Grand Theft Auto 4

Vulcan · 5 Dec 2008 at 22:33

Those of you playing with keyboard and mouse, are you just moving the mouse too when driving to centre the view, or are you driving in 1st person?

benjo · 5 Dec 2008 at 22:35

Moving the mouse. It's how San Andreas was

Vulcan · 5 Dec 2008 at 22:40

benjo said:
Moving the mouse. It's how San Andreas was

Damn, it's annoying. I only played San Andreas on a console.

mysticsniper · 5 Dec 2008 at 22:46

I dunno what all the fuss is about. I am loving this game, and am having no issues what so ever, no crashes, no stuttering, nice and smooth.

Neil79 · 5 Dec 2008 at 22:48

^ Running on low ?

Darkwave · 5 Dec 2008 at 22:48

mysticsniper said:
I dunno what all the fuss is about. I am loving this game, and am having no issues what so ever, no crashes, no stuttering, nice and smooth.

Hardware and screen resolution would be helpful to those of us who can barely run it.

As I just said in the GTA4 Performance Thread: -

Ulfhedjinn said:
I did just try the game at 1280x720, centred by my monitor, and it played nicely. It even let me select high textures (but not much in terms of draw distance etc.) and still ran nice and smoothly.

I think that this game is just seriously unoptimised for high-resolution gaming.

Native resolution is 1920x1200 on an E8400 (4GHz), 4GB DDR2-800 and 4870 512MB.

It's playable, on low-med depending on what distance settings I use. Low for multiplayer.

benjo · 5 Dec 2008 at 22:50

It's running quite well for me too. 1440x900 Medium Textures and Very High Rendering. Spec in sig.

Darkwave · 5 Dec 2008 at 22:51

benjo said:
It's running quite well for me too. 1440x900 Medium Textures and Very High Rendering. Spec in sig.

It's looking more and more to me like screen resolution is the crippler in this game.

Keyser Soze · 5 Dec 2008 at 22:55

I can't believe the game uses so much vram. by the sound of it even the 8800gtx's and the 1gb cards are nearly maxed out on vram.

mysticsniper · 5 Dec 2008 at 22:59

Ulfhedjinn said:
Hardware and screen resolution would be helpful to those of us who can barely run it.

As I just said in the GTA4 Performance Thread: -

My settings are different to yours. I am playing at 1280x1024 60Hz on my 19" Monitor.

My spec's are Q6600 @ 3Ghz, 4GB Ram, 4870 512Mb GPU (cat's 8.10)

My game settings are as follows

Texture: Medium
Render: Very High

View Distance: 45
Detail Distance 100

Vehicle Density 60
Shadow Density 10

LoadsaMoney · 5 Dec 2008 at 23:34

A heads up, Nvidia have released a hotfix driver for it.

180.84 betas

NVIDIA recommends that you update your system with the following GeForce v180.84 driver for the best experience on Grand Theft Auto IV:

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_gtaiv_downloads.html

Mikey · 5 Dec 2008 at 23:37

Just did task manager whilst running it and it's using about 3.5GB RAM

Keyser Soze · 5 Dec 2008 at 23:40

Mikey said:
Just did task manager whilst running it and it's using about 3.5GB RAM

oh carp! i've only got 2gb i needed some more at some point anyway so now's a good time.

people on 32bit OS's will be maxed out then.

Sem · 5 Dec 2008 at 23:53

im on a 32bit OS with 4GB Ram (3.25 available) and when i alt tabbed it was using 1.6Gb

Keyser Soze · 5 Dec 2008 at 23:55

thanks, might give it a go first then before the upgrade

SkeeterUK · 5 Dec 2008 at 23:56

Hmm strange, gta 4 for me only used 800 meg of ram when i checked once.

Neil79 · 6 Dec 2008 at 00:03

LoadsaMoney said:
A heads up, Nvidia have released a hotfix driver for it.

180.84 betas

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_gtaiv_downloads.html

From other forums

before

Statistics
Average FPS: 23.14
Duration: 37.25 sec
CPU Usage: 86%
System memory usage: 63%
Video memory usage: 71%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: Medium
Render Quality: Highest
View Distance: 75
Detail Distance: 100

Hardware
Microsoft® Windows Vista" Home Premium
Service Pack 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
Video Driver version: 180.48
Audio Adapter: Højttalere (Creative SB X-Fi)
Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz

File ID: Benchmark.cli

after

Statistics
Average FPS: 33.66
Duration: 37.17 sec
CPU Usage: 82%
System memory usage: 63%
Video memory usage: 72%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: Medium
Render Quality: High
View Distance: 75
Detail Distance: 100

Hardware
Microsoft® Windows Vista" Home Premium
Service Pack 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
Video Driver version: 180.84
Audio Adapter: Højttalere (Creative SB X-Fi)
Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz

File ID: benchmark.cli

^ NOT MINE!

kmufc77 · 6 Dec 2008 at 00:11

a big boost in FPS, i hope ati can do the same?

willhub · 6 Dec 2008 at 00:12

I don't trust the Benchmark, it is a load of balls.

everything on high/highest, and all turned up I got 49fps in the benchmark, BALLS I TELL YE..

Darkwave · 6 Dec 2008 at 00:14

willhub said:
I don't trust the Benchmark, it is a load of balls.

So true. I keep telling people today about how it estimates up to 20fps higher than I actually get, especially in multi.