GTA IV Performance

Benchmark for equivalent to consoles

Statistics
Average FPS: 20.79
Duration: 37.23 sec
CPU Usage: 83%
System memory usage: 69%
Video memory usage: 39%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1280 x 800 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: Medium
Render Quality: Medium
View Distance: 22
Detail Distance: 10

Hardware
Microsoft® Windows Vista" Ultimate
Service Pack 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT
Video Driver version: 180.70
Audio Adapter: Speakers (Total Recorder WDM audio driver)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53GHz

I guess 20+ fps is playable. But meh.

 

i loved GTA2 honestly, and all the rest of the series, its about gameplay thats true, but why Make it that much of a hog if its not gonna look great?...

i mean, whats the difference between it on low and San Andreas on high for example?...hmmm maybe San Andreas will run even better

 

dissapointing, no SLI.
Screw that, I`ll wait for a patch..

 

Yeah it looks like crap, I mean 28 fps average at 1680x1050, then almost the same at 1280x800 on one single 8800m GTX.

 

NEW Benchmark for equivalent to consoles!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GTA 4
Statistics
Average FPS: 39.49
Duration: 58.04 sec
CPU Usage: 88%
System memory usage: 74%
Video memory usage: 48%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1280 x 800 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: Medium
Render Quality: Medium
View Distance: 20
Detail Distance: 8

Hardware
4 GB DDR II PC2 6400 800 Mhz
Microsoft® Windows Vista" Home Premium
Service Pack 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
Video Driver version: 180.70(DOX's OPTIMIZED VERSION)
Audio Adapter: Altec Lansing with Sub woofers
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53GHz

 

Wow, your card must be GDDR3 then?

 

Nop.i have a DDR2 card if am not mistaken.

 

Can it be the driver?

Can you gimme a link to it so I can test it out?

 

Dox's Custom Nvidia Drivers...on laptorvideo2go.com, just scroll down the screen a bit and you will find it.

 

you can get it here http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=21982 i am running his 180.44 driver, its nice, although the 180.70 drivers dont support 8600m gt.

@stonesrubber how much video ram does your 9600m gt have?

nice to see your getting average 40 fps, gives me hope.

 

Besides i DON'T THINK IT IS THE driver.

 

On the DOX drivers, the textures are gone, the things look invisible. Did I install it wrong?

Here is the benchmark anyways.

Statistics
Average FPS: 25.03
Duration: 37.15 sec
CPU Usage: 86%
System memory usage: 71%
Video memory usage: 40%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1280 x 800 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: Medium
Render Quality: Medium
View Distance: 22
Detail Distance: 10

Hardware
Microsoft® Windows Vista" Ultimate
Service Pack 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT [Custom Forceware 180.70]
Video Driver version: 180.70
Audio Adapter: Speakers (Total Recorder WDM audio driver)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53GHz

 

i have a dedicated 512 mb, but after the sharing i have 1791 mb. I hardly think it makes a diff because if u read the earlier post i had said it only acessed 49% of my video memory. so i guess its pretty insignificant.

 

Check if you got the right version

 

This is the correct version right?

 

Hey. I got it.!!!!Reduce your view distance, Detail Distance to my setting and shut down all background processes and have fun!!!!!!

 

glad i waited, thats some very poor performance
think ill wait for a update to come out and hope that it improves things

 

Picked up GTA4 today from the store, installing as we speak

Ill post screens and performance benchies when done

Specs in sig, lets see what my baby can do !

 

nope didnt work, now i cant even revert back to the old driver.

 

How do I check the FPS?

I can check the settings when I get back to the room, but offhand I know that I turned shadows down, and the texture and other setting by it is set to low. It ain't great by any means, but I noticed that it slows down less on the higher resolution.

 

Would post screens, but there is nothing to see there..I mean litteraly.

I have the texture problem, better described ( here )

Out of intrest ran the benchmark

Statistics
Average FPS: 34.43
Duration: 37.15 sec
CPU Usage: 89%
System memory usage: 77%
Video memory usage: 82%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: Low
Render Quality: Low
View Distance: 25
Detail Distance: 37

Not much to say about the game at this point, can't even play it.

 

This game reminds me of Rainbow Six Vegas ... it shouldn't be this hard on the machine.

 

Rainbow six Vegas is still harder on my machine than RSV2 xD

EDIT: Read on... we all render useless xD

http://www.yougamers.com/news/21801_gta_iv_pc_gobbles_up_tons_of_video_ram/

 

"....but in my books this is the beginning of the end for 512MB cards. "

Shows you the tech skills of the retard that wrote the article.

 

yup, thats what i have meant , notice the "xD" lol

 

Still scares the crap out of me; My computer's not going to survive this game.

