GTA IV Horrible performance
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It has its quirks, but as mentioned you NEED a fast quad and at least 1gb vram to run this game at 60+fps, I think even the 'official' recommended specs state that a 2.5ghz quad is required.
Yes it runs your other games fine and maxed out, but this is not 'other games' and this is also a different engine, that depends on processing power more than anything.
Its also hardly a poor console port either, most 'poor' console ports you wont see a major change in the graphics from 360~PC. Yes it could be better, but there are plenty of console commands to help improve things, which lets be fair are PC exclusive and rockstar should be given credit for.
Bottom line: Go OC your chip to 3+ghz (should be more than achievable), maybe throw another 2gb of ram in and then test it out.
Also for your crossfire issues (which I have my self, run the game with 1 card as the fix doesn't work for me) try entering the launch command of -norestrictions
Yes it runs your other games fine and maxed out, but this is not 'other games' and this is also a different engine, that depends on processing power more than anything.
Its also hardly a poor console port either, most 'poor' console ports you wont see a major change in the graphics from 360~PC. Yes it could be better, but there are plenty of console commands to help improve things, which lets be fair are PC exclusive and rockstar should be given credit for.
Bottom line: Go OC your chip to 3+ghz (should be more than achievable), maybe throw another 2gb of ram in and then test it out.
Also for your crossfire issues (which I have my self, run the game with 1 card as the fix doesn't work for me) try entering the launch command of -norestrictions
Formally owned [email protected]/GTX280/8GB PC6400 and GTAIV would run acceptable, certainly better than xbox360 version. Also clocking Q6600 from 2.4GHz to 3.6Ghz yielded significant fps gains.
Yes it's a very poorly optimized port, but as others have said the game is hugely CPU reliant.
^Q6600 @ 3.2GHz+ and 4GB memory would improve situation, but made it pretty clear you cant be arsed.
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I read on another forum of people having issues with various AMD cards, where the FPS weren't actually low but the game didn't run smoothly, some people said the game actually was running worse than before they upgraded from gtx260's and the like.
So could be a driver issue.
So could be a driver issue.
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More memory would help a lot.
When I went from 2GB to 3.3GB (had 32-bit os at the time) I noticed a big difference in all my games.
I find it fairly smooth with my rig at 1080p.
When I went from 2GB to 3.3GB (had 32-bit os at the time) I noticed a big difference in all my games.
I find it fairly smooth with my rig at 1080p.
It's not a driver issue, the game just isn't smooth on some AMD cards.
It worked better on my old 5850 than on my 6950.
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His PC is of a spec which WAS cutting edge when the game was released, though?
rofl.....................i need to replace my Sapphire HD 5850 1GB Card............i dont think so.
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[email protected] with 2GB DDR2 RAM was hardly cutting edge at the time.
The game isn't that GPU intensive and it requires a pretty powerful CPU to handle rendering. It is badly optimised but it works just fine on good PCs (with some drivers related problems that OP's card shouldn't experience).
^^Indeed, GTA4 is less than 3 years old and 2GB RAM definitely wasn't cutting edge back then, I've always had fairly modest enthusiast systems and even I had more memory than that.
Also running a Q6600 at stock isn't ideal for a cpu-hungry game like GTA4, massive gains to be had from increasing that to 3ghz+.
People love to bash the likes of GTA4 for being "buggy" and "poorly coded" but the fact is it does generally scale with cpu power for the most part (assuming no other major bottlenecks like RAM/VRAM etc). I think that is one of the big lessons people can learn, that just because a game is poorly coded/optimised it doesn't mean that you don't benefit from better hardware.
Also running a Q6600 at stock isn't ideal for a cpu-hungry game like GTA4, massive gains to be had from increasing that to 3ghz+.
People love to bash the likes of GTA4 for being "buggy" and "poorly coded" but the fact is it does generally scale with cpu power for the most part (assuming no other major bottlenecks like RAM/VRAM etc). I think that is one of the big lessons people can learn, that just because a game is poorly coded/optimised it doesn't mean that you don't benefit from better hardware.
Absolutely. ^
If you want better performance, overclock the Q6600 to 3.2GHz (if it's a G0 stepping). They're extremely easy CPUs to overclock and running it at 2.4GHz is a total waste for gaming. Yes, GTA4 isn't very well optimised, but do yourself a favour. You should also see nice gains in other games too.
Also, for some reason I've found that Nvidia cards seem to handle GTAIV better than AMD cards. AMD tend to have a microstutter thing going on, which is really distracting, whereas the nvidia cards (even lesser powered) feel smoother, even at less FPS.
If you want better performance, overclock the Q6600 to 3.2GHz (if it's a G0 stepping). They're extremely easy CPUs to overclock and running it at 2.4GHz is a total waste for gaming. Yes, GTA4 isn't very well optimised, but do yourself a favour. You should also see nice gains in other games too.
Also, for some reason I've found that Nvidia cards seem to handle GTAIV better than AMD cards. AMD tend to have a microstutter thing going on, which is really distracting, whereas the nvidia cards (even lesser powered) feel smoother, even at less FPS.
