GTA IV Tweak for extra FPS

[-TheStig-]

just tried it and ive got to say it worked a treat,not much fps gain but its much smoother now no lag cheers

[HanShotFirst]

Seemed to work a bit for me too

[jaboyle]

il bump this because I think it is very useful !!

[-TheStig-]

pin it please mods

[-TheStig-]

also it fixed a long pause i was getting before the menu come up,when starting the game

[ericj86]

what does everyone mean they gained fps, how can you tell how much you have before?

 

[streetlifeg]

It's not a f­u­cking virus. It just packs or defragments files in your gta folder.

 

Although it did jack all for my FPS, benchmark shows only 4fps improvement after three runs... Used to be 31, now it's at constant 35. Could barely spot the difference by eye. Guess that's better than nothing though.

[mastertitsoyo]

so do you run it everytime before you play or what?

[MrGreenblaat]

This works i get a nice boost in the gameplay. I would say sticky this post because there are many people saying it helps....

 

 

 

Greetz

[Nhani]

I've been running this defrag-thing about 20 mins.. how long does it take?

[roypaci]

I've been running this defrag-thing about 20 mins.. how long does it take?

You should have a lot of fragmented files...

On my laptop it takes one and half minutes max to finish.

Use Auslogics Defrag.tool before you run the Contig.exe.

 

[Sir Elwood]

EDIT: Oops.

[67257990206098020947]

yes it works thankx

 

i got 5 fps

 

and its NOT A VIRUS!

 

http://www.virustotal.com/de/analisis/040a...7b2862cf4373fdf

[67257990206098020947]

PuScH and make plz Sticky

[Wethospu]

Please, don't sticky this topic.

Instead, there should be a topic which explains simple ways to make GTA IV run smoother (such as defragmenting, driver updates).

Note: I doubt I'm that tech-person that I could write a topic like that.

 

Problem with this topics first post is that it explains the solution but not the problem. This means people with another problem may try it and simply waste their time (for example it took me a while to notice that this wouldn't benefit me at all).

Luckily the problem is explained in this topic but in stickies, all of it should be in the first post.

[FenixDelta753]

I've checked the file now and its a keylogger.

Not the one from Microsoft, that's guaranteed to be clean unless MS wants to screw us all over.

[craig3000]

its called smart defrag by Iobit

 

much better now you can defrag your whole computer better than XP or vista can and you can optimize data placement oooooooooo

 

seriously though if your gonna defrag do it properly and speed up your whole pc not just GTA 4

 

http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html

 

 

[jonbrown]

Steam Version?

Does work better than defragging via the steam application?

[The_Cheese_Man]

I noticed if you defrag after you install the patch, you will also get less stuttering. At least in my experience.

[jonbrown]

For what it's worth, when I first applied patch 2, my Steam GTA 4 would not even load! I did a verify integrity of cache under Steam (which includes defragmentation) and BINGO it loaded fine... But soon found that I had subsequent problems with crashing in-game. I'm 99% sure it's fixed, though - played about 7 hours over 2 days stable. I turned off vsync in game (a new patch 2 feature) and then forced it off in nvidia control panel.

[jonbrown]

its called smart defrag by Iobit

 

much better now you can defrag your whole computer better than XP or vista can and you can optimize data placement oooooooooo

 

seriously though if your gonna defrag do it properly and speed up your whole pc not just GTA 4

 

http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html

my hard drive has been running the same copy of windows since feb 07 -never reinstalled os. I've just been using windows defrag. I installed Smart Defrag and my GTA 4 statistics concerning available video memory have changed, allowing me to increase my view distance 4 points while still staying in the yellow range. Is this a fluke? I've shut down and re launched GTA 4 and still get the same boost.

[matan050]

It really works?

No virus?

[CarlCJ55]

http://www.speedyshare.com/329153984.html

 

Download that contig.exe file and place it in your GTA IV directory.

Then create a shortcut 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

 

Then run it and wait till it close's because that means it's finished it can take anywhere from 5 to 20minutes to complete depending on your system. I gained 5 fps outside and 10fps inside after this tweak.

I try it but it doesn't working!

[mcal9909]

It really works?

No virus?

yes it works, its a defrag tool.

i wouldnt trust any of the ldodgey links ive seen in this thread tho, best to get it directly from the source

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb897428.aspx

if you dont trust that then just google CONTIG you will find it on a microsoft site. It does a much better job of defragmenting files than the standard windows defrag, there is also instructions on that site.

[swe_seifer]

Oh and dont forget after Contig run this... It defrags the pagefile and registry hive on single or upon every boot (this is not done with regular defrag progs)

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb897426.aspx

 

Instructions on site

[_Shazbot]

the file is strange, nothing happens

[TheRealPcGamer]

It works for me, but remember to RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR IF YOU ARE A VISTA USER.

[[VcG]Adam]

thanks for keeping this topic here,now i've come to need it to fix the stuttering in gta 4 on my phenom 9500 @ 2.47 ghz

[haxu]

id say this takes like 5-20 seconds depending on your system... but rly awesome man!

[Lil'Q]

Ok, I just tried this thing and you know what ? I think it really helped me. I only have one question, whats the difference with VSync enabled or disabled, I only see that if you enable it, it sets a limit of FPS to 60... Sorry if this is OFFtopic but can someone explain me this... ?