M4nB3arP1g Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I don't have the settings cranked I just left it on the defaults for now. Here they are: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590253032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shasoosh Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I'm getting quite ticked off, first it doesn't allow me to use command lines because I have to launch through Social Club and how the hell do I use my Logitech controller in the game?Please help! I've posted a solution for this earlier. Link Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590253546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹ Posted December 10, 2008 Subscriber¹ Share Posted December 10, 2008 The Logitech issue will apparently be fixed in the next patch, though it is better to get a 360 pad if possible, they are by far the best pads I have ever used, and you can pick them up quite cheap Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590253674 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundayx Veteran Posted December 11, 2008 Veteran Share Posted December 11, 2008 I lol'd cuase that's what f-ing happened. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590257136 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unimatrix Xero Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 that pics already been featured in this thread from what i remember Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590257332 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sethos Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 Yeah ... it's also a quote if you use those sharp eagle eyes :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590260602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hammond Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 The new nvidia beta drivers made my game a bit smoother, definately playable. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590260614 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicane-UK Veteran Posted December 12, 2008 Veteran Share Posted December 12, 2008 Hehe.. the "What I expected / What I got" picture is good ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590260620 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+John. Subscriber¹ Posted December 12, 2008 Subscriber¹ Share Posted December 12, 2008 I love that image. It's a shame rockstar had so many problems with this release. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590260630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hammond Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 Its not just this release though, a lot of Rockstars console to PC ports have been rubbish. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590260636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StealMySoda Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 Patch has been released it seems. Seems to have very little in terms of performace increase. Just launch the game and LFW will do the rest. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590263626 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fagutish Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 Also, if anyones thinking of purchasing the pc edition. bear in mind: Keyboard/mouse mapping is implemented disgustingly: Cannot map a function to two different key presses. Cannot map mouse buttons 4 or 5 AT ALL (forward and back buttons on keyboard) --- Yes this is a deal breaker for me. This is outrageous. They've ruined an awesome game by halfassing the porting, throwing gratuitous use of drm and ridiculous barriers of entry for online play. If youre interested: I emailed R* in the hopes that maybe in the future they would patch these basic to-be-expected functions into the game. The reply was in essence "we arent doing jack about that youre on your own" I was hoping that the Games for Windows certification process would put some polish and lowest common denominator requirements into games. All it has been is the homogenization of in-game UI so one can use it with Microsoft's 360 controller. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590263652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unimatrix Xero Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 aye patch is out but for me has done bugger all the only 2 things i can see is that they hardcoded the '-norestrictions- and '-nomemrestrict' into the games exe and tweeked the benchmark to run smoother, but fps in the game is worse for me now i could pull 25fps before the patch, now im down to 19fps Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590264284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unimatrix Xero Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 EDIT: Ok so after the patch i was getting ♥♥♥♥ fps, so i decided, right the game cant get anywhere than it is now so i decided to install the 180.84 (beta3 drivers) from guru3d.com, now normally i uninstall the old driver first, but this time i left them alone and just installed over the top of the old 180.48's. As normal it asked for a restart so i did, then while i was in POST i deicded.... ♥♥♥♥ it i'll overclock my cpu a little, i took the fsb from 200, upto 212. Now my processor is the AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dualcore which its stock speed is 3.0Ghz, the increased fsb has taken it to just below 3.2Ghz (3.18Ghz if you wanna nitpick) Then i checked my commandlist.txt file in my program files root folder and the only line i have in is -fullspecaudio. So i ran the game now my ingame settings are as follows 1280x1024x70Hrtz Texture Quality: Medium Render Quality: Medium View Distance: 15 Detail Distance: 15 Traffic: 15 and i really did notice a good fps increase, now i didnt run frap this time so i cant get an exact figure, BUT i was playing for a good 20-30 mins and i went from 1 island to another and even went into 'Star junction' and it was really smooth I hope this gives some people a few ideas or theorys on how to come up with the next user fix EDIT: heres my CPU-Z report if anyone wants to have a shimmy http://*malware domain*/show_oc.php?id=462124 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590264436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 I'm getting stable 30 fps with the new patch on the same settings but with view distance at 22 and traffic at 13. I found the most cpu intensive settings are shadow density, traffic and detail distance. You can probably ramp the view distance up with no problem on that GTX. X2 5600+ 2.9ghz 4gb ram 9600gt only startup command is fullspec audio. I even get like 40 fps indoors outside now I get nice 30-35 in the day time it it used to be really bad for me during the day pre patch. I almost wanna see if I can turn up my traffic density a bit now. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590264746 Share on other sites More sharing options...
