gta 4 crap fps

[Renni 95]

As the title suggests, i bought gta 4 off the steam sale, and weather Ive got the game on medium or high i only get around 30fps and below, the games using 70% of my cpu so that's fine, and around 80% of my ram, so that's good too... but its only using 30% of my gpu's power?? how can i make the game use the full potential of my gpu so i can get better fps? ive seen people with my exact rig with a nvidia 460 get 45 fps with the ultimate texture mod and i cant get that on medium?!

spec in sig, thanks

 

[andy_mk3]

GTA IV is known to have rubbish FPS in general!

Here's my benchmark for some comparisons

Statistics
Average FPS: 48.46
Duration: 37.10 sec
CPU Usage: 87%
System memory usage: 65%
Video memory usage: 93%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: Medium
Shadow Quality: High
Reflection Resolution: High
Water Quality: Very High
Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x4
Night Shadows: Off
View Distance: 19
Detail Distance: 12

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Video Driver version: 275.27
Audio Adapter: Speakers (VIA High Definition Audio)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz

File ID: Benchmark.cli

 

[TheCenturion]

What res are you playing at? With a gtx 480 at stock, and an i7 at 3ghz, it's perfectly playable for me, usually around 40 fps @ 1920x1080

The game is a real cpu hog tbh. Have you got the latest drivers, and the latest patch (you probably do cos it's on steam)?

 

[DStruct]

I got GTA IV on PS3 and PC
TBH Its **** on both
Game could have been so much better, I gave up with it
Sorry for the bad advice but yeah

 

[TheCenturion]

I got GTA IV on PS3 and PC
TBH Its **** on both
Game could have been so much better, I gave up with it
Sorry for the bad advice but yeah

I love the pc version. My mate tried to tell me that it looked better on 360 than pc. I was having none of it

 

[DStruct]

I just dont like the look or feel of the game

 

[DStruct]

Its like zero AA for me, with terrible view distance..

 

[James J]

I've only really been able to play this on its top settings smoothly on my latest rig, mostly down to the overclock on the CPU and having 1.5gb of VRAM available. The game its both CPU power and VRAM space on high settings at 1920x1080.

 

[HangTime]

GTA4 is very demanding. The reason it is only using 30% gpu power is likely because one of your cpu cores will be maxed out; 70% on a quadcore could mean 1 core at 100%, 1 core at 70%, and 2 cores at 55%.

My recommendation would be to overclock your cpu further and reduce the draw distance and detail distance settings, this should give you a fps boost.

 

[sunlitsix]

According to steam I've clocked up over 24 hours of GTAIV, no idea how. I barely got any of the storyline done!
Well over 200 hours on the Xbox + DLC though.

Runs well too, going by the benchmark...

Statistics
Average FPS: 59.38
Duration: 37.33 sec
CPU Usage: 73%
System memory usage: 33%
Video memory usage: 83%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: High
Reflection Resolution: High
Water Quality: Very High
Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x16
Night Shadows: High
View Distance: 25
Detail Distance: 31

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Service Pack 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Video Driver version: 275.33
Audio Adapter: Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi)
AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 Processor

File ID: Benchmark.cli

 

[GTRacer]

Perhaps it's your CPU? I have a slower card than yours (5770) and it runs fine at 1680x1050:

Statistics
Average FPS: 36.05
Duration: 37.80 sec
CPU Usage: 37%
System memory usage: 42%
Video memory usage: 95%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: Very High
Reflection Resolution: Very High
Water Quality: Very High
Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x16
Night Shadows: High
View Distance: 15
Detail Distance: 31

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

Video Adapter: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
Video Driver version: 8.17.10.1083
Audio Adapter: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz

File ID: Benchmark.cli

Dropping the shadows to medium increases it to about 50 fps as well:

Statistics
Average FPS: 52.62
Duration: 37.62 sec
CPU Usage: 46%
System memory usage: 40%
Video memory usage: 77%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: Medium
Reflection Resolution: Very High
Water Quality: Very High
Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x16
Night Shadows: Medium
View Distance: 25
Detail Distance: 31

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

Video Adapter: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
Video Driver version: 8.17.10.1083
Audio Adapter: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz

File ID: Benchmark.cli

 

[mame]

It's mainly down to the CPU. It runs ok on mine but when I had a 4ghz dual-core, I preferred the ps3 version. In terms of gpu. It likes VRAM. Even 1gb isnt the best at 1920x1200. Even if your gpu isn't maxed out, it could be out of VRAM.

