Problems playing GTA 4 on G73-A2

Hey folks, I'm trying to play GTA 4 on my new laptop but am running into issues. When I start a new game, the very first movie/ cutscene is not there. All you hear is the voices and the screen is black. I can press the right mouse button and actually get into the game. When I start driving the vehicle, the camera movement is choppy. I've played with the settings and lowered certain things, showing no difference. I've gone and updated drivers with the 10.3 and still no change. I've once had the game crash and kick me out.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Please let me know something.

Thanks

 

Have you tried running other games or other graphic intensive apps on your laptop? Try running them and see if you get issues this way we can tell if it's the GPU or something else.

If the problem persists using an external monitor to make sure it's ur screen that's the issue. If the problem still exists something's up with ur GPU most likely.

 

I had that problem too with my G71, the graphic were choppy. i had no problem with other games like DIRT 2, NFS SHIFT, COD Modern warefare 2, RE 5, etc .and other hard games that need high end hardware requirements. ithink that this game need an update or patch because i meant to played on Windows XP sp3 or vista, while i runs it on Windows 7 64bit. this game had 5 patch but i can't applied this patch just yet..still downloading via torrent@piratebay...

 

The game is just ported bad to the PC. I'm sure even my desktop would have troubles running it.

 

i second that. GTA 4 is not THAT inhenrently resource intensive. It is just a VERY VERY badly ported game for pc.

However, you should consider hooking up to an external monitor to help identifying the root cause.

 

Just curious, what does ported mean? GTA plays fine for me most of the time but sometimes it gets bad and stays around 22 fps no matter the setting, but thats a power issue with my G73, I have gotten around 44 in the past on this machine

 

GTA4 started off as a console game, and then it was "transferred" (ported) to the PC

 

In other words, they did not code GTA4 on the PC from scratch. The code was not optimized, rather merely transferred from one system to another. Obviously games need to be coded differently from console to PC in order for the game to work properly across all platforms. This game was not coded much differently, so its performance is not what it could be. This is critics' single biggest criticism of this game for PC.

 

get the 5 latest patches and there should be no problems... u really need those patches to improve game...

 

GTA IV runs at a consistent 30-45fps at near-maximum settings on mine, so it's not an inherent hardware issue.

Missing cutscenes and crashes can be caused by missing or corrupted files. Have you tried reinstalling the game?

 

hey guys ive been lookin everywere for somone to arnswer this. basicly ive downloaded gta iv on my vista laptop and i need to make an account to play but when i click to create an account it said: This page has not been found.

does anyone know waT to do

thanx \\djevans//

 

Try to sign up offline mode, this game has never been that graphic problems at all, some glitches here and there but i have never experienced problems like that before, one guy who has a xps M1730 is sli 8800gtx's became fried from that game, but that machine has been well known for issues anyway.

 

I am just wondering if the problem that the thread starter had has been solved.
If it has, how?
I had very choppy (stop-n-go) graphics with my G73.