SO i'm STILL having problems with GTA 4...

im on BIOS A05, NVIDIA driver 280.26 (modded inf), i whitelisted Launchgtaiv.exe, and my problem of only playable at low settings still occurs.
i have -width 1600 -height 900 -refreshrate 60 -availablevidmem 8000 -percentvidmem 100 -nomemrestrict -norestrictions as my launch options in steam.


GTA 4 BENCHMARKS:
Average FPS: 11.73
Duration: 37.68 sec
CPU Usage: 21%
System memory usage: 50%
Video memory usage: 75%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1600 x 900 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: High
Reflection Resolution: High
Water Quality: High
Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x8
Night Shadows: High
View Distance: 100
Detail Distance: 100

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

Video Adapter: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family
Video Driver version: 8.15.10.2342
Audio Adapter: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2820QM CPU @ 2.30GHz

File ID: Benchmark.cli

how do i make the game use more cpu? i think it is using intel 3000 gpu and i want it to use NVIDIA 3GB GPU! are your video memory usage near mine? how do i make GTA 4 playable at high settings! NEED HELP ASAP!

 

Hi,

It shows, that GTA4 uses the Intel HD Graphic-card.... well i have the same Problem!
You set everything on high - the Intel Graphic would do about 0 fps ;-)

which version of GTA 4 are u using? 1.07 ?!

I am NOT able to play everything on high.

check out the shadow and night-shadow and set it to middle.
please redo the benchmark and give us the results.

 

GTA4 will not recognize the nVidia GPU no matter what you do. Like my old thread, I update the nVidia GPU to 275.33 and copy and paste the commandline to the shortcut, then restart the game ... done you're now have the ability to set whatever setting you want, though you will still unable to benchmark or get GTA4 to recognize the nVidia GPU, but actually you're playing using the GT555M.

And I see you use the 280.26 version, have you try the 275.33 version? And another thing the version I had isnt Steam, and Steam most of the game are will be hardly to get it run on the nVidia GPU, so that maybe one of the problem as well.

I'll install GTA4 again and try to screenshot it that I can get it work.

 

Only for info:
i use the 280.xx too and it works fine

 

okay, but still no matter how many hundred or thousand time you benchmark it, GTA4 will still just dont detect the GT555M. And this is not just us, every Optimus machine are all having that problem.

 

let me ask you CGSDR, what settings do you play GTA 4 on? please give me your benchmark results pls

 

please post a benchmark of your GTA 4!

 

It's a custom setting but actually is High, just I dont max everything out though, and I told you that no matter how many time or whatever you do, GTA4 will just detect the iGP not GT555M. Do yourself a research on Google, keyword: GTA4 Problem with Optimus Machine. I'm sure that you'll find tons of similar problems.

 

but you can play on high on ur m14x, i can only play on low on mine! what is the problem! please post benchmark results so i can see your cpu and vmem pls