How to use -memrestrict to fix stuttering

[Simulated-AI]

HELOOOOOOOO! ROCKSTAR?

 

Still imberrased by the new patch?

 

I gave you my money, now fix the game and stop being useless.

 

THANKS!

[killaboay]

Please,Rockstar make a full patch with all fix for known issues and a control panel program for players to make their game smoother by putting the sys. specs.I also want to know why you ported this game fast..... you made your players dissapointed.

Anyways Thanks

And please relase a patch for SA to force antialiasing.

[DJRopi]

Memrestrict worked fine up until the numerical setting just below high textures, so that is all good. However; I was curious if the slow loading textures were a side effect of the memrestrict? Buildings and such will pop up in the backround, and on a few occasions entrances will appear completely grey or the street will be a big grey blot for a few seconds which make it very confusing to get around.

[i_got_you60]

so does memrestrict fix the fatal resc10 error or not cause i keep getting it.i have tried everything else.will patching the game to the latest version fix this problem ? i havent updated the game cause the patch is 110 mb and my internet is really slow.if the patch fixes the problem i will patch the game.and i am playing the game with everything set to low but the game still crashes.now dont tell me that my nvidia gts1 gb card with 4 gigs of ram and quad core 2.2 ghz processor cant handle this game on even low settings.

[abhijeet]

can some body give me the full moded commandline.txt document as a reply

for 1GB + card

[_corTEC]

Hey poor performance. What's the best config for GTAIV? I have tried WinXP x64 with 180.84 beta, and many different combinations of settings & o/s. I am sure that my computer can do better than it is doing. I prefer patch 1.0.4.0 for performance.

 

Asus Striker II Formula - NB=58°C

Q9550 @ 3.6GHz - LOAD=62°C

4GB DDR2 @ 925MHz

Palit GTX260 Sonic SP216 1792MB @ stock - 70°C

Coolermaster RealPower 620W

Case Ambient=30-34°C

 

FPS with Win7 x64 @ HIGH=23-45 FW:197.45 - Gameplay is a lot smoother at lower framerates.

FPS with WinXP x64 @ HIGH=30-55 FW:180.84 - Gameplay is choppier at lower framerates but reaches higher figures.

 

Rain is bad, night is bad, bright headlights are bad, lots of explosions are bad. I recently bought that 12MB Q9550, to replace a 4MB E6750 - I was not astounded by the performance increase. But in CPU benchmarks, at stock speeds, my processor is as fast as a QX9650. When I overclock it is as fast as dual Xeons. I have obviously bought a great E0 cpu.

 

WTF is going on?

 

Are 180.84 drivers worth it? What is the best patch? And please, please(!) what are the optimum settings for my computer because I am going f**kin' crazy!!!

 

NOTE: I just saw this in someone's sig, (I don't mean to be rude but are you f**kin' serious(?)).

QUOTE: Rockstar Toronto said: "We tested similar settings on a fast core I7 with 2 GTX 480's in SLI and seeing a pretty consistent 30fps. The hardware to run this game at FULL MAX settings at 60 fps does not yet exist but the game is coded such that when it does it will take full advantage."

 

30FPS on £3000 computer, get real Rockstar.

[_corTEC]

Hey, I found settings that work well...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Video Mode: 1440 x 900

Texture: LOW

Reflection Resolution: OFF

Water Quality: MEDIUM

Shadow Quality: HIGH

Texture Filter Quality: HIGHEST

View Distance: 1

Detail Distance: 1

Vehicle Density: 0

Shadow Density: 0

Definition: ON

V-Sync: OFF

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

259/1766MB USED

 

45-80FPS on Win7 x64. FW197.45 -

San Andreas looks better.

 

This is a joke that I am fast becoming tired of..... it's f**kin' 'texture pop-in' city, and everyone's invited!!!

[WindedTrash]

These amounts of memrestrict aint the only ones that can be used; It is amount of bytes to be available for gta 4, which prevents filling the video memory and slowing down the loading process and framerates of the game.

 

I use my own amount: 688574400

and my graphics settings are placed on 688/896 MB so the 688 mb is near 688574400 bytes. This gave me fast texture loading and smoother framerates.

 

So if none of those 9 different amounts dont work for you, you can do what i did and see if it helps. I also use notimefix and minspecaudio commandlines.

[_corTEC]

Thanks WindedTrash, finally a technical answer to my problems. I have 1792MB of video memory available, only 900ish used, so is the figure I need to place in the commandline.txt like: 950000000?

