Grand Theft Auto 4

Delvis · 25 Jan 2009 at 11:20

sam.wheale said:
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

Be fine at that res, if my system can run it half decently im sure yours can

Just don't expect to be able to throw all the settings up.

Margaret · 25 Jan 2009 at 11:22

Delvis said:
Be fine at that res, if my system can run it half decently im sure yours can

Just don't expect to be able to throw all the settings up.

The settings don't even make much difference, this game only cares about your CPU.

Delvis · 25 Jan 2009 at 11:30

Margaret said:
The settings don't even make much difference, this game only cares about your CPU.

Does on my system.

Game runs better when textures are on medium rather than high.

But yes it is heavily cpu hating

dirtydog · 25 Jan 2009 at 11:37

Margaret said:
The settings don't even make much difference, this game only cares about your CPU.

No it doesn't

TaKeN · 25 Jan 2009 at 12:00

You can also get the fps to show using xfire btw.

Saves installing fraps

Just press scroll lock & x with xfire on, and then pin the FPS display (there is a small pin shaped icon you click)

...btw.. I ask again heh, is MRK using DX10? as his game looks almost real :eek:

MoNkEyMiKeY · 25 Jan 2009 at 12:09

I've already manually updated but steam is now updating?!

Delvis · 25 Jan 2009 at 12:11

MoNkEyMiKeY said:
I've already manually updated but steam is now updating?!

It's just tried that with me, although i think it's attempting to update but then going 'oh, the files are there...ok ill lower the timer then'

Silly thing, bless it.

dirtydog · 25 Jan 2009 at 12:48

TaKeN said:
You can also get the fps to show using xfire btw.

Saves installing fraps

Just press scroll lock & x with xfire on, and then pin the FPS display (there is a small pin shaped icon you click)

...btw.. I ask again heh, is MRK using DX10? as his game looks almost real

Maybe cos the pics were high res but he shrunk them to a much smaller size, making them look higher quality? Dunno

Ogs · 25 Jan 2009 at 13:53

Anyone had the game freeze for about 3 seconds, then crash (GTA IV has stopped responding etc) ? Im not sure yet but i think its related to having Clip Capture on :/

tonyyeb · 25 Jan 2009 at 19:19

Not impressed by the new patch. I get slightly poorer performance. And still get slow down after about 10-15 mins. More RAM needed? Faster CPU?

qwerty · 25 Jan 2009 at 20:06

My game won't run :mad:

I tried the patch and still no good. It comes up in task manager for a couple of minutes, and then just disappears. The game doesn't visibly launch at all.

gizmoy2k · 25 Jan 2009 at 21:06

Patch broke it for me, been playing on and off for weeks without issues, patched tonight and i get not enough video memory errors randomly and crashed to desktop, havent changed any settings, just patched, might try the nvidia drivers

robert.brookes@ · 25 Jan 2009 at 21:55

patch also broke mine cant run it for longer than 5 minutes without getting an out of video memory message and crashing

Delvis · 25 Jan 2009 at 23:02

tonyyeb said:
Not impressed by the new patch. I get slightly poorer performance. And still get slow down after about 10-15 mins. More RAM needed? Faster CPU?

You need to tinker with the settings, i think if you leave it alone after the patch is isntalled the quality settings are actually higher.

EDIT: To the posters above, is this a STEAM install? Have you verified the files etc?

Delvis · 25 Jan 2009 at 23:04

qwerty said:
My game won't run

I tried the patch and still no good. It comes up in task manager for a couple of minutes, and then just disappears. The game doesn't visibly launch at all.

What O/S?

I re-installed the other day, and theres a fair bit to do to make the game playable O/S wise.

XP / Vista? If it's XP you need SP3 and .net 3.0 I believe, and the latest flash somewhat or other....latest live...games for windows...quite a bit

gizmoy2k · 25 Jan 2009 at 23:19

Delvis said:
You need to tinker with the settings, i think if you leave it alone after the patch is isntalled the quality settings are actually higher.

EDIT: To the posters above, is this a STEAM install? Have you verified the files etc?

Nope its from the dvd and as i said its been working fine till tonight when i patched it, I even played this morning until i found the patch was out, have installed the new drivers although I was running the betas anyway, no time to check now......

Delvis · 25 Jan 2009 at 23:21

gizmoy2k said:
Nope its from the dvd and as i said its been working fine till tonight when i patched it, I even played this morning until i found the patch was out, have installed the new drivers although I was running the betas anyway, no time to check now......

Play around with the game setting anyway, as theres a few more settings you can tinker with now.

tonyyeb · 26 Jan 2009 at 08:58

Delvis said:
You need to tinker with the settings, i think if you leave it alone after the patch is isntalled the quality settings are actually higher.

Funny. I dropped all the settings down to low except the shadows. Kept my res at 1680 x 1050 and it runs the best ever (surprise surprise). Only 380mb VRAM being used. But the quality still looks great! Odd!

Craig R · 26 Jan 2009 at 09:17

My logitech rumblepad 2 worked fine with the 1.01 patch.

The 1.02 patch claimed to add support for the logitech rumblepad 2.

My rumblepad 2 no longer works. The patch has actually done the opposite of what it was supposed to. Great.

mrk · 26 Jan 2009 at 09:26

Just an update to the 2nd patch for me, I have to say it’s amazing now, the graphics seem to be improved a bit too especially at dawn/dusk and even though I mentioned I didn’t see it drop below 30fps yesterday I have seen it drop below to the 20s this morning BUT the thing is now when it does drop to below 30fps it does not feel like it’s running below 30 at all, still feels like above 30fps, very hard to explain but it’s similar to Crysis Warhead where anything 20fps+ is smooth.

I guess it’s the new vsync and rendering optimisations the patch adds that helps. I upped the GFX settings some more too and saw no difference in performance. Shadows selectable options are all on highest settings now.
Overall I very much enjoy this more now because of these optimisations.