J400uk Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 Slightly changed my PC specs, dropped in a spare E6320 1.86ghz cpu and an extra 2gb ram (the quad core is now sold as I get my XPS i7 soon). It immediately required re-activation and the new patch automagically installed. Performance seeems worse a lot less smooth, but the game feels less buggy (if that makes sense). I reckon the CPU makes the difference, so hopefully i7 + 4gb + patch = smooth and reliable EDIT: Oh and I'm using the 8.12 drivers, been working really well for last week with the system in signature, just a little buggy at times. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590264792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 Slightly changed my PC specs, dropped in a spare E6320 1.86ghz cpu and an extra 2gb ram (the quad core is now sold as I get my XPS i7 soon). It immediately required re-activation and the new patch automagically installed. Performance seeems worse a lot less smooth, but the game feels less buggy (if that makes sense). I reckon the CPU makes the difference, so hopefully i7 + 4gb + patch = smooth and reliableEDIT: Oh and I'm using the 8.12 drivers, been working really well for last week with the system in signature, just a little buggy at times. well yeah you went from a quad to a lower end dual core on a extremely cpu dependent game... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590264814 Share on other sites More sharing options...
J400uk Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 well yeah you went from a quad to a lower end dual core on a extremely cpu dependent game... Meh the dual core isnt bad, 1066mhz/4mb and it only has to last a week or so. I thought it was a more GPU/RAM dependant game?? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590264900 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sethos Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 No, it's definitely a CPU dependant game. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590264908 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beastage Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 The patch just destroyed me ... no SFX at all, no ammo counter, no fixes... game still thinks I only have 500mb of vram when I have a 1gb, performance maybe smoother by 1fps but again... no SFX. Every related forum in the world seems to be full of people claiming the patch made things worse, I can't reinstall because I will not be able to use my saves in offline mode I believe.... what a horrible experience this is. Also, if anyones thinking of purchasing the pc edition. bear in mind:Keyboard/mouse mapping is implemented disgustingly: Cannot map a function to two different key presses. Cannot map mouse buttons 4 or 5 AT ALL (forward and back buttons on keyboard) --- Yes this is a deal breaker for me. This is outrageous. They've ruined an awesome game by halfassing the porting, throwing gratuitous use of drm and ridiculous barriers of entry for online play. If youre interested: I emailed R* in the hopes that maybe in the future they would patch these basic to-be-expected functions into the game. The reply was in essence "we arent doing jack about that youre on your own" I was hoping that the Games for Windows certification process would put some polish and lowest common denominator requirements into games. All it has been is the homogenization of in-game UI so one can use it with Microsoft's 360 controller. PC Gamers should make this a MS problem because r* are just messing with windows now, MS can't accept this... even tho they have the xbox they focus alot of resources on the PC as a gaming platform. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590265260 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundayx Veteran Posted December 13, 2008 Veteran Share Posted December 13, 2008 The patch added nothing for me. I noticed though that there are no performance differences when I change resolution (the 3 lowest ones). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590265272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sethos Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 Patch did nothing for me, same performance as before Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590265280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisSiteHasLostItsCharm Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 installed the patch, nothing different, must be a placebo patch. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590265446 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Som Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 This is possible the worst pc game i have ever seen First of I had to install rockstar social club (why?) Second I had to install an update for Games for Windows Live (again why?) Then it needs to verify the date on the internet?? Then i had to insert a serial so thay it could activate on the internet. Then I needed to register a live account (I don't want to play the multiplayer btw) Then it still needs the dvd in the drive to play, after all that you would expect at least not to have to use the disc. When I get the game to start I have the same bug as most people which is I can't see anything (except car lights for some reason) So I download the update nVidia Drivers : no difference So then I wait for this miracle from Rockstar and now all I get is the "TEXP70 Unable to create depth render target - Please re-install DirectX and/or install the latest video card driver." error.... .... so I reinstall the game and the nVidia drivers and still the same error. I only play Pc games and some of them have been buggy on release, but I've never seen anything like this peace of ****. This will be the first game that I will be returning (hopefully play.com will take it back) And when or if they fix this pile of crap, i'm just gonna download it , illegally **** 'em Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590265498 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 installed the patch, nothing different, must be a placebo patch. I'm getting at least 10 more fps outside than before. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/690176-gta-iv-for-pc-official/page/26/#findComment-590266822 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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