 

Thanks for reply,

_corTEC

[_corTEC]

Someone please tell me what best graphic settings to use? My spec is in my sig, if anyone has similar spec can you just post me a screen of your settings page?

 

I am not being lazy - i have tried for around one and a half years now to get the best results. I have tried every combination of settings under the sun.

 

I upgraded graphics from 8800GTS 640MB to a GTX260 SP216 1792MB for GTAIV, and just recently from a E6750 4MB to a Q9550 12MB just for this f**kin' game - and it doesn't seem to have made a great difference.

 

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 run amazingly well, Crysis is more than playable - WTF is wrong with GTAIV?

 

Quad-core at 3.60GHz?! I bumped it up to 3.95GHz once - just to see - and it was better, but come on... who has 4GHz quads at home? 68*C getting a little hot for me as well.

 

Please help me, I have no hair left from pulling the f**ker out.

[WindedTrash]

Someone please tell me what best graphic settings to use? My spec is in my sig, if anyone has similar spec can you just post me a screen of your settings page?

 

I am not being lazy - i have tried for around one and a half years now to get the best results. I have tried every combination of settings under the sun.

 

I upgraded graphics from 8800GTS 640MB to a GTX260 SP216 1792MB for GTAIV, and just recently from a E6750 4MB to a Q9550 12MB just for this f**kin' game - and it doesn't seem to have made a great difference.

 

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 run amazingly well, Crysis is more than playable - WTF is wrong with GTAIV?

 

Quad-core at 3.60GHz?! I bumped it up to 3.95GHz once - just to see - and it was better, but come on... who has 4GHz quads at home? 68*C getting a little hot for me as well.

 

Please help me, I have no hair left from pulling the f**ker out.

You just have to accept that GTA4 cant get smooth results like any other game.

 

If that bothers too much, dont play the game. I was thinking about installing Fallout 3 again and play that all the time

[_corTEC]

Sweet, Fallout 3 is amazing. I love that game with all the DLC.

 

Gonna play HL:1 through to HL:2 Ep2 to cheer myself up.

[roelvvv]

how to put this memrestrict in my gta4?

I have a geforce 260 GTX with 1024 video mb.

Anyone that has the same graphic card so they can advice me which one to use?

And how to put a memrestrict in it and use it?

And does this also works for Episodes from liberty city?

And if i have a high memrestrict and it goes more slow then before shall i take a higher or lower memrestrict?

Edited June 9, 2010 by roelvvv

[Arthmx]

I played on a P4 before, switched to a E5200.

Stuttering happens now, it didn't with my old P4. Any way to fix that?

[roelvvv]

ffs it didnt work...

[WindedTrash]

Heres some values between 3rd medium graphics and 1st high graphics:

 

335544320 (320 MB)

356515840 (340 MB)

377487360 (360 MB)

398458880 (380 MB)

419430400 (400 MB)

461373440 (440 MB)

503316480 (480 MB)

524288000 (500 MB)

 

 

Basically -memrestrict is telling the game how much video memory your system has available.  At startup we query the OS for this value but as some of you may have noticed the number can vary even though you are obviously not changing your video card everytime you play the game.

 

Once the game exceeds the amount of video memory available, the Os finds it from somewhere else (system memory) and eventually this causes fragmentation and the game throws up an RESC10 error because the OS can't find anymore free memory.  The tricky part is that every OS behaves differently, and thats before you factor in other .dll's and drivers that also make requests from this memory pool which will be different from user to user.

 

Using -memrestrict explicitly tells the game how much video memory to use.  The math is to take the desired meg number and multiply it by 1024 twice.  So if we wanted to declare 600 megs of VRAM:

 

600 x 1024 x 1024 = 629145600

 

you would enter the commandline "-memrestrict -629145600"

 

Lowering this number increases stability of the game by capping the video memory, but there will come a point where there isn't enough memory to draw everything required by the game which is when you see "popping".

This was quoted from "Extreme texture pop-in" topic.

 

Use that method to find out more values

[fenom]

I just don't get it...

Am I doing this right?

I made a file commandline.txt

And copied in

-memrestrict 629145600

 

and that's all??

 

And I have ati radeon 5770 1gb.

Am I using the correct value.

Do i need to copy it with the "-" ?

Becouse I didn't see any diffrences.

 

And I get stuttering if I have shadows enabled.

 

[mkey82]

Make sure you don't have hidden file extension, because the file needs to be named commandline.txt, not commandline.txt.txt.

