Grand Theft Auto 4

ok, Game barely drops below 30fps for me now, these settings:
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Am not complaining! The gfx quality seems a bit higher too and the GFX options has also changed somewhat.

Nice.
 
Thats decent performance mrk, good one.

Dropped my game down to 1024x768 and it didn't make an iota of difference to the frame rate, just looked a bit rubbish.

Is there a chance something is hogging some CPU cycles in the background? I can't find anything.
 
alexhull24 said:
Thats decent performance mrk, good one.

Dropped my game down to 1024x768 and it didn't make an iota of difference to the frame rate, just looked a bit rubbish.

Is there a chance something is hogging some CPU cycles in the background? I can't find anything.
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That's because you have a dual core ;) Dropping the res with a quad core makes a big difference to framerate.
 
dirtydog said:
That's because you have a dual core ;) Dropping the res with a quad core makes a big difference to framerate.
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Yeah, since it's not the bottleneck.

Just upped the dual to 3.4, so we'll see if there's much difference. Just don't get how some people with similar clocks and lesser gfx get better performance on similar settings.
 
I really impressed actually, the games run a hell of a lot better now.

Don't know if it's the extra graphics option that are now tweakable which has help or what....Oh, and don't have shadows any lower than high, they look dreadful :p

Out of interest, has anyone tried shadows on very high? be nice to see what they look like.
 
Delvis said:
I really impressed actually, the games run a hell of a lot better now.

Don't know if it's the extra graphics option that are now tweakable which has help or what....Oh, and don't have shadows any lower than high, they look dreadful :p

Out of interest, has anyone tried shadows on very high? be nice to see what they look like.
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I'll try shadows on very high in about an hour, need to go to morrisons for food first !
 
Delvis said:
I really impressed actually, the games run a hell of a lot better now.

Don't know if it's the extra graphics option that are now tweakable which has help or what....Oh, and don't have shadows any lower than high, they look dreadful :p

Out of interest, has anyone tried shadows on very high? be nice to see what they look like.
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I can't tell the difference. Perhaps the dithered edges of some are reduced, but trees and thin shadows still look terrible.

Upped my OC to 3.4, and the game was noticeably smoother overall, about 30 fps average, though still frequently suffered from the drops down to 22-23 fps when driving around places with a fair bit going on:

Statistics
Average FPS: 47.47
Duration: 37.16 sec
CPU Usage: 94%
System memory usage: 67%
Video memory usage: 85%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Render Quality: High
Reflection Resolution: High
Water Quality: Very High
Shadow Quality: High
View Distance: 33
Detail Distance: 50
Definition: Off
VSync: On

Hardware
Microsoft® Windows Vista" Ultimate
Service Pack 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
Video Driver version: 181.22
Audio Adapter: Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz

File ID: benchmark.cli

EDIT: Note that with patch 2, loading the benchmark after having played ingame makes the whole game crash, you have to do it from starting up, at least, that's what i've found.

Also, there is no vehicle density on there, it's set to 50. Plus, it says definition is off, and vsync is on, but it should be the other way round, that's how it was actually set. I can confirm it because FRAPS was running in the benchmark and it was going over 60.
 
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Guys - I unsubscribed to this thread a while back, before Christmas, after I cancelled my gta4 pre-order after reports of users 'poor' in-game experiences started filtering through...

Without reading through the 70 pages I've missed while I've been away, can someone tell whether or not this game is okay to play (properly – playable frame rates/stable etc) yet :p

It's just I've noticed another patch was released today?

See sig for spec ;)

Thanks.
 
Depends on the res you are running at sam. Your spec is good though so you should be okay provided you don't expect 60fps at all times and aren't running at an uber res.
 
Well i have to say, this patch has worked wonders for me :D (it is the first one i have installed) and wow, everything is a lot smoother. I havent actually checked fps in game but you can just tell how much more it has improved (bare in mind i have only just installed the patch so i guess it had the first one aswell) ;)

Niko says hi :p
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Oh and it looks good too :p
 
Well I installed the new Nvidia drivers + Patch 2 and have gained a few FPS in the benchmark. Seems like the game doesn't start lagging as much after 15 mins either.
 
IcE-ColD said:
Can someone please post some images showing the difference between medium textures and high?
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Medium:
Shadows_medium.jpg


Very High:
Shadows_VeryHigh.jpg



As you can see slightly, the medium shadows are a bit more blocky, on Low they are VERY blocky.

On medium in motion you can visibly see the blocks moving however on very high you cannot, they look smooth :)
 
MRK are you running Vista? Windows 7?

Something that uses DX10 basically... as I can't get my GTA to look as good as yours.. and I'm running much higher settings :(

EDIT - I'm on windows xp
 
dirtydog said:
Depends on the res you are running at sam. Your spec is good though so you should be okay provided you don't expect 60fps at all times and aren't running at an uber res.
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I'm currently playing all my games at 1680*1050 on a 22" monitor, so I should be okay then?

I think it's time to re-order ;)
 
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