i have and engtx 260 874mb something like that and i choose every thing on high then when i run gta 4 again its on medium ! why does it keep changing back to a lower setting please help me i don't even know if I'm playing it at max.
I don't have the game..but try putting "-norestriction" at the end of the shortcut target path. I think I heard that it removes any graphical setting restrictions.
the most overrated franchise in gaming, has one of its most over-hyped games... performing like crap.Lach0121
The game runs perfectly fine on decent hardware. I'm getting 45-60 FPS with medium textures, highest quality renderer, all sliders on 50 except the shadows on 0 @1920x1200. People just need to actually listen to the developer and stop over estimating the power of their own computers. With the settings I've settled on I've got a much better looking game, running better than either console version. For me the biggest performance increases have come from dropping the shadow density to zero, and turning off the video clip recorder.
[QUOTE="CellAnimation"]The high quality textures take 600MB of VRAM on their own.Hellboard
Needless to say my old 8600 gt has 1024mb and doesnt run it! Did you really think it would be able to? There is more to the power of a video card than just the amount of RAM. Crappy old video card runs game crappy... um duh! :)
[QUOTE="Hellboard"][QUOTE="CellAnimation"]The high quality textures take 600MB of VRAM on their own.CellAnimation
Needless to say my old 8600 gt has 1024mb and doesnt run it! Did you really think it would be able to? There is more to the power of a video card than just the amount of RAM. Crappy old video card runs game crappy... um duh! :) Now thats what am saying the video memory thing is bullocks too the core speed matters only!
[QUOTE="Hellboard"][QUOTE="CellAnimation"]The high quality textures take 600MB of VRAM on their own.CellAnimation
Needless to say my old 8600 gt has 1024mb and doesnt run it! Did you really think it would be able to? There is more to the power of a video card than just the amount of RAM. Crappy old video card runs game crappy... um duh! :)
But a good company can make a game scale well on a wide variety of systems. It just goes to show you how bad Rockstar is at programming.
[QUOTE="CellAnimation"][QUOTE="Hellboard"] Needless to say my old 8600 gt has 1024mb and doesnt run it!Hellboard
Did you really think it would be able to? There is more to the power of a video card than just the amount of RAM. Crappy old video card runs game crappy... um duh! :) Now thats what am saying the video memory thing is bullocks too the core speed matters only!
wrong again... it depends on the series of gfx cards. You can find two cards, one has a higher core speed and the second one has a lower core speed, but it'll still perform much better. Performance has to deal with memory bandwidth, steam processors, etc.
[QUOTE="Lach0121"]the most overrated franchise in gaming, has one of its most over-hyped games... performing like crap.CellAnimation
The game runs perfectly fine on decent hardware. I'm getting 45-60 FPS with medium textures, highest quality renderer, all sliders on 50 except the shadows on 0 @1920x1200. People just need to actually listen to the developer and stop over estimating the power of their own computers. With the settings I've settled on I've got a much better looking game, running better than either console version. For me the biggest performance increases have come from dropping the shadow density to zero, and turning off the video clip recorder.
i can agree with the most part of whta your saying..
its just these devs can optimize the engine just a little more. especially with the ports from consoles.
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though some of it is ATI and Nvidia's bs sometimes.
but all in all, it just seems like there is more compatiblility errors, and or hardware flukes now then there use to be.
[QUOTE="Hellboard"][QUOTE="CellAnimation"] Did you really think it would be able to? There is more to the power of a video card than just the amount of RAM. Crappy old video card runs game crappy... um duh! :)simardbrad
Now thats what am saying the video memory thing is bullocks too the core speed matters only!
wrong again... it depends on the series of gfx cards. You can find two cards, one has a higher core speed and the second one has a lower core speed, but it'll still perform much better. Performance has to deal with memory bandwidth, steam processors, etc.
So everything is bullocks? does that include the price of the vga card? rg the more the better?
My 8800GT Sli Setup is running GTA IV shocking. I can't even turn up the texure resolution to "High", with View Distance at 30, Detail at 20, Shadows at 0! 1650x1050 res, without AA, GTA IV looks like utter bollocks on my screen. The blur effects of hitting "p" in game daze my eyes... :cry: GTA IV on PC is very, very poorly optimised...the Original Crysis runs better than this, let alone Crysis Warhead (which runs even smoother)...
dont bother setting up high even u have more than 1gb vram. the game itself has bad rendering..it looks crappy at times with blur effects... all it does need is a good patch.. the gameplay is good just too many technical issues that brought it down.
I think they're trying to make us buy the console version, that's why they didn't bother optimizing it.
And wow, The Force Unleashed Reloaded, this is from Gamespot article about GTA IV PC problems: As for performance issues on high-end rigs, Rockstar's tech support documentation contained the following explanation: "Most users using current PC hardware as of December 2008 are advised to use medium graphics settings. Higher settings are provided for future generations of PCs with higher specifications than are currently widely available."
Probably the LucasArts devs are now like: "see, we told you you need a $4000 PC lol"
[QUOTE="-CheeseEater-"]My 8800GT Sli Setup is running GTA IV shocking. I can't even turn up the texure resolution to "High", with View Distance at 30, Detail at 20, Shadows at 0! 1650x1050 res, without AA, GTA IV looks like utter bollocks on my screen. The blur effects of hitting "p" in game daze my eyes... :cry: GTA IV on PC is very, very poorly optimised...the Original Crysis runs better than this, let alone Crysis Warhead (which runs even smoother)... Called tech support. GTA IV doesnt support SLi or Crossfire yet.
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