Title Update v. 1.0.2.0

[Rockstar Toronto]

If you are experiencing the internet cafe issue, where the computer cannot be accessed by pressing "E", make sure you are using a legitimate copy of GTA IV PC.

 

If you have a legitimate copy of GTA IV PC and you are still experiencing the issue, please make sure you are not using a cracked launcher (ie. the "no disc" launcher).

 

 

[truehighroller]

 

If you are experiencing the internet cafe issue, where the computer cannot be accessed by pressing "E", make sure you are using a legitimate copy of GTA IV PC. 

 

If you have a legitimate copy of GTA IV PC and you are still experiencing the issue, please make sure you are not using a cracked launcher (ie. the "no disc" launcher).

What about my clip capture leak? Can you help me with that please? I can still play but, only with that turned off. Also why do I now have to modify my gta with a config file to get my controller to work when it worked fine with the other patch? I haven't even bothered with playing some more yet by the way, I might find more issues and report back. Would you like me to post my config for you again so you know what type of system I am running? Thanks for all your help by the way.

[chrisbolt]

Having installed the patch and rebooted I now find that I can't do a mission (Union Drive). After cut scene, the loading screen comes up and the game stops responding.

 

Thanks Guys

[slovach]

Wow a patch that makes thing worse sweet...Crashes lots, still no sli support...I heard somebody say that it is, but I still only have 512mb of usable ram in the graffics options...I have 2 9800gx2, so there should be 2 gigs right? This is for sure the last rockstar game I buy...When I first applied the patch it reset all my settings and I was surprised to notice that it finally defaulted to 1900x1200, but wait there's a catch texture detail set to low!! F*ck you R*...If I can run Crysis on ultra high at 1900x1200 then I should be able run this. And crysis is a famously flawed game!!

No, you just understand nothing about computers.

 

Video ram is mirrored between cards, on the gx2, each GPU on it has 512. That 512 is mirrored to it's conjoined twin, and that is mirrored to the other gx2 in SLI. Maybe there is 2gb of memory physically there, but you'll only ever be able to use 512; it's a hardware / implementation limitation, not the game.

 

Now bend over, and further behold the meaty cock of marketing that you got reamed by.

[AIRvillage]

bashed

[SFkilla]

Can anybody send the unrespectful kids to bed!

Stop complaining, its useless and boring for everyone.

 

My 2 cent about the new patch:

 

- Performance increase

- Really smooth gameplay with the automatic graphic settings

- Better settings and faster load times

- Better use of light for graphics within the game

- Slightly sharper graphics (less alliasing)

- No problems what so ever, just played 2h non stop with torrent running in the background

 

Between 30-40fps average and i finally enjoy the game now.

my specs:

 

AMD X2 6000+

4GB DDR2 800

ATI HD2900XT 512

Vista Premium 64bit

20" 1400x1050 4:3

 

Thank you rockstar for keeping up the good optimisations, really appreciate your efforts dispite the constant complains of the kids.

Well done so far, keep it up.

 

 

[StalkerKZN]

Can anybody send the unrespectful kids to bed!

Stop complaining, its useless and boring for everyone.

 

- No problems what so ever, just played 2h non stop with torrent running in the background

Well sorry DAD! If you don't have problems STFU. Oh, and stop your torrent piracy. Anyone can confirm that the internet cafe fix works?

[Freedom Fries]

Still no fix for my Crash: opens the prompt when I try to start the game, but never loads.

 

All my specs (and some others that experience the same) are in the following Thread

 

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?act=ST&...entry1058903492

[truehighroller]

 

If you are experiencing the internet cafe issue, where the computer cannot be accessed by pressing "E", make sure you are using a legitimate copy of GTA IV PC. 

 

If you have a legitimate copy of GTA IV PC and you are still experiencing the issue, please make sure you are not using a cracked launcher (ie. the "no disc" launcher).

What about my clip capture leak? Can you help me with that please? I can still play but, only with that turned off. Also why do I now have to modify my gta with a config file to get my controller to work when it worked fine with the other patch? I haven't even bothered with playing some more yet by the way, I might find more issues and report back. Would you like me to post my config for you again so you know what type of system I am running? Thanks for all your help by the way.

 

 

My report back is good so far. I am playing the game and doing well performance wise, I believe you guys have improved it for me over all I will give you that. I thought at first it was another sh*ty patch completely but, I think that was just because of the still obvious issue for my system setup with the clip capture, which I now turned off again... I am loading up a video of my game play heading to roman's house onto you tube and will post the video "I used Fraps"..

Edited January 24, 2009 by truehighroller

[Joohan]

Wow a patch that makes thing worse sweet...Crashes lots, still no sli support...I heard somebody say that it is, but I still only have 512mb of usable ram in the graffics options...I have 2 9800gx2, so there should be 2 gigs right? This is for sure the last rockstar game I buy...When I first applied the patch it reset all my settings and I was surprised to notice that it finally defaulted to 1900x1200, but wait there's a catch texture detail set to low!! F*ck you R*...If I can run Crysis on ultra high at 1900x1200 then I should be able run this. And crysis is a famously flawed game!!

