GTA IV for PC (official)


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I doubt you'll have any trouble running GTA4 with those specs honestly. I mean, sure the game is a bit buggy and it's possible your performance may take a hit due to a bug, but with those specs you should be able to run it fine. The Gametrailers.com comparasion video would be a good way to gauge if you want to look at it like that. They were running it on a C2D as well (don't remember which model though) and similar specs to you except a 4850 video card. And it ran perfectly fine for them save for a few slow downs here and there.

I doubt you'll have any trouble running GTA4 with those specs honestly. I mean, sure the game is a bit buggy and it's possible your performance may take a hit due to a bug, but with those specs you should be able to run it fine. The Gametrailers.com comparasion video would be a good way to gauge if you want to look at it like that. They were running it on a C2D as well (don't remember which model though) and similar specs to you except a 4850 video card. And it ran perfectly fine for them save for a few slow downs here and there.

the game isnt buggy, search google about commandline and you can remove the graphics restrictions and run your game faster, trust me commandline works really well.

Also i love this game man but its hard to find ranked servers with alot of people in them to play multiplayer hem hem :p

I get no slow downs

1680x1050, Very High, High

Geforce 9800GT Hybridpower

22" LG LCD 2MS

Quad Core Q6600

anyway go find yourself Nvidia v181 drivers, they might make an improvement but i think the new release brings support for OpenGL 3.0 only and no speed improvments.

:)

Edited by atleeit

Alrite cool, i'll it after xmas.

What would be better on, retail or stream? since I already use stream a lot.

I'll try those 181 drivers, but I heard people still getting the same black screen as i do with 180.xx drivers.

What fps u gettin btw atleeit?

Alrite cool, i'll it after xmas.

What would be better on, retail or stream? since I already use stream a lot.

I'll try those 181 drivers, but I heard people still getting the same black screen as i do with 180.xx drivers.

What fps u gettin btw atleeit?

Well Steam installs the game to steam folder but it will still run through Windows game live and also Rockstar club, So basically it doesn't matter what you choose, If you got 14GB free to download through steam then go ahead or connect to a free quota steam content server to get the files free after you purchase it.

I will let you know my FPS later, i get no skips and can speed through levels without slow down so i'm pretty sure i get decent fps

I get no black screens, what do you mean? in graphics settings remove all the distance viewable etc and place on 0, all settings on 0.

I'll guess i'll buy it, since i cba downloading it n be much easier.

Theres a known problem with a few nvidia GFX cards and the 180.00 drives where in my case, it black screen during installation so its only half installed and total screws windows up.

A-lot of people are having this problem and currently discussing it on the nvidia forums.

ATM my current drivers are 178.24.

Here's the post if ur interested:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=84478&st=0

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=83696

I'll guess i'll buy it, since i cba downloading it n be much easier.

Theres a known problem with a few nvidia GFX cards and the 180.00 drives where in my case, it black screen during installation so its only half installed and total screws windows up.

A-lot of people are having this problem and currently discussing it on the nvidia forums.

ATM my current drivers are 178.24.

Here's the post if ur interested:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=84478&st=0

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=83696

Well it's wierd i have a Gigabyte EP45 Board with Nvidia 9800GT Hybridpower and i have used all 17x's and i had been running 180x's for a while now and just installed 181 this morning with no problems. I will plat GTA IV tonight and let you know.

Windows Vista SP1 :)

There's a new mod tool out called Alice, hooks into the GTA app and provides Lua bindings for the in game script engine, one of the examples that come with it is an infinite health + ammo script.

And due to GTA's bad multiplayer design, you can play online with it running and never lose in deathmatch. But more importantly, this should allow for some interesting mods in future.

GTA IV is running great on my new rig. I upgraded to an AMD Phenom 9750 from an Athlon X2 3800+ and my game is so smooth. I've used various video card drivers with my 9600GT and I've found the best drivers to use are either the new 181.00 or the 180.87 driver.

Just got a copy of the game and done a few benchmarks:

None CommandLines:

Statistics

Average FPS: 44.39

Duration: 37.21 sec

CPU Usage: 47%

System memory usage: 65%

Video memory usage: 79%

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 1024 x 768 (75 Hz)

Texture Quality: High

Render Quality: High

View Distance: 32

Detail Distance: 70

Hardware

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Service Pack 3

Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+

Video Driver version: 178.24

Audio Adapter: SB Live! 24-bit

Intel Pentium III Xeon processor

File ID: benchmark.cli

-novblank -norestriction -noprecache -nomemrestrict Commandlines:

Statistics

Average FPS: 46.04

Duration: 37.17 sec

CPU Usage: 47%

System memory usage: 69%

Video memory usage: 89%

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 1024 x 768 (75 Hz)

Texture Quality: High

Render Quality: High

View Distance: 32

Detail Distance: 70

Hardware

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Service Pack 3

Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+

Video Driver version: 178.24

Audio Adapter: SB Live! 24-bit

Intel Pentium III Xeon processor

File ID: benchmark.cli

What's interesting is the CPU.

Only 50% CPU Usage and its reporting the wrong CPU, its meant to be Q9450 :s

Is is meant to be -norestriction or -norestrictions (with S on the end?)

Edited by SinghKing

I've added 4GB of RAM and OC'd my CPU and things are running smoothly at 30 FPS. I ran a benchmark and averaged 33 FPS.

Here are my current specs:

  • Intel? Core?2 Duo E6750 OC'd to 3.2 GHz (1600 FSB)
  • Windows Vista? Ultimate SP1 x64
  • 8GB DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz (2GBx4 DIMMs)
  • 640GB 7200RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s (32MB Cache)
  • Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5

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