 

[KatanaDV20]

I hear your pain. While its nothing compared to some of the blistering rigs other forum members have I think I have a decent machine (see specs) but I still get stutters on GTA.

And the stutters are there even when I use a single screen. Such a waste that it turned out this way because hiding under all that is a decent game.

A big help: bring the AI traffic down to 1% & also decrease the view-distance. Also I found that installing the latest patch DECREASED performance so I unsinstalled the game and went up to patch 1.4 and stopped there.

Decreasing all the AI traffic is boring i know but its made my FPS increase - and the near-empty roads mean you can scream around at 100mph If you want another car download that excellent trainer (forgot the name) that lets u spawn any car at the press of a button. Its so well done you think its part of the original game.

 

[Renni 95]

Nope i can see all 4 cores ( have a gadget on my second screen) and it shows each core working at 70%, it should be upto date as it off steam i play at 1920x1200 but it says its only using about 800mb/1200mb of vram, also i cant oc my cpu any more my mobo wont allow it

right ive just ran a benchmark and these are my results :S!

Statistics
Average FPS: 57.19
Duration: 37.49 sec
CPU Usage: 76%
System memory usage: 78%
Video memory usage: 74%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: Low
Reflection Resolution: Medium
Water Quality: Medium
Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x2
Night Shadows: Off
View Distance: 47
Detail Distance: 46

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Service Pack 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
Video Driver version: 270.61
Audio Adapter: Headset Earphone (2- Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000 )
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66GHz

File ID: Benchmark.cli

and then with everything on high...

Statistics
Average FPS: 57.56
Duration: 37.44 sec
CPU Usage: 74%
System memory usage: 76%
Video memory usage: 74%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: High
Reflection Resolution: High
Water Quality: High
Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x4
Night Shadows: Off
View Distance: 47
Detail Distance: 46

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Service Pack 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
Video Driver version: 270.61
Audio Adapter: Headset Earphone (2- Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000 )
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66GHz

File ID: Benchmark.cli

And then with everything maxed...

Statistics
Average FPS: 57.79
Duration: 37.27 sec
CPU Usage: 76%
System memory usage: 78%
Video memory usage: 82%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: Very High
Reflection Resolution: Very High
Water Quality: Very High
Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x16
Night Shadows: Medium
View Distance: 47
Detail Distance: 46

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Service Pack 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
Video Driver version: 270.61
Audio Adapter: Headset Earphone (2- Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000 )
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66GHz

File ID: Benchmark.cli

So the higher i set my graphics the more fps i get :S, but in game whatever graphic setting i have it on i never go above 35fps, although i say that the first 10 seconds of game play i get around 50fps but then it drops to 30 :/

 

[Renni 95]

anyone got a solution? :/

 

[SoAdCrAzY]

noob question but what do you lot use to benchmark games?

 

[andy_mk3]

noob question but what do you lot use to benchmark games?

Most new games have their own benchmark, it's in the Graphics options on GTA, and it saves a file to C:\Users\{Username}\Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA IV\Benchmarks.

 

[pgi947]

I read a while back that some of the updates reduced performance for some users, and as it is now possible to roll back GTAIV to 0.4 from the steam standard 0.7 it might be worth a shot?

It is a REAL CPU hog, example, I was getting about 25-30 FPS on a Q9300 and sli 9800GTX+, I shoved those cards in with my i7 2600k and the FPS shot up to about 55fps with settings on med-high, draw distance etc.. all set at about 16/100.

With 6950's in crossfire it hits my v-sync wall at 60fps with everything on highest.

Statistics
Average FPS: 60.16
Duration: 36.88 sec
CPU Usage: 31%
System memory usage: 41%
Video memory usage: 26%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: Very High
Reflection Resolution: Very High
Water Quality: Very High
Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x16
Night Shadows: Very High
View Distance: 100
Detail Distance: 100

 

[Daniel C]

I was getting really bad stutter but used this fix which sorted it http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=404147

I'm playing with everything on high apart from view distance and shadows I think now it runs nice and smooth with good fps

 

[TheCenturion]

I don't understand. I have the steam version, patched to the latest, the game is maxed out and I get nice fps

I think there's also an issue with ATI cards though