Graphical Performance Readme

[cacolukia]

I've got some things to say: "Rockstar, I've waited 1 year to play this game on PC and today I payed 40EURO to buy it. I feel humiliated to hear from you that I have to wait some time in the future to run the game with good graphics and performance. I think we have wait enough and you must give us the performance patch because this is a complete PC discrimination. XBOX 360 and Playstation 3 are nothing but 2 years old PC's with limited potential. It is not serious to say that my PC with Core 2 Duo 3GHz ang 8800GT is a trash and games with "future" graphics like GTAIV have to run with low graphics. The game runs with great lack of performance and it is barely playable on medium settings. "Tomb Raider Underworld", "Crysis:Warhead" even "Fallout3" run great on my PC and they have more than 10 times better graphics than GTAIV. Dear Sirs, these games are not future, they are present!" I' m just asking:

Give us the patch, PLEASE! I want to play.

[camdean]

Most users using current PC hardware as of December 2008 are advised to use medium graphics settings. Higher settings are provided for future generations of PCs with higher specifications than are currently widely available.

 

Bad idea ....

 

Who is interested how GTA IV runs in computers 2010. If they made it for "next generation"

computers they should have waited until then before releasing it. It is nothing but excuse.

That doesn't make sense.

 

 

If the game is going to last and eventualy get moded then it will last a few years, by then it will be old gen.

[flyer2359]

I run game at minimum and get 22FPS max and average is probably 16-18. I know my graphics card is less than minimum but it should at least get 25fps on minimum I would've thought. Not that great of a port in my opinion

[Jackula]

I run the game at about 30fps on auto-configure settings which sets texture to medium and render to highest, could I get this game running this well with high textures with a 1GB 4850?

[GamerJerome]

i have a nvidia 9600gt but im unable to play it on highest settings only texture settings can be on verry high and it have only 512mb and somtimes i see strange colors does anyone know a good but not to expancive card that can play gta iv with everything on higest settings without crashing ?

[PrawnStar]

For the last time, Every PC GTA has had problems like this at launch and a quick patch fixed it, GTA III had the exact same problem with performance if I remember correctly.

Why, if they have had this problem with every previous version of GTA, did they not stop and fix the problems before launching it? Why piss everyone off, then release a patch? Releasing a half baked game is poor business.

 

Ahh well I have Left 4 Dead now which is an awesome game. Maybe Rockstar can take some tips from Valve on how to create a good game capable of being run by the majority of users.

 

P

[GTA3Freak-2001]

A few of you have to chill a bit. GTA has never been the best looking game. Even San Andreas doesn't utilize the PC well. Rockstar had always released a patch. I agree it's not fair to bash this game and Rockstar to death. There are people running the game at reasonable speed. And how many PC games out there uses the RAGE engine? Its difficult to make a new game work on all PCs.

but it should NOT be difficult to make a game work on a high-end pc.

 

some of the quad core users with the best gfx cards money can buy are getting the same fps of a pc half the price. this is nothing to do with hardware. its a 360 game. any pc from the last 2 years should piss all over it. at least in low settings. My pc give the same fps in benchmark on max settings that it does on the lowest settings. go figure. this is BS, and cockstar need to fix it f*cking pronto.

For the last time, Every PC GTA has had problems like this at launch and a quick patch fixed it, GTA III had the exact same problem with performance if I remember correctly.

Oh I dunno about that, I remember fondly GTA3 on PC's release and while it did have issues its really nothing compared to this. The problems with GTA3 were mostly confined to the lower end of PC's.

[Democrab]

A few of you have to chill a bit. GTA has never been the best looking game. Even San Andreas doesn't utilize the PC well. Rockstar had always released a patch. I agree it's not fair to bash this game and Rockstar to death. There are people running the game at reasonable speed. And how many PC games out there uses the RAGE engine? Its difficult to make a new game work on all PCs.

but it should NOT be difficult to make a game work on a high-end pc.

 

some of the quad core users with the best gfx cards money can buy are getting the same fps of a pc half the price. this is nothing to do with hardware. its a 360 game. any pc from the last 2 years should piss all over it. at least in low settings. My pc give the same fps in benchmark on max settings that it does on the lowest settings. go figure. this is BS, and cockstar need to fix it f*cking pronto.

For the last time, Every PC GTA has had problems like this at launch and a quick patch fixed it, GTA III had the exact same problem with performance if I remember correctly.

Oh I dunno about that, I remember fondly GTA3 on PC's release and while it did have issues its really nothing compared to this. The problems with GTA3 were mostly confined to the lower end of PC's.

Meh, I was close, I couldn't really remember since I played on PS2 at the time.

