GTA IV for PC (official)

[M4nB3arP1g]

I don't have the settings cranked I just left it on the defaults for now. Here they are:

[Shasoosh]

I'm getting quite ticked off, first it doesn't allow me to use command lines because I have to launch through Social Club and how the hell do I use my Logitech controller in the game?

Please help!

I've posted a solution for this earlier.

Link

[+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹]

The Logitech issue will apparently be fixed in the next patch, though it is better to get a 360 pad if possible, they are by far the best pads I have ever used, and you can pick them up quite cheap

[sundayx Veteran]

I lol'd cuase that's what f-ing happened.

[Unimatrix Xero]

that pics already been featured in this thread from what i remember

[Sethos]

Yeah ... it's also a quote if you use those sharp eagle eyes :p

[Richard Hammond]

The new nvidia beta drivers made my game a bit smoother, definately playable.

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

Hehe.. the "What I expected / What I got" picture is good ;)

[+John. Subscriber¹]

I love that image. It's a shame rockstar had so many problems with this release.

[Richard Hammond]

Its not just this release though, a lot of Rockstars console to PC ports have been rubbish.

[StealMySoda]

Patch has been released it seems. Seems to have very little in terms of performace increase. Just launch the game and LFW will do the rest.

[Fagutish]

Also, if anyones thinking of purchasing the pc edition. bear in mind:

Keyboard/mouse mapping is implemented disgustingly:

Cannot map a function to two different key presses.

Cannot map mouse buttons 4 or 5 AT ALL (forward and back buttons on keyboard) --- Yes this is a deal breaker for me.

This is outrageous. They've ruined an awesome game by halfassing the porting, throwing gratuitous use of drm and ridiculous barriers of entry for online play.

If youre interested: I emailed R* in the hopes that maybe in the future they would patch these basic to-be-expected functions into the game. The reply was in essence "we arent doing jack about that youre on your own"

I was hoping that the Games for Windows certification process would put some polish and lowest common denominator requirements into games. All it has been is the homogenization of in-game UI so one can use it with Microsoft's 360 controller.

[Unimatrix Xero]

aye patch is out but for me has done bugger all the only 2 things i can see is that they hardcoded the '-norestrictions- and '-nomemrestrict' into the games exe and tweeked the benchmark to run smoother, but fps in the game is worse for me now i could pull 25fps before the patch, now im down to 19fps

[Unimatrix Xero]

EDIT:

Ok so after the patch i was getting ♥♥♥♥ fps, so i decided, right the game cant get anywhere than it is now so i decided to install the 180.84 (beta3 drivers) from guru3d.com, now normally i uninstall the old driver first, but this time i left them alone and just installed over the top of the old 180.48's.

As normal it asked for a restart so i did, then while i was in POST i deicded.... ♥♥♥♥ it i'll overclock my cpu a little, i took the fsb from 200, upto 212.

Now my processor is the AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dualcore which its stock speed is 3.0Ghz, the increased fsb has taken it to just below 3.2Ghz (3.18Ghz if you wanna nitpick)

Then i checked my commandlist.txt file in my program files root folder and the only line i have in is -fullspecaudio.

So i ran the game now my ingame settings are as follows

1280x1024x70Hrtz

Texture Quality: Medium

Render Quality: Medium

View Distance: 15

Detail Distance: 15

Traffic: 15

and i really did notice a good fps increase, now i didnt run frap this time so i cant get an exact figure, BUT i was playing for a good 20-30 mins and i went from 1 island to another and even went into 'Star junction' and it was really smooth

I hope this gives some people a few ideas or theorys on how to come up with the next user fix

EDIT: heres my CPU-Z report if anyone wants to have a shimmy http://*malware domain*/show_oc.php?id=462124

[ViperAFK]

I'm getting stable 30 fps with the new patch on the same settings but with view distance at 22 and traffic at 13. I found the most cpu intensive settings are shadow density, traffic and detail distance. You can probably ramp the view distance up with no problem on that GTX.

X2 5600+ 2.9ghz

4gb ram

9600gt

only startup command is fullspec audio. I even get like 40 fps indoors outside now I get nice 30-35 in the day time it it used to be really bad for me during the day pre patch. I almost wanna see if I can turn up my traffic density a bit now.

