Tbh I'm thinking nowadays it might be best not to have it on steam as I tried something the other day after reading on how to avoid stutter etc and saw that making a short cut of the launcher from the dir of GTA 4 or eflc and use command line.text file in the dir and launch it through the short cut and bypass steam and it is far far smoother to play. Steam causes fps issues defo imo. It was like that with startrek online. Use sto with steam and microstutter but without steam it was far smoother. Also tearing is better too somehow.
I know I'd prefer to play gtav without launching through steam.
You can use the Launch Commands option in steam to remove that stuttering also, and to remove screen tearing etc, theres a big list on the GTA forums of commands you can use to set the game up.