[Countdown]

That doesn't make sense.

 

 

If the game is going to last and eventualy get moded then it will last a few years, by then it will be old gen.

I think it makes a lot of sense - You see If some 80-90% of us can't

play it normally - those who can't will be dissapointed and are not interested for

modding it - they will forget it as soon as possible .... So after 2 years there are very

little if anyone playing it ...

[Sycuss]

it plays but i get the RESC10 error after 4 loading screens like a scince fact. Online plays great. much higher fps then singleplayer.. I dont get why. but its much better. even with traffic and ppl maxed out.

[YoungGun]

I have to have .NET FRAMEWORK 3.5 (i guess it is) installed before I install GTA IV?

Need to know cuz I am getting GTA IV in the mail tomorrow..

[X2-Eliah]

The game installation has it on the disc too. If you want to save some GTAIV install time though, you getting the framework and the SP1 for the framework won't hurt..

[Jmenaru]

And now after seeing this sh*t i must ask :

 

How will my computer run gta 4 (in the sig) low with 800X600 ???? the sh*t !!!

[Inspire]

Will a ASUS RADEON HD4850 512MB DDR3 PCI-E DVI work with IV or will it crash?

[DAV1D90]

well, medium textures instead low had no impact on my FPS and texturs now looks like textures, not like a sh*t....

so now i am playing at:

1024x768

text: medium

rend: medium

view: 20

details: 10

shadows: 0

cars: 20

 

and runs "fine" 20-30FPS, but rain is killing my FPS, so please R* release patch with performance boost and framelimiter (25 or 30)

[2lame]

I had it too running fine on a low res and i will let it stay that way till they get a patch/driver (i have modified my shortcut so that can cross the "psychological barrier" of 512 MB vmem restrictions...)

 

Running at 1024x768

textures: high

render quality: highest

view distance: 100

detail distance: 100

vehicle density: 100

shadow density: 16

 

with 17-25 fps (i have set Maximum pre-rendered frames to 8 in my driver options as pointed out in another thread), which gives me no actual stutter/lag ingame so that i can fully enjoy it;

 

It's strange however why the game runs smoothly at such low frames, when usually these numbers mean lag at least. Beats me

 

That on a system from the signature

Edited December 4, 2008 by 2lame

[puli]

i`m very suprised but it runs with my hd3850 agp.

the performance is not what i had expected (around 20 fps with almost everything on medium and a resolution of 1280*960).

i think it looked better on the console.

[999Jay999]

System : -

 

Windows XP (Home Edition) - SP3

CPU - Duel Core AMD 6000+

2 GIG RAM

ATI HD 4850 (512) PCI

Creative FX-I Sound Card (Music Edition)

G9 Razor Mouse

 

 

 

My settings..

 

1440,900 Widescreen (60mhz)

 

Textures :- Medium

Render :- Very high

 

 

Everything set to 38 apart from shadows that are maxed out.

 

During Bench mark I knocked up about 26 FPS..

 

Playing the game its smooth enough... I maxed out the Saturation levels to bring more colour into the game which helps the textures alot too!

 

I do not get any slow downs with the moose look, nor rain, nothing as of yet.

 

I do not log into Rockstar Social Club for info sakes.

 

Not one crash yet, and I am on the 3rd mission.

 

If I can help anyone just ask.

 

 

 

 

[bobyalob]

System

AMD 9950BE OC 3.0Ghz

4Gig DDR2 800

ATi 4870X2

Windows Vista Ultimate 64 SP1

 

Averaging about 45 frames which isnt too bad in my opinion but i would love if it allowed the full use of my video card

Edited December 4, 2008 by bobyalob

[GamerJerome]

System : -

 

Windows XP (Home Edition) - SP3

CPU - Duel Core AMD 6000+

2 GIG RAM

ATI HD 4850 (512) PCI

Creative FX-I Sound Card (Music Edition)

G9 Razor Mouse

 

 

 

My settings..

 

1440,900 Widescreen (60mhz)

 

Textures :- Medium

Render :- Very high

 

 

Everything set to 38 apart from shadows that are maxed out.

 

During Bench mark I knocked up about 26 FPS..

 

Playing the game its smooth enough... I maxed out the Saturation levels to bring more colour into the game which helps the textures alot too!

 

I do not get any slow downs with the moose look, nor rain, nothing as of yet.

 

I do not log into Rockstar Social Club for info sakes.

 

Not one crash yet, and I am on the 3rd mission.

 

If I can help anyone just ask.

i can put the textures on verry high and my render can only on medium how does that come?

[999Jay999]

Thats odd GamerJerome ....

