GTA 4 Troubles

I am trying to play GTA4 on my M11x but the game is only recognizing my Integrated card. In the options menu it gives me 54mb of memory to work with. Is there a way to force the 335m on GTA4? Ive tried whitelisting it and running with 335m but the game isnt recognizing it.

Help!?!?

 

I think it has something to do with the drivers.

What you're going through is the same problem everyone is having.

I think there's an older driver set that does recognize the game with the 335, but I'm not sure which one, maybe 260.99?

 

I'm not sure if you have looked around forum yet or not, there is TONS of known compatibility problems with GTA4 and the m11x.

 

Give me a link to one of them

 

In the nvidia control panel do:
1. Select "Manage 3d Settings"
2. In preffered graphics proccesor select "High Performance NVIDIA Prossesor"
3. Click apply
4. Close the envidia control panel.

By the way remember to disable turboboost in the bios to make the game playable (fps boost) or else will be an slideshow (even in the lowest quality settings).

Have fun.

 

For a game like GTZIV (which thrives on a fast multi core processor) why would you disable turbo boost for extra performance? Surely you would want it enabled along with throttlestop to give you everything the cpu has got.

 

I am in trouble at the moment. After upgrading to the newest Nvidia driver, it seems that my laptop has trouble running GTA 4.
I personally would love to continue using this newest driver as it improved gaming performance for Dead Space, Biohazard 5 and Starcraft II (I only tested a few games).

The problem is that GTA 4 suddenly says that there is not enough resource available to be used.

200MB/59MB

What a low resource usage available with such graphic card !
Are there any fixes available?
I cannot change any settings and it only loads texture partially...

 

I had the same problem and posted a thread about it 10~20 minutes ago.
However, it seems that no one really knows about this issue, especially in regarding to Nvidia Optimus.
I just decided to go back to 260.99 version as it definitely worked well for all the games I've installed.

 

Stay on topic guys.

And balamacab did u not read what i just posted? I said i already did that.

 

FYI - I merged the threads. We dont need multiple threads discussing issues with GTA4. PM me with questions regarding the merge.

 

Hi, when the coputer use Turbo boost it will only work whit one core, if you use TS you can set turbo to x14 uing both cores ( http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m11x/524257-how-supercharge-m11x-core-i5-i7-um-cpus.html) BUT in my case i have a issue with that and is that my cpu overheat and lose the turbo and slow down the cpu to protec it from melting... , any how the computer end up been slower using turbo boos than with out turbo.
But as I said, that is my case and I think is an issue that I must report to warranty.

Test it in you laptop and see how is it goes, in the mean time i have to disable Turbo boor in my laptor to play GTA4

 

I cant play GTA 4 becuz in the graphics options it only gives me 54MB of GPU memory to work with instead of the 1GB my 335m has. So i cant play the game. How do i fix this

 

I already told you in the post..
Go back to version 260.99 and it will fix the problem you are having.
I hope that you are not using 260.99 graphic driver because I am having no problem playing GTA VI with it.
I used to have problem with other graphic versions.

 

Is there another solution though?

I can't use 260.99 because it doesnt work with BC2.

 

If it is indeed a problem with the drivers that is nonspecific to just you, which appears to be the case, then no, there probably isn't anything you can do about it except hope that it gets fixed in the next release. Sorry.

Can you tell though, does the game not run on the 335m at all, or is it just that the game doesn't recognize it.

 

Eah, i can confirm that whit the drivers 260.99 in GTA 4 the game doent use the nvidia card.
falling back to the previous driver worked...

 

Well its strange becuz the NVIDIA icon shows that GTA is using the 335m, but I am definently not playing with it ingame.

 

The problem with the graphic card driver he is using to run GTA IV seems to be that the resource detector embedded within the game does not recognize the amount of Video Ram properly.
When I had the similar problem before rolling back to 260.99, the game only recognized 59MB of resources available.