Possible fix for -norestrict

[gina78223]

Can anyone state how to start gta 4 without going through social clubs whole process? if we can bypass that we can get -norestrict i believe

[Zach]

Well, LaunchGTAIV.exe is just launching GTAIV.exe to start the game, so I guess you could try launching GTAIV.exe directly yourself, or more to the point of your experiment, launching "GTAIV.exe -norestrict" yourself. *shrug*

 

Edit: I'd try myself, but I'm running the game in the background and don't feel like saving, unloading, and restarting.

[gina78223]

Either way social club automatically has to come and be pressed to actually play and that inturn opens up a new dosbox thingy....

[slowrider]

Well, LaunchGTAIV.exe is just launching GTAIV.exe to start the game, so I guess you could try launching GTAIV.exe directly yourself, or more to the point of your experiment, launching "GTAIV.exe -norestrict" yourself. *shrug*

 

Edit: I'd try myself, but I'm running the game in the background and don't feel like saving, unloading, and restarting.

yep. opening just the gtaiv.exe file brings up RSGC, and clicking play implements no command lines. at least in my case. i can't get any to work, check this thread of mine to see what i mean: http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=379579

[Zach]

The Social Club isn't required to play the game. I have yet to ever login to the dumb thing. Windows LIVE! is required if you want to save your game, but that you log into from within the game, not the launcher, so that doesn't matter.

 

 

[gina78223]

My point is a dosbox comes up with gta IV and the command in title=its working but than it goes away and here comes mr RGSC with its own little play button to open up a speiclized dosbox. We need to bypass this RGSC to fix the commands. If anyone has time to play around abit and maybe find a solution please post back

 

Update!!: Don't know how i did it but i made it work. Im running at medium textures highest rendering with a 45 view. I see some loading locations but really when the game is running smoothly and looking sharp you can't bitch about the small things.

Edited December 4, 2008 by gina78223

[Zach]

Well, I was just experimenting with it, and judging from my Process Explorer (tool to replace Windows default Task Explorer), it looks like GTAIV.exe has a built-in check to make sure it's not launched from anything other than RGSC.exe, i.e., it launches it itself and closes itself down.

 

By simply launching GTAIV.exe, in the end, you just end up with this:

 

 

So I don't know. Sorry.

[2lame]

I was stuck on the same thing yesterday... The trick is that since there is no more "Fatal Error MMA 10" or something, you can now safely log on to the Rockstar Social Club app. After you ran it and logged on, just minimize it. Then create a shortcut of the "LaunchGTAIV.exe" and add those commands into the "Target" field (mine looks like this: -nomemrestrict -norestrictions -novblank -renderquality 4 -texturequality 2 -viewdistance 99 -detailquality 99 -shadowdensity 16 -width 1024 -height 768 -refreshrate 75 -fullspecaudio)

 

(the basic ones you will need are -nomemrestrict and -norestrictions)

 

Then run the shortcut itself, not the Rockstar Social Club "Start" button! (you have to be logged there first with your account however, cause if not, the launcher will not play the game, instead it will return you to the Social Club and so till infinity)

 

Try it and report

[gta-man22]

thanks 2lame, it ALMOST worked, i registered to the social club and put the -nomemrestrict -norestrictions, but these 2 dont work, i cant turn the textures up to medium, then i put -texturequality 3 and it give me poor textures, but in the config it tells me that its the very high one, wtf is going on?

 

PD: now it work, WTF

Edited December 5, 2008 by gta-man22

[hawk52501]

Man I have tried everything, in all these posts to get the command lines working....even the commandline.txt thing, and it still wont work. Running retail version, logged into to RGSC..e.t.c. Hopefully the upcomming patch will fixe this

[Zubi]

I was stuck on the same thing yesterday... The trick is that since there is no more "Fatal Error MMA 10" or something, you can now safely log on to the Rockstar Social Club app. After you ran it and logged on, just minimize it. Then create a shortcut of the "LaunchGTAIV.exe" and add those commands into the "Target" field (mine looks like this: -nomemrestrict -norestrictions -novblank -renderquality 4 -texturequality 2 -viewdistance 99 -detailquality 99 -shadowdensity 16 -width 1024 -height 768 -refreshrate 75 -fullspecaudio)

 

(the basic ones you will need are -nomemrestrict and -norestrictions)

 

Then run the shortcut itself, not the Rockstar Social Club "Start" button! (you have to be logged there first with your account however, cause if not, the launcher will not play the game, instead it will return you to the Social Club and so till infinity)

 

Try it and report

hello,

how do u change it on the "Target"? cuz it dosent let me change it after im clicking "Aplay",

can u plz show me exactly how do u change it?....

do u change the name of the file or only the target?...

thx alot!

[marvelous]

Make a commandline.txt in the main game folder of GTA4.

 

-norestrictions

-nomemrestrict

 

and it will unlock video card limits. You will get missing textures if you go over the restrictions. It's better to play with the restrictions on because it will accurate. I actually got better frames with playing it at highest graphic setting of the game but not without looking worse.