hacks: Half-Pixel Offset: ✓ Align Sprite: ✓ WildArmsOffset: ✓	SPU2-X (2015-09-12)	Note: FPS stays around 50, but on city courses and sunset tracks like Smokey Mountain Single Race / 2-players mode, slight slowdowns occured (ca. 3–12 FPS). Sometimes FPS drop can even be ca. 18 FPS at tracks like Special Stage Route 5. Sometimes a very short slowdown may occur just before the race. On Software-mode: Usually about 10 FPS slower than hardware-rendering (with 4 threads). Hardware mode resolution 2x Native (Required for smooth replays, otherwise Custom resolution: 1920x1080 doesn't give any extra slowdowns).	Titus03
NTSC-U	Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit	AMD FX8350 OC @ 4.01 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti	1.5.0-dev-1799 (gf9c2025) EE/IOP: All default VUs: All default Speedhacks: INTC Spin: ✓ Wait Loop: ✓ mVU Flag: ✓ MTVU: ✓ Fast DVD: ✓ EE Cyclerate: 2 VU Cycle Stealing: 2	GSdx SSE4 1.1.0 (2017-01-15, 20:11:34) Renderer: Direct3D11 (Hardware) Interlacing: Auto 8-bit Textures: ✓ Custom Resolution: 1920x1080 Texture Filtering: Bilinear (Forced) CRC Hack Level: Aggressive Hacks: MSAA: 4x Align Sprite: ✓	SPU2-X 2.0.0 (2017-01-15, 20:11:34) LilyPad 0.12.0 (2017-01-15, 20:11:34)	BIOS: USA v01.60, Runs at full speed on all but the night courses (SSR 5 and 11 run in slow motion), while running Netflix on another screen :)	GhostNappa
NTSC-U	Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit	Intel Core i7 3960X OC @ 4.5Ghz AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB	v1.5.0-dev-2361 (ga3f07e6ba) EE/IOP: All default VUs: All default Speedhacks: INTC Spin: ✓ Wait Loop: ✓ mVU Flag: ✓ MTVU: ✓ EE Cyclerate: 0 VU Cycle Stealing: 0/2	GSdx SSE4 1.1.0 (2018-05-01, 0:05:58) Renderer: Direct3D11 (Hardware) Interlacing: Auto 8-bit Textures: ✓ Custom Resolution: 1920x1080 Texture Filtering: Bilinear (Forced) CRC Hack Level: Full Hacks: Align Sprite: ✓ Alpha: ✓ Wild Arms Offset: ✓	SPU2-X 2.0.0 (2018-05-01, 0:05:58) LilyPad 0.12.1 (2018-05-01, 0:05:58)	Runs full 60FPS, in night courses I use VU Cycle stealing set to 2 and it removes all slowdowns (disabling after the race is necessary as it can cause control lock up in the menu/softlock, restoring VU Cycle stealing to 0 immediately corrects any lockups).	MikeTheBlueFox
PAL	Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit	Intel Core i7 4790 @ 3.6Ghz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti	v1.6.0 EE/IOP: All default VUs: All default Speedhacks: MTVU: ✓ EE Cyclerate: 0 VU Cycle Stealing: 0	GSdx AVX2 1.2.0 Renderer: Direct3D 11 (Hardware) Interlacing: Bob ttf Texture Filtering: Bilinear (PS2) Internal Resolution: 4x Native (~1440p 2K) Anisotropic Filtering: 16x Hacks: Disable Safe Features: ✓	SPU2-X 2.0.0 LilyPad 0.12.1	Runs at stable 50FPS. Minor framerate issue in night races. Opacity for ghost car is 100% even in software mode.	Robsmashed
NTSC-U	Windows 10 LTSC 1809 (17763)	Intel Core i7-9700K EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 Super XC Ultra	1.6.0 Speedhacks MTVU: Enabled	GSdx32-AVX2 1.2.0 Renderer: OpenGL (Hardware) Interlacing: Bob tff 8-Bit Textures: Allowed Internal Resolution: 4x Native	Spu2-X 2.0.0 LilyPad 0.12.1	BIOS: USA v01.60 (07/02/2002). 60 FPS 100% of the time for both menus and sim; tracked using RTSS. Runs smooth without any issues. No drops in FPS, stutters, etc. anywhere. Any settings I didn't note to the left are at default/recommended. Game works perfectly with a Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Controller for Windows.	Strayborne
NTSC-J/NTSC-U	Windows 10 Home 64 bit	AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core Processor @ 4.20 GHz and 1.35V Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070	1.7.0-dev-216 (g127bdb4ce) x32 EE/IOP: All default VUs: All default Speedhacks: INTC Spin: ✓ Wait Loop: ✓ mVU Flag: ✓ MTVU: ✓ EE Cyclerate: -2 VU Cycle Stealing: 0	GSdx AVX2 1.2.0 Renderer: Direct3D 11 (Hardware) Interlacing: Automatic (default) Texture Filtering: Bilinear (PS2) Allow 8-Bit Textures: ✓ Internal Resolution: 2x Native (~720p) Anisotropic Filtering: Off Minmapping (Ins): Off CRC Hack Level: None (Debug) DATE Accuracy: Off Blending Accuracy: None (Fastest) Hacks: Disable Depth Emulation: ✓ Disable Safe Features: ✓ Shader Configuration: Texture Filtering of Display: ✓	SPU2-X 2.0.0 LilyPad 0.12.1	BIOS: Japan v2.20/USA v2.00. Game runs at a smooth, stable 60 FPS in every single track with the exception of SSR5 and SSR5 Wet, in which case it might drop to 57-58 FPS in a couple of sections for half a second if many cars are on screen. If it's only your car on screen it will never drop below 60 FPS.	Akane

Test configurations on Linux:

Environment			Configurations			Comments	Tester
Region	OS	CPU/GPU	Revision	Graphics	Sound/Pad
NTSC-U	Ubuntu 20.04	AMD FX-6300 @ 3.5Ghz AMD RX 570 4GB	v1.7.0 EE/IOP: All default VUs: All default Speedhacks: mVU Flag Hack: Enabled MTVU: None/Disabled EE Cyclerate: -2 VU Cycle Stealing: 3	GSdx SSE4.1/AVX 1.2.0 Renderer: OpenGL Interlacing: Auto Texture Filtering: Bilinear (PS2) Internal Resolution: 3x Native (~1080p) Anisotropic Filtering: off	SPU2 Async Mix OnePad 0 1.3.0	Runs at stable 60FPS. Frames drop to about 48FPS near or at the finish line. Night courses untested.	Dreaper

Trivia

• Original names: グランツーリスモ3 A-spec (SCPS-15009) & (SCPS-72001)
• Information and reports of demo versions of this game can be found here.

	Gran Turismo 3 A-spec (SCUS 97102) (U) Gran Turismo 3 A-spec (SCES 50294) (E)