Grand Theft Auto 4

willhub · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:09

What's your GPU?

dirtydog · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:09

Anything under 30fps is unplayable :/

MikeHunt79 · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:12

Hmm, I've got a 8800gt but I want to run it at 1280 x 960

I don't suppose you could try it at that res please?

Things change I've changed · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:12

Oh dear that doesn't look good at all, guys this is one to be brute forced a couple of generations down the road tbh.

Hyper · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:16

Looks like the 360 and PS3 did a good job at getting this game to run smooth (ish).

dirtydog · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:16

It really annoys me when the quoted system requirements are a blatant lie. A game should run WELL if your machine meets the recommended requirements. People have machines which massively exceed the recommended requirements and are getting 20fps? What?!

Nymins · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:17

Maybe they left it in debug mode by mistake?

Hyper · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:18

Maybe this is just a driver issue and will be resolved soon :confused:

MooMoo444 · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:18

I hope my PC in sig can run it maxed with good fps at 1280x1024, highest res my monitor can go

dirtydog · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:18

Hyper said:
Looks like the 360 and PS3 did a good job at getting this game to run smooth (ish).

I don't think you can draw any conclusions about the hardware capabilities of the different platforms from this game's performance. This game is obviously just very badly coded on the PC.

Examples of good cross platform games are Grid which runs at 60fps maxed out on midrange PCs, when the console version was 30fps. Or Unreal Tournament III which again runs maxed easily on modest PCs and the console version is 30fps.

NightSt@lk3r · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:18

MooMoo444 said:
I hope my PC in sig can run it maxed with good fps at 1280x1024, highest res my monitor can go

Doubtful.

Winnter · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:20

MikeHunt79 said:
Hmm, I've got a 8800gt but I want to run it at 1280 x 960

I don't suppose you could try it at that res please?

it will not let me change the screen res for to reason,
Anyway i put everything on low setting,And still the same.Round about 20fps!
This game is a BIG mess.

Wizzkidy · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:20

ah man the futher i get in this game the worse the performance is! Its stuttering all over the place.

alex24 · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:20

You need to cut down the settings some more. Any idea what it takes to get a good 30fps in this? I've been looking forward to this but it certainly looks like upgrade time for my 8800gts 320mb!

EDIT: From what you guys are saying i'm leaning (and hoping) towards driver/software issues here. I'm gettting this at christmas so hopefully we'll have a better idea by then.

SkeeterUK · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:22

Any ini tweaks or isnt there one?

dirtydog · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:22

Winnter said:
Anyway i put everything on low setting,And still the same.Round about 20fps!

You're kidding me. So you can't get 30fps no matter what you do?

Wizzkidy · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:22

hang on a minute I have just done the same thing and on low the fps does not change for me either :confused:

mrk · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:23

ok I think it's safe to assume that R* have epic failed with GTA4 on the PC 9and on the whole on consoles too because of the gfx quality and performance). Runs worse than Crysis Warhead and that's saying something!

MooMoo444 · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:23

I don't understand why they've screwed up royally, dead space/fallout 3/bioshock all recent console ports that play flawlessly on most machines.

Can it really be so hard?

gurusan · 2 Dec 2008 at 14:24

I don't get it.

The graphics really look terrible to me....AND it runs like total crap?

What a POS game, how can they even release something like this?

back to playing good ole' CoD4. Nothing has topped it for me yet. Looking forward to Starcraft 2