GTA IV for PC (official)


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Yeah, It's yet another strange decision on Rockstar's behalf, store some files in the user's documents folders, store some other files in another folder.

Users will want to get at their saved games more than benchmark logs.

As I myself have done it successfully it is possible to transfer saved games. You need to make sure that once you have reinstalled the game you start a new game and save it once, then just replace that save game (doesnt work otherwise as it creates a folder with a seemingly random name made of numbers and letters to store your saved gam).

Well, got everything working okay and the performance figures are okay. Had some problems with the 4870X2 drivers but got them sorted.

Bumped up the resolution to 1920x1200, changing Texture Resolution from Medium to High, ( Takes almost 400mb of video memory in that jump :| ) View Distance and all those sliders got a bump of 10 each and now have an average FPS of 37 ... which is the same as before.

Actually, first Benchmark gave me 30 FPS, next was 35 and last was 37 so it must be doing something between the benchmarks?

So a decent ( forced ) upgrade from an 8800 Ultra and from XP to Vista, though I really think Vista holds me from hitting the magic 40. CPU is definitely also bottlenecking me.

Just gotta mess around with it some more!

Doesnt the Steam version use Steam Cloud (or whatever its called) which saves your settings as well as the save games?

Doubt it. The only game I've actually seen using that is Left4Dead. Gets me all excited when I see the 'update' icon in my tray at the bottom.

How can I change the settings of Graphics in this game ? It tells me that I have exceeded or near the suggested resource limits but when I searched on other forums I found people with the same and even lower systems than can change the settings like car density, shadow density and even the render quality.

My system is in my sig. thanks :)

I think you can copy and paste saves. I haven't tried it myself but from the little I read on it, it's possible.

You can copy game saved as long as you use the same windows live account. You can't copy someone elses save, but if you copy your save and use the same live account when you play, from my understanding it should work.

can anyone with an 8800gt/9800gt 512mb tell me what kinda fps your getting? i'm thinking of getting one cause my 8800gts w/ 320mb can't run the game at an acceptable framerate even at the LOWEST settings and resolution. the reason i mentioned the 9800gt is it would be a "free" upgrade. i know it would be about the same as my old card, just with more video ram. i think it's the video ram holding me back, but i want to be sure before i spend the money.

can anyone with an 8800gt/9800gt 512mb tell me what kinda fps your getting? i'm thinking of getting one cause my 8800gts w/ 320mb can't run the game at an acceptable framerate even at the LOWEST settings and resolution. the reason i mentioned the 9800gt is it would be a "free" upgrade. i know it would be about the same as my old card, just with more video ram. i think it's the video ram holding me back, but i want to be sure before i spend the money.

How's that ?

I have a 8600 GT and I'm running it at 1024 x 786, Medium Textures and High Render Quality and it runs just fine, I don't know the exact frame rate though.

How's that ?

I have a 8600 GT and I'm running it at 1024 x 786, Medium Textures and High Render Quality and it runs just fine, I don't know the exact frame rate though.

i cant get a constant 30fps. inside i'd get like 40-50, but outside i get 20-30 sometimes even dropping below 20 fps. and that's with ALL settings at minimum!

what i'm asking is: it possible to get 30+fps with a 9800gt (using lower setting of course)?

boy am I glad I torrented this (not condoning piracy) before I wasted $50 on this for PC, it ran better than I thought it would, but with everything on low, it kinda took the luster out of it, and it was still barely playable.

uninstalled, and 3 days wasted downloading 13.gb Ill stick to the console version thanks......

i cant get a constant 30fps. inside i'd get like 40-50, but outside i get 20-30 sometimes even dropping below 20 fps. and that's with ALL settings at minimum!

what i'm asking is: it possible to get 30+fps with a 9800gt (using lower setting of course)?

Whats your CPU like?

How would this game work on an intel core 2 quad Q9400 @ 3Ghz?????

I also have ATI radeon 4870, I'm looking to pick this up but I don't know If I could play it on highest settings.

Anybody have nearly same specs and can play it on high?

That system would be excellent. If the game runs slow, it certainly wouldn't be those specifications causing it...

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