 

I just can not get HIGH TEXTURES.. yet rendering was set to very high as default....

 

You think if you reduce view and distance range you allowed HIGH RES TEXTURES !!!!...... that again I can not fathom.

 

 

 

[GamerJerome]

Thats odd GamerJerome ....

 

I just can not get HIGH TEXTURES.. yet rendering was set to very high as default....

 

You think if you reduce view and distance range you allowed HIGH RES TEXTURES !!!!...... that again I can not fathom.

strange becuse i cant get high render i can only change my textures but my vieuw distance i cant put on high its on 26 or somting becuse else my 9600gt do not have enough mb =| so if they recommande a 8800gt to play it on highest settings why cant i put everything on highest settings with my 9600gt

[wintord]

I got a 9950BE at 3ghz 4gb 800mhz ram and a 280gtx las night with everything maxed except textures medium and draw distance 50 I was getting 40+fps came back to it this morning struggle to get 30fps. dont know what caused it but it is a major loss of performance and cant find anything that caused it other turn I turned pc off overnight.

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Well here is my FPS using Xfire.

 

1680x1050 @ Auto

 

Rain: 8-9fps

Clear:10-20fps

Cutscene:15-30fps

Traffic:15-20

 

800x600 @ MIN

 

 

Rain: 8-9fps

Clear:10-20fps

Cutscene:15-30fps

Traffic:15-20fps

 

Poor optimization?!

 

f*ck YEAH!

 

[Malik]

 

A few of you have to chill a bit. GTA has never been the best looking game. Even San Andreas doesn't utilize the PC well. Rockstar had always released a patch. I agree it's not fair to bash this game and Rockstar to death. There are people running the game at reasonable speed. And how many PC games out there uses the RAGE engine? Its difficult to make a new game work on all PCs.

but it should NOT be difficult to make a game work on a high-end pc.

 

some of the quad core users with the best gfx cards money can buy are getting the same fps of a pc half the price. this is nothing to do with hardware. its a 360 game. any pc from the last 2 years should piss all over it. at least in low settings. My pc give the same fps in benchmark on max settings that it does on the lowest settings. go figure. this is BS, and cockstar need to fix it f*cking pronto.

cockstar +3

everything else +2

 

 

 

with what kind of card can u put all settings at verry high without crashes or somting? or if i overclock my 9600gt is it then able to play it on higest settings ?

That card is yet to be developed my friend

[Malik]

Most users using current PC hardware as of December 2008 are advised to use medium graphics settings. Higher settings are provided for future generations of PCs with higher specifications than are currently widely available.

 

Bad idea ....

 

Who is interested how GTA IV runs in computers 2010. If they made it for "next generation"

computers they should have waited until then before releasing it. It is nothing but excuse.

That doesn't make sense.

 

 

If the game is going to last and eventualy get moded then it will last a few years, by then it will be old gen.

Just admit they wanted to get this port out of the way before christmas, you know you want to

[redriot]

"They're basically trying to prevent their support staff having to deal with thousands of irate customers, who don't seem to realise that their 5 year old PC can't run the game on maximum settings!"

 

5 year old PC, maximum settings is of course a stupid demand, I agree. But I think it's OK to suppose that a PC good enough to pass the recommended specs -written on the box of the game- should able to run the game smoothly at medium settings.

 

It's not working at the moment, you need to have a top end PC to play on medium detail, the recommended specs on the box are not enough for that. And after the release, after that millions of people bought their copy R* says: you can play the game on high settings (shown us in the teasing screenshots and trailer videos) in the distant future, on hardwares not yet released.

 

They should have say it before the release, not after that. They lied, they kept in secret that no present hardware is able to run the game in full detail, without glitches. The specs on the package of the product are false.

 

 

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Well i lowered my settings and managed to squeeze out 15-30fps @ 1280x800 Med, sliders <20

 

I cant wait for the patches and drivers to start rolling in.

 

Also why is all the doom and gloom setting in. This game will run great on current gen h/w it just needs optimization.

 

It ran maxed on consoles ffs.

[Malik]

Well i lowered my settings and managed to squeeze out 15-30fps @ 1280x800 Med, sliders <20

 

I cant wait for the patches and drivers to start rolling in.

 

Also why is all the doom and gloom setting in. This game will run great on current gen h/w it just needs optimization.

 

It ran maxed on consoles ffs.

Lol wait for the magical *fix it all* patch, its almost here just a little bit more

[redriot]

I cant wait for the patches and drivers to start rolling in.

 

 

I don't have high hopes for a fix-it-all patch, but some more serious tweaking and new video drivers may improve the performance slightl.

Until the future generation PCs will be widely avaliable.