GTA 4 With 9800GT!

[DJ Tucker]

anyone here play gta 4 with a 9800gt that has a quad core or i7 as i want to know what your graphics are set to in gta and what frame rates you get.

[InspectahACE]

wish i could max out the setting but at my res and quality i want..it not possible lol. I doubt a 2GB card would let me either at the same quality(but close it will be)



Edited this image as half of this portion showed the same info as the top image. Too bad the benchmark didn't show the actual cpu speed..


Note; I just maxed everything but the detail and the whole system crashed. I noticed more people and cars but not as much to the point where the auto config won't show near as many already, not to mention perform a tad better

[DJ Tucker]

well i know this game is cpu intensive. i mean, i get 98% cpu usage and 83% gpu usage and 60% memory usage lol and only get 36.55 fps. everything on medium and texture filter and reflection on high. draw and detail distance at 30 with vehicle density at 20 and shadow density at 2. and i am guessing this game is not SLi supported. as you have a 1gb gtx 285 resource is 999mb and i have 512mb 9800gt in SLi, should be bout same but it is 498mb.

in fact is there any chance that you could set all settings to the same as mine and res at 1280/1024 so i can see what you get in frame rate with that 1gb 285 as that would be a close to estimate of mine in SLi.

[InspectahACE]

yea RockStar confirmed SLI/Crossfire is not supported. They say it made the game perform worse. Which i don't see how but then again, when you're drawing everything on screen at once, it does make sense. The ram thing I figured out when my dad's 3870 x2 would only use half the ram it actually had. I know there wasn't much difference in performance on lower res, but that was on my last rig and not this one . ill post up pics of your setting in a short bit for ya.

[ratNukit]

with one 4850!

wish i could max out the setting but at my res and quality i want..it not possible lol. I doubt a 2GB card would let me either at the same quality(but close it will be)

you can add a commandline.txt file in the main GTA directory and write:

-norestriction
-nomemrestrict

and by that disable the memory restictions, when maxed out you need about 1,5 GB, because of medium textures it only needs 850MB.

[DJ Tucker]

thx ace m8. and rat if i do this will that then use my other card as i got SLi 9800gt and didnt think that would make any differance!

[InspectahACE]

you can add a commandline.txt file in the main GTA directory and write:

-norestriction
-nomemrestrict

and by that disable the memory restictions, when maxed out you need about 1,5 GB, because of medium textures it only needs 850MB.

yea but doing that did nothing for me. The game would still crash. I haven't done it since 1.0.3 came out though so it could've been because of the mods back then lol. luckily I stopped that BS. i suppose I will try it again.

here you go DJ,





wont make a difference if you have SLi..it's been disabled by Rockstar

[InspectahACE]

well I saw 2 things when I used those commands. #1..like Rat mentioned, a 2GB card(as in 2GB per gpu) will handle maxing everything out. #2 the game runs worse with those commands . I knew it was a bunch of hype If it wasn't a Fellow LR'er who told me that, I'd run you over.. j/k

[DJ Tucker]

thx m8 and by the way i have just got 1000 tugs mod and have got asi loader and all the other files needed but i still get dsound.dll error unsure why.

[InspectahACE]

Not sure why it doesn't work. Never really liked that mod since it slows the server and can crash it too. Specially when some a-hole goes ape with it. Usually when I had an issue I had to update the dsound.dll to the same version as GTA..but I haven't used them in a while so it might be different now.

[vicaphit]

I am running a 9600gt 1gb card with a Q6600. I have most settings on high except shadows. Draw distance is medium. I find it very playable at those settings with the latest patch.

This is at 1600x1050

[DJ Tucker]

cool i just wish they would put SLi back in play!

[ratNukit]

well I saw 2 things when I used those commands. #1..like Rat mentioned, a 2GB card(as in 2GB per gpu) will handle maxing everything out. #2 the game runs worse with those commands . I knew it was a bunch of hype If it wasn't a Fellow LR'er who told me that, I'd run you over.. j/k

Well it worked for me, my fps didn't go down more than 5 frames and the game never crashed on me, yet
Might be the ATI graphics card, but maybe just luck.

[DJ Tucker]

i'm not sure but i think crossfire works on gta 4 but not SLi. now that sucks.

[Major_A]

Have you tried renaming the executable to something else that is supported by SLi? Have you looked at EVGA's SLi patch?
http://www.evga.com/articles/00463/

[InspectahACE]

The EVGA SLI patch does nothing for it. Already had that patch installed and no magic. All I found the patch to do was add SLI profiles for a crapload of games(that's all I found anyway)..none of which listed GTA4. I'm not sweatin SLi on this anymore. When I saw R* mention that they were not supported for performance reasons, I gave up even trying

[DJ Tucker]

oh well i will just stick with what i got thx guys. and just to ask can you guys help me with my monitor issues on the other post please.

thx adam!

[GetchHard]

I am not good to that but i have a friends and I think he knows what is the answer to your question.,the problem is he is not in my place right now .,I will post again if he will tell the answer to your question.,


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[DJ Tucker]

thx getch. and welcome to the forums by the way