Yes another GTA IV topic

Something I've noticed about GTA IV, is that the max settings and the lowest settings don't really have much difference in frame rates. While the game is playable at all settings, it's just annoying I can't get it to look smooth whatever I do.

It's not like my machine can't handle it, I've had every big game of the last two years running nicely on it.

So I've been wondering if anyone else is having problems getting it to run smooth?

(this doesn't seem to be a frame rate issue)

No offense, but haven't you seen 1000s of threads about this? No one can run it smooth. I did not even bother, I just put it on med/high and play it. I also put it on my raptor HDD to make loading little better. Game runs fine, but def not smooth, at times framerate would fall to 15-20. I run it on 8800GTS 512 , 3.2 Ghz C2D CPU and 2 gigs of RAM.Creative