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No matter, found the info I needed.

GTA IV is in the current Steam Sale at £5.99 for the game plus the EFLC DLC which is an utter bargain. :)

Anyway, back to GTA V talk now. :D
 
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GTA IV still runs poorly for me.

It averages 60fps, but every 10-20 seconds it stutters terribly.

Have to cap it at 30fps to get any sort of consistency- which is hardly a solution it makes me dizzy driving around.

Any ideas?
 
sniffy said:
Performance wise, the game is very hit-and-miss. Some people with pretty average PCs could run it at launch whereas even today some decent rigs struggle with it.
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I think people are spoiled by high minimum framerates, and don't see how crap it looks and how it runs on ps3 and xbox360.

The graphics settings on consoles:

Resolution 1280 x 720 @ 20 -30 fps
Texture Quality Medium
Reflection Resolution Medium
Water Quality Medium
Shadow Quality High
Render Quality Low
View Distance 21
Detail Distance 10
Vehicle Density 33
Shadow Density does not exist on the Xbox 360/PS3
Definition off
Vsync off
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If you play the game at those settings, a mere gtx260 coupled with a q6600 would run it great. Obviously you shouldn't play it with a dual core... I don't get why needing a faster cpu relatively for its time is a bad thing. People also complained about Supreme Commander, I for one am happy the game ( still talking about supcom) supports 12 threads as of this day, even though back in the day my Pentium D had trouble!

I have dated hardware now but have no problems playing gta IV with all the stuff maxed, yes there is a slight frame drop in some areas ( notably on the most eastern island), but nothing near as bad as on the consoles.
I have a 780 with an i5 at 4Ghz and that struggles with everything max.
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Either your definition of struggling is different from mine, or something is off/malfunctioning. I play the game supersampled at 2560x1600 with everything maxed except traffic ( at 66) on just a gtx570, and it runs smootly.
EDIT: Fair enough, just double checked, it runs at 35 ish fps average, which isn't great, but it's enough for me.
 
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GTA IV Ran really smoothly on my parent's PC with a 9800GTX+ in it, on a HD4870 though and a quad core, rather than the dual core @ 4GHz, it ran like cack though. Sadly by then I lost all interest in GTA IV.
 
So I take it the news of the system requirements isn't coming out this week as earlier reports suggested? One month to go :D
 
Well Rockstar said it themselves but so sign of any yet!

Just ordered a 1440p monitor today so I'm hoping my system will still be able to run this reasonably high but it's made me slightly worried!
 
xibinim said:
So I take it the news of the system requirements isn't coming out this week as earlier reports suggested? One month to go :D
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We could probably make a stab at them ourselves and be fairly accurate. PC specs are pretty much pulled from the ether anyway.

Minimum will be mid-high range from three-four generations ago, recommend will be high-end current gen equipment. Install size will likely be 30-50GB.
 
NvidiaDan said:
Well Rockstar said it themselves but so sign of any yet!

Just ordered a 1440p monitor today so I'm hoping my system will still be able to run this reasonably high but it's made me slightly worried!
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R9 290 and 1440p is fine no worries, looking forward to playing GTA V online :), never played it myself when I had it on PS3 as I sold it after completing story and the multiplayer wasn't even up.
 
I just tried GTA IV again and the game still runs like butts. 1440p and medium high settings are required for me to get near 60 most of the time on a 780 and 2550K. Game is super limited by only being able to use one core and my GPU usage hovered around 50%.
All this makes me worried about the PC release of V.

That being said they managed to get it to run on last gen consoles so they can perform miracles in the optimisation department.
 
Do we have a reasonably solid launch date now? I've been checking the Steam page every week or so and it remains stubbornly at 'Early 2015' :(

I might have to pre order a code from a key site for the first time ever to stop me from buying a PS4!
 
Draeger said:
As far as I know, GTA IV utilises up to 4 cores?
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I'm pretty sure it does utilise four (or more?) Cores, because one of the patches made the game perform significantly better on dual cores.

But yes, as a big IV PC fan with hundreds of hours and many mods on it, GTA IV does run like arse for what it is.
 
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