You obviously have no clue how sli works! To answer your question, no there shouldn't be 2 gigs, there shouldn't even be 1 gig, but only 512mb because thats the vidmem you have (your 9800gx2 is basically two graphics processors in sli inside one gpu). Sli doesn't double your vid memory, so if one 9800 has 512mb vid mem and its a 9800gx2 model, you still have only 512 vidmem available and if you put them (9800gx2's) in sli, you'll still have only the 512mb of vidmem available. The second gpu only helps processing the image. Using sli usually increases performance to around 20-40% depending on the application but it definetly isn't doubling your gpu power. So saying that sli isn't working in GTAIV because you only see one gpu's memory being available is false. Sli is indeed working in GTAIV but not as well as it could. This is mainly due to the fact that GTAIV is so much more cpu dependent than gpu dependent.

[BLlTZ]

I see difference, and I have played very good.

Now is working much better on 1024x768 with only 15 draw distance, Car density: 100, shadow desnity at maximum, and is not lagging no more.

Before upgrading the v.2, my game was with 800x600, draw distance 15, car density 30 and shadow density 0. And was still lagging like crap. (LOL)

Even that I have all the texture now at low but, my Niko, cars, buildings the detailed remain the same and is very wired, cuz texture's I have them at low.

Still before puting this patch, my buildings was loading with lods.texture in the same time, and I was seeing like crap. Now everything is ok. A nother great things I have seen on the game, that the buildings from long distance, I don't have a problem with them any more, like in the picture with Empire State Buildings. Before upgrading, I was seeing the building only half, the top of the building was dissapearing very fast.

 

 

A problem still remain. I still see the game like this, and I realy don't know how to fix it.

 

 

 

[gitfinger]

I bought an wireless XBox contoller for this game because my old Logitech didn't work ( I bought it for GTAIII - back in the day so it was well old!) £15 quid off Amazon , bargain.

 

This patch has fixed it and I didn't even know it was broken - * Wireless 360 controllers not functioning - Triggers were full on/off, fixed. Nice!

 

Now fix something else I don't even know is busted!!

 

 

[vilding]

I've just updated GTA 4 with this patch, and now the game won't start. Before I hade a "bug" with a DOS prompt window appearing at launch. That wasn’t a problem since the game started. Now that window is gone.

 

The CD/DVD cursor shows for some seconds, and the HDD does some work. But then nothing happens. And it seems that the whole system freeze. Start menu still works. But nothing will run. I can’t even open a web-page (though IE starts, but doesn’t seem to be able to load any web-pages).

 

I need to restart the system to get everything to run normal again. Except GTA, that is.

 

And yes - I have a real copy of the game. Not warez.

 

Please help! I even reinstalled the game, and updated with the patch! It took AGES to install again...

 

My system is:

AMD Athlon 64 2.4 GHz (3800+)

3GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT (latest drivers)

Windows XP, SP3 (Swedish)

 

*Update: I just tried to run the game in safe mode. Same symptom. Doesn’t start and no error messages. When I check the active processes (CTRL-ALT-Delete) the Launch GTA.exe is active and I cant get rid of it without restarting the system.

Edited January 24, 2009 by vilding

[Burzykk]

I've got a problem after I installed that patch too. When I'm trying to get any mission, the game stop when there is in-game movie playing... I can heard the sound, but there is no action on the screen. This problem didn't exist before I installed that patch... then everything was going great with a nice quality settings.

 

I have:

 

AMD Dual Core x2 6000+

GeForce 8800GT 1GB memory

2GB A-Data 800MHZ CL4;

Windowx XP, SP3

 

and I played on high/highest with 50/100 draw distance, and 100/100 of all cars/details intensivity, on 1280x1024 with ~25-30fps in the downtown and 50-60 on the beach for example....

Edited January 24, 2009 by Burzykk

[GTA_Vista]

Well on the 2nd date with Michelle, the first time I played the game I got a shag right away but after patch all I get is a snog...wtf?

 

Only joking hehe, if I got her drunk Id have been ok I guess, but I couldnt be bothered I just took her to Clucking Bell LOL

 

 

[FvckYovRockstar]

F*CK YOU ROCKSTAR!! I WILL PIRATE YOUR sh*t FROM NOW ON.

 

The game will loads in 10 minutes and gets like 1 FPS and yes, I have a machine that matches (to the letter) the requirements listed on the game box.

 

COMPLETELY UNPLAYABLE with any patch!

 

This is completely unacceptable and I hope we can get a class action suit going for this false advertising F*CK UP.

 

Save your PR BULLSH1T and start treating your customers as important people.

 

I hope your dumbazz short-sighted middle managers and other pointy-haired people are satisfied that they got this pile of sh1t out the door before christmas, sacrificing quality all the way.

 

 

 

 

[kbarber29]

I notice big performance increase and now can run at 1280x720! Woot!

 

 

However, everything has all kinds of tearing at any resolution. Before the patch, it was very limited. Now, tearing occurs on most buildings, on cars, on pillars, etc.