 

are you kidding?? You cant even run this thing with a 9800gt? Wow im at a loss for words rockstar better have a good explanation.

 

Here's someone's result with a fairly high end desktop system.

I'm trying to find someone with the Core i7 and see if it fares any better.

 

Is it playable at almost 40FPS though?
I've got the same CPU and DDR 3 video card...

 

wow! Thats only with 1 4850(70) thats pretty good if this game supported SLI/Crossfire it would have been so much better that looks really good though if you look at that screenshot.

 

at which part does it look great? Jaggies everywhere? or Slime-like shadows?

 

Yeah it seems very badly optimised.


At least Crysis gave us awesome graphics in return for stressing our video cards.

 

hell yeah!!!

 

both look very good

 

Could anyone post benchmarks with a 8600m gt??

 

Finally I solved the problem of not having any models/textures!
(with a little help ofcourse!) >

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Okay, here's what I did. It's ALREADY been suggested, but I failed to follow the instructions. Here are the steps!

1) Go to "Add and Remove Programs" and scroll down to the N section. Uninstall all Nvidia drivers (there were two of them on mine. One was "nvidia display driver" and the other was "nvidia performance driver", both of them I had recently installed trying to fix this problem). Make sure they are uninstalled.

2) Download and install driver sweeper: http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/

3) THIS STEP IS THE MOST IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (all the !! marks are because I'm excited this works). You need to restart your computer in SAFE MODE. This doesn't work unless you restart your computer *** in SAFE MODE ***. Usually you do this by pressing F8 when it tells you to about 10-30seconds after you first push the power button to start up your computer.

(After you are logged onto safe mode, it may say "you need to restart to blah de blah de blah about new hardware." Tell it no, you don't have to restart.

4) Now that you are in safe mode and logged onto windows normally, run Driver cleaner. Search for ATI display drivers and Nvidia display drivers. Then hit the "Clean" button. Now close the program and reopen it, and double-check the same steps. Search for ATI and nvidia display drivers, and make sure that none are found. When this is done, restart your computer back into regular XP.

5) After I rebooted into normal mode, I ran driver sweeper a third time just to make sure. It found NO files for ati and nvidia display drivers.

6) Now I installed 180.60 (not 180.70.) Other people installed 180.48 and got it working, others isntalled 180.70 and got it working. Mine worked fine with 180.60. I assume the version of driver you use doesn't matter, so try with whatever you can find for your version of windows.

7) Restart after you have installed the drivers.

8) FLIP OUT when you realize that your textures are showing up again. I almost decapitated myself out of rage, but luckily I got this fixed in the nick of time.


Thanks to all who helped!
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credits go to fflaguna
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=378702&st=0


I'll put on some screens and benchmarks as soon as i have acces to electricity (stupid Nvidia PowerMizer )

 

Benchmarks on the 8600m GT DDR3 256 MB:
(rest of the systemspecs in sig.)

Statistics
Average FPS: 27.51
Duration: 36.97 sec
CPU Usage: 96%
System memory usage: 92%
Video memory usage: 99%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1176 x 664 (60 Hz) (need to find a way to set it to 1280x800)
Texture Quality: Low
Render Quality: Medium
View Distance: 15
Detail Distance: 31

Hardware
Microsoft® Windows Vista" Home Premium
Service Pack 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Video Driver version: 180.60
Audio Adapter: Luidsprekers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz

File ID: Benchmark.cli

 

hey thats not bad.

 

That's optymistyc for my Dell XPS. How does teh game look like ? Horrible or not that bad ? Is the normal gameing OK or it laggs ?

 

not bad?! did u see that cpu usage, 96%!!!
video memory usage 99%

EDIT: 2 gigs of memory are stressed out as well!
Now GTA 4 is like the ultimate benchmark tool, taxing your WHOLE system.

 

The game looks at these settings like the Xbox 360 version.
I don't experience lag, unless there is an explosion with multiple cars the FPS drops to about 10-15 FPS. Average whilst gaming is 20-22 FPS

 

And a GPU temperature of 95 degrees!

 

>.> the settings are quite a bit lower than what a console version plays at.

 

OMFG this is like crysis on crack.

 

not bad at all!!

 

Except the whole.. looking amazing part right?
http://maxygames.no.sapo.pt/Crysis.jpg

 

lol
is that crysis on vhigh? looks awesome indeed.

 

the least thing they could do is intergrate some sort of multisampling for the textures.. most of the game are doing that, everyone's screens are hell of jagged

 

Has anyone run with with a MacBook Pro (unibody) 2.4 GHz / 256 MB? I'm getting it in a couple of weeks and I'm wondering if I should get this game or not.

 

being at this is the GTA4 thread how is this game online is it good/fun? im interested in hearing about that.....