GTA IV Texture Quality Limit

[ddoodm]

I don't know if this is a glitch or something to protect my PC from lagging.

 

When I enter the options menu, I try to change the texture quality to the highest setting, but it only lets me set it to medium. The same applies with the draw distance, I can only set it to a max of 48.

 

I have plenty of memory available, it is running full speed (except for the occasional memory leak) but it says that I'm using more memory than the computer can handle.

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****My Specs****

2GB DDR2 ram (will be getting 4GB soon! )

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Intel Core 2 Extreme X9650 @ 3.000 GHz x4

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Please help

-Ddoodm

[noVa]

it's related to your video memory og which you probably only have 512mb, just consider yourself lucky that it runs well.

[Pikkuhippi]

Use the commandline tricks.

 

Create a commandline.txt file inside your GTA IV folder

 

Use following lines inside the file

 

-norestrictions -nomemrestrict

 

That should fix your limit issue. However you should search the forums for more info!

 

NOTE: It might also increase the amount of "popups, texture misses"

 

you can also try to use -availablevidmem 2.0 (command instead of the following)

 

this will make your system ram to function as vram.

 

But once again, I find this to provide some extra stuttering on me ( Might work fine for you though! )

Edited December 29, 2008 by Pikkuhippi

[ddoodm]

Use the commandline tricks.

 

Create a commandline.txt file inside your GTA IV folder

 

Use following lines inside the file

 

-norestrictions -nomemrestrict

 

That should fix your limit issue. However you should search the forums for more info!

 

NOTE: It might also increase the amount of "popups, texture misses"

 

you can also try to use -availablevidmem 2.0 (command instead of the following)

 

this will make your system ram to function as vram.

 

But once again, I find this to provide some extra stuttering on me ( Might work fine for you though! )

Thanks! I will try this!

[creat3d22]

Not sure how much VRAM the 9800 GTX has but you need at least 600mb to use the High textures...

[ddoodm]

Use the commandline tricks.

 

Create a commandline.txt file inside your GTA IV folder

 

Use following lines inside the file

 

-norestrictions -nomemrestrict

 

That should fix your limit issue. However you should search the forums for more info!

 

NOTE: It might also increase the amount of "popups, texture misses"

 

you can also try to use -availablevidmem 2.0 (command instead of the following)

 

this will make your system ram to function as vram.

 

But once again, I find this to provide some extra stuttering on me ( Might work fine for you though! )

SICK! No lagging at all for me! It's working wonderfully!

[ShotSkydiver]

Not sure how much VRAM the 9800 GTX has but you need at least 600mb to use the High textures...

I only have 256MB and High textures work fine with no lags...

[ddoodm]

Not sure how much VRAM the 9800 GTX has but you need at least 600mb to use the High textures...

I only have 256MB and High textures work fine with no lags...

I have 512Mb and everything is working GREAT! I could even say it's faster than before! Is that because of the leak?