Bought GTA4 Episodes from liberty city off steam when it was on offer and couldnt play it on my old GPU. Just bought a ASUS GTX460 768 and its still really choppy on 800x600 with everything else set to low. Is this wrong or is this card not up to playing this game? What else should I be trying to get this playing?
Theres always something that needs upgrading! Any ideas of anything that will help improve things? Preferably without spending amy more just yet!
Do you have the game patched up to the most recent release, this was supposed to help stop it being such a system hog. I actually upgraded to a quad core just so I could play this game happily. Mind you the game should be running happily at such a low res.
+1, I'd say there's something else affecting you. My 8800GT could run it at pretty decent settings, I never really noticed the supposedly poor performance of GTA4. All drivers up to date? Possibly, if you can be bothered, a fresh install of windows could help, I always find that it helps, but that's a last resort really. You could OC your CPU a bit. However, it should run all right to start with. Have you tried it at the native resolution of your monitor?
Exscuse the lack of quotes as I can never remember how to quote multiple people. All drivers up to date? Yep Have you tried it at the native resolution of your monitor? Errr, CRT? You could OC your CPU a bit. Currently stock cooler! Do you have the game patched up to the most recent release? Bought through steam, does this not patch automatically?
Can't see anything untoward from you system specs. 500W PSU should be all right. What OS are you using? I'm pretty sure steam does auto patch GTA4, mines on steam, and I've never patched it manually, I can't see that just a dual core cpu would make the game that unplayable. It should run fine at low settings on your system. Something is definitely a miss. Have you checked temps? Could be throttling.
indeed it is, when i got my 4890 i still had a amd athlon 5200+ and my fps was still poor, once i bought a Phenom 2 955 all is good. nice avg of 55fps with settings all on very/high, details on 50% 1280x1024
Running 7 Home Premium. Temps are low when I start, mid 30's but havent logged whilst trying to play. I'll try that tomorrow.
Turn clip capture off - that really helped me before they put the patch out. I don't know if it still helps but it's worth a try.
It constantly records the last 'x' seconds/minutes of play, then you can press a button and it saves it. I would imagine that if your HDDs are clogged/slow, this would put a big load on them and may be causing the slowdown.
I can't believe that that CPU would be causing such an issue.... Dodgy GPU maybe? Be interesting to see what goes on with the temps during gaming. My old 4870 managed alright with the game even before all the patches came out so I doubt it's a game patching issue.
Checked the Clip Capture setting and it was off so also uninstalled the ASUS software that will do similar. Removed AV, checked startup programs and removed some. Took CPU to 3 GHz The in game benchmark said: Should I try for more or be grateful that its not showing 11 FPS again!
Wouldn't worry about the stock cooler being on there, as long as you monitor temps it should be fine.
