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[Adrien C]

Guys I wanted to try MP so I created an account and it erased all my single plapyer game!!!

So pissed off, I cant be bitched to redo the hall single player missions. Does any one know where is the saved game folder ? I cant find it.

 

[Russian Mafia]

If you aren't logged into the Social Club then the game doesn't save, if I remember correctly. Were you logged on when you played singleplayer?

 

[PimpinPenguin]

Did you try the new Catalyst 8.12 drivers? Supposedly there's mixed opinions about the effects of the new driver on GTA IV, but I suppose it's worth a shot since my rig is virtually identical to yours - I have an extra GB of Ram - and I have absolutely no problems running it at a steady 3x FPS. Of course, my monitor is quite small so my resolution is locked at 1280 x 1024 but I've got everything else maxed except Textures (Medium) and Draw Distance ( ~ 50 ). Although one thing to keep in mind is that this was with the old 8.11 drivers...

Yep i'm using the new 8.12 Cat drivers and i'm running at the same resolution as you. I can run it at your settings the only problem is that i get a lot of pop in, the textures loads slowly and everything not so far off look really blurred, then to top it off it grinds to a halt after 15-20mins. I know it's not my system cause i went back to Crysis and it's running that maxed out fine. I've tried everything, overclocking,defrag,disabling processes, but nothing works.
Another issue i get is say i run someone over and i look back, the body will disappear. As soon as i look away from something the game forgets it. I think i'll have to wait for the next ATI drivers as these were not meant with GTA in mind, these drivers were made before GTA4. And for god sake Microsoft speed up on the certification of the patch.

Also does anyone know how to rebind the phone controls? For some dumb reason Rockstar made the down arrow skip the conversation un rebindable. The only problem with that is that me and many others use the arrow key's for driving and everytime i brake i skip the conversation and it's really pissing me off.

 

[Adrien C]

If you aren't logged into the Social Club then the game doesn't save, if I remember correctly. Were you logged on when you played singleplayer?

No man I had no social club Id, it just said that I wouldn't be able to save MP stats and archivements.

But when I wanted to play mp I had to create a windows live and a social club ID and then the whole thing desapeared...

 

[PimpinPenguin]

Yeah it won't save unless you are signed into Games For Windows Live, another retarded idea by Rockstar. But how did you play singleplayer without creating a ID for both of them. Anyway try and check to make sure you have lost your saves it should be here: Users\your user name\AppData\Local\Rockstar Games\GTA IV\savegames.
I don't know why it doesn't just save in documents.

 

[Kadayi]

Also does anyone know how to rebind the phone controls? For some dumb reason Rockstar made the down arrow skip the conversation un rebindable. The only problem with that is that me and many others use the arrow key's for driving and everytime i brake i skip the conversation and it's really pissing me off.

WASD the driving dude, not that much different than using the arrows keys. Also I can only assume your issues relate mainly to the ATI drivers because in effect we've practically the same machine bar I've 1GB of Ram more and a 9800 GTX 512 and I'm running the game at 1650 x 1080 with medium textures and at the highest render setting at about 30 FPS (I have noticed a degree of slowdown when the rain kicks in though).

That the game becomes unplayable after 20 or so minutes might point to some kind of memory leak or some such. Did you thoroughly test out your machines stability for overclocking using Orthos? The one thing I'd say that's abundantly clear with GTA IV is that it demands the absolute maximum from your processor, ram and GFX card, more even than Crisis, maybe it's because of that strain it's making the OC unstable? (just a thought).

 

[PimpinPenguin]

WASD the driving dude, not that much different than using the arrows keys. Also I can only assume your issues relate mainly to the ATI drivers because in effect we've practically the same machine bar I've 1GB of Ram more and a 9800 GTX 512 and I'm running the game at 1650 x 1080 with medium textures and at the highest render setting at about 30 FPS (I have noticed a degree of slowdown when the rain kicks in though).

That the game becomes unplayable after 20 or so minutes might point to some kind of memory leak or some such. Did you thoroughly test out your machines stability for overclocking using Orthos? The one thing I'd say that's abundantly clear with GTA IV is that it demands the absolute maximum from your processor, ram and GFX card, more even than Crisis, maybe it's because of that strain it's making the OC unstable? (just a thought).

I've tried quite a lot of stress tests and they found nothing wrong with my system, and just to be sure i reverted back to stock speeds and i'm still having these issues. I think that because i got a gig less of memory then you my machine is more sensitive to the memory leak in the game that Rockstar admits to. Your lucky though that Nvidia actually released drivers that do improve GTA4 we ATI users still got to wait.
Does anyone here know if you can use a standard joypad or does it have to be a 360 controller? I tried using my PS2 pad and the game just shows a pic of the 360 controller.

 

[Gray Fox]

Don't cry we have the console version

 

[Kadayi]

Don't cry we have the console version

Hehehe, that rant never gets old.

 

[Krynn72]

But how did you play singleplayer without creating a ID for both of them.

If you choose not to make one when it first prompts you, then it lets you make an offline account.

