GTA IV Performance

[lemonadesoda]

In summary,

GTA4 requires a 1GB video card (or 898MB GTX260) to run smoothly at "high" resolutions. And a dual >3.2Ghz or quad >2.4Ghz to run smoothly.

If you have a 512MB card, then you need to down some of the graphics details AND run at a lower resolution.

This game cannot pull HD "1080i" quality UNLESS you have a 1GB card and a quad system. If you DO, then you can get better than the console quality. http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1089832&postcount=43

Now stop whining. Put your resolution to 1280x1024 or 1280x900 depending on your TFT format, and STFU.

 

[farlex85]

Probably 8.11 what ever the latest is. He usually calls me when they release the new ones so I'm guessing he is up to date



I was at his house when he got it because I wanted to see how it ran on a super computer.. He tried 1024x768 on his 15" then he hooked it up to his normal 1920x1200 then tried doing 1360x720 and no luck.

Same performance across all res? Did he try turning down the aa and af (did he have them forced in catalyst) before turning down the rendering?

 

[jbunch07]

hmm, Seems like i read somewhere that 8.12 is supposed to be allot better for GTA, but only the beta version is out now, so im not sure what im going to do, I may just hold off a little bit

 

[ShadowFold]

In summary,

GTA4 requires a 1GB video card (or 898MB GTX260) to run smoothly at "high" resolutions.

If you have a 512MB card, then you need to draw some of the graphics details AND run at a lower resolution.

This game cannot pull HD "1080i" quality UNLESS you have a 1GB card.

Now stop whining. Put your resolution to 1280x1024 or 1280x900 depending on your TFT format, and STFU.

I was playing on 1440x900 and tried lower reses and it still ran like crap. Not only does it run like crap it looks like crap. Its unexscusable this game will not run on a 500$ dual gpu card. Its just rediculous. How can you stand up for this game? I don't get it

 

[farlex85]

hmm, Seems like i read somewhere that 8.12 is supposed to be allot better for GTA, but only the beta version is out now, so im not sure what im going to do, I may just hold off a little bit

I would try a "demo" first.

 

[jbunch07]

I would try a "demo" first.

"demo" hmm...will look for one

 

[ShadowFold]

"demo" hmm...will look for one

This game seems hit or miss so please do. Don't waste your money on this game..

 

[lemonadesoda]

I was playing on 1440x900 and tried lower reses and it still ran like crap. Not only does it run like crap it looks like crap. Its unexscusable this game will not run on a 500$ dual gpu card. Its just rediculous. How can you stand up for this game? I don't get it

yep, I dont get it either, why you are having such a bad time with it. It doesnt make sense. Please read their graphics manual and set your GPU as they said, or lower, to CHECK that something small isnt farking your system.

http://www.rockstargames.com/support/gta4pc/docs/GTAIV Graphics Settings.doc

 

[ShadowFold]

yep, I dont get it either, why you are having such a bad time with it. It doesnt make sense. Please read their graphics manual and set your GPU as they said, or lower, to CHECK that something small isnt farking your system.

http://www.rockstargames.com/support/gta4pc/docs/GTAIV Graphics Settings.doc

I already did that crap. Too late if they release a patch now I already got a refund.

 

[lemonadesoda]

Bad luck! And thanks for the warning to all ATI owners.

 

[wolf2009]

http://files.filefront.com/3danalyzer+v236rar/;5422262;/fileinfo.html

anyone wanna try this program and see if they can get it running better?

that won't do a thing.

that is a sort of DirectX 8 , Pixel Shader 1.1 emulator for chips that don't support those functions.

 

[EviLZeD]

apparently theres a performance fix on http://www.xfastest.com/viewthread.php?tid=16316&extra=page=1 this site my guess its the 180.70 drivers

also disabling the video recoding function in options improves fps

 

[J-Man]

Already beat this game on PS3.

 

[Darknova]

GTA 4 performance, well on my PC it goes like this -> "crash to desktop"

Yup, bought it on the release date, got it home, never managed to get it working. Originally I was getting errors about it not being able to connect to that stupid Rockstar Social Club, then once I disabled that (logged out lol) it crashes immediately after the intro movies, and from what I've read, I'm not the only person having the same issue who has an ATi Radeon card.

erocker, I'd love to know how you got it working...

