Works Fine

[JLF05]

Ok just a thread for those being turned off buying this game...

 

I was so close to being scared out of buying this game after reading the 10000's of threads on here about performance issues and how bad the game is, I was terribly dissappointed and ready to spend my money elsewhere...

 

But in the end my GTA addiction got the better of me and I bought it...

 

Straight away after installation, BAM, no textures problem... "here we go" I thought... but after calmly cleaning out my old Nvidia drivers and installing the 180.48 drivers I was able to play the game as normal, thank god.

 

Anyway so far I've played for roughly 10 hours, I have had no other problems whatsoever, the game runs perfectly smoothly with no noticeable bogging down of frame rates, its always crisp even in highly populated areas and at high speed etc...

 

I even have the settings bumped up a little from the defaults it set for my system...

 

Current settings:

Display: 1280x1024

Texture Quality: Medium

Render Quality: High

View Distance: 50

Detail Distance: 40

Shadows: Level 6

 

I am loving this game at these settings, not maxed out but still damn beautiful and as good as ANY game on the market imo, including Crysis & FC2.

 

So yeah, my basic plea to people is not to be put off buying GTA-4 for PC just because of the threads you are reading on this forum, remember that people are a LOT more likely to come here and post about problems they are having than people who are running the game fine and are off enjoying it, thats why the balance seems to be so much towards people having problems...

 

Lets face it, if you get the game and its great and running fine, you are going to be busy playing it! Not googling for a forum to complain on...

 

I was turned off but I am so glad I still bought it.

 

Just my 2 cents.

 

 

And for the record / performance comparison purposes, my system specs are:

Intel Duo Core e6600 2.4ghz Processor

2gb DDR-2 Ram

ASUS P5B Motherboard

Nvidia 8800GTX 768mb GPU

Windows XP - SP3

[mkey82]

Nice and proper post. What FPS are you getting?

[dr.whiz]

pretty impressive for a dual core processor. what are your fps though?

 

either way, congratulations. and it doesn't surprise me you're on a 8800GTX since that seems to be the graphics card the developers optimized this game for.

[JLF05]

I'm getting between 36-47 FPS depending on what im doing etc.

 

It looks perfectly fine to the naked eye, well my naked eyes anyway.

[dr.whiz]

I'm getting between 36-47 FPS depending on what im doing etc.

 

It looks perfectly fine to the naked eye, well my naked eyes anyway.

wow that's awesome. you're lucky compared to some people here running the same or better hardware with half as good fps and/or graphic settings.

 

congratulations once again.

[Rhoda]

Congratulations, someone who kept a cool head and persevered. Well done. Do you have any screenshots for us?

[Demonith]

I think that errors u got gays its from instalation i think!? not the game

[dr.whiz]

I think that errors u got gays its from instalation i think!? not the game

say what now?

[notsofrisk]

I must say... my specs are much the same...... Better CPU E6750 2.67GHZ but only 8800GTS 512 card.

So there might be hope.... when I get my patch

[JLF05]

Ill take a video of gameplay tomorrow, whats a good screen video capture program? Free preferably

[Demonith]

I think that errors u got gays its from instalation i think!? not the game

say what now?

To me it works some times sry dude

[nicotin3]

And for the record / performance comparison purposes, my system specs are:

Intel Duo Core e6600 2.4ghz Processor

2gb DDR-2 Ram

ASUS P5B Motherboard

Nvidia 8800GTX 768mb GPU

Windows XP - SP3

Hey, i have about the same specs.

 

Intel Duo Core e6600 2.4ghz Processor

4gb DDR-2 Ram (corsair xms2)

ASUS P5B-E Motherboard

Nvidia 8800GTX 768mb GPU

Vista 32 SP1.

Asus VW222U 22" display.

 

My copy should arrive today but my expectations are low..

I will need to run in my monitors native resolution (1680x1050) and with no AA my eyes will pop out and run away from me, i expected to run this with 4x AA easily and it doesnt even support AA .

 

 

 

 

[A.I.R]

After reading...i gues i going to buy it even if i need more that 256mb ram and a new card.I going to trade some of my old ps2 game for it

[JLF05]

And for the record / performance comparison purposes, my system specs are:

Intel Duo Core e6600 2.4ghz Processor

2gb DDR-2 Ram

ASUS P5B Motherboard

Nvidia 8800GTX 768mb GPU

Windows XP - SP3

Hey, i have about the same specs.

 

Intel Duo Core e6600 2.4ghz Processor

4gb DDR-2 Ram (corsair xms2)

ASUS P5B-E Motherboard

Nvidia 8800GTX 768mb GPU

Vista 32 SP1.

