New GTA IV patch avaliable

Just a heads up, I noticed that a new patch alert was given through GFWL in my GTA IV which was already updated to the latest so I am guessing this is patch number 5.

It was not just a simple patch, the actual game has been updated. More information can be found here, I will post back if I notice any changes after game play.

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=432180&st=0

http://www.rockstargames.com/support/IV/PC/patch/index.html

 

Sweet, looks like TLAD DLC will be released soon.

 

nice, thx mate. I gunna download it now, see if anything changes. SLI support perhaps!?? lol, ya right. every developer lies nowadays.

 

Great to hear The Lost and Damned DLC is coming to the PC version, considering how much disdain Microsoft has for the PC.
Now when will The Ballad of Gay Tony come?

 

Eh, I think I'll skip this update. No performance or visual enhancements, controls are fine for me, and I don't play multiplayer, so I don't see the need.

Was also hoping for SLi support and AA.

 

^^^Im surprised that wasnt part of the update..........

 

Ya, as soon as I read the update, it wasn't for me. I'm the same, I use an Xbox controller, so controls are not an issue, and I don't play Multi either.

Maybe in the next patch performance will be more of an issue than controls.....

 

Umm, isn't this supposed to be 1.0.5.0?

 

I knew I wasn't going crazy! Yes, it is. 1.0.0.4 is what I am currently running, and the patch I downloaded on my system a few months ago is 1.0.0.4. Did Rockstar really mess up naming the new patch, and why hasn't anybody else noticed?

 

probably because not many have the game

 

There working on Lost and Damned for PC right now. How about a patch so you don't need s CD/DVD to play.

 

You can do that, at least unofficially, which is what I have done. Hope The Ballad of Gay Tony will come too, but this is a start.

Maybe Microsoft will open up and bring Gears of War 2, Fable 2, Alan Wake, etc. to the PC as well?

 

Going to be playing GTA 4 on my newly received ThinkPad T61p soon, thought about using a decent torrent but i am just going to buy it since the whole game is about 13.33-14.55GB, which is about half my monthly download alotment. I also figured that since the healthytorrent i wanted to use was of Russian origin, i would be too lazy to use regedit to change the language. It states on GTA forums that this patch does contain performance tweaks, which will be much appreciated for mid-range cards like the one in my T61p.

 

Technically Rockstar did mess up with the naming. The patch should be called 1.0.5.0 instead of an updated 1.0.4.0. It doesn't really matter as the update .exe is called "GTAIV_TU5.exe." TU5 refers to "title update 5."

 

GTA 4 PC does support SLi. It was added in the 3rd patch I believe. As to how well it works, I don't know..

I'm excited to see those TLAD achievements in the list. I hear it's an awesome expansion. I hope it's real.

 

I have noticed improved performance of my minimum frame rates but only about 5 fps. Shadows appear improved and the game is overall smoother. I played for a while to make sure I wasn't just imagining this too.

 

That's good, i remember how optimization or lack therof of the game was horrible when it first came out. GTX 280M's were struggling to keep up at 25fps. I really want to play it, never have before, the most i look forward to in it is proper body physics rather than a few different static animations. To me the realism adds a ton of replayability to the game because just like in real life, things never move exactly the same as the last time. So many things you could make the body do in the game.

 

The Euphoria physics engine is great for gun fights. It adds so much immersion to the gameplay. Unfortunately, that same engine is extremely daunting on the CPU (not to mention buggy), as we've all experienced...

 

SLi can only be enabled on the 180.84 driver. This is possible on any patch including the unpatched version of the game. Nonetheless, the SLi scalability on GTA IV is still fairly poor. It's not that great of an improvement compared to a single GPU as people think.

 

The previous patch from a few months ago was 1.0.4.0.

 

I have to agree, I have only completed a few missions because I spend most of the time in the game driving, police chases, gun fights, tossing grenades out of cars / bikes and the physics really makes a huge difference. I found that I could no longer enjoy GTA SA after playing this one mostly due to that.

There are also some mods that increases the speed and handling of a lot of the cars which makes police chases a lot more fun too.

