GTA IV - running like a dog!

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So, bought it in the steam sale, yayyyy.

It's a fun game, not amazing, but the price it was going for, why not?

Anyway, so, with everything max, it runs like ****! Maybe max 30fps?

Shadows seem to be killing it, are their any mods that make it look lush whilst keeping the FPS high? I don't mind as I will be playing with a controller on a 50" plasma. But the dips are a little annoying.

Playing the game from a SSD, 8gig ram, 560ti 448 core, i5 ivybridge @ 4.2Ghz

Res: 1920x1080
 
I get 40-50fps average in that everything maxed even the sliders yet in BF3 multiplayer on ultra without AA i get 100fps average, shows poorly optimized the engine is.

Anyway shadows/view range kill fps the most in GTA4/expansions turn those down.
 
Okies, will knock the shadows down to medium. Draw distance is mainly vram and ram usage, not cpu/gpu intensity, so those don't really make much difference if you have very little of both surely?
 
agnes, draw distance definitely affects GPU usage because with a bigger draw distance the GPU has to render more stuff

ICenhancer 2.1 is out which is supposed to give you better framerate as well as better graphics so it might be worth checking that out
 
I personally cannot play without shadows on very high, have you seen how good they look!? I'd drop to from 1900 1600 personally, rather than having ugly shadows, your better off turning them off than anything below high.
 
Omaeka said:
I personally cannot play without shadows on very high, have you seen how good they look!? I'd drop to from 1900 1600 personally, rather than having ugly shadows, your better off turning them off than anything below high.
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if you mean drop the resolution then thats the last thing you want to do. if you have a flatscreen monitor because they really dont scale pictures very well. if you've got a CRT monitor then scaling isnt an issue but who has a CRT these days?

if you mean something like draw distance then dropping that is just fine as long as you dont put it at a really low value
 
Reaper 392 said:
if you mean drop the resolution then thats the last thing you want to do. if you have a flatscreen monitor because they really dont scale pictures very well. if you've got a CRT monitor then scaling isnt an issue but who has a CRT these days?

if you mean something like draw distance then dropping that is just fine as long as you dont put it at a really low value
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Detail view only really starts to effect FPS at about 80+
View distance starts to effect FPS at about 40+
Vehicle density starts to effect FPS at about 62+

Shadows, for overall picture quality; are the most important setting, even helps with the lack of AA.
 
Agreed the game runs like **** on a i5 2500k @ 4.5ghz, 6970 and SSD. Walking and running is fine but when driving it feels delayed/stuttery.
 
Game runs perfect for me at about 35fps with everything on max with draw sliders at

100
65
62

1440x900

vysnc off as its pointless.

FX-4100 @ 3.62ghz, 6850, no SSD.

Guess I'm lucky. ;)
 
Omaeka said:
Game runs perfect for me at about 35fps with everything on max with draw sliders at

100
65
62

1440x900

vysnc off as its pointless.

FX-4100 @ 3.62ghz, 6850, no SSD.

Guess I'm lucky. ;)
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If I was playing on that res it would work fine for me too. Try playing on a 1920x1080 monitor then report back.
 
GTA IV isn't GPU dependent at all, I know it takes a monster of a processor to run maxed @ 1080p.

My processor is pretty poor for gaming, I don't think its even at an i3's levels. Quite interested in trying a 1080p monitor, just don't know how to try before I buy kind of thing, would hate to spend a bomb on a new monitor only for it to be useless.
 
I found view/draw distances (both settings) made a massive difference to framerate, you could actually see the difference by running a framerate counter while adjusting the settings. Setting them both to 1 gave me decent performance.

Omaeka seems to have changed his tune from a couple of weeks ago when he was telling us what a disgrace the game was and didn't deserve our money.
 
Omaeka said:
GTA IV isn't GPU dependent at all, I know it takes a monster of a processor to run maxed @ 1080p.

My processor is pretty poor for gaming, I don't think its even at an i3's levels. Quite interested in trying a 1080p monitor, just don't know how to try before I buy kind of thing, would hate to spend a bomb on a new monitor only for it to be useless.
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I guarantee your 6850 will be crippled by most games on 1080p.
 
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