Asus VW222U 22" display.

 

My copy should arrive today but my expectations are low..

I will need to run in my monitors native resolution (1680x1050) and with no AA my eyes will pop out and run away from me, i expected to run this with 4x AA easily and it doesnt even support AA .

Yeah our systems are pretty much exactly the same except for operating systems & you having more ram, please post how you go with your game, will be interesting! you will be running it at a higher resolution than me though so I guess that will play a fairly big part on how well your rig does.

 

Once again, please let me know how it goes!

[Devils Dog]

Ill take a video of gameplay tomorrow, whats a good screen video capture program? Free preferably

Hi,

 

There is FRAPS (http://www.fraps.com/) which is and isn't free

Without registering it, it allow a 30 seconds video and you can save screenshots in .bmp format

[JLF05]

Ill take a video of gameplay tomorrow, whats a good screen video capture program? Free preferably 

Hi,

 

There is FRAPS (http://www.fraps.com/) which is and isn't free

Without registering it, it allow a 30 seconds video and you can save screenshots in .bmp format

30 seconds will be fine , Cheers!

[nicotin3]

Yeah our systems are pretty much exactly the same except for operating systems & you having more ram, please post how you go with your game, will be interesting! you will be running it at a higher resolution than me though so I guess that will play a fairly big part on how well your rig does.

 

Once again, please let me know how it goes!

Will do, i'll probably get less performance because... Vista is a waste of HW and since im using 32 bit install its not using more than 2 gigs of ram anyway.

I wont find much time before the weekend though.

I have a fresh install and everything at stock, have you tried bumping your conroe to something betwean 2.8 and 3.2?

 

Im going to try and record performance at stock, 2.8 and 3.0/3.2.

[dr.whiz]

Yeah our systems are pretty much exactly the same except for operating systems & you having more ram, please post how you go with your game, will be interesting! you will be running it at a higher resolution than me though so I guess that will play a fairly big part on how well your rig does.

 

Once again, please let me know how it goes!

Will do, i'll probably get less performance because... Vista is a waste of HW and since im using 32 bit install its not using more than 2 gigs of ram anyway.

I wont find much time before the weekend though.

I have a fresh install and everything at stock, have you tried bumping your conroe to something betwean 2.8 and 3.2?

 

Im going to try and record performance at stock, 2.8 and 3.0/3.2.

where's the logic in your statement about the 32-bit os only using 2gb of ram? it's 32bit so it can address 4GB. and if you got 512MB of graphics memory, your ram will use 512MB to address the video card which leaves you with about 3.2-3.5GB left of RAM for computer processes which is more than enough for any game and regular user activities.

[null_]

Hell yeah. Thanks a lot for this, we almost got the same except for the GFX card (8800) but that means I can probably run at the same res but both on Medium instead or perhaps if lucky enough exactly on the same settings on you! CHEERS

[dr.whiz]

Hell yeah. Thanks a lot for this, we almost got the same except for the GFX card (8800) but that means I can probably run at the same res but both on Medium instead or perhaps if lucky enough exactly on the same settings on you! CHEERS

not to sound pessimistic but the geforce 8800's seem to play a big part in the game's graphics for some odd reason.

[nicotin3]

where's the logic in your statement about the 32-bit os only using 2gb of ram? it's 32bit so it can address 4GB. and if you got 512MB of graphics memory, your ram will use 512MB to address the video card which leaves you with about 3.2-3.5GB left of RAM for computer processes which is more than enough for any game and regular user activities.

Task manager is my logic, it shows a total of 2046, mobo and Vista show all 4 gigs but showing and using is a diferent matter .

[null_]

Hell yeah. Thanks a lot for this, we almost got  the same except for the GFX card (8800) but that means I can probably run at the same res but both on Medium instead or perhaps if lucky enough exactly on the same settings on you! CHEERS

not to sound pessimistic but the geforce 8800's seem to play a big part in the game's graphics for some odd reason.

what you basing that on?

[dr.whiz]

 

Hell yeah. Thanks a lot for this, we almost got  the same except for the GFX card (8800) but that means I can probably run at the same res but both on Medium instead or perhaps if lucky enough exactly on the same settings on you! CHEERS

not to sound pessimistic but the geforce 8800's seem to play a big part in the game's graphics for some odd reason.

what you basing that on?

go through the benchmarks thread for instance and you'll see my point

 

i have yet to find users on 8800 with an fps lower than 25 as long as their processor is above minimum requirements.

