*** Grand Theft Auto IV - MODS & TWEAKS ***

[Omaeka]

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I've noticed there isn't a topic for this, yet GTA IV has to be one of the more frustrating games to mod, and has such a gigantic selection of mods to choose from.
I don't really mod the game too much myself, as I have several issues, but I will compile any mods people post and talk about, as well as tweaks to improve performance here.

GUIDE TO MODDING


Tweaks

By far the best tweak for GTA IV has to be the commandline.txt, simply create a notepad .txt document in your GTA IV directory and add these commands to it to increase performance.

ADVANCED USERS ONLY;

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A COLLECTION OF ALL THE Commandline.txt commands i have found and that have helped me


[AUDIO]
-Fullspecaudio - high-quality sounds, but the load aj ¹ ¹ ??¿ce more processor
-Minspecaudio - sounds low quality (no digital processing), cut the aj ¹ ¹ ??¿ce processor



[GLOBAL]
-Adapter - use the screen Specified adapter number (zero-based)
-Benchmark - the game immediately in the connector and the benchmark results of the connector you're
-Disableimposters - O connector low quality models of cars as seen from afar
-Help - displays a list of commandline options
-NoBlockOnLostFocus - do not block the window update When It Loses focus
-Safemode - sets the low end graphic quality Sheva
-Uninstallcontent - removes zawartoϾ GFWL in GTA


[GRAPHIC]
-DX9 / high - in Connection with the support playing DirectX 9 and a high priority
-DX10 / High - in Connection with the support playing DirectX 10 and high priority
-Forcehighqualitymirrors - the connector reflections better on 64 bit systems
-Forcer2vb - improves the activity ³ ANIE dents car body on a clean game without patch
-FrameLimit - limits the number of frames to ...
-Framelockinwindow - ¿odœwie YOUR game 'window' ³ activities and preferably at 60Hz
-Fullscreen - pe ³ ny screen
-Gpucount - lets you manually set the GPU count if the query fails
-Height - Altitude set the [minimum 480]
-Managed - use d3d runtime managed resources
-Nominimize - disables the ability to restore the game and changing forms minimize Resolutions - Reduces the system memory footprint
-Norestrictions - any change in graphics options
-Noswapdelay - loads all facilities instantly
-Novblank - O connector to wait for vblank
-Refreshrate - Set the frequency in odœwie ¿ania
-Stereo - set a game to guide of your two processors ¹ render smokers
-Unmanaged - application directs resources
-Width - Set width of the window [minimum 640]
-Windowed - the game "in the window"


[INPUT]
-Usedirectinput - allow the device action ANIE ¹ ³ DirectInput devices


[MEMORY]
-Availablevidmem - the percentage of available memory on the graphics card [0.0-4.0]
-Memrestrict - set the restriction of the amount of available memory for Manages resources
-Memrestrict 188743680 - Low resolution textures [graphics card 256mb]
-Memrestrict 209715200
-Memrestrict 230686720
-Memrestrict 262144000 - average resolution textures [graphics card 512mb]
-Memrestrict 293601280
-Memrestrict 314572800
-Memrestrict 629145600 - high resolution textures [for the video card 1gb +]
-Memrestrict 650117120
-Memrestrict 681574400
-No_3GB - disable 32bit OS with / 3GB
-Nomemrestrict - O connector memory limit
-Noprecache - O connector ¹ handheld memory resources
-Percentvidmem - the percentage of available memory, graphics card for GTA [0.0-1.0]
-Reserve - reserve amount that needed ¹ memory for other applications [0.0-1.0]
-ReservedApp - amount of memory to leave space available within application
[SET QUALITY]
-Autoconfig - automatically adjust the quality setting MAINTAIN Description box frame rate [15-120]
-Detailquality - Set drawing distance of oœæ detail [œmietników, p ³ Otowa, etc.] [0-99]
-ReflectionQuality - reflection quality textures [0-4]
-Reflectionresolution - Horizontal Resolution of reflection textures
-Renderquality - Set anisotropic filtering [0-4]
-Shadowdensity - Set the number of independent nych the source ¿³ a world of shadows and dynamic [0-16]
-ShadowQuality - jakoϾ shadows [0-4]
-Shadowresolution - Horizontal Resolution of shadows
-Texturequality - Set resolution of main game textures [0-2]
-Viewdistance - oϾ draw distance of LOD objects [0-99]
-Waterquality - water resolution [0-4]
-Waterreflectionquality - reflection resolution on the water [0-4]


[TIME]
-Notimefix - O connector fix time [?]

