gta 4 crap fps

Renni 95 · 12 Jul 2011 at 21:59

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

Renni 95 · 13 Jul 2011 at 00:17

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 · 13 Jul 2011 at 15:25

anyone got a solution? :/

Renni 95 · 14 Jul 2011 at 10:01

AWPC said:
Run it below 1920x1200. GTX470 is not enough to get decent FPS @ that res with a quadcore. If you had a Core i7 with 8 threads it would be fine I used to run it on a Core i7-965+GTX260-216 with 30-45FPS back when it first came out in 2008 @ 1920x1200 almost maxxed out !

1920x1200=2304000 pixels
1920x1080=2073600 pixels (1080P res)
1680x1050=1764000 pixels
1360x768= 1044480 pixels (720P res)

See how many more pixels it has to render @ 1920x1200! its not ideal but try 1680x1050 (nearly half a million pixels less to render!!) otherwise lower shadows as they hit FPS hard maybe even turn them off altogether. No amount of CPU ocing will make up for lack of CPU cores! You sure your PSU is strong enough as GTA4 uses a lot of PSU juice without ocing CPU/GPU let alone with!!

Hit P on the keyboard for a Blur filter R* implemented on the fly to make up for no native AA!

but then why would i get those sort of benchmarks with it maxed out?? my psu is fine, and the game isnt using all of my cpu's power (about 70% on each core)