Leopard_ Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Cool patch, now when i'm speeding though star junction it doesn't hack, but the game goes slower. Also the computers don't work, but i don't care anyway. Good patch Postin my benchmark results soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henderson Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Whenever I make a commandline.txt and put it in the GTAIV folder and try to start the game, it freezes at the credits. I'm just putting that file in the programfiles/rockstargames/GTAIV folder, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emcax24 Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I ran a benchmark to see any difference with patch. the settings always autodetect and never save after 1.1 patch so i tested with autosettings. im using a custom benchmark clip found in the link below. put it in this folder. \Grand Theft Auto IV\pc\data you can put your own custom benchmarks there too, just take a clip from your mydocuments\rockstar\clips folder. theyre *.cli rename it to benchmark.cli and put it in said \^^^\ folder. http://rapidshare.com/files/188833197/Benchmark.rar.html Custom benchmark before patch Statistics Average FPS: 25.82 Duration: 47.49 sec CPU Usage: 95% System memory usage: 72% Video memory usage: 67% Graphics Settings Video Mode: 1280 x 1024 (60 Hz) Texture Quality: Medium Render Quality: High View Distance: 25 Detail Distance: 37 Hardware Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Video Adapter: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series (Engineering Sample – WDDM v1.1) Video Driver version: 8.14.10.630 Audio Adapter: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio) Genuine Intel® CPU 2140 @ 1.60GHz File ID: Benchmark.cli Custom benchmark after patch *sh*t i forgot to set the render quality back to high.* Statistics Average FPS: 27.33 Duration: 47.92 sec CPU Usage: 95% System memory usage: 71% Video memory usage: 67% Graphics Settings Video Mode: 1280 x 1024 (60 Hz) Texture Quality: Medium Render Quality: Highest Reflection Resolution: High Water Quality: High Shadow Quality: High View Distance: 24 Detail Distance: 36 Definition: Off VSync: Off Hardware Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Video Adapter: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series (Engineering Sample – WDDM v1.1) Video Driver version: 8.14.10.630 Audio Adapter: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio) Genuine Intel® CPU 2140 @ 1.60GHz File ID: benchmark.cli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BundD Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 did they change independence radio in 2nd patch? it plays user tracks. other times its like a talk radio station and after there done talkin it kicks back to the user tracks.anyone else have this prob?? It always was like that because that's how it was intented to be... oh... is there any way to turn off the talk radio part and just have your own music playin?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeBoyd Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 (edited) There doesnt seem to be anychange with me what so ever, might I be doing something wrong? Edited January 24, 2009 by MikeBoyd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neon25 Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 did they change independence radio in 2nd patch? it plays user tracks. other times its like a talk radio station and after there done talkin it kicks back to the user tracks.anyone else have this prob?? It always was like that because that's how it was intented to be... oh... is there any way to turn off the talk radio part and just have your own music playin?? In "audio" tab in options, change the independence fm to "shuffle" or "sequential" instead of "radio". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BundD Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 thanx for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corgi Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Maybe just maybe I will finally have the joy of playing GTA4 proper will try and report back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corgi Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I HAVE A HUGE FPS INCREASE BUT IT STILL WONT LET ME BIND THE CONTROLS OF MY G25, WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trouble007 Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? your posting your letters to big Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruXter Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 There doesnt seem to be anychange with me what so ever, might I be doing something wrong? Not to be rude, but my system is borderline stable, I can't see how you play it at all. amd 5600 x2 2.9g nvidia 9500gt 512mb ballistix 800mhz 4gb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRMetzger Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? your posting your letters to big EDIT: disregard, though he was talking about mouse, googled it and saw I was mistaken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNoHelp Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Lagging is still in action for me, but I have noticed that the new water effects are pretty cool. A patch that is about 32 MB does not do drastic changes in the performance. I guess the performance patch will have at least 200 MB (sorry for stealing someone´s sentence few pages ago). This patch is more like a minor update to some problematic issues, so the gameplay will be slightly better till they finally fix the lagging problems and release the most essential patch of all, well I hope. R* thanx for the patch, the patch DID some changes on the game, but the real problem is not fix. I hope you are working on the performance problems and will release another patch to put big smiles on unhappy-swearing players faces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfrock89 Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 This patch has greatly improved performance in a lot of areas (for me). However.. after about 10 minutes of playing, my game drops down to 1 FPS and eventually exits, with a message letting me know that I have run out of virtual memory. I am currently using about 800 megs of the 1014 that are available, so no, I am not even close to using all of my memory (which shouldn't really matter anyways, as this only affects my graphics card and not my virtual memory). How's that for a memory leak? Lmao. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DELETEDUSER Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Got 15 FPS boost No probs, besides the grey peds at far distances! