woofinator Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 I just recently got a GeForce GTX 660ti installed, and much to my dismay I'm still getting pretty poor framerates with GTA4. I updated my video card drivers and everything and I don't have the world's most amazing processor (AMD Phenom 9600) and I have 3GB DDR2 ram....I feel like I should be getting better than 18-23 fps. Can anyone help a brotha out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Girish Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Have you tried reinstalling the game and deleting all files from the game's Settings folder? Most of the times it helps to start over when you're swapping hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woofinator Posted October 5, 2012 Author Share Posted October 5, 2012 Thanks for the quick reply, trying it right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Woah....AMD Phenom 9600? I think that's the reason why you're getting that kind of FPS. It's completely normal. The build's completely unbalanced, the GPU could be bottlenecked as well. You have two options, either upgrade the rest of the build, or settle for lower settings [possibly Medium]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoječ Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Phenom 9600 is one of the weakest quad cores. It might not be up for the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dansgas1000 Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Phenom 9600 is one of the weakest quad cores. It might not be up for the job. Exactly this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woofinator Posted October 6, 2012 Author Share Posted October 6, 2012 Yeah I kinda figured that was the issue....won't even run well on low settings what games can I run well with my PC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoreLegend Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Yeah I kinda figured that was the issue....won't even run well on low settings what games can I run well with my PC? Why would you ask that? I recommend a new processor if you have the money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverTheBelow Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Yeah I kinda figured that was the issue....won't even run well on low settings what games can I run well with my PC? A large majority of games should run OK on your system, but that processor is going to hold your framerate back on the CPU-intensive games like GTAIV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unc13bud Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 (edited) yawl wrong, phenom 9600 is matched up in reviews with q6600 for a reason. my q6600 + gtx 285 ran high @ 30fps+ 1920x1200. original poster, turn off all your shadows, set your vehicle slider to 1. i bet you are being too greedy with your settings. i think you tried running gta iv before and thought you would upgrade the video card and it would run better. you may not even have uninstalled the old drivers... edit: and maybe you are using 32-bit vista, which is the ultimate suckage - bloated a operating system, but unable to add more ram to make it run better Edited October 7, 2012 by unc13bud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkey82 Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 According to synthetic benchmarks http://www.cpubenchmark.net/mid_range_cpus.html http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html that CPU has about 35% less performance then my Q9400, which isn't that great for GTAV. It's more then enough for 95% games and it can cope well with another 4%, but on GTAIV it's just underpowered. And mind you, I ran the game only on med-high at about 33-35FPS. Among the most important settings, I find the shadow density and quality are the biggest performance killer, at least on patch 7, so lower those firstly. Also, keep the high res textures, those usually provided a bit better performance for me, due to whichever reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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