[starfishswag]

Hi guys,

Looked at the enb screenshot thread for GTA IV and decided I want it in my game.

Will it run well though?

System Manufacturer: Alienware
System Model: M17xR3
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-2760QM CPU @ 2.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory: 6144MB RAM
Card name: AMD Radeon HD 6900M Series

[PrometheusX]

QUOTE (starfishswag @ Sunday, Apr 8 2012, 21:09)

Hi guys, Looked at the enb screenshot thread for GTA IV and decided I want it in my game. Will it run well though? System Manufacturer: Alienware System Model: M17xR3 Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-2760QM CPU @ 2.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.4GHz Memory: 6144MB RAM Card name: AMD Radeon HD 6900M Series

Not sure if you're a show-off or not...but yes.

Also I haven't heard of something called (8 CPUs)...

[starfishswag]

QUOTE (PrometheusX @ Sunday, Apr 8 2012, 21:13)

QUOTE (starfishswag @ Sunday, Apr 8 2012, 21:09) Hi guys, Looked at the enb screenshot thread for GTA IV and decided I want it in my game. Will it run well though? System Manufacturer: Alienware System Model: M17xR3 Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-2760QM CPU @ 2.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.4GHz Memory: 6144MB RAM Card name: AMD Radeon HD 6900M Series Not sure if you're a show-off or not...but yes. Also I haven't heard of something called (8 CPUs)...

No I'm not a show-off, I just pasted it from dxdiag, sorry if I came across that way... but thanks for the help.

From the screenshots it seems that theres a lot better laptops out there than mine.

[PrometheusX]

QUOTE (starfishswag @ Sunday, Apr 8 2012, 21:18)

QUOTE (PrometheusX @ Sunday, Apr 8 2012, 21:13) QUOTE (starfishswag @ Sunday, Apr 8 2012, 21:09) Hi guys, Looked at the enb screenshot thread for GTA IV and decided I want it in my game. Will it run well though? System Manufacturer: Alienware System Model: M17xR3 Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-2760QM CPU @ 2.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.4GHz Memory: 6144MB RAM Card name: AMD Radeon HD 6900M Series Not sure if you're a show-off or not...but yes. Also I haven't heard of something called (8 CPUs)... No I'm not a show-off, I just pasted it from dxdiag, sorry if I came across that way... but thanks for the help. From the screenshots it seems that theres a lot better laptops out there than mine.

You're damn wrong....Yours possibly @ 60FPS easily.

[Slamman]

Alienware, Dell, boutique gamer PC or laptop?! Yes, it will run, slight differences from top performance aside

[starfishswag]

thanks for the replies. Last thing I want my new laptop to do is overheat and bang up everything.

Here is a few screenshots, they dont look the same as othe pictures from the same mod from around the web.

I re-sized the images to 400 height about 710 width so you guys dont have to see a stretched screen.

This is inside my bedroom



Looks fine



Looks fine, lack of reflection but I'm not in a really reflective place



Doesn't look nice with grainy screen :\



This is a bit nicer, but still lacks the amazing youtube videos and screenshots I've seen.

[PacketOVerload_x64Bit]

Biggest problem you're having is that you're running TBOGT, EFLC or otherwise known as "Higher than Patch 5 woes." You're comparing apples to oranges in that comparing Patch 6 and 7 to Patch 5 and lower is pointless. Skylighting makes all the difference. If you want your graphics to look as good as in the ENB Screenshot Thread you'll need to run GTA IV with either patches 1030/1040/1004 at the highest. There is nothing better than GTA IV + ENB + 1030/1040/1004 IMHO

/ENTER PATCH 7 FANBOIS and HATERS

[starfishswag]

QUOTE (PacketOVerload_x64Bit @ Sunday, Apr 8 2012, 23:19)

Biggest problem you're having is that you're running TBOGT, EFLC or otherwise known as "Higher than Patch 5 woes." You're comparing apples to oranges in that comparing Patch 6 and 7 to Patch 5 and lower is pointless. Skylighting makes all the difference. If you want your graphics to look as good as in the ENB Screenshot Thread you'll need to run GTA IV with either patches 1030/1040/1004 at the highest. There is nothing better than GTA IV + ENB + 1030/1040/1004 IMHO /ENTER PATCH 7 FANBOIS and HATERS

I didn't know patch 6 and 7 were not so good with enb...

Do I have to reinstall the game for patch 4?

And will some cars made after patch 4 not work?

Thanks for the help

[starfishswag]

Ok so I installed a patch 4, went to the main menu, can see no buttons ect, but i press enter and the game loads, looks very nice.

Just menu buttons on start and pause that are blank :\

[YankeesPwnMets]

After Patch 7, you aren't supposed to downgrade it. Reinstall the game, install patch 4 and then install the mods.

If you install Patch 7, then you're not allowed to install patches 1-6 unless you reinstall

[starfishswag]

QUOTE (YankeesPwnMets @ Monday, Apr 9 2012, 00:08)

After Patch 7, you aren't supposed to downgrade it. Reinstall the game, install patch 4 and then install the mods. If you install Patch 7, then you're not allowed to install patches 1-6 unless you reinstall

Ok thanks, will do that.

[Slamman]

I'm worried about buying a new off the shelf PC copy of GTA IV, since I bought Episodes some time ago, but GTA IV has been hard to locate, anyway can you tell what to avoid before spending money, or is it impossible?

[Wolf68k]

@PrometheusX
4-core + Inte Hyperthreading = 8. It's just the way dxdaig reads its. It's like going into the TaskManager under the Performance tab and seeing 8 cores



@Slamman
Not that hard to find at all actually.
Steam has GTA4 (for $20), in fact all of the GTA series (for $50) but for the London 1969 add-on
Amazon has it for $10.88 for the physical copy or $4.99 for download.

[Slamman]

I mean in my neck of the woods, until recently, but as I mentioned as of late, MicroCenter is still close by and they'd just gotten two new copies in, at $20 each, so that's mighty fine compared to used software prices. The pawn shops won't take computer PC software, which is rather odd if you ask me

[starfishswag]

QUOTE (Slamman @ Monday, Apr 9 2012, 03:14)

I'm worried about buying a new off the shelf PC copy of GTA IV, since I bought Episodes some time ago, but GTA IV has been hard to locate, anyway can you tell what to avoid before spending money, or is it impossible?

Sorry I don't know anything about hardware apart from hard drive space lol.

I got it to work, found one I liked after looking for ages, so thanks everyone for helping me out.

Don't really see a difference with patch 1.4 to 1.7 lol.

[Slamman]

Well, I ran BoGT on my Asus P5Q, and still hoping to make that my gaming rig, which is pre-I series Intel, for the moment, I downloaded the patch that was at the top of Rockstar's page though I can't recall what spec that was, I haven't ran the PC version with a patch or ENB yet, but like many expressing interest, We all like what we see with iCEnhancer

[PacketOVerload_x64Bit]

Don't buy off Steam. Steam auto-updates to Patch 7. There are certain places to find IV for free, on the internet. I bought two copies of IV, and two copies of EFLC. All my discs are scratched but I still play IV...if you know what I mean. Razor911 has a good fix for such a thing...

It is getting hard to find GTA IV Disc in-stores.

[Slamman]

Well, I never! hahaha I did find the SA Rage download, and I believe you have to have the disc loaded for GTA IV beforehand? It's on this computer now, but it won't run as the specs are pre-dual core, I just wanted to save the file, which is over a Gigabyte in size.