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roadie said:
I think what I am seeing is that CPU speed is important (obviously the more cores the better too).
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Clocking my quad from 3.2GHz to 3.6GHz made absolutely no difference to the frame rate.. Looks as if my GTX280 is the bottleneck..
 
Statistics
Average FPS: 45.21
Duration: 36.94 sec
CPU Usage: 91%
System memory usage: 59%
Video memory usage: 75%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: Medium
Render Quality: Highest
View Distance: 54
Detail Distance: 100

Hardware
Microsoft® Windows Vista" Ultimate
Service Pack 1
Video Adapter: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
Video Driver version: 7.14.10.630
Audio Adapter: Digital Output Device (SPDIF) (High Definition Audio Device)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz

File ID: Benchmark.cli
 
Not sure if its been mentioned here yet but change your GTA launch shortcut to:

Target: "C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" -norestriction

This allows you access to tweak all the gfx settings regardless of how much Vram your card has so should allow you to strike a better balance than the game auto configures.

Also hit the P key ingame to enable the Blur filter as this removes a lot of the jaggies with no FPS loss at all. Makes it slightly blurry but nowhere near as bad as the console versions vaseline filter!!

That R* Social Club is working properly now R* have given more bandwidth to it as well so no hassle launching the game anymore.
 
The shortcut don't work for me..

The blur filter is awful, I'd rather take my glasses off than use that.
 
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willhub said:
The shortcut don't work for me..
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Simple just find the file on whatever hard disk its installed on.

LaunchGTAIV.exe right click on it and send shortcut to desktop.

Now right click on the new shortcut and look at the properties tab.

Where it says target put an empty space in then type after the LaunchGTAIV.exe part: -norestriction

And thats it apply and launch the game that way. Social club always launches regardless as its part of the way the game is designed to startup on the retail version
 
AWPC said:
Simple just find the file on whatever hard disk its installed on.

LaunchGTAIV.exe right click on it and send shortcut to desktop.

Now right click on the new shortcut and look at the properties tab.

Where it says target put an empty space in then type after the LaunchGTAIV.exe part: -norestriction

And thats it apply and launch the game that way. Social club always launches regardless as its part of the way the game is designed to startup on the retail version
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This is how I put it in:

"F:\Applications\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" -norestriction

Still dont work tho.
 
Ok I have mildly Overclocked my cpu to 2.53 ghz instead of 2.13 and tryed the game on minimal settings ( but medium textures, and native res) and came out with this:

Statistics
Average FPS: 43.78
Duration: 36.98 sec
CPU Usage: 95%
System memory usage: 71%
Video memory usage: 97%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1280 x 1024 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: Medium
Render Quality: Low
View Distance: 1
Detail Distance: 1

Hardware
Microsoft® Windows Vista" Ultimate
Service Pack 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512
Video Driver version: 180.48
Audio Adapter: Speakers (Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS (WDM))
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6420 @ 2.13GHz

File ID: Benchmark.cli


Xfire fps counter showed it didn't drop below 33 fps at any time, and fps also once shot up to 57 fps... Overall this isn't bad imo :eek:. Much better than I expected from such a small cpu boost.
 
I was running my 9600GT @ 550/850 before, a deliberate underclock to solve an issue with one game (TDU).

Running at default clocks again (650/900) added about 5fps for me in this benchmark. CPU at stock speed.


Statistics
Average FPS: 42.56
Duration: 37.17 sec
CPU Usage: 54%
System memory usage: 75%
Video memory usage: 94%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1280 x 1024 (75 Hz)
Texture Quality: Medium
Render Quality: High
View Distance: 21
Detail Distance: 10

Hardware
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Service Pack 3
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
Video Driver version: 180.48
Audio Adapter: SB Audigy 2 Audio [D000]
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
 
willhub said:
Is it only me who wont settle for Detail and View distance really low?
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Statistics
Average FPS: 43.95
Duration: 37.09 sec
CPU Usage: 79%
System memory usage: 31%
Video memory usage: 55%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1280 x 1024 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: Medium
Render Quality: Very High
View Distance: 25
Detail Distance: 37


;)

I only use that because i really don't see a great deal of difference in game , though it isn't really low
 
The view distance settings I am using are supposedly the same as the Xbox 360 version. The graphics look decent on those settings too. It does run very smoothly now. I updated to the latest version of DirectX earlier, I wonder if that has helped.
 
Statistics
Average FPS: 48.27
Duration: 37.62 sec
CPU Usage: 71%
System memory usage: 69%
Video memory usage: 91%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1440 x 900 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: Medium
Render Quality: High
View Distance: 25
Detail Distance: 37

Hardware
Microsoft® Windows Vista" Ultimate
Service Pack 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512
Video Driver version: 175.19
Audio Adapter: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz

Better than i thought :p
 
I'd post my results but that benchmark is a waste of time.

I get 10-15fps under my results when I actually play the game, and even less in multiplayer.

I'd take any in-game benchmark results with a pinch of salt, personally.
 
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