lovestospooge Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 (edited) I have a 9800GTX+ and a AMD Phenom X4 9500 and I'm running Vista Premium and I get about 35 fps at night and about 25 fps in the daytime in 1024 x 768 (60 Hz) resolution with lowest settings. Shouldn't it be a higher framerate? What am I doing wrong? Edited February 18, 2009 by lovestospooge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ron123 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 It should be higher, what is your vidoe memory usage? You can try to clean your background processes, if you didn't do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elBATCHo Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 use the microsoft contig file on the game. itll make it laod faster and gives a nice performance boost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovestospooge Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 It should be higher, what is your vidoe memory usage?You can try to clean your background processes, if you didn't do it. My video memory usage is around 300 mb/ 560 mb ( I can't remember). I did clean out the background processes and I did use the config, but it's still slow, and it could drop down to 15-20 fps during daytime. It's a PNY 9800GTX+, it should be a much higher framerate. And it's not only for GTA IV, It's also for Assassins Creed and Fallout 3. Should I overclock the card or get an XP? I have the newest drivers installed and my processor is good and I have 6 GB of RAM and a 550 watt power supply, What am I doing wrong? Damn.. this sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
:DRX: ¡EyE! Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 It should be higher, what is your vidoe memory usage?You can try to clean your background processes, if you didn't do it. My video memory usage is around 300 mb/ 560 mb ( I can't remember). I did clean out the background processes and I did use the config, but it's still slow, and it could drop down to 15-20 fps during daytime. It's a PNY 9800GTX+, it should be a much higher framerate. And it's not only for GTA IV, It's also for Assassins Creed and Fallout 3. Should I overclock the card or get an XP? I have the newest drivers installed and my processor is good and I have 6 GB of RAM and a 550 watt power supply, What am I doing wrong? Damn.. this sucks. Hmmm, how many amps does your PS provide? 9800GTX+ requirements: "PCI Express compliant system power supply with a combined 12V current rating of 24A or more." If your PS can't provide 24 amps then you may experience slowdowns. Look on the side of your PS, there should be voltage and amp ratings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovestospooge Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 (edited) It should be higher, what is your vidoe memory usage?You can try to clean your background processes, if you didn't do it. My video memory usage is around 300 mb/ 560 mb ( I can't remember). I did clean out the background processes and I did use the config, but it's still slow, and it could drop down to 15-20 fps during daytime. It's a PNY 9800GTX+, it should be a much higher framerate. And it's not only for GTA IV, It's also for Assassins Creed and Fallout 3. Should I overclock the card or get an XP? I have the newest drivers installed and my processor is good and I have 6 GB of RAM and a 550 watt power supply, What am I doing wrong? Damn.. this sucks. Hmmm, how many amps does your PS provide? 9800GTX+ requirements: "PCI Express compliant system power supply with a combined 12V current rating of 24A or more." If your PS can't provide 24 amps then you may experience slowdowns. Look on the side of your PS, there should be voltage and amp ratings. I'm sure my power supply isn't the problem, the dude from Geek Squad told me to get it and it has enough Watts and Voltage, but is my processor the problem? It is an AMD Phenom X4 9500 2.2GHz overclocked a little bit. Should I buy a new CPU? It has a maximum load of 25A. Edited February 24, 2009 by lovestospooge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTAMonkey2012 Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 (edited) You haven't posted you in game graphic settings so its hard to say, if you have everything cranked then even with your spec it will start to drop. This games settings and the way it works arent like other games, so treat it as such to be honest. Have you turned off "shadow density" (set to "0") poor shadows and instant CPU/FPS hit. Check all your setting, with patch 2 the settings are more unlocked and it tells you what is CPU heavy and GPU ... I can only assume you may have settings too high even for your hardware. This game isnt "all maxed/high should run sweet" most realise this isn't the case on decent hardware combination's, so you may simply need to pull some settings down a touch to find a sweet spot. I personally found Vista to add some performance hit for me, XP ran much smoother but im not suggesting you should change O/S or anything. Edited February 21, 2009 by GTAMonkey2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovestospooge Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 You haven't posted you in game graphic settings so its hard to say, if you have everything cranked then even with your spec it will start to drop. This games settings and the way it works arent like other games, so treat it as such to be honest. Have you turned off "shadow density" (set to "0") poor shadows and instant CPU/FPS hit. Check all your setting, with patch 2 the settings are more unlocked and it tells you what is CPU heavy and GPU ... I can only assume you may have settings too high even for your hardware. This game isnt "all maxed/high should run sweet" most realise this isn't the case on decent hardware combination's, so you may simply need to pull some settings down a touch to find a sweet spot. I personally found Vista to add some performance hit for me, XP ran much smoother but im not suggesting you should change O/S or anything. After I downloaded the latest patch, My framerate increased. My current settings are 1680 by 1050. Everything is the lowest settings possible except water and shadow quality which is on medium. The game runs pretty smoothly 35 framerate during the day at max. But I think I'm missing something. Do you think it is my CPU? AMD Phenom Quad-Core 2.2GHz OC'd? Some poeple told me that it is bottlenecking my video card, but I know someone with the same specs that I have, same CPU and GPU (his is an EVGA 9800GTX+, mines is a PNY) and he can play GTA IV maxed out with really high framerate. Do you think that my GPU is broken or something? Should I get a new one? And it's not only for GTA IV, it's also for Assassins Creed, I've seen people max that out with a 8800GT, and I play it on med-low and it still lags sometimes. Also, I can't even play Crysis on minimum without it lagging. I also have to change the resolution for Fallout 3 to 1280 by 1024, my setting are on Ultra, but I should be able to play it on my own resolution with AA and AF without lag. I really dont know what to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tantalus91 Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 You should run it at a higher resolution, newer cards seem to like 1280 x 720 resolution and up, Running at a lower resolution for some reason makes the card work more to shrink things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObsessedWithGTA4 Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 The 9800GTX+ isn't much better then an 8800GTS. So if you take that into consideration, the card isn't well suited for GTA 4. The best thing for GTA 4 is atl east a GTX 260 or a 4870 1gig (512 would do OK too but the 1gig isn't much more). If you are getting 25fps you are doing OK. I had the 9800GTX+ and it was 1000 points better then my 8800GTS 640 in 3DMark06. Egg has the new GTX 260 216 55nm from EVGA for $200 after a $30 rebate and free shipping. If you got the power supply to handle it then that should help but in all honesty, if you are getting 25 FPS you should be happy. The only way you are going to get 40 FPS on HIGH is with a new processor, new GPU, and 8 gigs of memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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