So so far what I've seen I can tell that

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I've looking many many many threats from here and all over the internet. And what I can see is that most people who get over 40FPS and can run this game high detail settings and density without no problems are having mostly 8800GT/8800GTS/8800GTX with E8400/Q6600 CPU. Not to sound pessimistic but the GeForce 8800's seem to play a big part in the game's graphics for some kind of odd reason. And E8400/Q6600 also along with 8800. Maybe Rockstar Ported this game to run perfectly with E8400/Q6600 and 8800 series together? It looks like the game knows how to use 8800 and E8400/Q6600 resources fully. 8800 even over performs 280GTX/HD4870 etc guys. And so far what I've seen then most of the people who are having the trouble with the game are using either AMD X4/ATI 4870/GeForce 280GTX/Intel Quad etc powerful GPU's/CPU's. Looks really really odd. What do You think?

[dudester123]

I wipe my own ass

[Sub12]

It's simple. If you want to run GTA IV, get a fast quad core.

 

Preferably a Core i7, those are acing the game!

 

It's not that 8800 outperforms the 4870, no. An 8800+Quad will outperform GTX 280+Dual. The duals are forming a heavy bottleneck, so the GPU capabilities are not used. Someone proved this in a thread just a few minutes back.

 

This game is heavily CPU limited.

[arewenotmen]

I think there's some truth in the OP. I think there's some issue with the game & the latest generation cards - there's too much variation in CPU to be that. I have an AMD X2 5200 and I'm doing fine, but it seems that's because I have an 8800GTX.

[extender]

I think there's some truth in the OP. I think there's some issue with the game & the latest generation cards - there's too much variation in CPU to be that. I have an AMD X2 5200 and I'm doing fine, but it seems that's because I have an 8800GTX.

Lol. You got 8800GTX? That even proves even more my thoughts. So everyone! Sell your GTX280 etc and buy 8800GT/GTX/Ultra . GTA IV just knows how to take advantage of the 8800. At least it looks like so so far.

[dr.whiz]

im using that logic to buy a 9800GTX 1GB. hopefully it will be used just as good as the 8800GTX and even better.

[arewenotmen]

The GTX is only about £150 now too - good cards.

 

I can run Far Cry 2 - a very pretty but immensely boring game by the way - and Crysis at full everything, in a window, 1900x1200.

 

The 280GTX is just under twice as fast in some tests, but it's not enough to make me think about upgrades.

[ParoXum]

It's simple. If you want to run GTA IV, get a fast quad core.

 

Preferably a Core i7, those are acing the game!

 

It's not that 8800 outperforms the 4870, no. An 8800+Quad will outperform GTX 280+Dual. The duals are forming a heavy bottleneck, so the GPU capabilities are not used. Someone proved this in a thread just a few minutes back.

 

This game is heavily CPU limited.

Quoted for the truth.

 

Folks, read it when a member tell the truth.

[dr.whiz]

It's simple. If you want to run GTA IV, get a fast quad core.

 

Preferably a Core i7, those are acing the game!

 

It's not that 8800 outperforms the 4870, no. An 8800+Quad will outperform GTX 280+Dual. The duals are forming a heavy bottleneck, so the GPU capabilities are not used. Someone proved this in a thread just a few minutes back.

 

This game is heavily CPU limited.

Quoted for the truth.

 

Folks, read it when a member tell the truth.

while there is some truth in that, it still doesn't explain how someone can play the game at med-high settings on a 3.2 dual core with 8800GTX with like 40 fps and when i've seen benchmarks of the same but with a GTX280 with less fps.

[ParoXum]

You cant compare different users with the same systems. Some just dont know how to setup their computer.

[pinky]

 

It's simple. If you want to run GTA IV, get a fast quad core.

 

Preferably a Core i7, those are acing the game!

 

It's not that 8800 outperforms the 4870, no. An 8800+Quad will outperform GTX 280+Dual. The duals are forming a heavy bottleneck, so the GPU capabilities are not used. Someone proved this in a thread just a few minutes back.

 

This game is heavily CPU limited.

Quoted for the truth.

 

Folks, read it when a member tell the truth.

while there is some truth in that, it still doesn't explain how someone can play the game at med-high settings on a 3.2 dual core with 8800GTX with like 40 fps and when i've seen benchmarks of the same but with a GTX280 with less fps.

Could be the architecture of the cards or clocks maybe.

Anyone tried underclocking their 280 or 260 down to 8800 core speeds etc?

Maybe the 280s are causing massive bottleneck and the CPU has no chance to keep up.

[dr.whiz]

everyone should still keep in mind that for the most part, graphics seem to be random. we got one user who set up the game at three identical systems with different results if i'm not mistaken.

[ParoXum]

 

everyone should still keep in mind that for the most part, graphics seem to be random. we got one user who set up the game at three identical systems with different results if i'm not mistaken.

Yeah, and most important yet : graphic looks the same between LOW and HIGH. There's not much difference between sliders. Except vehicles density and distances, of course.

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So I did some "research" and there are the results.

Im 90% sure that 8800 series and good C2D or Quad with the 8800 is the perfect setup for this game.

 

Average FPS: 56.05

Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz)

Texture Quality: Medium

Render Quality: High

View Distance: 29

Detail Distance: 37

Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz

Average FPS: 43.05

Display: 1280x1024

Texture Quality: Medium

Render Quality: High

View Distance: 50

Detail Distance: 40

Shadows: Level 6

Intel Duo Core e6600 2.4ghz Processor

Nvidia 8800GTX 768mb GPU

 

 

Statistiken

Durchschnittliche FPS: 48.47

Dauer: 37.08 Sek

CPU-Auslastung: 87%

Systemspeicher-Auslastung: 95%

Videospeicher-Auslastung: 92%

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

Grafikkarte: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

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

 

 

Average FPS: 42.35

Duration: 37.12 sec

CPU Usage: 92%

System memory usage: 86%

Video memory usage: 95%

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz)

Texture Quality: Medium

Render Quality: Very High

View Distance: 25

Detail Distance: 48

Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 3.2GHz

 

 

 

meanwhile high end or very very good GPU and CPU guys are having those kind of settings and they get bad FPS

 

Average FPS: 24.06

Duration: 37.79 sec

CPU Usage: 89%

System memory usage: 92%

Video memory usage: 100%

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 1440 x 900 (75 Hz)

Texture Quality: High

Render Quality: Highest

View Distance: 100

Detail Distance: 100

Video Adapter: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+

 

 

Average FPS: 26.98

Duration: 37.43 sec

CPU Usage: 88%

System memory usage: 76%

Video memory usage: 79%

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz)

Texture Quality: Medium

Render Quality: High

View Distance: 27

Detail Distance: 100

Video Adapter: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series <- MSI R4850 512MB

Intel Pentium III Xeon processor <- Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 2.53GHz

 

 

CPU: Core2 Quad Q9450 3.06GHz

RAM: 8GB DDR2

GPU: XFX 9800GX2 1024MBAverage FPS: 35.86

Duration: 38.15 sec

CPU Usage: 51%

System memory usage: 50%

Video memory usage: 97%

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 1440 x 900 (75 Hz)

Texture Quality: Medium

Render Quality: Very High

View Distance: 38

Detail Distance: 100