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I've been hearing a lot of mixed results with these, so I'm going to hold off. I'm really just wanting soemthing to improve GTA4 performance...not that its bad for me, per se, considering I still get 30+ fps with Medium/Highest, 30/50/30/3 settings with my overclocked Core 2 Duo E6750 (OC'd to 3.6 GHz), 4 GBs of RAM, and an Evga 8800GT Superclocked. Performance isn't as bad as I expected after reading the many postings on the Internet; I had no illusions on being able to max this one out. :)

I wonder if this improves performance in GTA4 even though I know a lot of the game is CPU restricted.

Terrible development is the only thing that explains GTA4. Rockstar is notorious for putting tons of development time in to their Playstation and Xbox products, but when they make a PC port they have the reputation of simply converting everything so it installs and runs on Windows and then leaving everything else as is. I don't know if you played the PC port of GTA3, but I did, and it was just as terrible as the GTA4 port is. I hate to say it, but you might as well take GTA4 for what it is--GTA4 for the PC never will run right. It was a terrific hit for the Xbox 360, but like its predecessor, the PC port is simply abysmal.

I credit Rockstar for putting mouse support in the menus and gameplay for the PC port, but that's the only thing they did right.

I wish I could test these, but every time I install them, my monitor goes black and says "Cannot render display mode". I've tried the "vanilla" set and Laptop Video 2 Go's modified INF file. I think I'll wait for an official revision or something from the amazing TweakForce crew.

I call BS on the second set of images. Clearly different shader or lighting settings have been set in-game.

I hope their implementation of AO is good, there are some pretty lousy implementations floating around.

Considering in the comparison screenshots, I haven't seen any of the glaring flaws some of the other implementations have, I'm hoping nvidia's is good.

im tempted to download these, but i'll fend off the urge. seeing too many "unstable" reports so far.

King Mustard... my E6750 is at 3.52GHz completely stable. i did nothing but increase the cpu voltage 1 notch. not really any risk ;-)

im tempted to download these, but i'll fend off the urge. seeing too many "unstable" reports so far.

King Mustard... my E6750 is at 3.52GHz completely stable. i did nothing but increase the cpu voltage 1 notch. not really any risk ;-)

So tempted to do that :| Can you add me on Messenger and help me do it?

I don't know if you played the PC port of GTA3, but I did, and it was just as terrible as the GTA4 port is. I hate to say it, but you might as well take GTA4 for what it is--GTA4 for the PC never will run right. It was a terrific hit for the Xbox 360, but like its predecessor, the PC port is simply abysmal.

I credit Rockstar for putting mouse support in the menus and gameplay for the PC port, but that's the only thing they did right.

I don't have any idea what you are talking but all 3 previous PC versions : GTA 3, GTA: Vice City and even GTA :San Andreas ran like butter in much older computers of their times. Of course I agree with the debacle of GTA IV's PC version.

I don't have any idea what you are talking but all 3 previous PC versions : GTA 3, GTA: Vice City and even GTA :San Andreas ran like butter in much older computers of their times. Of course I agree with the debacle of GTA IV's PC version.

If I recall correctly, GTA3 ran worse than GTA Vice City on my older computer.

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