M_and_M Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 If someone could please help me i downloaded the file and put it in my installation folder. now, where should I put the commandline.txt file. if I understud in that file should be written: "X:\unknown folder\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV" -s am I right? so, where to put it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rallzor Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 If someone could please help me i downloaded the file and put it in my installation folder. now, where should I put the commandline.txt file. if I understud in that file should be written: "X:\unknown folder\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV" -s am I right? so, where to put it? nonoNO. yeah place Contig.exe in your GTA IV folder. THEN create a shortcut of contig.exe to your desktop and have a commandline at the end( -s) and it should look like this: "X:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV\Contig.exe" -s How To: When created the shortcut to the desktop, Right press the shortcut, and there it should look like this: "X:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV\Contig.exe" -s Then run the shortcut (vista users, run the shortcut by right clicking it and press ''run as administrator'' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noVa Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 If you don't trust it download the file from ms's site (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897428.aspx). i don't even trust ms anymore, their webmasters allowed links on their site that redirected to scareware/malware through a security vulnerability Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruXter Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I checked with Jotti's malware scanner http://virusscan.jotti.org/ Found nothing.. Enjoy all. Service load: 0% 100% File: Contig.exe Status: OK(Note: file has been scanned before. Therefore, this file's scan results will not be stored in the database) MD5: 3b52296d4059e16fef36fc3f242c276f Packers detected: - Scanner results Scan taken on 27 Dec 2008 02:29:05 (GMT) A-Squared Found nothing AntiVir Found nothing ArcaVir Found nothing Avast Found nothing AVG Antivirus Found nothing BitDefender Found nothing ClamAV Found nothing CPsecure Found nothing Dr.Web Found nothing F-Prot Antivirus Found nothing F-Secure Anti-Virus Found nothing G DATA Found nothing Ikarus Found nothing Kaspersky Anti-Virus Found nothing NOD32 Found nothing Norman Virus Control Found nothing Panda Antivirus Found nothing Sophos Antivirus Found nothing VirusBuster Found nothing VBA32 Found nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_and_M Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 oh! thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaboyle Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I've checked the file now and its a keylogger. seriously? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruXter Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I've checked the file now and its a keylogger. seriously? no, he is fos http://virusscan.jotti.org/ found nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaboyle Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I've checked the file now and its a keylogger. seriously? no, he is fos http://virusscan.jotti.org/ found nothing. cheers maan !! you tried this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruXter Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I've checked the file now and its a keylogger. seriously? no, he is fos http://virusscan.jotti.org/ found nothing. cheers maan !! you tried this? Yes sir, if you scroll up a lil bit , you will see a huge post. That is me showing the results of the virus scan. I of course instead of placing the file in the gta folder. I plopped it right down in drive C and set it to work from there on the whole drive. when it is done I will move it to the rockstar folder and begin again then again in the gtaiv specific folder. I have tiny vista (a very stripped down version of vista) and it has no defrag proggy in it. along with many other useless items (till ya need em) Bill gates himself said "tiny is fine, it has so little in it, it's a worthless peice of junk anyway" ok the quote is not perfectly exactly as he said, but it's in the ballpark.. so tiny vista is legal and most people find it useless . It's like Microsoft's open source o/s on the hush hush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noVa Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 open source? it's just someone random on the Internet who took the vista installation disk and used whatever program (forgotten which) and took all the stuff off the installation disk, i personally would just do the same and remove stuff you know you don't need rather than using someone elses and having to put up with not having somethign you use all the time. //edit its called vlite the XP version is called nlite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaboyle Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 PROBLEM ! ok, so i downloaded the file, popped it straight into my gtaiv folder, created a shortcut (looks like this) "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" -s and there is no difference ! double clicked the shortcut and it gta ran straight away, (non of that 5-20minutes talk) for somecomputers??? what went wrong, do I need to download another tool not specified here that enables my computer to succesfully