Be careful when using them however, as it is hardware dependant, you have to choose tweaks depending on screen resolution, refresh rate, GPU memory, system memory etc. and choosing poorly can result in the game being forced into 800x460 resolution with everything on lowest.

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Icenhancer is by far the best post-process 'ENB' mod available for GTA IV, do not be intimidated by it however, as it actually gives BETTER performance than standard GTA IV, while dramatically improving the visuals.

Download: click here.

MODS

REALIZMIV

GTA IV ULTIMATE TEXTURES

LEFT4LIBERTY

I don't think its multiplayer but its very similar to DayZ, only instead of other surviving players there are Scavengers and Bandits controlled by A.I. They can attack you, or assist you by killing Zombies, the way the zombies work is awesome and so ingenious too, it just makes every pedestrian hostile, in the wounded state, trying to attack the player with their fists. As the game is standard, without any real modding, this looks incredibly a lot like real Zombies, and they don't run either!

Download Link

If you like this and download it, I'd recommend this too:


Definitely worth skinning those in, to actually make them look like Zombies and not crazed peds.

Official Zombocalypse Page

 

[Omaeka]

Well Im running this **** at max @ 1920x1080 umad brah?

With you having superior hardware, not at all.

Lets keep this strictly mod talk please.

 

[Omaeka]

Omaeka the best mod you could have is to upgrade to a 1080p monitor. Nothings gonna look good at 1440x900.

Man you have issues.

Yeah, right.

Everyone I've seen and spoken to about Ice have said it caused little to no FPS decrease, and in a lot of cases improving it.

 

[Omaeka]

I enjoy driving around the city, that's about it. The problem is Rockstar games don't officially support modding of GTA 4 so you have to find a way around the DRM's for the retail version. Rockstar social club i don't have issues with but games for windows live and securom are troublesome when you try to load or place any mods into the game folder, patched or unpatched. xLiveless 0.95b flagged a trojan inside it's folder although my av removed it straight away. SecuROM closes and the game refuses to load if i install any mod. It looks like only the steam version plays nice. I like the look of iCenhancer+realizm mods. Shame about the retail version, maybe have to find a way around the DRM's?. I'm hoping GTA 5 only uses Rockstar social club?.

Hopefully GTA V will be Steamworks with no restrictive DRM, the modding is pretty fussy, I've legit modded the image files for new cars etc multiple times successfully and then it'll just crash. Every ENB I've tried has sent my game crazy, screen tearing so bad I cant even see my minimap, but I got VizualIV to work, which is a pretty good ENB, less shiny than others but nice lighting. Other than that its all vanilla.

 

[Omaeka]

Will update the thread soon guys, just got to get some things sorted and get settled down from work.

 

[Omaeka]

Finally got everything working. I love my mini!

mini /pix

Try this: http://www.gta4-mods.com/misc/l3evo-gp-best8-7-f9837

It'll give you visuals pretty similar to ICEnhancer, but works with 1.0.7.0.

Right, I've ran into a big problem here, before I installed this SEARCH NO MORE car pack, I had decent fps ranging from 25-40, but after I installed it my FPS is terrible, rarely going above 30. Another issue I have is the damn car spawns, all I see is one or two types of cars in single player, along with the taxi/fuzz cars you normally see, there's no real variety, everyone just drives whatever I have basically, looks silly seeing 50 BMW M3's down a motorway and nothing else.

 

[Omaeka]

<3!

