GTA IV lag

[ivtm123]

I just bought a brand new computer today and installed gta iv and everytime i press a key it lags, whether the graphic settings are maxed or at their lowest. I know its not my computer cause i paid $1500 for it. If i stand still the game runs fine, but if i repeatedly tap "w" then it lags like hell until i stop, and if i press it once it lags for about 1/2 a seconds. I tried some things in the commandline but didnt seem to help at all. Any help is appreciated

[radioman]

First, Please post the REQUIRED Info from the PINNED troubleshooting thread, as posted by Jusin(A Moderator) here:

Before you post a topic, please read the pinned bug lists/fixes. It is likely that you're not the first person to encounter a problem, and we may have found a solution already. In addition to these pinned topics, please utilize the forum search engine. adamcs has produced an extremely helpful guide which explains the finer points of successful searching, accessible here.

 

If all of the above is no help, you'll need to post a new topic. Please provide useful topic titles. "Help" or "problem" give us no insight into the problem - every topic in the Troubleshooting forum will no doubt entail a problem seeking help!

 

To get the most amount of help for your problem, we need as many details as we can get about your system's specs. Therefore it is highly suggested (read: demanded) that you provide:

• What platform: PC, PS3, or X-Box

• What version number of GTA: IV

• What CPU and its speed

• How much RAM, also what kind (DDR, SDRAM) and speed

• What video card and driver version AND VRAM

• Which version of Windows (and any service packs)

• Which DirectX version and driver version

• What sound card and driver version

• History: Is this your first install? Did it work once before? Anything that is relevant.

• Screenshots, if applicable. This is especially necessary with display issues which can be explained far easier by use of visual aids.

• Above all else, a detailed description of your problem. Give as much information as possible! Keep it relevant, though. We don't need a fifty-page printout from some diagnosis program. Usually the above prompts will suffice.

 

If you don't know the more detailed specs of your system, and the system control panel is of little help for most of these, download and use Everest Free Edition 2.20 or Fresh Diagnose. Be sure to extract only the relevant information from these programs - again, lengthy printouts are meaningless and tedious to rifle through.

 

Do not ask questions relating to modding in any way or form - we have an entire editing subforum to house any such inquiries.

 

Sorry, I'm just getting tired of seeing people ask questions and everyone else trying to help have to turn around and ask that person questions that should have been already included with the original question. Please note that this is simply a copy and paste job from the VC topic originally posted by Wolf and continually updated by Spuds and myself. The topic has proven very successful in the VC forums, and I daresay it's damn necessary here.

 

Also, Is this the Retail(DVD) version? OR a Downloaded version? If Downloaded, from where? If Retail, from where purchased? Any No-DVD cracks? Is this the Original DVD(if Retail)? What patch version? Are you using xliveless?

 

Please answer ALL the above questions, as since they are in the Pinned Troubleshooting topic that was posted by a Moderator, they are extremely important to diagnosing troubleshooting topics.

[mkey82]

Disable windows event log service.