Grand Theft Auto 4

Teaf · 30 Dec 2009 at 11:45

Yeah those shadows are pure awful for me as well, very dotted and pixelated. Tree's are the same (not the shadows, the actual tree branches/leaves). Game runs very well for me though with a mix of medium/high settings @ 1360x768 which I was suprised with when people were saying they get 20 fps on low with their super computers from space.

alex24 · 30 Dec 2009 at 11:45

Shadows improved a lot with the patches, are you up to date?

Teaf · 30 Dec 2009 at 11:50

alexhull24 said:
Shadows improved a lot with the patches, are you up to date?

Presume so, it's through Steam.

Gimpymoo · 30 Dec 2009 at 12:03

Does a badly fragmented/Full hard drive affect this game? Other games work OK.

stooeh · 30 Dec 2009 at 12:38

cHk4 said:
I have everything on max apart from view distance which is set to 38 not 100. It's not picking up my 2nd GFX card (total 2gb) but only picking up 1gb so it will not let me go any higher

I think in SLI/Xfire the gfx cards need to hold identical data in both sets of ram, so effective max will be 1gb (or 892mb in my case).

BigBruiserAl · 30 Dec 2009 at 12:40

stooeh said:
I think in SLI/Xfire the gfx cards need to hold identical data in both sets of ram, so effective max will be 1gb (or 892mb in my case).

+1
Correct it will not use 2gb but 1gb

tmaxxthomson · 30 Dec 2009 at 13:19

Gimpymoo said:
Anyone help me with performance.

Specs are:

AMD 2.8Ghz Tri-Core
2GB RAM
ATI Radeon 5770 1GB

It stutters all over the shop, even on lower resolutions.

Should a tri core be able to play it OK?

i would imagine ur 2GB of ram is defineatly holding it back. i have 6GB of ram and while running GTA4 its using 70-90% of the ram in total!

the_running_man · 30 Dec 2009 at 13:49

Performance wise I found that upgrading to a hard drive with a bigger cache (16MB to 32MB) made the game a lot smoother. I have a mate with a similar spec but better gfx (gtx260) and lower HD cache (8MB) and the game cannot manage anything above 20fps.

Gimpymoo · 30 Dec 2009 at 15:39

the_running_man said:
Performance wise I found that upgrading to a hard drive with a bigger cache (16MB to 32MB) made the game a lot smoother. I have a mate with a similar spec but better gfx (gtx260) and lower HD cache (8MB) and the game cannot manage anything above 20fps.

OH MY WORD.

Never thought to check but my Steam install is to a drive with only a 8MB cache... Mmm, I wonder what other problems this is causing - LOL

Will swap to one of the 16MB Cache drives.

Thanks.

Gunni Parker · 30 Dec 2009 at 21:27

So whats the score then, does the game update with Steam? No one seems to know.

Infam0us · 30 Dec 2009 at 22:54

Gunni Parker said:
So whats the score then, does the game update with Steam? No one seems to know.

Not afaik

alex24 · 30 Dec 2009 at 22:56

I think the game normally updates through GFWL if you don't do it manually first, though I recall the main patches coming to steam eventually, but delayed.

marc2003 · 30 Dec 2009 at 22:59

just download the patch and install it yourself.

http://www.rockstargames.com/support/IV/PC/patch/index.html

i hate letting GFWL do it because you're left wondering what the **** is going on staring at a black screen for 10 minutes. :rolleyes:

airrunner · 31 Dec 2009 at 13:45

it's shocking extremely poorly coded game

Gunni Parker · 1 Jan 2010 at 21:55

How do you find out what version of the game you have got on Steam? By the way, what does 'GWFL' stand for???

marc69 · 1 Jan 2010 at 22:29

Gunni Parker said:
How do you find out what version of the game you have got on Steam? By the way, what does 'GWFL' stand for???

GFWL - Games For Windows Live

snowdog · 1 Jan 2010 at 22:54

my_computer said:
is there any aa yet? other than pressing p.
i'm tempted to install again

mrk said:
No AA yet

Yes there is, it's been there for ages, but it really needs a lot of gpu power as it uses supersampling...

http://enbseries.gtamaps.net/download_en.htm

Download the AA test .dll...

See:

Newest version has full screen support now too:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=14976311&postcount=8006

Loads of lovely pics such as this:

apatia77 · 17 Aug 2012 at 16:19

Just completed GTA4 and both DLCs, what an awesome game, it was well worth £5 on recent steam sale

Gimpymoo · 18 Dec 2013 at 13:44

Gimpymoo said:
Anyone help me with performance.

Specs are:

AMD 2.8Ghz Tri-Core
2GB RAM
ATI Radeon 5770 1GB

It stutters all over the shop, even on lower resolutions.

Should a tri core be able to play it OK?

Well....

3 years +
2 complete system upgrades and an i7 later...

I am able to play the game without any stutter or skip or plain awful performance.

AMAZING.

I will do my best to not spam the thread with "The cake is a lie" type comments as I progress.

See you guys in 5 years when I play GTA V.

silversurfer · 18 Dec 2013 at 14:01

I had a similar take though I used to play a bit more on dual core low res. Just finished bogt with everything on max, if I'd dropped traffic density a bit it'd run better I think. Hitches every now and again even though its loaded from SSD

I'll also wait for gta v to go on sale for a fiver in a couple years. All the stories connect, so Im not sure it matters which part is done first since its one thread anyway.

Is there any big GTA4 multiplayer server

GFWL - Games For Windows Live

what happens when they scrap that