 

x1950 ATI AGP 256 MB

AMD x2 5400 CPU

2 GB of RAM

 

 

EDIT: I am getting the same effect that Blitz displays on the last picture in his post a few posts above mine-- witht the tearing buildings.

Edited January 24, 2009 by kbarber29

[ortucis]

Installed the patch, game runs fine and faster. Startup time (from the shortcut on desktop) and loading time for levels (in-game that is) is shorter (from 10-15 seconds to 5-10 seconds). In-game performance is fine, 30-45 FPS in most crowded areas. But then again, that was the same before this patch and I didn't notice any special improvements in these crowded areas. System > 9800GTX+ running the game at 1280x1024 (85Hz) on my 5200+AM2 with 6GB DDR. Only my CPU is the issue here but I am not going to upgrade just for a 'next-gen' game that can't even get the shadows right.

 

Other than that, reduction in Water quality helps when crossing bridges (my FPS would drop to like 20-25 there just cause of water) but shadow quality is just about the same on Medium-High. I was running at High already so to reduce the flickering I keep it at that (they are still grainy). I have never seen a game with such terrible shadows, no idea why this port has them (cmon, Thief 3 on Consoles..)

 

 

EDIT: Also, I have noticed a lot of flickering in the shadows that wasn't present before this patch. Some objects also seem to fade in the view at very close range even though my view distance is set to 25.

Edited January 25, 2009 by ortucis

[ld13]

Okay, so is it just a cockup in the patch that has caused lots of objects to be missing?

In the first two there should be cones and other objects, in the third there should be metal gate things,

and I think some benches in that oval in the background (but I'm not 100% on that.)

 

Please tell me that this wasn't intended.

I hope it was not intended. Might even explain the reported ~5fps performance increase some people were getting? But that is speculation for now. Here is a screen shot I took of the above location using my GTA IV 1.0.1. All GFX settings was set to the lowest possible setting to exclude it as a possible cause of this 'glitch' :

 

You were right, there are objects all over the place... Time to patch my game now.

[FoilyMoil]

erk...i cant load my game now. It just crashes to windows everytime during the load screen. :'( bugger...

[LukeDuke3]

Awesome, i get the bigest crash of all times with new patch.. im really happy that my computer even restared

[Trackah123]

Excellent patch, works fine for me.. Better graphics quality, smoother gameplay on higher graphical settings.. Had no problems so far.

 

Good work Rockstar hope to see the next patch even better

[Joohan]

Just tried the patch and it seems to be a winner! Performance is a bit better (got around 42fps before and around 50-52fps after) and graphics seem alot sharper and allround better and vibrant ( I put every slider to their max). Also dynamic shadows in sli are fixed. Seems some mods are also working (I got my backpack on but freerunner isn't working anymore). Also I have no problems using the computers in the netcafes.

 

specs:

[email protected]

Inno 3d nforce 680i sli

2x 8800 gts 640mb in sli

4 gb ram

Creative xtreme gamer

etc...

[GTA_XP]

f*cking hell!

f*cking devil with a pink dildo up his ass!

It decrease 5-10 FPS!!!

Yet I tried to start the game and immediately its f*cking slow.

Even my grandma has reflexes of a cat!

I cant believe this sh*t.

I only wanna f*cking play the f*cking game instead these f*cking piece

of coding sh*t errors and f*cking lagging sh*t.

Why you dealed with the cocksucking bill gays aka bill fa**ot??

Please is there any solution to get rid of these bastards laggs and errors?

See my sig for the specs.

[[email protected]]

least i get 16-20 at lowest instead of <10fps

[Loste]

Nice! Got more FPS, BUT can't use computers anymore.

[kaspersky]

without patch 1 the computers works fine

with patch 1 the computers works fine

with the new patch (the second patch 1.0.2.0) the computers does not works!

all tests done with orginal files! (I bought the retail discs!). without crack/nocd.

 

this is definitely a bug with patch 2 (Title Update 1.0.2.0).

bug that does not let you play the game! you can't do the first mission with this bug!

[deeqfinch]

ok people people CALM DOWN................

rockstar people if ur listening.

 

ive done some analysis

 

u clearly have made things Sexy for ATI folks . and few others . i cant focus properly though . but things are PATHETIC for me NVIDIA 8800 ultra and others' similar range cards.

THINGS ARE DEFINITELY WORSE THAN BEFORE . MORE PERFORMANCE BUT BAD BAD QUALITY OF GRAPHICS NOW .. 100% positive

 

plzzzzzzzzzzz help and people if u agree please let me know that im not alone

[Kryten42]

I Updated my graphics driver afer patching...but I still get game freezes+crashes after a few minutes of playing(sometimes less)...plus I still have the RESC10 crash. This is really crap...I have better hardware now, the game is patched, but now I cannot even play it anymore.

[Hlavson]

 

GRRRRH Really annoying ! GTA ver 1.0 no texture missed. GTA Ver 1.1 no texture missed. GTA ver 1.2 50% of all textures missed + bad loading of them Look at the screenshot. I Have nVidia 8800GTS 512 (494MB ingame) and when i get over 494MB the game miss big amount of textures.

If somebody know some sulotion post it. This makes game unplayable.