My way of getting GTA to run better.

[StealMySoda]

Okay so. I was running at 800x600. All settings at minimum. Textures weren't loading fast enough, so I ended up flying in the middle of nowhere, no idea where the road was. I was also getting varying FPS and some stuttering when it popped down to 14 or so. It seems to be a lot more steady, though I haven't ran it with fraps yet to see what the actual fps is.

 

My system. 1.83ghz dual core. nVidia 8400m GS w/128mb. Before we begin, I know, its hardly the best computer. But hey it just about meets the min specs.

 

First I started off on Nvidia control panel. Using the custom 3d settings, I'm used these settings:

http://www.stealmysoda.com/s/gta/nvid.gif

 

Then, making sure that Rockstar Social is already up and running (very important), and logged in, created a shortcut on my desktop for LaunchGTA.exe. Right click properties, and add the command lines to the launch.

 

-norestrictions -nomemrestrict -minspecaudio

 

http://www.stealmysoda.com/s/gta/launch.gif

Edit: sorry the | is my typing thing. Not a character

 

Now, rather than leaving it at a bare minimum, I increased the view distance and detail distance slightly. I think I set mine on 20, and suffered very little performance decrease, with detail distance on 5. Set it to the correct ratio of 4:3.

 

Now I can zip through town without having to worry too much about the road not loading ahead of me. I was able to run in 1024x768, but that left me with slower loading textures, and more often (but less rarely than before) ended up with no road).

 

Maybe this will just work for me, but it helped me a lot. Hopefully it can help you guys running on the 'bareminimum' in some way shape or form.

 

Good luck.

Edited December 5, 2008 by StealMySoda

[JBFord4x4]

Nice. My new way is actually building a whole new PC. But dont worry, it's not because of IV.

[shutrCZ]

Thanks, game run little faster now

Edited December 5, 2008 by shutrCZ

[Zeta]

Thanks trying now, Maybe this will help solve my issue of Disappearing road's and buildings Problem.

[Gutslab]

I'm suffering some fps issues with a slightly better cpu, and will give this a try. Thanks.

[Loosha]

 

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[aNdReSk]

wow u ran it with 128 mb of video memory O_o

how's the FPS?

[StealMySoda]

 

wow u ran it with 128 mb of video memory O_o

how's the FPS?

Running about 25 fps, during the day. Probably around 18 w/rain.

And 22 or so at night.

 

Think my biggest bottle neck is the CPU as I can increase view distance upto 50 and still play with the same FPS I would have with it at 1.

Edited December 5, 2008 by StealMySoda

[Vicetopia]

Putting those tags in my shortcut locked my game to 22fps.

[CarlosF22]

Gonna try it right now, thanks.

[Gutslab]

StealMySoda, do you run the shortcut right? Or press play from social club after making the shortcut property change??

[StealMySoda]

StealMySoda, do you run the shortcut right? Or press play from social club after making the shortcut property change??

1. Using a SHORTCUT, to the Launchgtaiv.exe, run the game. Rockstar social will pop up. Click login and play. Once game opens, close it again.

2. Run again using the shortcut, with the parameters applied and it shouldn't pop up with rockstar social again and should go straight into the game, using the parameters.

[TheHagueBoxer]

thanks for this, i'll try it, i have about the same specs ( same CPU, 8600 GT, 4GB DDR) so i hope it will work for me!

[Klax]

will it work on this system:

 

Dual Core DC3200 (2GHz)

GeForce 9300M GS

4GB Ram

 

So should i buy the game?

[jaxx0rr]

if you have disabled superfetch (in vista) -> turn it back on ! Fixes the missing texture problem !!!

[jippee]

Dude shot this totally works!!! I added your commandline's and then i downloaded the 3rd patch (1.0.3(something like dat))

and it works so well!!!!!! OMG thanks.. i get about 20/23 fps during the day

 

my pc rig isnt anything speacial..

 

Core 2 duo 2.2ghz

1g ddr2 800 ram

8400gs 256mb

and XP sp3