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smasher511 Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Thanks R*, you f*cked up my game with this patch yeah, my game wont work either since the new patch. it just shows the dos screen as before and then nothing. no error, no nothing... // You shouldn't be getting the dos screen anymore with the new patch yeah, i reinstalled the patch and it worked then, and you're right theres no dos screen... but however, I've got another problem. I was playing for some time, and then something blew (there was nothing around me ) and the game crashed. Now I get GTA IV FATAL ERROR: XNetStartup failed - Please re-boot your system and/or re-install the game 10093. I tried the reboot, but not in a mood to reinstall... any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blk95ta Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 my logitech dual action gamepad isnt working like it was before. and before you say it, yes i added -usedirectinput to my desktop shortcut, and when that didn't work i took it out of there and created the commandline.txt file in the GTA IV directory and put that in there and it still didnt work. i don't use it very often but i like to use it for races. help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalkertr Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Man This is the patch i was looking for ! My FPS finally is 35-40 fps not 15-30 fps ! Thank you Rockstar Thank you ! A real FPS boost ever ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blk95ta Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Man This is the patch i was looking for ! My FPS finally is 35-40 fps not 15-30 fps ! Thank you Rockstar Thank you ! A real FPS boost ever ! must be nice...i'm still only averaging ~ 21-22 fps in the test no matter what my res AMD x2 4400+ OC'd to 2.6ghz 3GB ram (although XP is only showing 2.5) 512mb 8800GT although i was running FRAPS and playing a multiplayer game at night at the airport and was actually getting 35-40fps at one point... it felt great, lol. unfortunately in the city most of the time its only getting ~ 15fps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadKilla Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Performance is better, but what is 'Definition' ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunrise Driver Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Performance is better, but what is 'Definition' ? It's a motion blur I guess. But you could turn on/off this option by pressing "P" before the patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbarber29 Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Huge performance increase, but now I get all kinds of screen tearing on buildings, cars, pillars, etc. Hope someone can sort this out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzmalc Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 mine is playing much better now. was lagging before, now doesnt lag very much at all and thats on higher settings than before. You have redeemed yourself Rockstar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Huge performance increase, but now I get all kinds of screen tearing on buildings, cars, pillars, etc. Hope someone can sort this out. Enable VSync. It will lock your max FPS to your monitor's refresh rate to prevent tearing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyjack Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I'm up to about 50 fps from 43. The jaggies are still bad and I don't expect them to implement AA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbarber29 Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 VSYNC is enabled! And I've turned it off and turned it back on again to see if it fixed it. Nope. I still get the texture tearing. x1950 AGP ATI x2 5400+ AMD 2 GB of RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnottis Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Man This is the patch i was looking for ! My FPS finally is 35-40 fps not 15-30 fps ! Thank you Rockstar Thank you ! A real FPS boost ever ! must be nice...i'm still only averaging ~ 21-22 fps in the test no matter what my res AMD x2 4400+ OC'd to 2.6ghz 3GB ram (although XP is only showing 2.5) 512mb 8800GT although i was running FRAPS and playing a multiplayer game at night at the airport and was actually getting 35-40fps at one point... it felt great, lol. unfortunately in the city most of the time its only getting ~ 15fps Your CPU is a huge bottleneck. At some point an upgrade will be in order. Intel Q6600 are cheap now. You can't get blood from a stone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTAMonkey2012 Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Well I have 2 installs - Dual Boot system (2 rockstar folders side by side one "Rockstar Games" for XP and other "Rockstar Games VISTA" for vista used on install so registry links to that exact folder name both folders on the same drive). I patched the vista install and ran it ... well, no surprise jittery as normal fps still shoddy. So I simply went into XP swapped the names of the install folders so the install in XP would then use the patched version (the current XP one is 1st patch using a few mods and I dont go online with it), and ... loverly, could have everything "very high" but shadows only "high" and all running at the fps im used too anyway (nothing worse) and the reflections look real nice on roads and when raining. For me on the same machine Vista still runs like sh*te, XP works real nice. PS - Legit copy and license for both installs etc. All ref my spec etc is in my sig "Tweaks Thread". Nice patch, good work R* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlingShotUK Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 Well I have 2 installs - Dual Boot system (2 rockstar folders side by side one "Rockstar Games" for XP and other "Rockstar Games VISTA" for vista used on install so registry links to that exact folder name both folders on the same drive). I patched the vista install and ran it ... well, no surprise jittery as normal fps still shoddy. So I simply went into XP swapped the names of the install folders so the install in XP would then use the patched version (the current XP one is 1st patch using a few mods and I dont go online with it), and ... loverly, could have everything "very high" but shadows only "high" and all running at the fps im used too anyway (nothing worse) and the reflections look real nice on roads and when raining. For me on the same machine Vista still runs like sh*te, XP works real nice. PS - Legit copy and license for both installs etc. All ref my spec etc is in my sig "Tweaks Thread". Nice patch, good work R* Aha, so it could be the o/s that is the determining factor with the patch.. interesting. Thanks for the report Monkey. I upgraded to 1.02 from 1.0 last night and find the game is stuttering whereas it didn't before. Perhaps the fact that I'm running Vista is the problem with this patch.. I may have to deinstal and re-install with 1.01 now.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlingShotUK Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 VSYNC is enabled! And I've turned it off and turned it back on again to see if it fixed it. Nope. I still get the texture tearing. x1950 AGP ATI x2 5400+ AMD 2 GB of RAM Yeah, same here and I'm seeing some texture popup.. Definetely worse than v1.0 even though benchmark fps has gone from 38fps to 43fps.. Weirddd.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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