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Insane Lag Rain/Fog/Night


evanwier
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Alright, so every time I play GTAIV when I load it up it starts out amazing, great fps on almost all high, then it seems to get laggier and laggier, adn eventually settles down at a decent fps... the problem is, I only get this decent FPS at Day Time and in Clear weather. If this game ever goes to night, or fog, or rain, then I get 15-20 FPS on ANY setting, I have tried all low, all high, all medium, everything in between, no luck. I have used -memrestrict lines with no luck and tried 2 different Nvidia drivers thus far... As for my specs

 

Q6600 @ 3.2GHz

4gb DDR2 1066

EVGA 9800GX2 512

 

 

So I should easily be able to run this game (and I do run everything else just fine including Crysis on high settings with a HD res...) but this game just kills my computer, it's like watching a slide show, on a dual GPU card with a quad core I shoulndnt be this bad... can anyone help?

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Simulated-AI

Same here...

 

One guy told me to lower my settings, but it didn't help.

I just begins to lag no matter what settings i have.

 

One day i loaded a game in the middle of a rainy night, it ran fine!

 

I fell its mostly the transsition to rain/night that lags.

And after some playing time, transsition to rain can kill the game!

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Have you tried lowering the shadow density? It should help.

 

And it's rather funny, I get the best experience during night. In some parts of the town, I get more then 60FPS while driving. (with shadow density 0).

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Yeah I've tried shadows off, density down, settings every which way, the problem is, doesnt seem to matter if I'm on all high, or all low, just maybe takes a bit longer to get laggy. I only pray they release a decent patch for all this soon.

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