 

[Omaeka]

Sky are you using any kind of car pack or are you just installing yours manually

Word of warning, using car packs can cause serious issues, I've tried several, and there is this thing GTA IV does where if you do not have the RAM to load all the custom cars at once (i.e: all regular GTA cars being replaced) you'll be swarmed with Taxi's EVERYWHERE. There is a script to get around this, but that makes the general textures go nuts, extreme amounts of glitches (at least for me).

I have 8GB ram, so if your using 16GB you might be okay for one, but GTA IV is a dodgey one and might still hit you with the taxi setting, and I think my textures went insane after the no-taxi script because I'm on 1.0.7.0. If your on 1.0.4.0 then go for it, but I strongly advise against any content mods in 1.0.7.0 unless you do them individually (avoid packs).

If you get a pack to work on 1.0.7.0, let me know!

 

[Omaeka]

yeah yeah ive just got the taxi bug

Best thing you can do is verify caché on Steam to get your original vehicle.img back, and just mod cars in one by one and try not to replace any of the existing cars. You could try the taxi fix script, but if your on 1.0.7.0. with Ultimate Textures, you might get some severe issues, like buildings not loading, road textures rising 3 or 4 feet upwards, cars splitting in two etc. etc.

 

[Omaeka]

^ i already have all .img files backed up separately and the whole game backed up just in case ^^

Smart thinking! I've already wasted god knows how many GB of bandwith reverifying, maybe I should backup the big files onto my external HDD now I've wiped all pirated games off it (I'm going clean ).

In all seriousness though, I really hope GTA V isn't like Vice City, San Andreas and IV, where they make the game less and less and less mod-friendly with each patch.

 

[Omaeka]

lol funny thing is..i don't even like GTA4 i just wanted to mess around with it
Vice City is my fav GTA game

I prefer Vice City too, just because of the memories, was obsessed with 80's music when I was a kid so only natural I played it the most.

Playing it now though, I'm stuck on the Avery mission where you have to fly the bombs into the construction site, the helicopter controls are so bad on PC, either that or I'm getting to old for gaming because I either run out of time or get blown up. =/

 

[Omaeka]

I just do them manually, as above the last time I used a car pack I got all taxis =/


From what I've heard they are weird... I use xbox controller, honestly even driving a car feels really weird with mouse and kb.

They had seriously better not only sort out 5 as a port, but they better make it more mod friendly on the PC, most of IV's sales must have came from ICEnhancer and various car mods. Why take a dump on the biggest audience for your game by killing modability with each patch etc?

After Max Payne though, its looking good. Rockstar are great, I remember running GTA 3 on a really old PC I usually DOS gamed on (some pirate game comes to mind, might track it down ) and it ran perfectly, now IV comes along and demands way higher specs than it deserves and has all these issues. As many work arounds as there are, it just doesn't seem right. Such a fantastic game at core though.

 

[Omaeka]

One of the best things about an ENB is the fact it can force SMAA on an AMD card, somehow. I use SMAA in Skyrim, with absolutely no alternate form of AA (not CCC-forced, nor standard MSAA or FXAA via graphic settings) and the aliasing is none existent!

Makes me wanna go green just to be able to force it into everything.

 

[Omaeka]

You could force SMAA on any card with an injector before?

That, I didn't know, cheers!

 

[Omaeka]

Inject SMAA, there's a way to use it alongside any other d3_d9's.

 

[Omaeka]

I'd love to see Skyfall do some Skyrim tweaks!

 

[Omaeka]

Taxi bug can be removed via a scripted mod, just Google it. It is incompatible with Ultimate Textures v1 from my experience, not sure about v2. It works though, despite the fact everything looked unrendered and somethings just straight up weren't even there, I did have all of the cars I'd modded in on the roads!

Easy to uninstall so you can risk trying, either way.

 

[Omaeka]

Sky, does your setup run on 1.0.7.0 GTA IV (not EFLC)?

 

[Omaeka]

There is a setting in the enb for moon size but I don't think it works with that skybox the moon does not work in eflc at all so no idea how big it will be.

Shoot it with a sniper rifle!