GTA4 Graphics Issue

Wyrdstorm · 14 Jan 2012 at 18:46

I have just got the XMAS present i promised myself (New AMD HD 7970) and when i loaded GTA4 to play it with my daughter, she likes driving around etc) the graphics were...lets say...wrong....

I took a picture so you can see what i mean....

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I have removed Catalyst also and the rest of the PC is FAR over spec ( I had a NVIDIA GTX295 before so know how well it should run)

Does anybody have any ideas?? My daughter is going NUTS!! lol

PS - Works with all other games amazingly....

Cheers

alex24 · 14 Jan 2012 at 18:51

I think you could try adding -nomemrestrict to the executable (IIRC), which would remove that limitation and you can then increase the settings.

Maybe run a google search on that.

Puppetmaster · 15 Jan 2012 at 12:27

So it wont let you change any of the settings?

It looks to me that it doesnt recognise the graphics card so has set everything to its lowest.

Hyburnate · 15 Jan 2012 at 12:29

Re-Install drivers. That should do it.
Probably a bug with the drivers not showing the computer how powerful the card is. What rating do you get in WEI? If thats low its the drivers fault.

Edit: If neither of that works. Trawl the internet and look for the way to manually put it in with Notepad

pgi947 · 15 Jan 2012 at 15:10

alex24 said:
I think you could try adding -nomemrestrict to the executable (IIRC), which would remove that limitation and you can then increase the settings.

Maybe run a google search on that.

This all day long, either -nomemrestric or -norestrictions.

It happens when an unsupported card/driver or multi-card setup is installed.

Either do the above or if on multi-card disabled crossfire/SLI. Had the same problem with both my 9800GTX SLI and my CF 6950's.

Psymonkee · 15 Jan 2012 at 16:50

You did clear the old nvidia drivers off the system before dropping the new card in and playing right?

Wyrdstorm · 16 Jan 2012 at 01:39

I most certainly did

doing a fresh install now so *hoping* that solves it -

Psymonkee · 16 Jan 2012 at 11:16

Any luck?

Adam_101 · 16 Jan 2012 at 11:25

a fresh install would be my best bet too. However (and it may not be the same problem

) but a mate had the same problem and discovered that GTA IV had a problem recognising graphics cards over 2gig and worked around it creating some kind of command line - cant remember exactly I'm afriad but I know he did that and solved the problem. Again may not be this problem but worth a look!

pgi947 · 16 Jan 2012 at 11:57

Adam_101 said:
a fresh install would be my best bet too. However (and it may not be the same problem ) but a mate had the same problem and discovered that GTA IV had a problem recognising graphics cards over 2gig and worked around it creating some kind of command line - cant remember exactly I'm afriad but I know he did that and solved the problem. Again may not be this problem but worth a look!

Fairly sure its an extension of the memrestrict command that you're talking about, the cards over 2gb thing does ring a few bells. Check steam forums fairly sure there is a complete list of command extensions.

Adam_101 · 16 Jan 2012 at 12:09

pgi947 said:
Fairly sure its an extension of the memrestrict command that you're talking about, the cards over 2gb thing does ring a few bells. Check steam forums fairly sure there is a complete list of command extensions.

I think you're right there! was a while back.

pgi947 · 16 Jan 2012 at 12:35

It not something like memrestrict 2048? Its been a while since I've had a game, hopefully gta5 doesn't have the same flaws.

Mr Krugga · 16 Jan 2012 at 13:16

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=828416