Grand Theft Auto IV - Slooooowwww.....
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Cheers will do that, fingers crossed!
Get a tri or quad core if you want to play gta iv decently. ( or perhaps a very highly clocked, eg. 4+ ghz, c2d)
PS.
Drop the car/trafic density to 10 or less.
Leave shadow density ( not to confuse with shadow quality) at 0.
That should drop the load on your cpu a bit.
PS.
Drop the car/trafic density to 10 or less.
Leave shadow density ( not to confuse with shadow quality) at 0.
That should drop the load on your cpu a bit.
Dont feel bad tho. People with Crossfires + Intel 4.Ghz still get crapp fps >< Like the guy said above "crappy console port" Ive seen better looking games than GTA 4 running better with less system specs 
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it aint a bad console port :S have you seen how bad this game looks on console compared to the pc? i saw someone playing this on the ps3 and i could have sworn i was looking at san andreas!! haha
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Don't forget that GTA4 will run terrible, no matter what. You could sell your CPU, Motherboard and memory on fleabay + another £50-£70 and you should be able to squeeze out something like a Q8200/Q6600 (2nd hand), a Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L Motherboard (£30 - excellent overclocker) and some 800/1066mhz DDR2. OR just buy an xbox as already mentioned, if its only for GTA4 anyway.
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The game is opted at consoles mainly. Even on my Q9650 the performance - considering the graphics on show - is shocking in GTA IV. The game simply does not work properly on PC. I'm sorry to say it, but the definitive GTA IV experience is not on the PC. Of course it looks even worse on console but at least it performs consistently.
The devlopers presumably could have optimised the game (according to developers 90% of game code is common across platforms) so that it performed properly on PC, but they failed to do so. Look at all the other recent console games with FAR better graphics than GTA IV that perform far far better than it does.
It's a terribly shame because there is some fine content in the game.
Have to say I agree unfortunately, I bought GTAIV for PC when it was £5 on steam, and even though I'm well over the recommended specs, it just doesnt perform as it should do and I just haven't been able to get "into it". I've played the 360 version and while it is uber soft as the engine (not the UI) runs at something like 640p with 2xAA at 30FPS, I still managed to enjoy playing it more than the PC version for some reason, just "felt" better and I really quantify why...
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Why don't you just click on the thing that lets GTA4 decide what the optimal settings are for your machine? Instead of ramping everything up and down in a very trial and error way?
You want more than half a gig of video memory sorry. GTA4 is very hungry on VRAM. Also, it doesn't matter what hardware the 360 uses because that's a console, not a PC. Sure it has a motherboard, a processor and a graphics chip but it also doesn't have a load of processes and a copy of Windows running in the background.
Tri Core 3Ghz+ or Quad, 4GB memory, any fairly recent midrange 512mb gfx card = game runs decent enough. Some seem very quick to forget Xbox360 console runs a form of Tri-Core 3.2GHZ chip.
You want more than half a gig of video memory sorry. GTA4 is very hungry on VRAM. Also, it doesn't matter what hardware the 360 uses because that's a console, not a PC. Sure it has a motherboard, a processor and a graphics chip but it also doesn't have a load of processes and a copy of Windows running in the background.
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It runs fine both on my main pc (i7 920 @ 3.6 / HD5870) and my laptop (Q9000 / HD4850Mobility).
I should note that I play the game (on my laptop) using a 360pad and through a 720p HD TV hence It *feels* like I am playing it on a 360 albeit with better visuals.
For some reason I get irritating stutters on my HD5870 (no other game I have tried suffers this) - It isn't the framerate but more like the microstutter seen in Fallout3. No doubt there is a fix but I would rather play it on the laptop.
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What's a 'pretty average/rubbishy spec PC' ?
Care to post a screen of the settings menu?