Grand Theft Auto IV - Any hope?

I'm not sure how familiar any of you are with the PC release of GTA4 and the numerous problems that it comes with. I was wondering if anyone might have a solution to my problem, or information on when Rockstar might be releasing a real patch that fixes it.

So. I have tried to get it to work with a pirated copy, and a retail copy that I bought. I tried the pirated second just to see if anything would change, it doesn't.

Basically, game starts fine, blah blah, I start a new game, and it loads fine. Then, when the cutscene begins titled The Bellics something or whatever, all I see is a gray screen at first. Eventually I can see what's happening. After the cutscene, the game starts up and I'm in the car with Roman, but all that is front of me is this grey wall of nothing! I can see objects beyond the wall, but not the road. Something else I noticed, if I minimize the game (Alt-Tab) and then re-open it, I can see the road and everything fine, but the game runs slowers, the GPS map is completely dead, the pause menu doesn't show up, it just pauses the game. I have tried re-installing the game, but to no avail.

My specs:

m9750, 4 gb ram, nvidia geforce go 7950 GTX w/ daughter card, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33ghz

I'm really wary about using different drivers, because my laptop is extremely finicky with graphic drivers for some reason. A lot of times they don't even install right and all I get is a blank screen lol.

So yeah, does anyone have any ideas?

 

as harsh as it may sound, i'm afraid you will have to upgrade your graphics driver. i'd give the official new Nvidia drivers (179.28) for mobile systems a shot.

 

Those drivers won't work for him as they don't support the Go 7 series as of now.

 

The 180.84 driver is supposted to be the GTA fix. You should try using the DOX installer, much easier than the "have disk" method. Just download the driver for your OS and run the installer, simple as that. The 180.84 1.1 driver can be found here. http://laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=22262

 

i'll give the 180.84 drivers a try.

 

There's a patch out for GTA IV now, too. It allowed me to run medium textures instead of low at the same fps. Maybe that will help.

 

I had the same problem.
Download Rivatuner if necessary - start it and in the Main Tab at the Driver Settings choose : "Reset all driver settings to their default value". Its the last Icon in the list under driver settings.
That worked for me.

 

I found this patch for GTA IV if that's what you were looking for.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/grandtheftauto4/download_6202391.html

...or here if you don't want to bother making an account at gamespot:
http://www.actiontrip.com/files/patches/grandtheftautoiv.phtml

 

I fought this for about a week. My solution was to install the driver on one video card only. Then GTA 4 is great. If I install a driver for the other card, whether or not I turn on SLI, I get the grey wall at 25'. I am using the 181.00 Vista driver with a mod inf. from laptopvideo2go. No crashes or lockups and I am getting 25 fps.

I have a m9750 w/ T7400 2.16 and Nvidia 7950 gtx cards.