GTA IV for PC (official)

[leph555]

patch increased a bit of FPS and stopped my crasshing

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

I got the game this morning, and amazingly it doesn't run like complete crap on my system. On the default settings I got 10fps (for some reason it decided to use the monitors native res* and everything else on medium), I lowered the res and the benchmark gives me 20fps, it's crap, but not absolute crap, and the game is playable.

Shadows and lighting look like ass though.

* 1680x1050

The install process was annoying as crap though (took over half an hour), and Games for Windows Live has been giving me nothing but problems.

Edit: So far Live has told me there are 3 updates, each time it downloads them, installs them, restarts and tells me there's an update.

Edit: Also, it's DRM software (like some viruses and trojans) hates MS's Process Explorer.

[Blindlabel013]

May I ask which patch you guys are talking about? I seen nothing yet.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

There's a patch on GFWL

Apparently one of the 3 patches it downloaded for me was the GTA patch.

[FiB3R]

http://www.rockstargames.com/support/IV/PC/patch/index.html

[Blindlabel013]

Cheers DARKFiB3R

[darkz]

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

because they're ports. it's like a sex change operation -- it might work, but surely not as good as if you were born that way :)

[J400uk]

Got this installed on my HTPC now, it wont let me select a resoultion higher than 800 x 600. Any ideas how to fix?

E6320 - 4GB - X38-DQ6 - 8800GT 256 - 32" LCD TV 1280x768

Thanks

[Elliot B.]

Got this installed on my HTPC now, it wont let me select a resoultion higher than 800 x 600. Any ideas how to fix?

E6320 - 4GB - X38-DQ6 - 8800GT 256 - 32" LCD TV 1280x768

Thanks

256 MB of VRAM is low. Get the latest patch and if that doesn't work, try the nomemrestrict and norestrictions parameters.

[J400uk]

How do I use the parameters?

thanks

[StealMySoda]

How do I use the parameters?

thanks

Just make a file in the game directory called commandline.txt and place them in there.

[Unimatrix Xero]

the commandline.txt method doesnt work with the 1.0.1.0 patch that game out a few days ago

[Shasoosh]

^ works great here (after the patch) with 100 mb over my limit

[Martyn]

Is there a way to stop it limiting me to using medium texture quality?

I know my comp will be able to handle high fine.

[jkrupa128]

I dont suppose I'll have a chance with my Acer 5520...Sheesh! :(

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

Is there a way to stop it limiting me to using medium texture quality?

I know my comp will be able to handle high fine.

If you have a 512MB GFX card it will run fine but you WILL get textures that vanish and appear randomly.

Oh HIGH it runs smoother than medium too even with the textures on screen when they do appear..

You need to add a few tags to the shortcut to GAT Launcher exe file:

[Martyn]

Cheers mrk :)

[WAR-DOG]

omg, bugy game!

It hangs on the "Loading..." screen many times, and i installed the patch already...

I also have some nvidia issues, (BAD_POOL... nv4...dll blue screen) :wacko:

[Viserov]

Of all the PC games I've purchased in my lifetime, this game was by far the most annoying to install.

If I remember correctly, I had to first install Rockstar Social Club, then GFW:Live, then GTA4, then update GFW:Live, then create Social Club account, then GFW:Live account, then link the accounts, then install patch, then finally I could play. Sheesh.

[J400uk]

still no joy here, damn thing simply wont let me select 1280 x 768 res, even with everything else bottomed out :@

[AtomSmasher]

If you have a 512MB GFX card it will run fine but you WILL get textures that vanish and appear randomly.

Oh HIGH it runs smoother than medium too even with the textures on screen when they do appear..

You need to add a few tags to the shortcut to GAT Launcher exe file:

I can't seem to get that to work. I typed it exactly as you have it yet it doesn't let me change a thing. :( "-novblank -norestriction -noprecache -nomemrestrict" I hate when games lock out setting. :angry:

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Of all the PC games I've purchased in my lifetime, this game was by far the most annoying to install.

If I remember correctly, I had to first install Rockstar Social Club, then GFW:Live, then GTA4, then update GFW:Live, then create Social Club account, then GFW:Live account, then link the accounts, then install patch, then finally I could play. Sheesh.

Sounds about right, only step I saved was that I already had a live account.

It made up for it in re-updating itself 3 times though.

[Slammers]

Would one recomend that I even bother buying this? My laptop is only dual core 2.8ghz, 1gig ram, 512mb Radeon HD2600. Any one playing on a similiar spec?

[M1h4iL]

Of all the PC games I've purchased in my lifetime, this game was by far the most annoying to install.

If I remember correctly, I had to first install Rockstar Social Club, then GFW:Live, then GTA4, then update GFW:Live, then create Social Club account, then GFW:Live account, then link the accounts, then install patch, then finally I could play. Sheesh.

I also got an Nvidia driver on top of these steps.

[WAR-DOG]

when you start the game Rockstar Games Social Club apears, and there you have news listed. So I bothered and actually took a peak, actually they claim there are new nvidia drivers out, but they are BETA, but i thought it will improve something... After installing those beta drivers I got many blue screens in XP and in the Event log there are many nv4*.dll errors.. so much for the update... Had to install old drivers afterwards.