[J400uk]

Slightly changed my PC specs, dropped in a spare E6320 1.86ghz cpu and an extra 2gb ram (the quad core is now sold as I get my XPS i7 soon). It immediately required re-activation and the new patch automagically installed. Performance seeems worse a lot less smooth, but the game feels less buggy (if that makes sense). I reckon the CPU makes the difference, so hopefully i7 + 4gb + patch = smooth and reliable

EDIT: Oh and I'm using the 8.12 drivers, been working really well for last week with the system in signature, just a little buggy at times.

[ViperAFK]

Slightly changed my PC specs, dropped in a spare E6320 1.86ghz cpu and an extra 2gb ram (the quad core is now sold as I get my XPS i7 soon). It immediately required re-activation and the new patch automagically installed. Performance seeems worse a lot less smooth, but the game feels less buggy (if that makes sense). I reckon the CPU makes the difference, so hopefully i7 + 4gb + patch = smooth and reliable

EDIT: Oh and I'm using the 8.12 drivers, been working really well for last week with the system in signature, just a little buggy at times.

well yeah you went from a quad to a lower end dual core on a extremely cpu dependent game...

[J400uk]

well yeah you went from a quad to a lower end dual core on a extremely cpu dependent game...

Meh the dual core isnt bad, 1066mhz/4mb and it only has to last a week or so.

I thought it was a more GPU/RAM dependant game??

[Sethos]

No, it's definitely a CPU dependant game.

[Beastage]

The patch just destroyed me ... no SFX at all, no ammo counter, no fixes...

game still thinks I only have 500mb of vram when I have a 1gb, performance maybe smoother by 1fps but again... no SFX.

Every related forum in the world seems to be full of people claiming the patch made things worse, I can't reinstall because I will not be able to use my saves in offline mode I believe.... what a horrible experience this is.

Also, if anyones thinking of purchasing the pc edition. bear in mind:

Keyboard/mouse mapping is implemented disgustingly:

Cannot map a function to two different key presses.

Cannot map mouse buttons 4 or 5 AT ALL (forward and back buttons on keyboard) --- Yes this is a deal breaker for me.

This is outrageous. They've ruined an awesome game by halfassing the porting, throwing gratuitous use of drm and ridiculous barriers of entry for online play.

If youre interested: I emailed R* in the hopes that maybe in the future they would patch these basic to-be-expected functions into the game. The reply was in essence "we arent doing jack about that youre on your own"

I was hoping that the Games for Windows certification process would put some polish and lowest common denominator requirements into games. All it has been is the homogenization of in-game UI so one can use it with Microsoft's 360 controller.

PC Gamers should make this a MS problem because r* are just messing with windows now, MS can't accept this... even tho they have the xbox they focus alot of resources on the PC as a gaming platform.

[sundayx Veteran]

The patch added nothing for me. I noticed though that there are no performance differences when I change resolution (the 3 lowest ones).

[Sethos]

Patch did nothing for me, same performance as before

[ThisSiteHasLostItsCharm]

installed the patch, nothing different, must be a placebo patch.

[Som]

This is possible the worst pc game i have ever seen

First of I had to install rockstar social club (why?)

Second I had to install an update for Games for Windows Live (again why?)

Then it needs to verify the date on the internet??

Then i had to insert a serial so thay it could activate on the internet.

Then I needed to register a live account (I don't want to play the multiplayer btw)

Then it still needs the dvd in the drive to play, after all that you would expect at least not to have to use the disc.

When I get the game to start I have the same bug as most people which is I can't see anything (except car lights for some reason)

So I download the update nVidia Drivers : no difference

So then I wait for this miracle from Rockstar

and now all I get is the "TEXP70 Unable to create depth render target - Please re-install DirectX and/or install the latest video card driver." error....

.... so I reinstall the game and the nVidia drivers and still the same error.

I only play Pc games and some of them have been buggy on release, but I've never seen anything like this peace of ****. This will be the first game that I will be returning (hopefully play.com will take it back)

And when or if they fix this pile of crap, i'm just gonna download it , illegally **** 'em

[ViperAFK]

installed the patch, nothing different, must be a placebo patch.

I'm getting at least 10 more fps outside than before.