Settings tweaking

[Malik]

*If posted before plz lock+delete*

 

Found this on the steamforums:

 

 

Tools:

-benchmark: Runs the benchmark tool and immediately exits game.

-help: Display list of all command line options

 

Graphics:

-renderquality: Set the render quality of the game. (0-4)

-shadowdensity: Set the shadow density of the game. (0-16)

-texturequality: Set the texture quality of the game. (0-2)

-viewdistance: Set the view distance of the game (0-99)

-detailquality: Set the detail quality of the game. (0-99)

-novblank: Disable wait for vblank (No Vsync)

-norestrictions: Do not limit graphics settings

-width: Set width of main render window (default is 800)

-height: Set height of main render window (default is 600)

-safemode: Run the graphics in the lowest setting possible

-frameLimit: Limit frame to interval of refresh rate

(ex If refreshrate is 60HZ –frameLimit 1 = Locks down to 60HZ)

-refreshrate: Set the refresh rate of main render window

– Warning - Monitor must support (ex. –refreshrate 60)

-fullscreen: Force fullscreen mode

-windowed: Force windowed mode

-availablevidmem: Set amount of physical Video Memory(ex. –availablevidmem 0.9)

-percentvidmem: Percentage of video memory to make available to GTA

 

Audio:

-fullspecaudio: Force high-end CPU audio footprint

-minspecaudio: Force low-end CPU audio footprint

 

System:

-noprecache: Disable precache of resources

-nomemrestrict: Disable memory restrictions

 

Can anybody confirm this works

[LadyTasera]

I don't understand how we're supposed to use these commands. Where do I enter them?

[slowrider]

you edit the desktop shortcut to the program via right-click. find the target box and tag these onto the very end, outside the speech marks.

[LadyTasera]

Okay, got it. But the -norestriction doesn't work. Oh well.

Edited December 4, 2008 by LadyTasera

[Gottex]

I want to turn off memory restriction, but it doesnt work ((( no matter what I type

 

-nomemrestrict or -norestrict or -norestriction or -norestrictions

 

 

[dudester123]

I want to turn off memory restriction, but it doesnt work ((( no matter what I type

 

-nomemrestrict or -norestrict or -norestriction or -norestrictions

same for me...

[Gottex]

even logging into Social Club gives nothing at all

 

[pinky]

Anyone care to enlighten me on how to open the command console?

The usual key ( the one below esc) appears to do nothing.

 

Do I enter the commands into the DOS window running in the background?

Edited December 4, 2008 by pinky

[DarekRuman]

Not working for me too

[PestilenceJM]

I have read in a post that it is possible to use those command lines. But the person had not mentioned how.

[shat_kat]

That only applied to quake engine games and source games pinky, they are the obvious ones anyway, serious sam used that, and UT did, but it was a different key, not all games, especially console ports, have command consoles.

[camdean]

This was in another post.

 

 

I had problems running these commands and some people didn't ..

 

 

 

You go into your rockstar directory, right click on LaunchgtaIV and make a shortcut, then right click on the shortcut and select properties ..

 

 

In the target box you add the commands at the end, after the "" marks, like so ..

 

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" -nomemrestrict

 

 

There is a space bewteen the " and -

 

 

Malik this doesn't change my opinion of you, this is copied from another thread.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Badmagic]

Couldn't get the "-norestrictions" to work as listed in the readme file at all no matter what I did and the game was fairly laggy for me, I then read a random goggle search that its a typo.

 

Readme doesn't work = -norestrictions

What actually worked = -norestriction

 

Note the lack of the S at the end, the difference was immediately apparent and I was even able to bump up most of the settings after using it while retaining a less laggy playing experience.

 

Like I said, I didn't discover this but saw it through random googling where someone else must have figured it out.

 

[Gottex]

donno how but it worked, all I did is looked through D:\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV\ReadMe.txt ... found the line -norestrictions: Do not limit graphics settings, then went to shortcut properties, "D:\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" -norestrictions , logged in Social Club and finally now I'm able to set anything I want