use the ( -s) rule?? cheers ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruXter Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 PROBLEM ! ok, so i downloaded the file, popped it straight into my gtaiv folder, created a shortcut (looks like this) "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" -s and there is no difference ! double clicked the shortcut and it gta ran straight away, (non of that 5-20minutes talk) for somecomputers??? what went wrong, do I need to download another tool not specified here that enables my computer to succesfully use the ( -s) rule?? cheers ! no. Take the shortcut you created. put it directly on your desktop right click, select "options" in the line where it tells what file is to be executed hit space once at the end of the line then type -s then apply and ok then go to the shortcut and double click. cmd prompt should open and begin a scan and restructure of that directory. if you are on Vista you might have to re-boot to administrator mode to make it work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noVa Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 you have to link to the defrag file not your gta launcher and then it will the continue to defragment the files within your gta folder. for some reason on every installation i've done of gta 4 (bordering about about 25) every single time ALL the files have been fragmented in the gta folder, i don't know if this is something to do with the way it installs but i don't think it's normal that a new install is fragmented so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick18 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 So does this actually do anything if you have no fragments on your drive? I don't see how this would help unless you haven't defraged your HD, In which case you should just defrag your harddrive because it will make everything run better not just GTA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaboyle Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 PROBLEM ! ok, so i downloaded the file, popped it straight into my gtaiv folder, created a shortcut (looks like this) "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" -s and there is no difference ! double clicked the shortcut and it gta ran straight away, (non of that 5-20minutes talk) for somecomputers??? what went wrong, do I need to download another tool not specified here that enables my computer to succesfully use the ( -s) rule?? cheers ! no. Take the shortcut you created. put it directly on your desktop right click, select "options" in the line where it tells what file is to be executed hit space once at the end of the line then type -s then apply and ok then go to the shortcut and double click. cmd prompt should open and begin a scan and restructure of that directory. if you are on Vista you might have to re-boot to administrator mode to make it work. ok, so im lost ! im using vista, I downloaded the file, put it into the GTA IV folder, then I right clicked 'launch gtaiv' in the gtaiv folder and clicked create shortcut, I then went on my desktop, right clicked the shortcut, and clicked properties, then went to target where it reads '"C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" and made it look like "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" -s then I applied it, clicked done, then clicked on the shortcut and clicked run as administrator, the game just loads ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noVa Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 So does this actually do anything if you have no fragments on your drive? I don't see how this would help unless you haven't defraged your HD, In which case you should just defrag your harddrive because it will make everything run better not just GTA. this is true, but as i have said the GTA folder at least on my pc is fragmented from a fresh installation, not been run and is on its own drive with no other files on the drive, so its obviously happening upon installation (at least for me) so unelss you have defragged your entire HDD since installation it might be an idea to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaboyle Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 PROBLEM ! ok, so i downloaded the file, popped it straight into my gtaiv folder, created a shortcut (looks like this) "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" -s and there is no difference ! double clicked the shortcut and it gta ran straight away, (non of that 5-20minutes talk) for somecomputers??? what went wrong, do I need to download another tool not specified here that enables my computer to succesfully use the ( -s) rule?? cheers ! no. Take the shortcut you created. put it directly on your desktop right click, select "options" in the line where it tells what file is to be executed hit space once at the end of the line then type -s then apply and ok then go to the shortcut and double click. cmd prompt should open and begin a scan and restructure of that directory. if you are on Vista you might have to re-boot to administrator mode to make it work. ok, so im lost ! im using vista, I downloaded the file, put it into the GTA IV folder, then I right clicked 'launch gtaiv' in the gtaiv folder and clicked create shortcut, I then went on my desktop, right clicked the shortcut, and clicked properties, then went to target where it reads '"C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" and made it look like "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" -s then I