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    GTA IV on a 6860FX?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Phasio, Jun 26, 2009.

  1. Phasio

    Phasio Notebook Consultant

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    Im about to uninstall this piece of of a game :-/

    Whenever I try to play it, it either lags like hell OR the camera view starts swaying / swinging like crazy. Im still dizzy from playing it.

    On a side note: I upgraded the CPU to a T8300.

    Is there anything I can do, that will enable me to play the game half-way decent, or should I just forgot all about it?
     
    Phasio, Jun 26, 2009
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  2. Kamin_Majere

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    Have you installed the patches?

    Unfortunatly even with all of the patches installed you're going to have trouble playing this game. GTA was a pretty poor port IMO, and is a very HEAVY user of CPU resources as well as GPU resources.

    THe game can bring my x9000 to its knees for the most part (though i have a little better sucess playing it decently smooth at lower settings)

    This game really needs a quad core and a SLI/Crossfire set up wouldnt hurt, though the 8800gts can play it decently well
     
    Kamin_Majere, Jun 26, 2009
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  3. Phasio

    Phasio Notebook Consultant

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    What patches? :)

    [static interceped transmission]
    Do you happen to know which patch I should get?

    Thanks for the quick reply btw Kamin :)
     
    Phasio, Jun 26, 2009
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  4. Kamin_Majere

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    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=391659

    Here is the thread to the links with the patches to the game. Its supposed to help a little.

    I think the largest problem is distances and settings like that. Resolution in the game never affected my preformance. Just everything else
     
    Kamin_Majere, Jun 26, 2009
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  5. narsnail

    narsnail Notebook Prophet

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    Yea unfortunately even the fastest Core2's cannot hack this game, Quad cores are recommended and still dont cut it sometimes, I doubt my i7 would even.

    Its a terribly coded game, so if you cannot run it well its not just you.
     
    narsnail, Jun 26, 2009
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  6. Phasio

    Phasio Notebook Consultant

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    Alright guys. Thanks!

    Ill just uninstall this POS game, and spend my time doing something more constructive ;)

    Have a great day fellas
     
    Phasio, Jun 26, 2009
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  7. N00d13s

    N00d13s is too legit to quit!

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    I too upgraded to a T8300 in my 6860 and i can run it pretty well. I've installed up to patch 1.0.3 and it plays pretty good. It doesn't help too much, but i always turn off as much as i can, like wifi, antivirus, rocketdock, etc.
     
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  8. andros_forever

    andros_forever Notebook Deity

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    GTA 4 runs great on my p7805u and It has a P8400 dual core. Check out this vid of it running on my machine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIucbQ5Pw4k&feature=channel_page
    you definitely need patch 1.0.3 and overclocking the GPU helps. Also you need to tweak the visualsetting.sys
    I'll make a video on how to do that soon and post it on Youtube
     
    andros_forever, Jun 26, 2009
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  9. t3rR0r

    t3rR0r Notebook Evangelist

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    It runs fine with a little bit of tweaking... like turning down the amount of reflections or filters or something like that brought up a little more fps..... sorry to say like the others... but even my T9300 has trouble running it
     
    t3rR0r, Jun 27, 2009
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  10. taylorlee

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    personal experience, you got to turn on Vertical SYNC, otherwise the frame makes me feel dizzy
     
    taylorlee, Jun 28, 2009
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  11. Lum-X

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    this game performance really suck so bad that everyone started to hate GTA4 and rockstar. the coding is rubbish even in consoles.
     
    Lum-X, Jun 28, 2009
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  12. JabbadaGriffin

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    Just like Crysis? ;)

    Except for the hate part :D
     
    JabbadaGriffin, Jun 28, 2009
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