GTA4

Cavallino · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:14

So decided to play this on the PC and whenever I try to change the graphics settings it doesnt let me set textures to high due to memory usage or something. Is there a workaround or will the game truly grind to a half because of this?

no_1_dave · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:24

Using the work around and putting the textures higher then it says causes nasty popup

Cavallino · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:24

nasty popup? Can you describe please? Cheers.

jamiehavok · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:32

you'll get missing textures, if you only have 512 mb of vram on 1 gpu - doesnt support dual gpus, you can only play with texures on medium unless maybe you set game at very low resolution.

Cavallino · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:37

jamiehavok said:
you'll get missing textures, if you only have 512 mb of vram on 1 gpu - doesnt support dual gpus, you can only play with texures on medium unless maybe you set game at very low resolution.

Ah thats a bit poo. Hmm.

I have a 4870 512MB.

Worth getting a 4870 1GB you reckon?

HAz · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:42

worth selling the game imo, saves the hassle

JimAroo · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:45

Cavallino said:
Ah thats a bit poo. Hmm.

I have a 4870 512MB.

Worth getting a 4870 1GB you reckon?

I have a 4870 1GB and my game runs poorly. I've just gave it up as a bad job. I'll play it again once i get an i7 and a 5870/5850.

Cavallino · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:48

Yep or the 5870 was an option too.
I also noticed that even it doesnt run absolutely smoothly. And even when I turn everything down it still runs at that same frame rate (as if it is locked to a certain frame rate) even tried playing with Vsync.... thoughts?

JimAroo · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:52

Cavallino said:
Yep or the 5870 was an option too.
I also noticed that even it doesnt run absolutely smoothly. And even when I turn everything down it still runs at that same frame rate (as if it is locked to a certain frame rate) even tried playing with Vsync.... thoughts?

Your probably in the same boat as me, to get it to run you have to turn everything to lowest.

I even had to change my resolution from the normal 1680x1050 to 1280x1024 just to get the game to run at a decent frame rate.

And thats on an E6750 @ 3.6, 4GB PC8500 1066MHz and a 4870 1GB.

MeddlE · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:58

Runs fine on the rig in my sig, 1920x1200 with everything on high or very high.

jamiehavok · 10 Nov 2009 at 00:00

yes even if you have a good gpu the game is also very cpu intensive much favouring quads, running badly on most dual cores unless they're clocked at like 4ghz!

AMG · 10 Nov 2009 at 00:05

very odd, runs nicely on mine too even when I had two 512 HD4870, running on single ran nicely obviously with lower settings

snowdog · 10 Nov 2009 at 00:17

JimAroo said:
Your probably in the same boat as me, to get it to run you have to turn everything to lowest.

I even had to change my resolution from the normal 1680x1050 to 1280x1024 just to get the game to run at a decent frame rate.

And thats on an E6750 @ 3.6, 4GB PC8500 1066MHz and a 4870 1GB.

Problem shown in bold...

benjo · 10 Nov 2009 at 00:19

The game runs noticeably better on quad cores

I was getting 15~fps more with my Q6660 at 3.6 than my mates E8400 at 3.5. He has a 4850 and I have an 8800GTS

Cavallino · 10 Nov 2009 at 08:03

Please dont get me wrong. The game is not smooth as in Call of Duty 4 smooth but smooth like Crysis smooth if you get what I mean.

Does the game lock fps to 30 or something? Is there something in INI files which locks frame rate? Or even in the options?

I have a Q6600 running at 3.53 (443 x 9) with 4GB PC8500 at 1066MHz.
And the 4870 512MB of course.

bledd · 10 Nov 2009 at 10:20

GTA works best on nvidia cards