I was thinking of making a online ID, but I figured it would **** with my save game, so Ill finish the SP before making one.



EDIT: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU


I did it anyways and now I have to start over. GOD DAMN ROCKSTARRRRRRRR!

 

[The Brick]

LOL I got accused of cheating in gta 4. I even got a video of it. Look http://www.xfire.com/video/52412/

 

[CR0M]

Has the latest patch fixed this game yet? and is it worth getting or shall I save my money for FEAR 2?

 

[TwwIX]

New patch did improved performance and added some additional graphic options.
The game is also ridden with cheaters. You're bound to find at least one Mod/Trainer using asswipe on every server. Rockstar should be ashamed for not addressing this.

 

[Ennui]

new patch fixed up my performance a bit. all the issues i was getting with my old 7900gs are resolved now that I'm using a gtx260. loving this game. multiplayer is kind of boring though.

 

[CR0M]

Not interested in multiplayer, only that it is bugless. Going to ditch my 9800GX2 soon and will be upgrading to dual 280's, so power isn't really a problem.

 

[PimpinPenguin]

Multiplayer on the PC version is absolutely broke. There is no Anti-cheat whatsoever, and the servers are infected with idoits who think it's fun to be invincible and fire rockets like a machine gun.

 

[Krynn72]

Not interested in multiplayer, only that it is bugless. Going to ditch my 9800GX2 soon and will be upgrading to dual 280's, so power isn't really a problem.

Send me your 9800 plz.

 

[Laivasse]

I still have memory leak issues after the patch. BTW a quad core will probably make a bigger diff to FPS than your GPU. The only people i've seen get over 45-ish FPS have had quads.

 

[TwwIX]

I still have memory leak issues after the patch. BTW a quad core will probably make a bigger diff to FPS than your GPU. The only people i've seen get over 45-ish FPS have had quads.

I play the game at high settings and get over 50 fps. I don't have a quad.

 

[Laivasse]

That is surprising to me. From the benches that everyone was doing at release it seemed anything below a quad was a serious bottleneck for GTA4.

 

[stemot]

Has anyone seen this car before, it's the first time I've seen it in all the times I've played. Jacked it from a police pursuit:-

 

[PimpinPenguin]

Yeah i've seen them. They are usually on the bridges

 

[soulslicer]

Yeah it won't save unless you are signed into Games For Windows Live, another retarded idea by Rockstar.

**** rockstar, made me lose all my saves cos of this, but xlive solved this problem. lost all my saves, when I played MP as well

 

[Shakermaker]

Ran into a annoying bug that involves some alt-tabbing before I can even start the game and on my mediocre system (Intel dc 6600, 2 gigs, 8800GTS) it doesn't exactly look super pretty but I am enjoying it immensely so far. The first story line missions seem to ease you into the game a lot smoother this time around. Quite like it so far.

 

[TwwIX]

Looks like cheating/modding is still present in multiplayer even after this latest patch.

 

[stemot]

Well, just upgraded my Processor to an AMD quad. Loaded this up and was pleased when the game was silky smooth with decent settings. The more I played however the more the game ran like crap. Turns out it's a memory leak Rockstar have yet to fix in any of the patches.

Brilliant.

 

[theotherguy]

I just got this game.

The performance is horrid. The jaggies are unbearable. The shadows look terrible. Why the hell is this game ported so badly?

I'm running on a quad core Q6600, with an NVIDIA 9800GT+ 512MB, 3GB RAM and I'm getting like 20 FPS with all settings on medium running at like 1024x768. (For comparison, I can run, say, Far Cry 2 at 45 FPS with all settings at the max). Turned textures to "low" and I'm getting around 40 FPS. Also turned off shadows because they look absolutely abysmal, and turned water to low as well (the "high" water looks horrifying.)

Is there any way to turn off the god damned motion blur? Every time I turn the camera the FPS slows to an utter crawl.

This game would be fun if it performed better, didn't have the god damned "game for windows" popup, and their retarded "social club" nonsense that pesters me at the beginning. I also have to ALT+TAB into the game to start it, after waiting like 10 minutes.


Port fail.

 

[Dinnesch]

I just got this game.

The performance is horrid. The jaggies are unbearable. The shadows look terrible. Why the hell is this game ported so badly?

I'm running on a quad core Q6600, with an NVIDIA 9800GT+ 512MB, 3GB RAM and I'm getting like 20 FPS with all settings on medium running at like 1024x768. (For comparison, I can run, say, Far Cry 2 at 45 FPS with all settings at the max). Turned textures to "low" and I'm getting around 40 FPS. Also turned off shadows because they look absolutely abysmal, and turned water to low as well (the "high" water looks horrifying.)

Is there any way to turn off the god damned motion blur? Every time I turn the camera the FPS slows to an utter crawl.

This game would be fun if it performed better, didn't have the god damned "game for windows" popup, and their retarded "social club" nonsense that pesters me at the beginning. I also have to ALT+TAB into the game to start it, after waiting like 10 minutes.


Port fail.

Press P for no moar blur.

Have you installed the 1.0.4.0 patch?