As for performance, I get a max of 40 fps, a constant 34 fps and occasionally the frames drop to 25 fps but very quickly back up to 30 -33 fps during police chases.

I have everything on high apart from water, native res (1680 X 1050) and View Distance 32, Detail Distance 28, Vehicle Density 31 and Shadow Density 1.

As you know, this game is very heavy on the resources so I don't know what sort of performance you would get on the Thinkpad. I thought your Thinkpad model had one of those Quadro GPU's as opposed to a gaming one.

 

It does, but it's the exact same transistor for transistor as the 8600M GT, just needs modified drivers from "laptopvideo2go.com". That card is/was midrange at the time so i'm assuming with the latest patches GTA 4 should be very much playable on it. My 15.4" T61p is WUXGA+ so it's very hard on the eyes and pretty sure i couldn't play native res on it. I will undervolt the CPU and apply fresh thermal compound such as Arctic Silver 5 to the CPU and GPU. I want to minimize the GPU failure as much as possible, which was quite prevalent in the G84 based cores.

 

So since the 3650 has performance on par with the 8600M GT, then I suppose it would run better with that too?

And it is actually supposed to be 1.0. 5.0.

 

I am Going to be playing GTA 4 on my newly received sonyvio notebook. I am using a decent torrent but i am just going to buy it since the whole game is about 13.33-14.55GB. I am downloading the games and movies a lot. I love both the things. Thank you.

 

If I create a system restore point before updating, can I restore to it after updating if performance is worse?

Or will I have to reinstall the game?

 

The performance on this latest patch does not appear to adversely affect performance for me. I mean, it affects it in a negative way when I start to fool around with graphics settings...

 

You might find you get worse performance after the patch because for me, it reset all of my graphic settings to the default as opposed to my real tweaked settings.

 

Umm, why did you copy what i said almost word for word? Or were you intending to use it as a quote.

 

Is there any SLI patch available for GTA IV?

 

the graphic setting is still locked at medium on my laptop with 8800GTS

 

No, only a driver allows that.

 

So,any drivers out which allows that?

 

I'm not sure which one. I'll check.

Pretty sure it's 180.84; those are the official GTA IV optimized ones.

Edit: Sorry, those are the desktop drivers; not sure if it will work with mobile cards.

 

Can anyone confirm drivers which enables SLI?

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5511550&postcount=19

 

Oh, I thought it was 180.84, wasn't sure though. Thank you very much Soviet Sunrise.

 

Create a file called ''commandline.txt'', inside write ''-norestrictions''. Place the file in the same location as your GTAIV.exe etc.

More information can be found here:

http://www.gtagaming.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111441

 

I dont use 180.84 but 186.82. Do I specifically need 180.84 or above?
Also how can I enable SLI? Is it working with the notepad stuff or an option in the game?

 

180.84 is the only driver that allows SLI. No other driver at all currently supports SLI in GTA IV.

 

So how you do you turn SLI on with 180.84?
Also a link for 180.84 would be great.

 

Thinking about buying this game, its on D2D for 19.99. I'm just wondering what kind of performance I can expect to have with it on the laptop in my sig (np 8662).

 

Should be alright. Overclock the processor and you should see a bit of an improvement. If only you had gone with the Q9000 on the Sager NP8662.

This question should really have gone in the sticky "Can My Notebook Run It".

 

I have just been testing a few mods out (Police, Taxi, Random missions, LCPD Mod) and since many only worked with the previous patch 1.040, I went back to that. Now that I am back on 1.0.04 again I am absolutely amased at the difference in performance.

For me, patch 1.0.04 has really increased my frame rate, made it much more smooth and stable and one of my graphic mods (Realizm IV 6.2) also runs much better now.


Before I was thinking perhaps it was just a placebo effect but now I am 100% certain that it was not.

By the way, I noticed some one has done their own unofficial DLC lol. The community never ceases to amase. Some how they have managed to get the Lost And The Damned DLC working on the PC but hopefully an official version will be released soon anyway.

 

the philosophy "my games need to run always at max settings or i will never be happy playing them" comes into play here then eh? GTA 4 isn't that power hungry for christs sakes.

 

The patch came out over 17 days so with "The Lost and Damned" achievements showing up and still no official announcement?