[fenom]

Well i think i know how to type...

And I used command line before...

Ive tried all of them for 1gb cards, and below...

So looks like this isn't gonna fix my stuttering.

 

Ive found out that stuttering always acquires when shadows are enabled - I have them switched off now and stuttering is almost gone.

[keicee]

I have tried all the memrestrict settings, nothing seems to work. i even tried the lowest settings but still lags, poor FPS

 

my specs

dual core e5200 @2.50ghz

4gb ram

vid card ati radeon hd4350. 1gb hyper memory up to 2.8gb

20gb free space

windows vista 32 bit

somebody help?any graphic settings suggestions?

 

Statistics

Average FPS: 18.29

Duration: 17.55 sec

CPU Usage: 58%

System memory usage: 62%

Video memory usage: 27%

 

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 1024 x 768 (75 Hz)

Texture Quality: Medium

Texture Filter Quality: Low

View Distance: 1

Detail Distance: 1

 

Hardware

Microsoft® Windows Vista" Ultimate

Service Pack 1

Video Adapter: ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series

Video Driver version: 8.17.10.1036

Audio Adapter: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)

Pentium® Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz

 

File ID: Benchmark.cli

Edited August 18, 2010 by keicee

[isamu99]

Im a noob. What is this commandline stuff? How do you use commandlines in GTAIV?

[mkey82]

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtop...entry1058959070

[isamu99]

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtop...entry1058959070

Thanks

 

[neon_91]

please somebody answer my question when i open notepad and put the commands what should i name the notpad commandline or commandline.txt because txt is file format and if you disable "hide extension for lhnown file type" it puts one txt more.so answer me just this simple question.thanks anyway

[mkey82]

You need a single .txt. When saving with notepad you can't go wrong, as if you omit .txt notepad will append it automatically. And if you add it, it will not add another one.

[neon_91]

what do you exactly mean.i just ask how to rename it?and my knownfile type is disabled.

[mkey82]

"commandline.txt"

[neon_91]

thanx

[MasterKontrol]

WOW!..... i still can't believe i get well playable frames on, wait for it..........

 

My P4 3.6ghz 9800GT 512Mb Rig...

hahahaha (Dismal I Know!)

3Gig (2.5Gig) DDR 1 running at 900mhz, No RAID's or anything, Just SATA Drive...

XP SP3

 

MY GTA 4 Settings Are Like this -

 

res 1280 x 1024 @ 75hz

 

Textures at Medium - (though i have tripled all Player.rpf, Weapon.img and Vehicleshare.wtd texture Res, Looks Waaaay Better than HIGH!)

Everything else is on HIGH bar Shadows Which I Think Look Utterly Rubbish!

Draw Distance - 50

Detail Distance - 100

Car Density 25

No Vsync

 

Via Comandline.txt i have Reflection Size 1024 Detail level 3

 

Minor Data File Tweaks.... And Stuff

 

Made sh*tstacks Of 1080p HD Movies With the inbuilt editor.... have put 3 on my Facebook page...

Rarely Get Online For Long, So Havn't Bothered too much with uploading...

 

So... Yeah... just wanted to get that out after reading Sooooo many posts about Peoples 32cored DDR-12 NV99trillion 16gig SLI vid card beasts

Struggling so hard ... god, theres ALOT to Be said for a PROPERLY Configured Win Install and Optimized Settings...

 

Now Just wish i could get a RAID Going And Dual Core Anything! That Would MORE Than DO!

 

From My First Play Of GTA 3, VC, SA i have come to believe ALOT of the "POPUP" comes from Slow HDD Drives\Fragmentation... Just My Experience!

 

Good Luck!

Edited September 10, 2010 by MasterKontrol

[drewster352]

Well I just purchased the game last week. Had that stupid stutter and it was driving me mad. I had several folks tell me that my system just could not handle it and to go buy a new video card. I refused to believe that. I had came across this thread and shrugged it off saying that can't possibly work. I installed the GTA 4 patches which made it worse. So I did a fresh install and updated my video drivers again. The new driver helped a bit but same thing after a few minutes. So I gave in and made a commandline.txt as instructed and ended up using -memrestrict 314572800. It runs smooth with no jerks. Thank you so much for the fix. You rock Rockstar Toronto

 

And to all that told me my system could not play it...

 

AMD ll x3 435

2GB PC2 6400

EVGA 9600 GSO 768 Driver Version 258.96

160 GB SATA

 

Runs it just fine