applied it, clicked done, then clicked on the shortcut and clicked run as administrator, the game just loads ..... no problem now ! iv done it, I made a shortcut from the rong file, !! all is good ! the coding thing is up ! il post my results ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noVa Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 PROBLEM ! ok, so i downloaded the file, popped it straight into my gtaiv folder, created a shortcut (looks like this) "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" -s and there is no difference ! double clicked the shortcut and it gta ran straight away, (non of that 5-20minutes talk) for somecomputers??? what went wrong, do I need to download another tool not specified here that enables my computer to succesfully use the ( -s) rule?? cheers ! no. Take the shortcut you created. put it directly on your desktop right click, select "options" in the line where it tells what file is to be executed hit space once at the end of the line then type -s then apply and ok then go to the shortcut and double click. cmd prompt should open and begin a scan and restructure of that directory. if you are on Vista you might have to re-boot to administrator mode to make it work. ok, so im lost ! im using vista, I downloaded the file, put it into the GTA IV folder, then I right clicked 'launch gtaiv' in the gtaiv folder and clicked create shortcut, I then went on my desktop, right clicked the shortcut, and clicked properties, then went to target where it reads '"C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" and made it look like "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" -s then I applied it, clicked done, then clicked on the shortcut and clicked run as administrator, the game just loads ..... do you actually read? its been said twice now YOU DO NOT LINK TO THE LAUNCHGTA.EXE FILE YOU LINK TO THE CONTIG.EXE (THE DEFRAG FILE YOU JUST DONWLOADED) WHICH SHOULD BE PLACED IN YOUR GTA FOLDER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trip Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I've checked the file now and its a keylogger. i didn't find anything bad in the exe. i run a scheduled defrag(weekly) so it only defraged 5 files. Summary: Number of files processed : 5326 Number of files defragmented: 5 Average fragmentation before: 1.00094 frags/file Average fragmentation after : 1 frags/file defragging a drive never hurts. treat your selfs to scheduled defrags - you'll be a happier person. the one mentioned in this post is nice to use if you 'cant wait' for those long ass complete defrags and want to defrag NOW!! I hope everyone enjoyed this past year, and I hope the upcoming year will be a good one for everyone. My crappy games at MyCrappyGames.com Free copy of Save The Puppies and Kittens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaboyle Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 PROBLEM ! ok, so i downloaded the file, popped it straight into my gtaiv folder, created a shortcut (looks like this) "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" -s and there is no difference ! double clicked the shortcut and it gta ran straight away, (non of that 5-20minutes talk) for somecomputers??? what went wrong, do I need to download another tool not specified here that enables my computer to succesfully use the ( -s) rule?? cheers ! no. Take the shortcut you created. put it directly on your desktop right click, select "options" in the line where it tells what file is to be executed hit space once at the end of the line then type -s then apply and ok then go to the shortcut and double click. cmd prompt should open and begin a scan and restructure of that directory. if you are on Vista you might have to re-boot to administrator mode to make it work. ok, so im lost ! im using vista, I downloaded the file, put it into the GTA IV folder, then I right clicked 'launch gtaiv' in the gtaiv folder and clicked create shortcut, I then went on my desktop, right clicked the shortcut, and clicked properties, then went to target where it reads '"C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" and made it look like "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" -s then I applied it, clicked done, then clicked on the shortcut and clicked run as administrator, the game just loads ..... do you actually read? its been said twice now YOU DO NOT LINK TO THE LAUNCHGTA.EXE FILE YOU LINK TO THE CONTIG.EXE (THE DEFRAG FILE YOU JUST DONWLOADED) WHICH SHOULD BE PLACED IN YOUR GTA FOLDER chill your beans man ...... ive done it ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruXter Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 lol good work. and to the op. thanks for the post it actually helped me in more ways than just gta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noVa Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 PROBLEM ! ok, so i downloaded the file, popped it straight into my gtaiv folder, created a shortcut (looks like this) "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" -s and there is no difference ! double clicked the shortcut and it gta ran straight away, (non of that 5-20minutes talk) for somecomputers??? what went wrong, do I need to download another tool not specified here that enables my computer to succesfully use the ( -s) rule?? cheers ! no. Take the shortcut you created. put it directly on your desktop right click, select "options" in the line where it tells what file is to be executed hit space once at the end of the line then type -s then