Gta 4

Anyone managed to run this on the XP5 15 L502x or the L702x yet? Or for the matter with any other optimus enabled GPU?

Seems to not detect my GT 540m and only recognises my intel graphics card.

Got the latest drivers for my GPU, the latest patch for GTA 4 and i've tried to manually force my GPU on via nividia control panel.

 

GTA4 has problems in general from what I understand, its just not optimized to run on a PC or something to that effect. I do have the game, so once I get my L502x configured with my apps then I'll download and see what happens for me.

 

Thanks very much! Haha yeah it doesnt play nice with the optimus cards.

 

If its any.consolation Im only getting 30-33 fps for Residents Evil 5 benchmark and Utah Not maxed. Its very very odd.

 

Yep think quite a few games arent running so well with the gt 540m. Wouldnt be surprised if the xps 17 (L02x) has trouble running games too. Its the optimus.

 

Is there a way to disable the optimus?? It's really annoying if that's the case.

 

Nope. I've been trying to find a way for the past few weeks =(

I can't even get Sim City 4 and Left 4 Dead 2 to work with Optimus cause it stays on the integrated card. Sim City 4 is a 4+ year old game.

And in before someone tells me that you need to set the .exe file in the nVidia control panel. It doesn't work and its a well known issue.

I'm hoping that the roll out of the newer Sandy Bridge stuff will get some newer drivers out.

 

According to Nvidia the next batch of driver updates will include support for the 540m. I don't know if it will fix any problem yet. Lowering the resolution helps some, we all know that. And I can't tell much of a difference in 1920x1080 and 1600x900.

 

Yea waiting for the next set of drivers from Nividia. Its frustrating how this is more of a software than hardware issue.

 

Yeah I know, I would not have bought the laptop with this card in it if I knew this ahead of time. I'm playing a game that's 2 years old and am now getting less than 20fps with it........it's crap. I can't even get on to the Nvidia Forums, Internall 500 errors with it.

 

well, just cause 2 runs aces at high settings (35-50 fps, 1600x900), at least! (plus imho it's a prettier and better playing game than gta4)

 

I think I get about that in some places in Resident Evil 5, with the res at 1600x900 and in Batman Arkham Asylum I get an average of 38 fps, the highest was 49, on very high at max resolution

 

I got a fix, because the way Optimus work, GTA IV only detect the integrated Intel HD video memory, and that varies between ~50MB to ~155MB and that's annoying, although I positively sure it runs on dedicated nvidia GPU judging by the smoothness I got. Even with "-norestriction" and "-nomemrestrict" command I get missing texture although the game is very playable.

What you need is another command; "–availablevidmem x" command put the 'x' value with whatever the multiply of your integrated compared to your nvidia GPU, for example my GT 520M have 1GB and the game detect 155MB of RAM in game, so I need to multiply that around 6 times to get ~1GB memory, hence the command will be "–availablevidmem 6"

Without this I get missing textures at higher detail but after this fix I get it running nicely at native resolution and medium detail.

This is the easy way to tweak GTAIV. Create notepad in GTAIV directory and named it "commandline", then paste the values below:

-norestriction
-nomemrestrict
-minspecaudio
–availablevidmem 6

You can change the values of "-availablevidmem" to any of you like. The "-minspecaudio" is just for tweaking for a bit more performance, remove if you want it.

 

That seems to be working thanks for that , this is what i used for the 540m -availablevidmem 35

 

A simple change of GPU drivers would be a more permanent fix. Not just for GTA 4 but the other games which only recognise the Intel HD Card and not the GT 540m.

*Driver 267.21 tested on the L502x. Works.

 

Will try this today! Thanks. I wonder if I will get increased performance with it as well.

 

I got 25fps in the benchmark with full 1080p and medium settings the game ran nice, didn't get a chance to tweak it yet, but it ran pretty smooth on the 2630qm and 540m

 

So does the intro to this game run like crap? It's always jumpy and choppy. Even though the benchmark gets me 35 fps, it's just odd.

 

I cant believe how well this game runs its great

 

The game runs smooth I think, just the intro for me was running terrible, I got good scores in the benchmark.

 

The optimus can be disabled by ending the process from the task manager, although I don't remember which process to disable. I saw this on NBR only.

 

I can't make this work, this driver was not compaitble and I downloaded a compatible one from NVidia but the installation fails without even starting :S....

I'm going to try with the command line, but I hope we can have a solution soon...

 

How did you get drivers from Nvidia? When I click on the GT540M it says that no drivers were found?

 

I enabled the beta search, I mean it searched for beta drivers too... maybe is it's a beta driver that doesn't work... but still i tried using the commandline and it seems to recognise the card (don't know for sure) because the number of specs increase... but I still have some lag an after some gameplay the game crashes =(

 

no single driver from other forums that solve this problem for the NVidia 540 M works for me =( the don't even install or just doesn't recognize any hardware u.u

Looks like patching to 1.0.7 solved the problem =) but I have to set my graphic configuration by commandline, if not, the game crashes