GTA episodes from liberty city

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#1 Darksonic666
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So I have thought about buying the game but was wondering if it ran as badly or worse than gta 4

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#2 mhofever
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Well, I haven't got the DLC yet but judging from how Gta IV runs for me, I guess the DLC will run the same. Oh and the patch really improved Gta IV alot. Should be the same for EFLC.

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#3 Darksonic666
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Well, I haven't got the DLC yet but judging from how Gta IV runs for me, I guess the DLC will run the same. Oh and the patch really improved Gta IV alot. Should be the same for EFLC.

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I was thinking of getting that patch tonight
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So I have thought about buying the game but was wondering if it ran as badly or worse than gta 4

Darksonic666
I bought the GTA episodes from liberty city and get about 40 fps average on a Phenom II X4 965 3.4ghz ; 4GB ram ; ati 5870
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#5 crozon
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[QUOTE="Darksonic666"]

So I have thought about buying the game but was wondering if it ran as badly or worse than gta 4

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I bought the GTA episodes from liberty city and get about 40 fps average on a Phenom II X4 965 3.4ghz ; 4GB ram ; ati 5870

Thats more than you would get on a PS3. I played GTAIV on my PS3 and the framerate was pretty bad in places.
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#6 GeneralShowzer
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[QUOTE="YourNextStalker"][QUOTE="Darksonic666"]

So I have thought about buying the game but was wondering if it ran as badly or worse than gta 4

crozon
I bought the GTA episodes from liberty city and get about 40 fps average on a Phenom II X4 965 3.4ghz ; 4GB ram ; ati 5870

Thats more than you would get on a PS3. I played GTAIV on my PS3 and the framerate was pretty bad in places.

So he should be happy his super expensive PC outperformed the PS3?
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[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"][QUOTE="crozon"][QUOTE="YourNextStalker"] I bought the GTA episodes from liberty city and get about 40 fps average on a Phenom II X4 965 3.4ghz ; 4GB ram ; ati 5870

Thats more than you would get on a PS3. I played GTAIV on my PS3 and the framerate was pretty bad in places.

So he should be happy his super expensive PC outperformed the PS3?

I get about the same framerate on my rig. One thing I noticed though, fraps kills the framerate in this game! For some people even having fraps installed hurts the framerate. I suggest just trying it out without recording the fps, if it feels smooth than just play it.
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#8 YourNextStalker
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[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"][QUOTE="crozon"] Thats more than you would get on a PS3. I played GTAIV on my PS3 and the framerate was pretty bad in places. kevy619
So he should be happy his super expensive PC outperformed the PS3?

I get about the same framerate on my rig. One thing I noticed though, fraps kills the framerate in this game! For some people even having fraps installed hurts the framerate. I sugget just trying it out without recording the fps, if it feels smooth than just play it.

yea when i run fraps and get near water and in dense places it drops down below 20 but when i dont run anything and just the game it doesnt drop below 30fps
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#9 Darksonic666
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I downloaded the patch last night for gta 4 and saw no improvements so I guess gta 4 will rott on my shelf until I upgrade my computer

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#10 nutcrackr
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Runs about the same. I saw some people complain that it runs worse. Well I set the game to the same settings as GTA 4 and it seems much the same. Sometimes it runs better with the new shadow system, other times it's back to its old tricks. No big difference if you ask me, I think it uses a bit less RAM but pretty much the same performance.
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#11 Crimsader
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[QUOTE="YourNextStalker"][QUOTE="Darksonic666"]

So I have thought about buying the game but was wondering if it ran as badly or worse than gta 4

crozon
I bought the GTA episodes from liberty city and get about 40 fps average on a Phenom II X4 965 3.4ghz ; 4GB ram ; ati 5870

Thats more than you would get on a PS3. I played GTAIV on my PS3 and the framerate was pretty bad in places.

Are you serious? That made my day! :D
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if something it should work better and not worse

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#13 yukilla
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It runs better then GTA 4. It's smooth overall.

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#14 -clippa-
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My rig - q6600 @ 3.6ghz, 5870, 4gb ram, windows 7 x64

Runs no better or worse as far as I can tell.

They've made the shadows less memory intensive so turning them on now only halves your framerate :roll:

Turning shadows off completely is the only way to go, having them on, you can feel the game straining under the weight of itself, looking from left to right is not smooth at all. With textures on medium and shadows off, framerate is bearable, still all over the shop and still drops below 30 at times for no disearnable reason.

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Q9450@3.8, 5870, 4gb DDr2, Windows 7 ATI edition x64. resolution 2304x1440, everything maxed except shadows on high instead of very high so i can have my drawdistance and every other slider to 100%, also vsync is off. I didnt run the benchmark but i have fraps, min 35 fps to 100. outside it ranges from 40 to 50, sometimes 60.
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Q9450@3.8, 5870, 4gb DDr2, Windows 7 ATI edition x64. resolution 2304x1440, everything maxed except shadows on high instead of very high so i can have my drawdistance and every other slider to 100%, also vsync is off. I didnt run the benchmark but i have fraps, min 35 fps to 100. outside it ranges from 40 to 50, sometimes 60. costyssj4
fraps can screw the fps in this game.
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#17 kevy619
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My rig - q6600 @ 3.6ghz, 5870, 4gb ram, windows 7 x64

Runs no better or worse as far as I can tell.

They've made the shadows less memory intensive so turning them on now only halves your framerate :roll:

Turning shadows off completely is the only way to go, having them on, you can feel the game straining under the weight of itself, looking from left to right is not smooth at all. With textures on medium and shadows off, framerate is bearable, still all over the shop and still drops below 30 at times for no disearnable reason.

-clippa-

Thats weird, it works fine for me on a lesser system. I run it all high, night shadows off, 1920*1080 or 1680*1050, draw distance 35 (25 if I leave vsync on), traffic density 51, and it plays awesome. Part of the issue is that you can turn the settings so much higher than you should, its meant to scale to hardware that isnt even available.

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#18 -clippa-
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it plays awesome.

kevy619

You're going to have to be more specific. One mans awesome is another mans unplayable. What sort of framerate are you getting? What's the lowest you've seen it dip to, what is the highest, what does it usually hover around? Do you notice any sluggish mouselook? Do you get stuttering?