apply and ok then go to the shortcut and double click. cmd prompt should open and begin a scan and restructure of that directory. if you are on Vista you might have to re-boot to administrator mode to make it work. ok, so im lost ! im using vista, I downloaded the file, put it into the GTA IV folder, then I right clicked 'launch gtaiv' in the gtaiv folder and clicked create shortcut, I then went on my desktop, right clicked the shortcut, and clicked properties, then went to target where it reads '"C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" and made it look like "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" -s then I applied it, clicked done, then clicked on the shortcut and clicked run as administrator, the game just loads ..... do you actually read? its been said twice now YOU DO NOT LINK TO THE LAUNCHGTA.EXE FILE YOU LINK TO THE CONTIG.EXE (THE DEFRAG FILE YOU JUST DONWLOADED) WHICH SHOULD BE PLACED IN YOUR GTA FOLDER chill your beans man ...... ive done it ! lol ok wasn't getting angry just you seem to miss the posts so i thought i'd make it nice and bold for you! only built this system about 4-5 months ago and im already eyeing up a new gfx card and quad cpu damn you r* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgt.slaughter Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I hope they make this for GTA 2 cuz when the camera zooms on my computer,it runs wretchedly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaboyle Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 lol good work. and to the op. thanks for the post it actually helped me in more ways than just gta. man this is taking AGERS !!! just a question for when the contig coding box finishes, when its done will the box close and the game start, and also... after this process to play the game with the made changes from the 'config' i would just run the game as usual ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noVa Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 the game won't run after all it is doing is taking the fragmented files and reordering them on your hardrive,nothing will change in your game all is it doing is taking files that on your hardrive platter are like this <File1 part1> <file2> <File1 part2> You see how its fragmented? "split" and placed in two different places on the hardrive this means the hdd has to find the first bit then search for the second bit slowing down the access time which can cause stuttering in games etc afterwards it should be like this <File1> <file2> so it only has to look in one place to find the corresponding file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaboyle Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 the game won't run after all it is doing is taking the fragmented files and reordering them on your hardrive,nothing will change in your game all is it doing is taking files that on your hardrive platter are like this <File1 part1> <file2> <File1 part2> You see how its fragmented? "split" and placed in two different places on the hardrive this means the hdd has to find the first bit then search for the second bit slowing down the access time which can cause stuttering in games etc afterwards it should be like this <File1> <file2> so it only has to look in one place to find the corresponding file. ok cheers, so after the whole process is done, I simply run the game as I would and the changes are kept?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noVa Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 the game won't run after all it is doing is taking the fragmented files and reordering them on your hardrive,nothing will change in your game all is it doing is taking files that on your hardrive platter are like this <File1 part1> <file2> <File1 part2> You see how its fragmented? "split" and placed in two different places on the hardrive this means the hdd has to find the first bit then search for the second bit slowing down the access time which can cause stuttering in games etc afterwards it should be like this <File1> <file2> so it only has to look in one place to find the corresponding file. ok cheers, so after the whole process is done, I simply run the game as I would and the changes are kept?? yep nothing will change except hopefully your stuttering will be decreased/fps increased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takenover83 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I am amazed at how many people do not know how to defrag.... I use PerfectDisk. It beats the snot out of pretty much any other defragger. I have set up to defrag, when my pc is idle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick18 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I am amazed at how many people do not know how to defrag....I use PerfectDisk. It beats the snot out of pretty much any other defragger. I have set up to defrag, when my pc is idle. Yup I defrag wit the stock windows defragger and my drive is 100% defragged even if it just was your gta4 that was fragmented it would only take a few minutes to defrag it. ITs not like you would have to defrag everything even know there not fragmented. defrag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaboyle Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 i gained no fps but instead probably dropped 1 ! I did the setup then ran the game as you would through the rockstar popup on the startup tab, is this wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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