 

[DaMulta]

that won't do a thing.

that is a sort of DirectX 8 , Pixel Shader 1.1 emulator for chips that don't support those functions.

A guy on youtuybe used it to play crysis on a intel gpu....

 

[wolf2009]

A guy on youtuybe used it to play crysis on a intel gpu....

thats what it does, emulate a graphic card albeit works really slow .

 

[DaMulta]

so it does not rip out certain things?

 

[wolf2009]

so it does not rip out certain things?

here's what the game window looks like

so you can only emulate upto 9800 pro. no use really

 

[newtekie1]

I was playing on 1440x900 and tried lower reses and it still ran like crap. Not only does it run like crap it looks like crap. Its unexscusable this game will not run on a 500$ dual gpu card. Its just rediculous. How can you stand up for this game? I don't get it

I find your experience odd, as I can run it on a single 9600GSO(I thought two in SLI, but the game doesn't support SLI, so it was really one). It plays on the 9600GSO, that I paid $50 for, at the same resolution as my PS3 and it looks better.

Why do I have this feeling that you haven't actually played the game at all. Do you even expect anyone to believe that his HD4870x2 couldn't play it even on low? Really, do you think everyone is that dumb?

I hope to try it on my HD4670 tonight to see how it will run on an ATI setup, the low end dual-core in the rig should be interesting also.

 

[L|NK|N]

I look forward to playing this game. Even if it means medium settings. To all of those who are feeling screwed, no one forced you to buy the game.

 

[MaxAwesome]

Like someone said earlier, I find it a bit ridiculous that decent Dual Core CPUs are failing to run this game flawlessly. CPUs like E6x00, E7x00 and not to mention the high-end ones E8x00, should run this game like a breeze. So far, C2D kick major ass on any game you throw at them. I will use Assassin's Creed as an example: That game had an insane numbe of pedestrians on screen at any given number, and my CPU (E8400) didn't even break a sweat on the highest settings... My point is, all the previous GTA games had traffic/pedestrians on the street at all times and it managed to run great on older hardware (come on, I played GTA: San Andreas on a 4-year-old Pentium 4 @ 1.3ghz!) To me it is just unacceptable that perfectly capable hardware that will still rock future games for sure (don't even say they won't, I'll bet you you will see C2D CPUs rocking hard for a long time) simply fail to run this game!

There is no excuse for a game to run this poorly on perfectly adequate and capable hardware. And that "this game is meant for future hardware" story is just plain BS.

Even the lowest C2D (E2x00),when OCe'd at 2.5+ghz, are plenty for any game out there...

 

[xu^]

I think the game is much more dependant on GPU rather than CPU ,it says in the manual any card with 256mb vram will autoset at "LOW" gfx options ,a 512mb card will set to MEDIUM ,and above 512mb is HIGH ,it runs pretty good on my 260s 896mb ,but i think it ideally needs 1gb vram to get the most from it.

Unfortuantly for ATI owners it seems GTA4 appears to have some major performance problems with most if not all ATI cards ,hopefully things like that will be fixed asap in a patch or driver update.

 

[erocker]

I look forward to playing this game. Even if it means medium settings. To all of those who are feeling screwed, no one forced you to buy the game.

It will be great when multiplayer starts working and the Rockstar Social Club problems are gone. With either of my systems the game plays great at the settings they're at it blows away the console version. People are getting upset because their high-end systems arent' able to max this game out, which is something they are used to. Anyone else remember the original Far Cry or Oblivion? Not much could play those games at over medium settings when they were released. They got better over time and the games were both great. The city, life, atmosphere, mass traffic are stunning for this game. The lack of anti-aliasing kinda sucks right now, however if you feel it's necessary send ATi and Nvidia feedback and let them know you want the option to force AA in the game. It may or may not happen but it's worth a try. Buy this game, don't sign into Rockstar Social Club at the moment, set your settings and enjoy it. It's a GREAT game.

 

[EviLZeD]

Hey guys new beta driver for nvidia cards is out optimized for gta IV http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_gtaiv_downloads.html 180.84

 

[erocker]

Awesome, thost will be the drivers I install when I get my new Nvidia card.