GTA4 & my PC??

the_worrier · 24 Dec 2008 at 06:53

I would 'preciate some advice....

I want to get GTA4 but i'm concerned it'll be a stuttering mess!

My PC is pretty low specc'ed tbh:

AMD64 X2 4800+....cannot O/c due to my poxy Skt 939 Asus A8NE-FM!!
2Gb DDR400 RAM
BFG G92 8800GT OC2

I play on a 17" TFT at 1152x864 res and the GFX card gives pretty amazing performance until this (i suspect).

What're my chances of it being playable/reasonably smooth at low res/settings?

paradigm · 24 Dec 2008 at 09:11

It'll run like **** due to the dual-core.

magicoi · 24 Dec 2008 at 09:32

So what you're saying is a quad is a must for the game??

I only ask as im tempted by the title and run an e4500 @2.93Ghz & 8800GTX.

Assume this will run it poorly as well??

p.s. sorry to hijack!

paradigm · 24 Dec 2008 at 09:35

Generally speaking, yes. This game tends to benefit hugely from a quad core.

kinetic747 · 24 Dec 2008 at 09:38

paradigm said:
It'll run like **** due to the dual-core.

Not true, I have an E6750 at stock and a 8800 GT and it runs perfectly well for me. I guess I must be one of the lucky one's though as I appreciate others are having terrible problems getting it to run properly. :confused:

paradigm · 24 Dec 2008 at 09:40

By "perfectly well", I either assume you have it in some cruddy low res, have the video options turned right down, or are happy with <30fps.

Swapping my CPU out for a dualie killed it.

the_worrier · 24 Dec 2008 at 09:59

Hmm. I guess i'll leave it a few months and see if R* come up with anything to optimise it better. Annoying really, as a PC which meets the minimum spec should play it reasonably well with low settings, etc.

I won't hold my breath though!

kinetic747 · 24 Dec 2008 at 10:08

paradigm said:
By "perfectly well", I either assume you have it in some cruddy low res, have the video options turned right down, or are happy with <30fps.

Swapping my CPU out for a dualie killed it.

I have the resolution set to the default of my 'cruddy' Samsung 226BW 1680 X 1050. Texture quality is set to medium and render quality is set to high. I have view distance on 50 and detail distance on 50 also. Ok, I know it won't play as well with everything on high and on 100 but it's perfectly playable. I also don't doubt that a quad core will give better framerates but I was just giving an alternative viewpoint to 'it'll play like ****'.

Kalpsn2000 · 24 Dec 2008 at 10:15

kinetic747 said:
I have the resolution set to the default of my 'cruddy' Samsung 226BW 1680 X 1050. Texture quality is set to medium and render quality is set to high. I have view distance on 50 and detail distance on 50 also. Ok, I know it won't play as well with everything on high and on 100 but it's perfectly playable. I also don't doubt that a quad core will give better framerates but I was just giving an alternative viewpoint to 'it'll play like ****'.

Those are decent settings. What GPU do you have by the way? 1GB graphics mem?

bledd · 24 Dec 2008 at 10:21

i've not seen one good performing X2 with this game

high end dual core intel's tend to work ok if they're overclocked like the clappers

kinetic747 · 24 Dec 2008 at 10:22

Kalpsn2000 said:
Those are decent settings. What GPU do you have by the way? 1GB graphics mem?

A 8800 GT 512 MB. The only thing I have really low is shadow density which I think is set to 5.

I'm not trying to start an arguement here just my experience. I preordered the game months ago and was sure it wouldn't play very well on my system but I have been pleasantly surprised. I have had a couple of crashes to desktop which is a pain as it takes an age to load the game up again.

EDIT: I just checked my settings again and I made a mistake with the detail distance, it's actually set to 30.

Bones · 24 Dec 2008 at 11:03

Mine runs fine on my dual core, above 42 fps average and i dont notice any slowdown what so ever.

Running in 1680x1050

Textures = Medium
Rendering = High
View Distance = 27
Detail Distance = 40
Vehicles = 26
Shadows = 3

thats on a e8400 @ 3.8ghz, 4gb ram, ati 4850 512mb

Shame its a buggy game.

paradigm · 24 Dec 2008 at 11:11

kinetic747 said:
I have the resolution set to the default of my 'cruddy' Samsung 226BW 1680 X 1050. Texture quality is set to medium and render quality is set to high. I have view distance on 50 and detail distance on 50 also. Ok, I know it won't play as well with everything on high and on 100 but it's perfectly playable. I also don't doubt that a quad core will give better framerates but I was just giving an alternative viewpoint to 'it'll play like ****'.

Quite frankly then, I don't beleive you get playable (35+) framerates at those settings.

LOAM · 24 Dec 2008 at 11:12

ive said a million times as well, mines running great, no stuttering, no low fps with medium textures and high rendering and its doing so at 2560 x 1600. and thats on a E6600, rest of the spec is in sig

[TW]Fox · 24 Dec 2008 at 11:40

LOAM said:
ive said a million times as well, mines running great, no stuttering, no low fps with medium textures and high rendering and its doing so at 2560 x 1600. and thats on a E6600, rest of the spec is in sig

I had a system with a higher spec than yours and it wasn't smooth. Whats your secret?

kinetic747 · 24 Dec 2008 at 11:43

paradigm said:
Quite frankly then, I don't beleive you get playable (35+) framerates at those settings.

Your attitude confuses me, what part of 'I don't want to start an arguement' didn't you understand? Are you calling me a liar? I don't know what frame rate I'm getting as I haven't checked but it seems playable to me. :confused:

[TW]Fox · 24 Dec 2008 at 11:46

kinetic747 said:
Your attitude confuses me, what part of 'I don't want to start an arguement' didn't you understand? Are you calling me a liar? I don't know what frame rate I'm getting as I haven't checked but it seems playable to me.

Perhaps you have low standards? I've often heard people say a game is playable on their PC yet when you have a car it's verging on a slideshow.s

kinetic747 · 24 Dec 2008 at 11:50

[TW]Fox;13147261 said:
Perhaps you have low standards? I've often heard people say a game is playable on their PC yet when you have a car it's verging on a slideshow.s

Oh ffs, the high post count brigade are ganging up on me.

LOAM · 24 Dec 2008 at 11:50

[TW]Fox;13147227 said:
I had a system with a higher spec than yours and it wasn't smooth. Whats your secret?

No idea tbh mate, performance actually got better on native res which was odd, I didn't set view distance to anything insane (37) but view detail was about 50 iirc, Its running at 40FPS + anyway though.

Knubje · 24 Dec 2008 at 12:01

You have a similarish system to me. It WILL run but it WILL also look like dog **** on your shoe. It will look worse than the Xbox version and possibly worse than the graphics on GTA:SA PC.