[null_]

Hell yeah. Thanks a lot for this, we almost got  the same except for the GFX card (8800) but that means I can probably run at the same res but both on Medium instead or perhaps if lucky enough exactly on the same settings on you! CHEERS

not to sound pessimistic but the geforce 8800's seem to play a big part in the game's graphics for some odd reason.

what you basing that on?

go through the benchmarks thread for instance and you'll see my point

 

i have yet to find users on 8800 with an fps lower than 25 as long as their processor is above minimum requirements.

hm, weird. when i try i will let you know though how it goes if you want and everyone else.

 

also i heard that the new nvidia drivers are not working with gta iv. i just updated two days ago lol.

[SlingShotUK]

Yeah our systems are pretty much exactly the same except for operating systems & you having more ram, please post how you go with your game, will be interesting! you will be running it at a higher resolution than me though so I guess that will play a fairly big part on how well your rig does.

 

Once again, please let me know how it goes!

Will do, i'll probably get less performance because... Vista is a waste of HW and since im using 32 bit install its not using more than 2 gigs of ram anyway.

I wont find much time before the weekend though.

I have a fresh install and everything at stock, have you tried bumping your conroe to something betwean 2.8 and 3.2?

 

Im going to try and record performance at stock, 2.8 and 3.0/3.2.

where's the logic in your statement about the 32-bit os only using 2gb of ram? it's 32bit so it can address 4GB. and if you got 512MB of graphics memory, your ram will use 512MB to address the video card which leaves you with about 3.2-3.5GB left of RAM for computer processes which is more than enough for any game and regular user activities.

Not quite, 32bit Windows can only address 3.5gb of the 4GB.

 

In Vista it will show the system as having 4GB but can only ever utilise 3.5GB.

[Vhajev]

Well .. I'm currently experiencing the same as the OP. I was heavily worried about getting the game - but I pre-ordered it ... so what. I got it, installed SP3 after getting the error msg and was stunned by the perfomance and looks. I just tweaked a bit around and ran the benchmark. I'm sure I can even get higher FPS - but it already runs smoothly without major down pikes. I also have the 8800 GTX So here are the results in german (as already posted in another thread):

 

Statistiken

Durchschnittliche FPS: 48.47

Dauer: 37.08 Sek

CPU-Auslastung: 87%

Systemspeicher-Auslastung: 95%

Videospeicher-Auslastung: 92%

 

Grafikeinstellungen

Videomodus: 1152 x 864 (60 Hz)

Texturenqualität: Hoch <- Max

Renderqualität: Sehr hoch <- Max

Sichtdistanz: 25 <- didn't try to set it higher - don't see much popping things around

Detaildistanz: 37

 

Hardware

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Service Pack 3

Grafikkarte: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

Video-Driver Version: 180.48

Soundkarte: C-Media Wave Device

Intel Pentium III Xeon-Prozessor <- Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

[camdean]

Yeah our systems are pretty much exactly the same except for operating systems & you having more ram, please post how you go with your game, will be interesting! you will be running it at a higher resolution than me though so I guess that will play a fairly big part on how well your rig does.

 

Once again, please let me know how it goes!

Will do, i'll probably get less performance because... Vista is a waste of HW and since im using 32 bit install its not using more than 2 gigs of ram anyway.

I wont find much time before the weekend though.

I have a fresh install and everything at stock, have you tried bumping your conroe to something betwean 2.8 and 3.2?

 

Im going to try and record performance at stock, 2.8 and 3.0/3.2.

where's the logic in your statement about the 32-bit os only using 2gb of ram? it's 32bit so it can address 4GB. and if you got 512MB of graphics memory, your ram will use 512MB to address the video card which leaves you with about 3.2-3.5GB left of RAM for computer processes which is more than enough for any game and regular user activities.

If you have 4gb and a decent PCU go for Vista 64bit, you will gain performance, under 4gb you wont notice a thing.

 

 

I have plenty of games that use 4GB ram today, and some of them are about a year old lol, just becaue you don't play games that don't use 4GB ram doesn't mean they dont exist !

 

 

It's a well known fact amongst hardcore gamers, I actualy updated early and now have 6GB (I will test if any games use it) but in 3 months a game called Operation Flashpoint 2 will really start putting it to the test.

 

 

 

I aim to get some screenies today, if I can get these dodgy cut scenes working first.

 

 

[xDavidM(PC)]

How do i clean up my drivers?

Please reply.

[duneofd]

hmm its good 2 see that few ppl are running it correctly. just out of curiosity is the o.p 8800GTX better than a 9800GTX+ 512mb? because i purchased one and im wonding what i should expect. damn cd wow gimme the game already

[GingerlyPocus™]

Wise words, great post. I was getting terrible performance on lower settings with higher specs than OPs, however I'm in the process now of reverting back to 32-bit XP from Vista, hopefully I'll get better performance on a clean re-install.